Re:Show HN: Speedsums
by kornish on Monday June 29, 2015 @03:38AM
(#9796844)
Strange. The 119th answer is fine for me, but the 120th breaks it. I revised the script to not rely on interval multiplication, which can be flighty due to inconsistent latencies, but to rather keep a counter and cancel the interval after 119 solves.
Nice. More fun than I thought it'd be. One suggestion: mark the input field as a telephone input (?) so mobile users can get a nice fat numeric keypad.
(?) I know there are various ways to do this, they just escape me at the moment.
Re:Show HN: Speedsums
by zaroth on Monday June 29, 2015 @01:16AM
(#9796536)
Nice simple UI. I like not having to hit enter!
If you want to make it more "fair" consider bining the questions by difficulty and randomly select some number from each bin, versus a random selection / generation over the entire pool of possible questions, or actually timing each response individually and showing an average of the percentiles for each answer, instead of a percentile for the average time.
Re:Show HN: Speedsums
by refrigerator on Monday June 29, 2015 @05:27AM
(#9797121)
I thought about taking steps to make sure that tests are more fair and balanced, but decided against it because I think the small element of luck is part of what makes you want to play again :)
Re:Show HN: Speedsums
by confiscate on Monday June 29, 2015 @02:55AM
(#9796725)
Nice UI! I like the minions background at the end when the scoring page shows up.
For the timer, can it be a non-decimal number? Seems like I don't really care about decimal time (don't think most users care about fractions of a second)
I genuinely enjoy this. I haven't had to 'race' against simple math like that since I did my times tables in late elementary/middle school, so this was a lot of fun. Still got it apparently!
Re:Show HN: Speedsums
by yitchelle on Monday June 29, 2015 @03:07AM
(#9796765)
I came across a bug when it asked me for 11 x 12. I entered the answer but nothing happened. Pressing return, another digit or some other key failed. I just let the time run down.
Re:Show HN: Speedsums
by janjongboom on Monday June 29, 2015 @09:21AM
(#9797857)
When you're typing and want to correct with BACKSPACE, but at the same time the timer runs out you'll be returned to previous page and can't see your score...
http://imgur.com/HG0J9fN
(?) I know there are various ways to do this, they just escape me at the moment.
If you want to make it more "fair" consider bining the questions by difficulty and randomly select some number from each bin, versus a random selection / generation over the entire pool of possible questions, or actually timing each response individually and showing an average of the percentiles for each answer, instead of a percentile for the average time.
Total sums done: 3,816,583 -- really?
For the timer, can it be a non-decimal number? Seems like I don't really care about decimal time (don't think most users care about fractions of a second)
But that aside, this is nicely done.
Can you make a large bank of harder questions?
Similar to the level of the calculation test on http://www.shldirect.com/en/practice-tests
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krypto_(game)
Play it here: http://illuminations.nctm.org/Activity.aspx?id=3569
http://imgur.com/qSerUAV
I was on Firefox 38.0.5.