(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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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*
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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.
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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.
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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. Posts: 3486 | Registered: Sep 2002
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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. Posts: 2762 | Registered: Sep 1999
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That's a cute game. I won a few games, but mostly was second or third. I think my best was 83 WPM.
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