Re:The Lost Art of Typing Shit by Hand
by fapjacks on Thursday September 01, 2016 @02:39PM
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Wow that is a very clever idea! It seems like though that I would get green letters even though I had never made a guess. For example punctuation, e.g. newlines and whitespace and dots, would be green instead of red, even though I'd not typed any character at all. Awesome idea nonetheless!
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Re:The Lost Art of Typing Shit by Hand
by Houshalter on Thursday September 01, 2016 @02:42PM
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Oh yes, that was a feature I added. If you don't make a guess, it automatically guesses the most likely next character. You can see in the table to the left what it's predictions are. Which is just the letters most likely to appear after the last letter seen.
Re:The Lost Art of Typing Shit by Hand
by fapjacks on Thursday September 01, 2016 @03:19PM
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Oh, okay, that makes sense, then. So it's almost like I've got a computer partner that's also "learning" the syntax with me? That's actually really clever, because it helps me by demonstrating correct characters that I wouldn't have otherwise guessed. Very cool!
Re:The Lost Art of Typing Shit by Hand
by Houshalter on Thursday September 01, 2016 @10:41PM
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It was originally intended just to be a few hints to make it a bit easier. But I thought it made sense, that if you don't make any guess at all, it might as well guess the most likely character for you, and give you a few free points.