Have fun sharpening your typing skillsBooks and Writing, Humor, gaming — by TDavid @ 6:24 pm PST
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It’s Saturday and if you’re working isn’t it time for a break? Fellow writers who want to improve your word per minute (WPM) typing skill during break time, give Word Shoot a try. Unless of course you are that cunning typist and B5media CEO Jeremy Wright [Hmm interview] who once commented here claiming that there were videos of him cresting the 220 wpm mark. Get those videos up on YouTube, Jeremy, that could rank right up there with the Numa Numa guy (below) or Chad Vader.
The object of the game is pretty basic: just type the word beneath the enemy. Sometimes the text is hard to read when two enemies are right on top of each other, a glitch. My score above is using the easy setting and the first time I played. Feel free to share your score below.
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Comment by iiq374 — November 12, 2006 @ 1:25 pm PST
I still maintain that the best thing that ever happened to my typing skills were police quest 1 and 2
Comment by iiq374 — November 12, 2006 @ 1:26 pm PST
Hello iiq374 - you talking about this Police Quest? I never played that one, does it have some sort of typing game component?
Comment by TDavid — November 12, 2006 @ 3:47 pm PST
Thats the one! Its from the good old days of adventure gaming when all your actions (other than walking) were via typing in commands.
Because of the amount of typing and rephrasing required you became really good at typing.
There were also a couple of sequences (like the arrest of a particular driver) where if you didn’t complete all the actions within a certain amount of time you got toasted.
The Kings Quest series also needed typing for about the first 4 but for some reason were never quite as good at developing my typing…
Comment by iiq374 — November 12, 2006 @ 6:44 pm PST
Ahh yes, that makes sense, although I don’t remember many of the text games requiring speedy typing. Those text based thinking adventure games were a lot of fun. I also liked the choose your own adventure books.
Comment by TDavid — November 12, 2006 @ 6:55 pm PST
I think that is what made the police quest ones a bit different was actually having some scenarios that you had to complete in a certain amount of time.
Although come to think of it Space Quest probably helped a bit too because the early text parsers it used were a bit lousy and you pretty much needed to work out the exact sentence construction. Which was more fun if you could type quickly…
Of course they also taught me the difference between New Zealand and American spelling
Comment by iiq374 — November 13, 2006 @ 1:40 pm PST