Years ago (jesus, has it been 15 years?), I was in computer class on the old Macintoshes they had with Mavis Beacon Typing Tutor. We were supposed to type out the sentences we read to increase our typing speed, and learn the home row. I hated home row, and insisted that hunt-and-peck was more comfortable for me. But the teacher was adamant I use home row only, which was annoying. I was also not very fast at either form of typing.
I discovered by accident that if I hit the spacebar for each letter in each word, the program interpreted it as a successful spelling. All I had to do was keep typing the spacebar to complete the words. So i'd put my fingers on the home row, moving my fingers up and down, and pressing the spacebar with my thumb. I got 120 words per minute.
I remember discovering a similar (maybe the same) bug in my typing classes. I was a fairly good typist, so I would finish the assignment as quickly as I could and then play games on the computer. The teacher wasn't very happy with this and wanted me to continue typing. So, in frustration and boredom, I just typed a bunch of spaces and was quite surprised when it accepted it as correct. I told a few of my friends about this and it quickly spread. The teacher became suspicious of the scores, and I got blamed for discovering the flaw. The teacher then decided she had to watch me complete every one of the typing excercises to make sure I wasn't cheating. Luckily for me, after a few weeks of that she let me go back to completing the assignments quickly and playing games. I still wish my school would have had a more knowledgeable computer teacher to push me to do programming excercises or something more productive than wasting that time playing games.
Haha that's stupid. Did the program not bother checking to see what the keycodes were? Did it have just a function OnKeyPress that incremented the counter?
Laziness! Why do I bother writing decent software when there's so much junk floating around that people BUY?
In high school we had a similar class that required us to use Mavis Beacon (or some similar typing application) and report our words per minute. I thought this a waste of time and annoying, so I wrote a program to simulate the keystrokes and type for me. I think the teacher knew something was amiss though when it showed that I was typing at over 5000 words per minute.
Years ago (jesus, has it been 15 years?), I was in computer class on the old Macintoshes they had with Mavis Beacon Typing Tutor. We were supposed to type out the sentences we read to increase our typing speed, and learn the home row. I hated home row, and insisted that hunt-and-peck was more comfortable for me. But the teacher was adamant I use home row only, which was annoying. I was also not very fast at either form of typing.
I discovered by accident that if I hit the spacebar for each letter in each word, the program interpreted it as a successful spelling. All I had to do was keep typing the spacebar to complete the words. So i'd put my fingers on the home row, moving my fingers up and down, and pressing the spacebar with my thumb. I got 120 words per minute.