For all you typing jocks... - Page 3

Philliesfan980 · 05-21-2008, 07:49 PM

110, similar to Vince, I could really crank it out if I didn't have a bad habit of capitalizing the second letter of some words.

RPI-Fan · 05-21-2008, 08:02 PM

97wpm over 19 races; been tooling hoopsguy for a while now. ;-)

hoopsguy · 05-21-2008, 08:14 PM

RPI, what name are you using?

I thought that I would post better scores at home without the "g" key sticking on my laptop keyboard, but I'm still right on 90 words per minute. Guess I've found my level.

RPI-Fan · 05-21-2008, 08:17 PM

<-- rsr28

RPI-Fan · 05-21-2008, 08:21 PM

FINALLY got my average up to 100 wpm, can quit now.

(also made the high score list, woot!)

hoopsguy · 05-21-2008, 08:23 PM

Agreed, you were putting it to me pretty good.

Anthony · 05-21-2008, 08:41 PM

only 57 words per minute. oh well. accuracy is important.

Alan T · 05-21-2008, 09:13 PM

Name on there is now simply Alan (how boring!) In case I race against anyone

Lorena · 05-21-2008, 09:37 PM

i'm lorena the dodgerchick i think.. dunno going thru myspace.

Lorena · 05-21-2008, 09:39 PM

4th place, a few behind wolfpack

Lorena · 05-21-2008, 09:43 PM

Jeez, i'm never gonna crack 100

Scoobz0202 · 05-21-2008, 09:47 PM

private race anybody?

Lorena · 05-21-2008, 09:47 PM

sure, link it scoobz

Scoobz0202 · 05-21-2008, 09:49 PM

http://play.typeracer.com/index?room...QwNjI0MTU5NA**

That work?

Scoobz0202 · 05-21-2008, 09:50 PM

or if you are thru myspace

R3Vlc3Q2MzY2MTM4NTQwNjI0MTU5NA**

kingnebwsu · 05-21-2008, 10:07 PM

80 on one race. Don't care enough to try again.

SFL Cat · 05-21-2008, 10:15 PM

71 and 76...I'm gettin' old.

Lorena · 05-22-2008, 09:11 AM

Jeez, thanks Ant, I'm seriously addicted to this thing. Anyone wanna quick race?

Lorena · 05-22-2008, 10:13 AM

Cringer · 05-22-2008, 11:59 AM

I suck. Yesterday I was atleast staying in the 50s. Today I have gotten over 50 once.

lordscarlet · 05-22-2008, 12:21 PM

My average is 93 and my high is 114.

hoopsguy · 05-22-2008, 12:24 PM

The top score right now is 189

Up to this point, I was wondering if it was possible to score over 160. Guess so.

Lorena · 05-22-2008, 12:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hoopsguy

The top score right now is 189

Up to this point, I was wondering if it was possible to score over 160. Guess so.

!!!

I saw 180 earlier and didn't think it could be topped.. wow. Someone's bound to hit 200, I'm sure of it.

Fidatelo · 05-22-2008, 01:28 PM

I bet it wouldn't be hard to write a little app that scraped the text from the screen and then dumped it back in one character at a time.

hoopsguy · 05-22-2008, 01:30 PM

I think that is why they give you a separate test, with blurred text, when you put up better than 110 wpm.

rkmsuf · 05-22-2008, 01:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fidatelo

I bet it wouldn't be hard to write a little app that scraped the text from the screen and then dumped it back in one character at a time.

we'll call it the PumpyBot

Fidatelo · 05-22-2008, 01:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hoopsguy

I think that is why they give you a separate test, with blurred text, when you put up better than 110 wpm.

so is that blurred text like a captcha then? I guess that would make sense.

Well damn, there goes 15 minutes of code...

Barkeep49 · 05-22-2008, 02:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vince

108 got me on the high score list for about 30 seconds...then back down again. I am VERY good at capitalizing the second letter of the word, and then having to delete like the next three words because I just continued. That's what's killing me. I'd probably average around 110 if I could get rid of stupid typos like that.

This sort of habit no doubt made worse since Word is so friendly at correcting such mistakes.

path12 · 05-22-2008, 04:27 PM

I suck today. Got 85 once but that was only good for 5th place.

jeff061 · 05-22-2008, 04:35 PM

Average about 65.

And I'm a proud non touch typing hack!

lordscarlet · 05-22-2008, 04:47 PM

http://play.typeracer.com/index?room...I5NzYzOTU4NTIz

Fidatelo · 05-22-2008, 04:56 PM

I seem to average low 60's, and I'm ok with that.

sterlingice · 05-22-2008, 08:50 PM

81 and 79. I'll take it. It's still no "Typing of the Dead" on Dreamcast, tho

SI

molson · 05-22-2008, 09:15 PM

90 after 3 beers.

Vince · 05-23-2008, 02:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barkeep49

This sort of habit no doubt made worse since Word is so friendly at correcting such mistakes.

Yeah, it took me a minute to figure out why I was making so many mistakes (at about a 4 to 1 clip versus when I'm typing in a word processor or something). Then I realized that I'm not making any more mistakes...I just don't have anything automatically correcting those mistakes. If the typing test added a Word auto-correct thing, it'd put my numbers through the roof.

Also, is anyone else supremely annoyed that when you make an error, it highlights the word in red. However, when you backspace enough to make your word "correct" to whatever point you are at, it stays red until you type something else? For example...

"Firefly"

Firegly - Red
Fire - Still Red (even though there are no errors present)
Firef - Green again

I want to use the colors as a visual cue so I can continue looking at the text I'm supposed to be typing, not what I've already typed. Just a pet peeve of mine, I guess.

kingfc22 · 05-23-2008, 02:19 AM

I hover around 48-52 wpm

Fidatelo · 05-23-2008, 08:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vince

Also, is anyone else supremely annoyed that when you make an error, it highlights the word in red. However, when you backspace enough to make your word "correct" to whatever point you are at, it stays red until you type something else? For example...

"Firefly"

Firegly - Red
Fire - Still Red (even though there are no errors present)
Firef - Green again

I want to use the colors as a visual cue so I can continue looking at the text I'm supposed to be typing, not what I've already typed. Just a pet peeve of mine, I guess.

Yes, this constantly throws me off. I often backspace out the entire word before I realise it wasn't necessary to go that far back.

Lorena · 05-23-2008, 09:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sterlingice

81 and 79. I'll take it. It's still no "Typing of the Dead" on Dreamcast, tho

SI

Oooh, I love Typing of the Dead!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fidatelo

Yes, this constantly throws me off. I often backspace out the entire word before I realise it wasn't necessary to go that far back.

I do the same, it's easier to start from the beginning than look at what you've typed, look at the text and figure out where the error happened. My 2 brain cells can't process all this info at once... much easier to start from the beginning.

Oh and I'm not a fan of one line at a time, that dropped my typing speed by like 15.

Fidatelo · 05-23-2008, 09:20 AM

Ya one line at a time is bad, I need those words to stay static for some reason.

Huckleberry · 06-09-2008, 01:42 PM

About time!

Fortunately Pumpy and Andrey and those other freaks hadn't played it on over an hour.

Lorena · 02-11-2009, 03:28 PM

99 wpm, my best yet.

Lorena · 02-11-2009, 03:37 PM

holy shit, 106wpm and 100% accuracy! I was asked to take a test in case i cheated... dunno how that's possible.

Lorena · 02-11-2009, 03:44 PM

k, took the test and passed at 88 wpm and about 98% accuracy. They sorta morphed the text which made it a little difficult to read.

Danny · 02-11-2009, 03:59 PM

My scores so far.

63
63
78
78
64
60

Not bad considering I type using only two or maybe four fingers at the most.

Lorena · 02-11-2009, 04:01 PM

chicken pecker

Danny · 02-11-2009, 04:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lorena

chicken pecker

Yeah, but for a chicken pecker I am blazing!

Danny · 02-11-2009, 04:48 PM

I've done close to 20 now and my average is 70. I seem to start off each time poorly and then raise the WPM slowly as the paragraph goes on.

SackAttack · 02-11-2009, 04:51 PM

Damn. I haven't typed for speed in ten years, and my first time I got 94 wpm. Second time, 114 wpm, won my race, and got asked to take a test. Typed 125 wpm in the test.

Woo.

SackAttack · 02-11-2009, 04:56 PM

Just hit 138 wpm. Good ol' Shakespeare.

SackAttack · 02-11-2009, 05:01 PM

Aaaaand 150 wpm on "I Walk the Line." Thank you Johnny Cash. Tenth race, nice round number to call it quits. People keep quitting on me in mid-race, heh.

05-21-2008, 08:02 PM	#102
RPI-Fan Pro Starter Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Troy, NY	97wpm over 19 races; been tooling hoopsguy for a while now. ;-) __________________ Quis custodiets ipsos custodes?

05-21-2008, 08:17 PM	#104
RPI-Fan Pro Starter Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Troy, NY	<-- rsr28 __________________ Quis custodiets ipsos custodes?

05-21-2008, 08:21 PM	#105
RPI-Fan Pro Starter Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Troy, NY	FINALLY got my average up to 100 wpm, can quit now. (also made the high score list, woot!) __________________ Quis custodiets ipsos custodes?

05-22-2008, 10:13 AM	#119
Lorena Unregistered Join Date: May 2004	fine

05-22-2008, 11:59 AM	#120
Cringer Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Edinburg,TX	I suck. Yesterday I was atleast staying in the 50s. Today I have gotten over 50 once. __________________ You Stole Fizzy Lifting drinks! You bumped into the ceiling which now has to be washed and steralized, so you get NOTHING! You lose!

05-21-2008, 07:49 PM	#101
Philliesfan980 Banned Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Exton, PA	110, similar to Vince, I could really crank it out if I didn't have a bad habit of capitalizing the second letter of some words.

05-21-2008, 08:14 PM	#103
hoopsguy General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Chicago	RPI, what name are you using? I thought that I would post better scores at home without the "g" key sticking on my laptop keyboard, but I'm still right on 90 words per minute. Guess I've found my level.

05-21-2008, 08:23 PM	#106
hoopsguy General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Chicago	Agreed, you were putting it to me pretty good.

05-21-2008, 08:41 PM	#107
Anthony Banned Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Astoria, NY, USA	only 57 words per minute. oh well. accuracy is important.

05-21-2008, 09:13 PM	#108
Alan T Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Mass.	Name on there is now simply Alan (how boring!) In case I race against anyone

05-21-2008, 09:37 PM	#109
Lorena Unregistered Join Date: May 2004	i'm lorena the dodgerchick i think.. dunno going thru myspace.

05-21-2008, 09:39 PM	#110
Lorena Unregistered Join Date: May 2004	4th place, a few behind wolfpack

05-21-2008, 09:43 PM	#111
Lorena Unregistered Join Date: May 2004	Jeez, i'm never gonna crack 100

05-21-2008, 09:47 PM	#112
Scoobz0202 Pro Rookie Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Dayton, Ohio	private race anybody?

05-21-2008, 09:47 PM	#113
Lorena Unregistered Join Date: May 2004	sure, link it scoobz

05-21-2008, 09:49 PM	#114
Scoobz0202 Pro Rookie Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Dayton, Ohio	http://play.typeracer.com/index?room...QwNjI0MTU5NA** That work?

05-21-2008, 09:50 PM	#115
Scoobz0202 Pro Rookie Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Dayton, Ohio	or if you are thru myspace R3Vlc3Q2MzY2MTM4NTQwNjI0MTU5NA**

05-21-2008, 10:07 PM	#116
kingnebwsu College Benchwarmer Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Ohio	80 on one race. Don't care enough to try again.

05-21-2008, 10:15 PM	#117
SFL Cat College Starter Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: South Florida	71 and 76...I'm gettin' old.

05-22-2008, 09:11 AM	#118
Lorena Unregistered Join Date: May 2004	Jeez, thanks Ant, I'm seriously addicted to this thing. Anyone wanna quick race?

05-22-2008, 12:21 PM	#121
lordscarlet Pro Starter Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Washington, DC	My average is 93 and my high is 114. __________________ Sixteen Colors ANSI/ASCII Art Archive "...the better half of the Moores..." -cthomer5000

05-22-2008, 12:24 PM	#122
hoopsguy General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Chicago	The top score right now is 189 Up to this point, I was wondering if it was possible to score over 160. Guess so.

05-22-2008, 01:28 PM	#124
Fidatelo Pro Starter Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Winnipeg, MB	I bet it wouldn't be hard to write a little app that scraped the text from the screen and then dumped it back in one character at a time. __________________ "Breakfast? Breakfast schmekfast, look at the score for God's sake. It's only the second period and I'm winning 12-2. Breakfasts come and go, Rene, but Hartford, the Whale, they only beat Vancouver maybe once or twice in a lifetime."

05-22-2008, 01:30 PM	#125
hoopsguy General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Chicago	I think that is why they give you a separate test, with blurred text, when you put up better than 110 wpm.

05-22-2008, 04:27 PM	#129
path12 Coordinator Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Seattle, WA	I suck today. Got 85 once but that was only good for 5th place. __________________ We have always been at war with Eastasia.

05-22-2008, 04:35 PM	#130
jeff061 Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: MA	Average about 65. And I'm a proud non touch typing hack! __________________

05-22-2008, 04:47 PM	#131
lordscarlet Pro Starter Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Washington, DC	http://play.typeracer.com/index?room...I5NzYzOTU4NTIz __________________ Sixteen Colors ANSI/ASCII Art Archive "...the better half of the Moores..." -cthomer5000

05-22-2008, 04:56 PM	#132
Fidatelo Pro Starter Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Winnipeg, MB	I seem to average low 60's, and I'm ok with that. __________________ "Breakfast? Breakfast schmekfast, look at the score for God's sake. It's only the second period and I'm winning 12-2. Breakfasts come and go, Rene, but Hartford, the Whale, they only beat Vancouver maybe once or twice in a lifetime."

05-22-2008, 08:50 PM	#133
sterlingice Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Back in Houston!	81 and 79. I'll take it. It's still no "Typing of the Dead" on Dreamcast, tho SI __________________ Houston Hippopotami, III.3: 20th Anniversary Thread - All former HT players are encouraged to check it out! Janos: "Only America could produce an imbecile of your caliber!" Freakazoid: "That's because we make lots of things better than other people!"

05-22-2008, 09:15 PM	#134
molson General Manager Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Mountains	90 after 3 beers.

05-23-2008, 02:19 AM	#136
kingfc22 Head Coach Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Morgan Hill, CA	I hover around 48-52 wpm __________________ Fan of SF Giants, 49ers, Sharks, Arsenal

05-23-2008, 09:20 AM	#139
Fidatelo Pro Starter Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Winnipeg, MB	Ya one line at a time is bad, I need those words to stay static for some reason. __________________ "Breakfast? Breakfast schmekfast, look at the score for God's sake. It's only the second period and I'm winning 12-2. Breakfasts come and go, Rene, but Hartford, the Whale, they only beat Vancouver maybe once or twice in a lifetime."

06-09-2008, 01:42 PM	#140
Huckleberry College Starter Join Date: Dec 2001	About time! Fortunately Pumpy and Andrey and those other freaks hadn't played it on over an hour. __________________ The one thing all your failed relationships have in common is you. The Barking Carnival (Longhorn-centered sports blog) College Football Adjusted Stats and Ratings

02-11-2009, 03:28 PM	#141
Lorena Unregistered Join Date: May 2004	99 wpm, my best yet.

02-11-2009, 03:37 PM	#142
Lorena Unregistered Join Date: May 2004	holy shit, 106wpm and 100% accuracy! I was asked to take a test in case i cheated... dunno how that's possible.