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Typing Trainer (repost) - 1micha.elok - 05-07-2025
TYPING TRAINER (repost)
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This program measures typing speed and backspace usage.
The user must type the sentence 100% accurately;
otherwise, it is marked as a failure.
Control keys :
- F5 to continue
- Escape to quit the program
- Backspace to erase any character before the cursor
Acknowledgement
- input text with 'inkey' in N7 by Marcus
RE: Typing Trainer (repost) - Marcus - 05-07-2025
(05-07-2025, 08:40 AM)1micha.elok Wrote: TYPING TRAINER (repost)
click the image to zoom in
This program measures typing speed and backspace usage.
The user must type the sentence 100% accurately;
otherwise, it is marked as a failure.
Control keys :
- F5 to continue
- Escape to quit the program
- Backspace to erase any character before the cursor
Acknowledgement
- input text with 'inkey' in N7 by Marcus
This program was actually quite fun, and I was terrible at it
Well done!
RE: Typing Trainer (repost) - johnno56 - 05-07-2025
I have to agree with Marcus, except for his "terrible" remark... mine was... let's just say... worse... lol
Cool program! My only problem with this type (no pun intended) of program... is me... My typing skills are non-existent... lol
Looking forward to the next one...
RE: Typing Trainer (repost) - 1micha.elok - 05-08-2025
This typing trainer takes me back to the days when I first learned to type on my father’s old mechanical typewriter. The keys were stiff and made a loud clacking sound with every press. My little fingers struggled to hit certain letters—especially 'a', 'q', 'z', and 'p'—so the words I typed often came out missing those characters. Sometimes I ended up with hilarious results like “inele” instead of “pineapple” or “retzel” instead of “pretzel.”
My typing tutor would cover my eyes with a black cloth so I had to type without looking, relying purely on muscle memory to find each key. I can still remember the classic pangram, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,” which I typed line after line across entire pages to practice.
I really miss those days—when the rhythmic clatter of mechanical typewriters filled the air, and they were still as a standard fixture in nearly every office.
RE: Typing Trainer (repost) - johnno56 - 05-08-2025
... let's not forget the 'hammers' that jammed if you pressed too many keys at the same time; re-threading the print ribbon after it pops out and the all time favourite... the smell of the correcting fluid as you paint it over the many mistakes... and the little "ding" as you reached the "end of line"... "black fingers" as you tried to place carbon paper between the pages so as to make "copies"... getting one of your fingers "stuck" between the keys if you didn't press a key "just right"... but the funny part is... I still cannot type.... lol