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by wukkuan 4388 days ago
Pretty fun game!

I had one issue though. I managed to type 129wpm in one round (I normally type around 105-110, this particular paragraph was easy). It told me to be allowed to use this score I had to prove I could type 117wpm on an obfuscated (think captcha) document. I was not able to do that. It's a good idea, in theory. Maybe if I'd tried a few more times I could have gotten it up there.

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I don't know if everyone has to, but my captcha document was from Alice in Wonderland or something, which already had some strange punctuation and capitalization, but the random black lines covered up some of the punctuation and I took too much time trying to figure out what they were rather than just skipping them and taking the accuracy hit.
The catpcha is fairly permissive at letting you make a lot of mistakes (i.e., don't go back and fix your mistakes, just keep typing). It feels weird at first letting yourself make mistakes like that, but you can probably type a lot faster if you don't worry about fixing typos.
Yeah, I once had a really good run (185) when I usually type 160. I had to prove that I could type 170 on a different text, and I couldn't do it.