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Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by alcari » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 4:06 PM UTC

seszett wrote: post #16

j2kun wrote: 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).

I found myself doing ~45 wpm in this, but in a normal typing test I do ~80 wpm. The non-linear word list is definitely lowering speed.

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by kybernetyk » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 4:10 PM UTC

I'm asking myself what the minimum system requirements for those web tech demos are. Until some time ago I had an old Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro from 2009 and whenever I tried running something like this the browser came to a halt.

I assumed that it was because of my ancient hardware. But now I got a new Haswell i5 quadcore system and the game still locks up my browser.

So where's the secret to being able to enjoy these tech demos?

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by nawitus » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 4:12 PM UTC

Add an option to return to main menu from the game. Also, I found random single letters the only hard part. And reading stacked up words (or finding the active word from a stack).

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by general_failure » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 4:12 PM UTC

general_failure wrote: post #9

This was really fun! I quit at wave 17 though. Make the game faster and words longer, I love it!

I just discovered experts mode :)

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by danmaz74 » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 4:14 PM UTC

lispylol wrote: post #45

danmaz74 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

Great job to the author - I just found it and posted the link after losing some time there ;)

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by tehwalrus » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 4:14 PM UTC

that is fun :)

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by tehwalrus » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 4:14 PM UTC

alexeichemenda wrote: post #30

it is really cool, but extremely slow (unusble) on a macbook air 2012. It's a shame ;)

was fine in mine, in firefox.

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by rickdale » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 4:15 PM UTC

chrismonsanto wrote: post #41

danmaz74 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Your pinky stress is actually a recognized phenomenon...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs#Emacs_Pinky

discussed here:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2610467

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by nathell » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 4:15 PM UTC

alexeichemenda wrote: post #30

it is really cool, but extremely slow (unusble) on a macbook air 2012. It's a shame ;)

Browser? It's perfectly playable for me on a mid-2007 Macbook w/ Snow Leopard and latest Chrome.

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by Lagged2Death » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 4:16 PM UTC

kybernetyk wrote: post #52

I'm asking myself what the minimum system requirements for those web tech demos are. Until some time ago I had an old Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro from 2009 and whenever I tried running something like this the browser came to a halt. I assumed that it was because of my ancient hardware. But now I got a new Haswell i5 quadcore system and the game still locks up my browser. So where's the secret to being able to enjoy these…

I've got a Core 2 Duo from 2006 and it runs great on Firefox 25.

Until you get stuck in the middle of a word that's off-screen (or something) and you can't tell what letter it's demanding you must type next and you die on level 22 (normal).

Needs a better font, especially for the single letters. And a better way of seeing what character is next when you miss one.