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Got to wave 17 and quit from boredom. Harder please! Much, much harder! (reppin QGMLWB by the way http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?full_optimization http://mkweb
by chrismonsanto 13y ago
Got to wave 17 and quit from boredom. Harder please! Much, much harder!
(reppin QGMLWB by the way http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?full_optimization http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?full_optimization)
- edcastro 13y agosecond that. make it harder, it gets a little boring after a little time for most of us (i guess). awesome and entertaining, nevertheless.
- danmaz74 13y agoDid you try starting it in expert mode? If you did level 17 there, my respects to you :)
- chrismonsanto 13y agoYeah, expert mode. Before my hand injury (too much pinky stress), my sustained maximum was 153wpm on QWERTY. I can still get ~120wpm with the new layout and my Kinesis keyboard though. The only trouble I have is if I have to take a break and they advance a bit. My gun seems to lock on things I don't expect it to (missiles). Otherwise, they can barely make it on to the screen.
- rickdale 13y agoYour pinky stress is actually a recognized phenomenon... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs#Emacs_Pinky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs#Emacs_Pinky discussed here:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2610467 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2610467
- chrismonsanto 13y agoI'm a heavy Emacs user. I tried to plan ahead and remap Ctrl -> Caps Lock, but it didn't help. After all, I still used my pinky to hit Caps Lock. Thankfully, hearty remapping of defaults + Kinesis did help!
- sillysaurus2 13y agoMaybe remap it to Vim pedal? Someone came up with the idea to use a foot pedal for vim insert mode. It was a little whacky of an idea, but perhaps it'd be more useful as Emacs' meta key. http://hackaday.com/2012/06/21/building-a-clutch-for-vim/ http://hackaday.com/2012/06/21/building-a-clutch-for-vim/
- eru 13y agoThe Kinesis Advantage actually comes with pedals, if you want to.
- sokoloff 13y agoI use a foot pedal mapped to Ctrl on my Kinesis (in addition to remapping Caps Lock to Ctrl). For casual use, I use the Caps Lock key; for longer typing sessions, I "bother with" the foot pedal. My biggest problem now is that I look like an absolute clown when typing on a conference room PC (with a standard keyboard)...
- spudlyo 13y agoYou should really take advantage of those lovely left side thumb buttons on the Kinesis. I have control and meta on the two largest left thumb buttons, which works great for me.
- sokoloff 13y agoFunny. I read your and eru's comment and thought, "no they're not!". Then I looked down and said, "Holy crap; they are!" I may try to retrain myself, but it's been years and years of ingraining current physical patterns, so I'm not super hopeful. (It took me the better part of year to get used to the foot pedal, mostly to remember not to futz with it casually while I was just typing. Holding Control foot pedal while typing the word 'taxes' is painful in Windows apps...)
- eru 13y agoWhich kinesis keyboard do you have? I've got the Advantage, and Ctrl is already activated with the thumbs by default. That helps a lot.
- MortenK 13y agoWow, that's faster than Barbara Blackburn who holds the Guinness world record. You should compete :)
- chrismonsanto 13y agoIf you're suggesting I am lying, I assure you there are more substantial things to lie about. > Typing, Fastest. Mrs. Barbara Blackburn of Salem, Oregon maintained a speed of 150 wpm for 50 min (37,500 key strokes) and attained a speed of 170 wpm using the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard (DSK) system. Her top speed was recorded at 212 wpm. I (could) absolutely type at 150 wpm. I would not be able to sustain it for 50 minutes. Nor could I type at 170 wpm, let alone 212 wpm.
- thetylerhayes 13y agoI think MortenK was just poking a little fun. :) all around
- lispylol 13y agoDid level 18. This is hacker news - people type for a living! Really like the animation and the sound effects. Would be awesome if there were more surprises, because the novelty (and difficulty) was reduced once I realized that there were always a set of words that I needed to target first, and the manner in which they appear didn't really change much as I progressed. great job!
- danmaz74 13y agoGreat job to the author - I just found it and posted the link after losing some time there ;)
- pjbrunet 13y agoRespect the slow CPU, slow operating system?
- Malician 13y agoI made it to twenty. 5960, 91.7%, 74.6 I ended up constantly triggering on the little ships and couldn't target the big ones
- meowface 13y agoSame here. I ended up accidentally triggering other words, so what I was typing wasn't what I actually thought I was typing.
- aeon10 13y agoCant get past level 19.
- michaelleland 13y agoTo easy with Qwerty? Try Dvorak (or one of the modern variants). I'm switching to Dvorak to see if my "muscle memory" can change, and this game is suddenly WAY harder.
- lmm 13y agoAs someone who uses Dvorak normally, it makes this game incredibly easy (though I guess it was easy enough already?)