Comments on: TypeRacer: QWERTY accelerator

By: Daniel Purvis

Daniel Purvis — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:31:56 +0000

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.

By: Winterborn

Winterborn — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:37:31 +0000

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.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:48:23 +0000

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.

By: J.A.

J.A. — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:56:49 +0000

Yeah. Still in beta though, so it might get sorted before the proper version is released. Other than that, this game was quite excellent!

By: The Shed

The Shed — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:11:13 +0000

Yeah, I noticed that as well. You try to compensate for mistyping, and it’s always an over compensation, making you have to totally double take. Annoying :/

By: J.A.

J.A. — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:40:26 +0000

Am I the only one finding it really annoying that it doesn’t register spaces if you mis-type a word? I always hit backspace twice if I’ve gotten the last letter of a word wrong because I press space at the end by reflex, only in this game it takes away two letters, and I have to rewind and type two extra letters instead of one (often three because I go “shit” and hit backspace twice, then the last letter, meaning I’m still missing the second last letter in the word, so I have to go back AGAIN completely ruining any chance I had at winning).

By: Nuyan

Nuyan — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:15:51 +0000

I get around 70 on average as well, but I make an awful lot of typo’s that take most of the time. Funny game though.

And eh, after playing this for a few minutes I suddenly start to type replies faster as well.

By: Rook

Rook — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:13:00 +0000

I think the superiority of Dvorak and uselessness of Qwerty is supposed to be a bit of an urban legend. http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_248.html

By: wiper

wiper — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:27:20 +0000

75 as an average, 94 as my top (yay Bob Dylan lyrics!). I like :)

By: The Shed

The Shed — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:37:10 +0000

Heheh, the book was partially written in its own language, so those sentences can be a complete bitch. Even if they’re from the movie.

By: Ging

Ging — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:52:27 +0000

Averaging about 80 on this, tend to come in the top 3 but I struggled with some of the clockwork orange quotes just because of the random, random words.

By: The Shed

The Shed — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:47:15 +0000

@Butler & KG: The jamming-if-they’re too close together history of QWERTY is only half of the story. After moving all the common letters away from each other, the design was constructed so that, indeed, certain common word patterns would be closer to each other (diagonally and horizontally)/ easier to hit.

What a fiendishly awesome game. So easy to get into. Also, I’ve been at 70-90 wpm, but I haven’t even won a game yet. Theres always some git who’s at the mid hundreds. People here are winning with 60s or 70s… unfair :(