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Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by pouzy » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 10:32 PM UTC

Great game ! Reached level 23. There was a steep increase in difficulty at level 19, and I feel like I could do better but I work on an american keyboard and my personal one is in french.

It's taking the words from random news articles, right ? I had a feel each wave had a lot of words that fit together

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by flyingyeti » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 10:39 PM UTC

zackham wrote: post #70

If you like this concept there's a decent cli implementation that's been around for a while and is nice to bring up when you've got a couple minutes to kill: http://typespeed.sourceforge.net/

Typespeed is the standard by which all other typing games should be measured. Highly recommended.

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by dbrannan » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 10:46 PM UTC

I'm a teacher and this is great practice for students learning to type. I thought a full screen mode would be helpful. I had a hard time reading the words at times.

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by thetylerhayes » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 10:46 PM UTC

chrismonsanto wrote: post #161

MortenK wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, that's faster than Barbara Blackburn who holds the Guinness world record. You should compete :)

If you're suggesting I am lying, I assure you there are more substantial things to lie about. > Typing, Fastest. Mrs. Barbara Blackburn of Salem, Oregon maintained a speed of 150 wpm for 50 min (37,500 key strokes) and attained a speed of 170 wpm using the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard (DSK) system. Her top speed was recorded at 212 wpm. I (could) absolutely type at 150 wpm. I would not be able to sustain it for 50 minu…

I think MortenK was just poking a little fun. :) all around

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by wslh » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 10:54 PM UTC

For children I would add the option to use only uppercase letters.

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by mikeflynn » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 11:06 PM UTC

Got pas wave 20 and called it a day. Fun game though!

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by freshlog » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 11:18 PM UTC

Here's a game that looks EXACTLY like yours, but for Japanese kana: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/japanese-frenzy/pp...

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by merraksh » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 11:19 PM UTC

A typing hacker would not just enjoy shooting at words such as "specifying" and "establish", but also at #define, for(;;), /bin/bash, *p[1+i], s/[^0-9]/_/g, "%10f\n", ~(str&(b|c)), and so forth. Just saying.

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by mkingston » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 11:31 PM UTC

phoboslab wrote: post #131

badave wrote: post #108

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How did you pick the font? I find myself having problems figuring out is a single letter is a l or an i or a j sometimes. Seems like there's a lot of fonts out there with better readability.

Well, I picked Tungsten because... well, it was pretty. But you're absolutely right. I changed it to Deja-Vu now. Please refresh!

I find the font colour problematic at times, because it's very similar to that of the opponents; so occasionally a selected word isn't easily visible against it's background, and I'm not certain which letter I've missed.

Also, thanks for a surprisingly entertaining, and maybe even useful game :)

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by piyush_soni » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 11:32 PM UTC

phoboslab wrote: post #92

baby wrote: post #79

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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…

Yes, so the levels should be fairly diverse as well. The expert mode might be ok for me, but I noticed that even the entry level game is not that easy for kids of age 5. Could you just make a slider for the difficulty level?