TypeRacer Timewaster
May 27, 2008 12:50 am!Warning! This is addictive! What is? The TypeRacer game. Basically, you need to copy a text and get your ‘words per minute typing abilities score’. After 20 games I had an average score of 94 words/minute and a best of 121 words/minute. (You need to do a verification if you are a real person if you reach that one. :d) Not so bad for doing this in my second language, no?
But actually, this little game is genious:
- It’s not time consuming. A round lasts at max. 2 minutes or so. So it’s great to ‘quickly play’ if you have some free time.
- You play against others. Competition effect is always nice.
- It’s something simple, everybody can do it.
- You can play against your friends on a private match.
- The creator(s) get to feed people quotes they love. A Clockwork Orange, The Inconvenient Truth, Terminator, … talking about indoctrination! ;)
- If people like that quote, they can buy the book, film or song on Amazon. And a percentage of those sales of course goes to the creator(s).
I’ll categories this little one under ‘time waster’ and ’surely ingenious!’. But … euhm.. for the competition effect. What are thou scores? ;)
6 Responses to “TypeRacer Timewaster”
Interesting. We had to do timed tests back in high school on manual typewriters, and you got no credit if you made any typos. I like the feature that lets you correct and keep going. :-)
I won the race on my first try at 61 wpm even with 3 typos to correct. Guess the competition wasn’t so hot. That’s about my best pace in HS, but of course the manual aspect does slow you down. LOL
Even so, I’m satisfied that I haven’t totally lost it. Never did much care for that pressure, so once is enough. Thx for an amusing few minutes Vint. Clever indeed.
Sheesh, cannot seem to break 74wpm on this thing! I think it’s because of all the backspacing I have to do to correct stuff. ;-)
This is pretty fun, thanx for the heads-up, Vint!
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shows my early results. Now, I need to figure out how to register… hmmm! =)
[…] my WPM increase by +10/year until it stabilized at 110. And today, I heard of TypeRacer from Vint Falken, and it brings back good […]
LMAO!!! This is just too funny :-)
My typing sucks I’m afraid…. doing this from home I average about 45 wpm. I’ll have to see how better/worse I do from the office :-)
Oh yeah…. the biggest reason my typing speed sucks is quite simply I constantly toggle between an AZERTY keyboard at home and a QWERTY keyboard at the office…. Yup, two different keyboard layouts on a daily basis…. can you say typonese?!?
Even with such a sucky score, I managed to win a round LOL
Excuses, excuses, excuses, … ;)
(Keyboards come cheap nowadays!)
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