Neat! A couple gameplay suggestions I would have is that while the game does pretty well figuring out which word I'm typing sometimes I will get "locked" on a word that I decide I don't actually want to complete (for example, if something is coming at me faster). And, while probably intentional, sometimes I just can't see words or there is some delay in when they actually get destroyed.
You can press backspace to unlock from the target you are locked to.
I guess best fix would be to just never propose 2 words starting with the same letter
Games like this based on an existing skill would really benefit from the ability to start at higher levels. I'm a pretty proficient typist, it'd be a lot more interesting to me if there was any risk at all of me failing.
One of the features of this game is that you can provide a word list of your own. So you can probably generate a list of words above a certain length which will gradually get harder as more targets appear on screen.
Yeah. I gave up after about 10 minutes of it being not even remotely a challenge.
Yeah, I was genuinely surprised when I could feel myself fat-finger a letter and it just continued as if I had typed the real word. It reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposed_letter_effect#:~:te...
The game doesn't penalize wrong key presses. I made an automation cheat for it back in Dec 2013!
import java.awt.*;
public class autokey {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
// Give the user time to switch windows
Thread.sleep(2000);
// Repeatedly type the letters A through Z until the mouse is moved
Robot rob = new Robot();
Point prevLoc = MouseInfo.getPointerInfo().getLocation();
while (MouseInfo.getPointerInfo().getLocation().equals(prevLoc)) {
for (int i = 'A'; i <= 'Z'; i++) {
rob.keyPress(i);
Thread.sleep(1);
}
Thread.sleep(50);
}
}
}
True, but it does reward accuracy. Note the bar that resets at the bottom on a wrong keypress.
Really cool! What I have always wanted was a version of those touch typing training sites like tipp10 but with some social aspects. E.g. like a running app where you can rack up kilometers against your friends but for typing lessons!
I tend to play this at work when I need some downtime. If you want other suggestions, give Typing of the Dead a go.
That was really great. I did 7 waves on the phone and had fun! The music was phenomenal
I really like the game!
looks like the keyboard doesn’t work that well on mobile though (iOS). You need to press the keys below the key you want to type (eg if I want to type a T, I need to press G for it to work)
Ugh I've run into this issue as a developer before, IIRC it was something about the height of the bottom browser bar not being considered in touch targets. I think I was using the Canvas API when I hit it
I did not have this issue on iOS FWIW, so there must be something more subtle going on for this bug.
reminds me of typing of the dead, well done
For more of a challenge, there are these texts (0):
> Random Wikipedia Article (probably hard) [1]
> Moby Dick (hard) [2]
> Donald Trump’s Speech, South Carolina (incomprehensible) [3]
0: https://zty.pe/?load 1: https://zty.pe/?url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Ra... 2: https://zty.pe/?text=11e5dad15e3dca9b 3: https://zty.pe/?text=21bb8f1868f879f8
For those seeking something multiplayer https://play.typeracer.com/
Seems to be too buggy to play. First word I typed it wouldn't accept the last letter, and this happened again and again.
Could you make it so that I can use my actual keyboard on mobile instead of being forced to use QWERTY?
Very fun game! Just would have liked to choose my keyboard layout (in my case switch y and z)
Very good, I like it. I usually use NitroType, and I will use yours too.
Inspired by the classic Gar-Type I see !
Doesn't work on FF/Linux
I just played it on Firefox on Linux just fine.
Very good ideed! Give it try!
Too bad this doesn't use the system keyboard on mobile
That was fun.
I would like it if there was a hard mode, where every wrong keypress would spawn another enemy.
The irony in the typo of the submission for a typing game :-)
The current title of "ZType – Typing Game" seems correct. What was the title before?
Submitted title was "ZType Tying Game". We've since fixed it.
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