Aleksander Kiin dropped us a mail about TypeRacer before it went totally memeic, but only tried it now. It was only a matter of time though – when he said the magic phrase “Typing of the Dead” it was inevitable we’d get hands on. It’s Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing meets Trackmania, a drop-in-drop-out online racing game based around how quick you can hammer out phrases from films and books. And, yes, the bits from Burgess’ Clockwork Orange are openly unfair unless you’re actually a Droog, which only two of the four RPSers are. It’s an elegant game, but the only problem is there’s a bunch of people tediously doing some manner of script-fiddling with it. Ignore them, get your motor running and type for your life.
Oh – and how many wpm are you doing? I’m about mid-nineties at best, because I typo all the time. As you may have noticed.
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Yeah. Still in beta though, so it might get sorted before the proper version is released. Other than that, this game was quite excellent!
DVORAK has other benefits besides merely increasing/smoothing your typing speed, though, Rook. For instance, I haven’t yet put my DVORAK settings on and sat down to learn it, so thanks to Type Racer my shoulder is now burning up with a fire made of pure QWERTY RSI.
DVORAK has not been proved to have even those benefits of increasing your speed or ’smoothing’ it. I’d assume the same about the RSI.
Hmm. I’m stuck in the mid-eighties because the delete key does something wierd. I’m used to just hitting it and moving on but TypeRacer forces you to jump hoops to correct an error.
Also, I hate it when American scripts pop up with “z”s instead of “s”. Damn Yanks.