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Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

#157

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.

On expert or normal?

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

#158

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 :)

I made it to twenty. 5960, 91.7%, 74.6

I ended up constantly triggering on the little ships and couldn't target the big ones

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

#159
post #154

I really really really enjoy this game - I wish it worked better for me in Safari 7 on the mac but its great in Chrome on Windows. Great job by the author

I guess I am not the only one. It lags pretty bad on my MBA 2013 with Safari.

Further down the author notes its because of an issue with the HTML5 tag. So thats cool ;)

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

#160
post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still see no challenge in expert mode. Please make a harder mode :)

Author of the game here. It's quite interesting how damn near impossible it is to balance a game like that. When I first released it, it had no expert mode. I tried to make the normal mode challenging for most people without making it too frustrating. The feedback I got was mostly "it's way too easy", but I also got a few comments, particularly on Kongregate and other sites that appeal to younger users that "it's way…

Do you have any plans to open-source this project? I'd love to hack away at it.
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