Typing games!

November 11, 2005 9:31 AM

Letters If your screen isn't facing anyone, it looks like you're doing work. Happy flash friday everyone!
posted by BuddhaInABucket (34 comments total)

Allow me to pimp my high score of (so far) of 2612, which has landed me squarely in 21st place today. Will a mefite get #1?
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 9:33 AM on November 11, 2005

got to about 500 before it felt like my heart was going to punch through my chest and run out of the office. don't play this one if you've got any kind of aversion to repetitive stress.
posted by rxrfrx at 9:39 AM on November 11, 2005

Got to just over a thousand and a W got by and I attempted to punch it.
I believe I may be over-caffeinated.
posted by Dormant Gorilla at 9:42 AM on November 11, 2005

I think you MeFidotted it.
posted by Malor at 9:50 AM on November 11, 2005

Make that 10th place, by the way.
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 9:51 AM on November 11, 2005

Got in finally, had to keep retrying. I'm a good typist, but 781 was the best I could do in one try... the letters aren't in patterns, and I don't type individual letters well anymore.

Good game.
posted by Malor at 9:55 AM on November 11, 2005

One game of that was enough.
posted by smackfu at 9:55 AM on November 11, 2005

Curse you, F! 1753
posted by Nelson at 10:08 AM on November 11, 2005

This is killing me.
posted by OmieWise at 10:09 AM on November 11, 2005

Kind of like the graffiti game on the older Palms, a little easier though since its a key press instead of a stylus stroke.

I have no sound on my work computer, do the letters make good noises when they blow up? They should. It would be even cooler if, say the G, broke and sounded like breaking glass. Or the Z sounds like a braying zebra. But maybe that's just asking too much.
posted by fenriq at 10:12 AM on November 11, 2005

Gracious, but this ratchets up the adrenaline quickly. Ye gods.
posted by DWRoelands at 10:13 AM on November 11, 2005

This is actually a very cool teacher's tool. Thanks!
posted by squirrel at 10:16 AM on November 11, 2005

I can't stop playing it even though I'm not good at it and my neck hurts from the tension.
posted by OmieWise at 10:35 AM on November 11, 2005

Who knew letters could be so vicious?
posted by odinsdream at 10:36 AM on November 11, 2005

I'm getting a page not found error. Any mirrors?
posted by fvw at 11:04 AM on November 11, 2005

Hmm, older version here.
posted by fvw at 11:09 AM on November 11, 2005

This is awesome.
posted by ColdChef at 11:12 AM on November 11, 2005

If your screen isn't facing anyone, it looks like you're doing work.

Except for the steady stream of vulgarity and physical assaults directed toward the PC. Then again, maybe that does look like work.
posted by knave at 11:14 AM on November 11, 2005

[this is maddening]
posted by schustafa at 11:16 AM on November 11, 2005

Finally! Those mandatory middle school typing classes pay off!
posted by Gamblor at 11:25 AM on November 11, 2005

This is supposed to be fun? It reminds me of all the indignities I suffered at the hands of that shrew Mavis Beacon.
posted by Octaviuz at 11:37 AM on November 11, 2005

Does this cause spontaneous giggling in anyone else? Great link, thank you BuddhaInABucket.
posted by ceri richard at 12:24 PM on November 11, 2005

BTW, what do the things from the left do? I didn't read the instructions, and then they started popping up. I figured if I kept typing, I could ignore them, and that worked pretty well but now I'm curious.
posted by smackfu at 12:37 PM on November 11, 2005

I can't type worth a shit if it's just random letters. I can almost-sorta touch type with two fingers when I'm making real words.
posted by caution live frogs at 12:38 PM on November 11, 2005

If you hit a letter when it's near a bomb, it destroys everything surrounding it.
If you hit a letter when it's near a star, it gives you ten extra points.
If you hit a letter when it's near a clock, it slows the game down for a few seconds.
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 12:47 PM on November 11, 2005

aaarghhh.
posted by OmieWise at 12:54 PM on November 11, 2005

1295 *pant pant*
posted by deborah at 1:10 PM on November 11, 2005

1229, then I got bored and quit and stopped typing....
posted by HuronBob at 1:26 PM on November 11, 2005

Whoah, about thirty seconds of that was more than enough...
posted by jokeefe at 2:03 PM on November 11, 2005

I have the feeling if it were words instead of letters, I might do better. Fun though!
posted by brundlefly at 2:13 PM on November 11, 2005

Oh my god, I suck at this.
posted by sellout at 3:19 PM on November 11, 2005

words are easier? just combine the letters to sound-out fake words in your head then
posted by foraneagle2 at 5:55 PM on November 11, 2005

Man I suck at this. You'd think with the unceasing torrent of pointless strings of characters that crapflood out of my keyboard on an hourly basis I'd be better at this.
posted by loquacious at 10:12 PM on November 11, 2005

Nice concept for learning how to type and to increase your ability to type. I like it...
posted by fluffycreature at 6:51 PM on November 12, 2005