typespeed, written by Jani Ollikainen and Jaakko Manelius.
The goal of the game is to type in words as the fly by from left-to-right on the screen.
Everytime you enter a word correctly and hit return, it vanishes and your score gets incremented by the length of the word.
The game ends if ten words make it to the right border of the screen.
Additionally, the program keeps tracks on the wrong keys you hit, measuring your typo ratio.
Basically, the faster you type, the higher is your score.
Some subtler tactics concern the order which you choose to type in the words and when / how to correct typing mistakes.
To give you an impression of the game, a screenshot of a situation in the middle of a game follows.
The nicely diagonally ordered words are a result of the shaping tactic.
With that tactic one always enters words from top to bottom and then starts over from the top again;
this way eye movement is reduced and the choice of a candidate is very simple.
In the situation shown, the word to entered would be reboot.
mode
unalias
help
fc
recover
call
vol
pause
setver
time
xcopy
reboot
share
diskcomp
exit
print
edit
ren
unset
break
rmdir
subst
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> < Rank: Pro Score: 639 tCPS: 7.71 cCPS: 7.37 Misses:0
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Top10 (score)(name) (level) (cps) (tcps) (typoinfos) 1. 968 mah Computer 7.744 8.160 5.10% IT Person 2. 945 mah Computer 7.774 8.090 3.91% Human 3. 944 mah Computer 7.972 8.412 5.24% IT Person 4. 940 mah Computer 7.371 7.661 3.78% Human 5. 931 mah Computer 7.943 8.115 2.11% Human 6. 923 mah Computer 7.337 7.798 5.92% IT Person 7. 923 mah Computer 7.603 7.982 4.75% IT Person 8. 922 mah Computer 7.728 7.945 2.73% Human 9. 921 mah Computer 7.366 7.601 3.09% Human 10. 920 mah Computer 7.357 7.720 4.70% IT Person Press any key to continue... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > < Rank: Computer Score: 1242tCPS: 8.99 cCPS: 8.61 Misses:10 |
Top10 (score)(name) (level) (cps) (tcps) (typoinfos) 1. 1242 mah Computer 8.612 8.990 4.21% IT Person 2. 1236 mah Computer 8.780 9.063 3.11% Human 3. 1230 mah Computer 9.029 9.266 2.55% Human 4. 1222 mah Computer 8.998 9.419 4.47% IT Person 5. 1200 mah Computer 8.701 9.048 3.84% Human 6. 1190 mah Computer 8.729 9.243 5.57% IT Person 7. 1184 mah Computer 8.450 8.627 2.05% Human 8. 1166 mah Computer 8.652 9.216 6.12% Handicap 9. 1163 mah Computer 8.258 8.639 4.41% IT Person 10. 1150 mah Computer 8.162 8.426 3.13% Human Press any key to continue... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > < Rank: Computer Score: 1166tCPS: 9.22 cCPS: 8.65 Misses:10 |
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