Warning: Side effects may include uncontrollable urge to correct other people's typos and excessive use of keyboard shortcuts in real life.
Your innocent little typing test just got a MASSIVE GLOW-UP! 💅
We took your humble speed test and gave it more features than a Swiss Army knife at a camping convention. It's like we fed it performance-enhancing vitamins and sent it to coding bootcamp.
- Before: Spaghetti code that would make Italians cry
- After: Clean, organized architecture that Marie Kondo would approve of
- New: Fancy enums because apparently we're sophisticated now
- Bonus: Error handling that actually handles errors (revolutionary!)
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Real-time Rainbow Highlighting 🌈
- Green = "You're doing great, sweetie!" 💚
- Red = "Oopsie daisy, try again!" ❤️
- Yellow = "You are HERE (like a mall map)" 💛
- Gray = "Patiently waiting their turn" 🤍
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Smart Completion (Because Quitting is for Quitters)
- Type everything like a perfectionist, OR
- Wimp out at 80% completion with ENTER (we won't judge... much)
- Live stats because instant gratification is everything
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Forever Memory (stored in
typing_stats.json)- Your best WPM (to brag about at parties)
- Accuracy records (for when you peaked in life)
- Game history going back 50 sessions (because who doesn't love nostalgia?)
- Timestamps (to pinpoint exactly when you gave up)
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Results Screen Flex 💪
- Current performance vs. your legendary past
- Error counting (the hall of shame)
- Personal bests comparison (remember when you were good?)
- Dark Theme: For vampires and night owls 🦇
- Light Theme: For morning people (ew) ☀️
- Neon Theme: For when you want to feel like you're in Tron 🌟
- Retro Theme: For when you miss the good old days 📺
- Easy: "My grandma could type this" difficulty
- Medium: "Respectable human being" level
- Hard: "Show-off at the office" mode
- Expert: "I have no life but excellent WPM" territory
- Beep Boop Symphony:
- Happy beeps for success (dopamine delivery system)
- Sad beeps for failures (shame bell)
- Victory fanfare for completion (your moment of glory)
- Generated on-the-fly because we're fancy like that
- Toggle-able for when your coworkers complain
From basic "quick brown fox" to "quantum computing will revolutionize blockchain AI neural networks" (because we live in the future, apparently)
- ESC: "I quit!" button (rage quit friendly)
- ENTER: "Good enough!" completion
- F1: "Surprise me!" settings roulette
- F2: "Make it pretty!" theme switcher
- F3: "Shh!" sound toggle
- Backspace: Actually works now (groundbreaking!)
- Launch:
python "speed typing.py"(prepare for greatness) - Click: That big obvious text box (it's waiting for you)
- Type: Like your life depends on it (it doesn't, but pretend)
- Marvel: At your real-time stats (or cry, we don't judge)
- Finish: Either completely or wimp out at 80%
- Bask: In your mediocre/amazing results
- Repeat: Until you achieve keyboard enlightenment
- Accuracy > Speed: Unless you're trying to impress teenagers
- Try all difficulties: Growth happens outside comfort zones (ugh, motivational quotes)
- Experiment with themes: Life's too short for boring colors
- Check your history: Marvel at your inconsistency
- Practice regularly: Or don't, we're not your mom
- Python 3.6+ (because we're not animals)
- Pygame 2.0+ (for the fancy graphics)
- Working fingers (negotiable)
- Sense of humor (clearly optional)
The game saves your:
- Stats (for eternal bragging rights)
- Preferences (because you're special)
- History (your legacy of typos)
- Settings (convenience is king)
Warning: May cause addiction to typing tests and an inexplicable urge to measure everything in WPM.
Now go forth and clickety-clack your way to glory! ⌨️👑
P.S. If you reach 100+ WPM, please consider applying to be a court stenographer or professional keyboard tester.