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Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by deckiedan »

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…

That's really odd. I'm running on a atom 1.6ghz chromebook (running ubuntu/linux/firefox) and it works great.

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by sirsar »

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…

What OS and browser are you using? Firefox and Chrome do much better with JS than the rest.

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by Spittie »

Nice game. I remember playing it some time ago, and quitting because of boredom once getting in the high (30+) levels.

I think it was one of the first "little" games using html5 instead of flash.

I see that they've introduced a new "expert" mode, which is indeed a lot harder. I've reached level 10 so far, but I'll give it a serious try sometime.

The biggest problem for me is the language. I type a lot of English, but not being a native make me hardly write any fancy words. So my finger get "stuck" in some words that have pattern that hardly appear in my native language.

On a side note, this remind me of "The Typing of the Dead" [1], which got recently released on steam (no linux support :( )[2], and the various online clones of it [3].

I feel that games like this one are a really great way of improving the speed/accurateness of typing, while also having a good share of fun.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Typing_of_the_Dead

[2]http://store.steampowered.com/app/246580/

[3]http://www.kongregate.com/games/ascott/typing-of-the-living-... http://www.addictinggames.com/funny-games/zombietypocalypse....

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by saulr »

poopicus wrote: post #3

Haha, great. This reminds me of The Typing of the Dead and its sequel(s?), which were basically The House of the Dead games re-written so you had to type rather than point a gun. Brilliant stuff, this game.

It's funny you should say that, as The Typing of The Dead: Overkill was released a couple of days ago on PC (see http://store.steampowered.com/app/246580/)

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Post by chrismonsanto »

rickdale wrote: post #58
chrismonsanto wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I'm a heavy Emacs user. I tried to plan ahead and remap Ctrl -> Caps Lock, but it didn't help. After all, I still used my pinky to hit Caps Lock. Thankfully, hearty remapping of defaults + Kinesis did help!

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Post by sillysaurus2 »

chrismonsanto wrote: post #68
rickdale wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I'm a heavy Emacs user. I tried to plan ahead and remap Ctrl -> Caps Lock, but it didn't help. After all, I still used my pinky to hit Caps Lock. Thankfully, hearty remapping of defaults + Kinesis did help!

Maybe remap it to Vim pedal? Someone came up with the idea to use a foot pedal for vim insert mode. It was a little whacky of an idea, but perhaps it'd be more useful as Emacs' meta key.

http://hackaday.com/2012/06/21/building-a-clutch-for-vim/

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