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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 by chrismonsanto »

danmaz74 wrote: post #25
chrismonsanto wrote: post #5

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 )

Did you try starting it in expert mode? If you did level 17 there, my respects to you :)

Yeah, expert mode. Before my hand injury (too much pinky stress), my sustained maximum was 153wpm on QWERTY. I can still get ~120wpm with the new layout and my Kinesis keyboard though.

The only trouble I have is if I have to take a break and they advance a bit. My gun seems to lock on things I don't expect it to (missiles). Otherwise, they can barely make it on to the screen.

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Post by throwaway0094 »

Wave 35, score of 4098. Needed to get harder faster. Waves ~25+ were difficult.

Criticism: Overlapping words make it hard to read. The font makes it hard to distinguish i, t, l, j, which is bad when you need to determine which to type quickly.

Accidentally mistyping the first letter of the wrong word locks you on to some rando object; my own failing, but, an unlock button (backspace?) would be nice.

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Post by lispylol »

danmaz74 wrote: post #25
chrismonsanto wrote: post #5

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 )

Did you try starting it in expert mode? If you did level 17 there, my respects to you :)

Did level 18. This is hacker news - people type for a living!

Really like the animation and the sound effects. Would be awesome if there were more surprises, because the novelty (and difficulty) was reduced once I realized that there were always a set of words that I needed to target first, and the manner in which they appear didn't really change much as I progressed.

great job!

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by grey-area »

This is great, but you need a leader board for motivation! I'll resist humblebragging about how easy it was and what level I reached :)

It'd be nice when you got to more advanced levels if it did something like require you to type entire sentences, use punctuation, things like that.

It'd be a great way to learn how to type for people who are learning, much better than mavis beacon if you could somehow work in typing in sentences.

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