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by mistersys 1328 days ago
Fun idea, but pretty unfun to play. Half the questions are just five, six different words you need to `|` together, and not enough time to even type out that many words.

Feels like the author thinks regex is a useful way to match a bunch of unrelated words in a paragraph. Not really the point of regex.

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I guess the goal should be to find a common property like /\w{5,6}/g matches all 5 and 6 letter words but not longer or shorter words.

But I agree the time is not a good measurement because typing speed is what limits most people.

Yeah I'm on mobile and can't see the text above while I type because of the space for the on screen keyboard and can't type fast enough anyways on mobile so just gave up instantly :)
Trying to play it on mobile! Okay that's something I hadn't expected.