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Hard to see the words when they start stacking. And worse, you start typing a word and it picks a different word from the one you wanted and you have switch contexts. That's the hardest part of the game, not the typing.



I type really fast (120+ wpm) and a big problem I had with this game was making one typo and not realizing it until I'd already typed 3-4 more words. Then I'd have to go back, find the one typo I made, finish that word, then re-type all the other words that the game had ignored my typing in the meantime. This is actually what killed me in the end.


I got caught by this too, but it was fun. It's the first time I have actually done a test that measures my typing speed without becoming bored after two sentences (I did 43 wpm, I don't even know if it is decent or not anyway).


I found myself doing ~45 wpm in this, but in a normal typing test I do ~80 wpm. The non-linear word list is definitely lowering speed.


I got 60 wpm, but in a normal typing test I'm doing 110-120 wpm.


Ditto, pretty consistently 65wpm but in normal typing I get around 110.


Same, I think if the ship was placed in the center of the playable zone, and the words came radially towards it, that I would be slightly better at it.


But I really enjoyed it. Got to level 32 or something before I got overwhelmed




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