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Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

#181

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.

Also, the other kind of typing. Like if "traverseWithKey" appears at the top of the string, I have to hit it with:

Applicative t => (Key -> a -> t b) -> IntMap a -> t (IntMap b)

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

#182

It's not that your game is too hard or too easy. You can dive in a little deeper. It's that your difficulty curve is not tuned properly. IMO you can tune it statically (follow most of the advice here, make it harder). Or, you can use some very basic dynamic difficulty shifting (If they complete the first level in >wpm, ramp up the difficulty, or adjust the difficulty curve as needed). See this great video from Extra…

I think it's interesting that you can tune this game's difficulty by deciding to use strategy or not. If you go for the big words first, it's pretty easy. If you ignore them, then you'll increase the difficulty of the "wave."

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

#183

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.

It would be interesting to have the option of different typing sets.

I'd also like to see the end game panel report the max multiplier achieved.

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

#185

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.

If that's what you're looking for, try http://typing.io/

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

#188
post #185

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.

If that's what you're looking for, try http://typing.io/

Nice! But where is my spaceship and what do I shoot? :-)

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

#190

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 )

To easy with Qwerty? Try Dvorak (or one of the modern variants). I'm switching to Dvorak to see if my "muscle memory" can change, and this game is suddenly WAY harder.

As someone who uses Dvorak normally, it makes this game incredibly easy (though I guess it was easy enough already?)
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