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I built a typing game with the feature r/typing asked for — here's what I learned

DEV Community·Clackpit·29 days ago
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Two years ago, a Reddit moderator named Gary_Internet posted in r/typing and described the one feature that would make a TypeRacer competitor worth switching to: "The other thing that would really set you apart from Typeracer is to give people the ability to practice all the words that they made mistakes on at the click of a button... 5 repetitions of each word. You'd be in a league of your own." That comment got 14 upvotes. The original post got 18. And nothing ever shipped. So I built it. What I built Clackpit is a browser-based typing race with three things TypeRacer doesn't do well: 1. Forced correction that actually works TypeRacer forces you to backspace and fix mistakes before moving on — that's the right call, it trains real accuracy. But plenty of typing sites (looking at you, NitroType default settings) let you barrel through mistakes and just count them at the end. Clackpit uses the TypeRacer model: wrong letter typed, cursor stops, you fix it or you don't advance. No skip, no workaround. 2.…

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