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Z-Type.

13 replies · 3,052 views · Started 17 October 2012

Z-Type.

What a bizarre little game. You type the words that are displayed to shoot at the targets matching up with them. It's rather interesting, but I like it. You can quickly amaze yourself by how fast you can type, but then you start on a word that you didn't intend to, and keep typing, but your letters don't match, so you end up failing far too fast. It's tons of fun.

I wish there was a way to have this in the arcade... this game is really fun 😊.

My typing is kinda rusty... But I did get 21 words a minute... (Which is not a good score, I just woke up so My hands were not ready >_<😉

I got up to 54 before one of the words I was typing turned out to have been a lot higher than the word I was looking at. It's a trap I say.

4617 points, 49.5 wpm (roughly equal to my typing speed IRL), 96.3% accuracy. Tip ---- get rid of the bigger words as soon as you can. You don't want to deal with multiple waves of the one-letter ships at the same time, and if it gets to multiple waves of medium-length words at the same time, forget about it.

My biggest problem was accidentally starting a long word, and then having to scramble to fend off incoming medium-length ships. A nice twist on a familiar theme.

3365 score, 94.6% accuracy, 52.5 GWPM.

I was fine until they started spewing random letters at me. I wasn't trained to recognize individual letters in typing. I type by word.

I got to ~level 25 and paused it to go do something and my browser crashed when I was away. Pretty fun. Sure highlights all my bad typing habits.

I opened it up after I saw the link and played through level 30 and closed out because I did not want to continue. I saw that it had scores after reviewing some of the posts so I decided that I had to play through again.

What kept getting me is that I would end up typing a word, and then of the six letters I typed two or three of them would get applied to another word and I would be thrown off from what I intended on typing; this would usually follow with re-typing the same word.

I definitely knew that I would not get a high accuracy, because I commonly will use my backspace key or shift+home to delete a line. Though I usually can type whatever it is that I typed pretty quickly after correcting it. I used to have a higher WPM, but I guess IntelliSense has just made me lazy.

Last Level: 35
Final Score: 4623
Accuracy: 91.5%
Words Per Minute: 70.1