The civfanatics typing challenge
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Lohrenswald
世界的 bottom ranked physicist
Tried in more like snorewegian
Hygro
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71 and I didn't capitalize America the first time because I didn't care to, so one mistake.
GoodSarmatian
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Tried a couple of times more. Can't get above 50 and it's far worse in German because the words are longer and all nouns are capitalized.
MagisterCultuum
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classical_hero
In whom I trust
caketastydelish
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I got .542 for the Ed Balls. Keep in mind they don't make you capitalize and it autocorrects the capitalization, still giving you full credit.
I took typing all three years in high school. The classes were 2 hours long, for 3 1/3 months of the year. In grade 12 we started every class with two 5-minute timed writings (on electric typewriters; in grade 10 we were using manuals - ancient ones).
At the end of my grade 12 year, we did our certifications and mine ended up with 57 wpm, with 3 mistakes. That was good enough for the middle certificate - there were two more levels above that, which I could never seem to get anywhere near.
Keep in mind that back then there was no such thing as just backspacing and fixing a mistake; once a mistake was there, it was there, and the only way to correct it was either with an eraser or correction fluid/tape - none of which we were allowed to use in timed writings.
Ohgosh!
Are you sure you started with your fingers on the correct keys? If they're one row off, you can end up inventing some interesting new words!
Lohrenswald
世界的 bottom ranked physicist
I don't believe you, mister 19-posts-per-day
BornInCantaloup
Agent of Chaos
Can't play Starcraft : not enough APM
TheMeInTeam
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It's not work, because I've only gone up ~5 words/minute during my working years.
The vast majority of my speed increase (up to 78 words/minute) came in high school, where we were forced to repeatedly type out page-long passages and start over if we made a mistake. That technique forced me to cognitively focus on each key. I basically have two typing conceptual frameworks:
1. I think each letter as I type it: I still fall down to the 60 wpm range doing this exclusively, but I virtually never typo.
2. I think words as I type them: For common forum posts and most of the words on that list, I have typed the word enough times that I can think of it as a word and type it without thinking about the sequence, similar to one button but pressing several.
Over the years I have gotten better at switching between the two also.
The high school class also helped because the school's eventual valedictorian (this was a freshman class, and the start of a long rivalry) was in that class too and wanted to be the fastest typist in there, and I wasn't having it. We traded off who was faster, and in the end I beat her by 3 wpm. I got a comment about that in my senior yearbook lol.
madviking
north american scum
i learned how to type fast from years and years on aim, gchat, and irc.
78 wpm, 3 mistakes... but I hunt and peck.
Hygro
soundcloud.com/hygro/
Can't play Starcraft : not enough APM
Yeah you can you have 285 apm.
TheMeInTeam
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Make sure you select that control group another 3 times this second.
APM seems to have some steep marginal utility after a certain point, and that point is far below where the professionals tend to rest (evidenced by a few unusual ones smoking people with 50% more APM). It's hard to present convincing evidence that there is consistently more than 3 useful actions per second on average (or even that many) in a StarCraft 2 game for example, yet a lot of the top pros have 250 - 300apm. Lots and lots of duplicate commands/selection.
Hygro
soundcloud.com/hygro/
Almost all of their apm after the beginning is building units.
BornInCantaloup
Agent of Chaos
Aww... Man, that's a tough blow. Ain't you got no mercy on me ?
I hope I won't get to know, next, that I've got sufficient SRPM as well (Synaptic Response Per Minute)...
… That's it. I feel screwed already.
What a downer.
Now I'll have to learn the hotkeys.
Group Marines – explore move – build SCVs – stim Marines – squad Marines – attack move – Irradiate Mutas – assign SCVs – build Supply Depot – build Missile Turret – build Missile Turret – build Missile Turret – squad Marines – siege tank – squad Marines – stim Marines...
Ouchaah !
Ok, enough, that's enough, I confess. Actually, I cheated on the test, guys : I used both hands !
Now I can rest easy.
@ TMIT : my love goes to Broodwar. I know little about SC2.
Sweet!
I do much better when I get more than 2 hours of sleep.
In real life I type slower of course.
Don't know how to spell most words.
Even if I practice all my life, I'll never match my guild leader Gerbs from my WoW days.
Entire paragraphs would just appear one after the other every 5 seconds.
Guy was well above 100 wmp
I do much better when I get more than 2 hours of sleep.
In real life I type slower of course.
Don't know how to spell most words.
Even if I practice all my life, I'll never match my guild leader Gerbs from my WoW days.
Entire paragraphs would just appear one after the other every 5 seconds.
Guy was well above 100 wmp
