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Do you like my little typing analyzer?

by rompetoto on 2/21/13, 11:40 PM with 3 comments

  • by scholia on 2/21/13, 11:58 PM

    It's horrendously horrible.

    Like any typist, if I make a typo, I immediately hit the backspace key, and that exits your site and brings me straight back here. So it's completely useless.

    Apart from that, it's a pointless exercise. Nobody sits and types sequences of very obscure words, and it's not a useful skill. Which is why normal typing programs get you typing typical English (or whatever) sentences.

    Sorry if this sounds harsh. I can't imagine why you did the program that way, but I'm willing to listen to reason ;-)

  • by nodata on 2/21/13, 11:45 PM

    Nice. You need to start the counter once the first letter is typed.
  • by dasht on 2/21/13, 11:49 PM

    It measures a skill very different from ordinary typing, so, no.