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Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :

Typing, racing, with multiplayer.

Go!

--j_k

Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :

ooooh...fun. bad for productivity. unless typing faster increases future productivity...

Posted by The White Whale (Member # 6594) on :

Oh wow that's addicting.

Posted by Lissande (Member # 350) on :

It didn't register my spaces. Wha?

Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :

AAUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHH

(I always hate these tests where the text moves -- very hard for me to focus. They should let it all stay there and only move the line I'm typing)

Posted by Launchywiggin (Member # 9116) on :

I won my first race! I'm retiring now.

Posted by rollainm (Member # 8318) on :

I won one! Woohoo!

Posted by Sergeant (Member # 8749) on :

What kills me is that they make you go back and correct your mistakes rather than just docking you a wpm for each. And that they only let you one space between sentences while I was trained to do two.

Sergeant

Posted by rollainm (Member # 8318) on :

Haha. They totally censored the Pulp Fiction quote.

Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :

Oh freak. That's going to drive me nuts if I do it again. I'll have to settle for 5th place and 70 wpm.

Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Sergeant:
What kills me is that they make you go back and correct your mistakes rather than just docking you a wpm for each. And that they only let you one space between sentences while I was trained to do two.

Sergeant

I really hate it when people do that. It's a holdover from the days of typewriters that is completely unnecessary now. Typing instructors need to stop telling people to do that. *grumbles as he remembers all the time he spent removing the second space in news articles when he was copy editing at the student newspaper*

Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :

quote:
*grumbles as he remembers all the time he spent removing the second space in news articles when he was copy editing at the student newspaper*

Why in the world wouldn't you just do it with a replace all command.

I learned how to type back in the days of typewriters. I read quite a lot of student reports and think it is indeed easier to read text with their are two spaces after the period.

Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Lissande:
It didn't register my spaces. Wha?

That's cause you made a typo, and after you do that the spaces don't come out until you fix it. You can only type one word at a time. It did the same thing to me.

I had more problems with the punctuation than I did with the words! I kept reading periods as commas.

Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :

Man... I suck. I'm only averaging in the 70s on this, and I keep getting 2nd or third place.

Typos keep getting me because I keep typing, and before I know it I have to backspace over twenty characters.

It *really* helps to know the quote. I didn't even have to read the one from A Clockwork Orange and Star Wars. [Big Grin]

Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :

I won one!

Yay!

Posted by Lissande (Member # 350) on :

Well, I just tried it again and it didn't take my spaces again - and there was definitely no typo in the one-letter first word! Oh well, I didn't want to play their silly game anyway. [Smile]

Posted by Jeorge (Member # 11524) on :

That's a cute game. I won a few games, but mostly was second or third. I think my best was 83 WPM.

Posted by 0Megabyte (Member # 8624) on :

Wow, I was getting over 100 WPM after awhile. Hmm. Can I really be that fast?