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Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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post #10

Hard to see the words when they start stacking. And worse, you start typing a word and it picks a different word from the one you wanted and you have switch contexts. That's the hardest part of the game, not the typing.

But I really enjoyed it. Got to level 32 or something before I got overwhelmed

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

#13
I got to wave 32 before realising how tiring it was and I got a liiittttle bit bored.

Awesome game - but it needs maybe a few more milestones to reward the player for getting quite far. Maybe acknowledge it when they get through a whole mission without making any wrong keystrokes, or every 10 levels give them some arbitrary 'promotion' - something like that.

Anyway, really good job.

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

#16
post #10

Hard to see the words when they start stacking. And worse, you start typing a word and it picks a different word from the one you wanted and you have switch contexts. That's the hardest part of the game, not the typing.

I got caught by this too, but it was fun. It's the first time I have actually done a test that measures my typing speed without becoming bored after two sentences (I did 43 wpm, I don't even know if it is decent or not anyway).

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

#18
Sometimes I mistype, think I finished a word, and move on to the next word, effectively freezing me by three seconds. I don't think a typo should penalize me this much because I can generally recover from typos. Would be nice if the unit I'm currently attacking could glow or something.

I like the cuteness and simplicity of the game though. Finally something to make me feel good about all those years spent typing.

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

#20

Got to wave 17 and quit from boredom. Harder please! Much, much harder! (reppin QGMLWB by the way http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?full_optimization )

second that. make it harder, it gets a little boring after a little time for most of us (i guess). awesome and entertaining, nevertheless.
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