Show HN: Simple typing speed test with Knockoutjs and Nodejs
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Show HN: Simple typing speed test with Knockoutjs and Nodejs
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Re: Show HN: Simple typing speed test with Knockoutjs and Nodejs
#2Nice. A couple of suggestions.
"Enter" ends the phrase on the last word. "Space" feels weird when you're done typing.
Auto select the input box after selecting a phrase. I was half-way through the exercise before realizing the page wasn't registering my input.
Re: Show HN: Simple typing speed test with Knockoutjs and Nodejs
#3Nice. A couple of suggestions. "Enter" ends the phrase on the last word. "Space" feels weird when you're done typing. Auto select the input box after selecting a phrase. I was half-way through the exercise before realizing the page wasn't registering my input.
Was going to give same feedback.
Re: Show HN: Simple typing speed test with Knockoutjs and Nodejs
#4The scoreboard seems to be sorted by words-per-minute in lexicographic order.
Although it's not impossible to make that same kind of mistake with a strongly typed language, I'm glad my day job involves C#.
Re: Show HN: Simple typing speed test with Knockoutjs and Nodejs
#5There is a bug. I use the us-international version of my keyboard so to print ' i have to click "'" + "space" (because otherwise the input buffer awaits for me to insert a vocal to make something like é á ó ú í all used in my language)
When in your program I have to write "one's" for example, I CAN'T. When I press "'" and then "space" your textfield just blocks me and vibrates... and I can't go forward.
Long story short: for a user with us-international keyboard mapping it is impossible to insert the char "'" and probably many others like " ~ ` ^ that with that mapping require to press "space" after them
Re: Show HN: Simple typing speed test with Knockoutjs and Nodejs
#6Simple and fun for a while. Annoying that "submitting" a word with space makes my brain want to delete two characters instead of one if the last one is wrong.
Example, I spell "Charactet" instead of "Character". Space submits the word and creates "Charactet " in my brain so to correct this, I do two backspaces. Result is "Charact" instead of expected "Characte".
Re: Show HN: Simple typing speed test with Knockoutjs and Nodejs
#7There is a bug. I use the us-international version of my keyboard so to print ' i have to click "'" + "space" (because otherwise the input buffer awaits for me to insert a vocal to make something like é á ó ú í all used in my language) When in your program I have to write "one's" for example, I CAN'T. When I press "'" and then "space" your textfield just blocks me and vibrates... and I can't go forward. Long story sh…
LOL! I didn't know this about US-International. I was always wondering why the hell I need to type two quotes and then delete the second just to enter a single one. Obviously " and space does the job, but I didn't thought about this, so I switched to US layout :)
Now I've tested with your layout and it turns out that you can type it as you say by just omitting the space (except for the letters that can be accented) or otherwise just use my method by entering ' twice and deleting the second one (maybe at the expense of greater error rate).