Friday Timewaster

[Sudy]

I'm just below 9, whether I touch type or not. It's weird because I type at a good 70 WPM, but I never fully learned to touch type. I'm constantly glancing down at the keyboard for verification and to adjust my position, but functionally I don't need to look.

The timeline game is a lot of fun and some guessing doesn't undermine the game, but man there are some cards you're just not going to have an idea about without a very specific history degree. It feels good when you get an answer right from context though.

[LordMortis]

If I can fat finger, I get in around 7
If I make sure I don't typo, it's around 11

[Archinerd]

I keep instinctively hitting enter after I finish.


If I close my eyes, I can get to 6 seconds.

[msteelers]

After a few practice rounds, I got it to 5.060. I kept stumbling around WXYZ. My left pinky and ring finger did not want to cooperate.

[FishPants]

Time: 4.986s

and I feel I was slow, it's not natural for me to type the alphabet in a row. I can be a spaz on the keyboard though, PTSD from my days as a network engineer when I pushed the wrong ACL to a core router.

[stessier]

https://typethealphabet.app/

See how fast you can type the alphabet.

6.938s is my current record.

5.491 when I looked at the keyboard and touch typed rather than stare at the screen and touch type. Think I might be able to shave a bit more off with a few more tries.

[coopasonic]

6.101 is my best on this terrible macbook keyboard and I do not touch type at all.

[disarm]

I managed just over 6s typing on my phone...seems pretty respectable for visual tapping

[stessier]

I have to find some people to try playing this with.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04 ... m-go-fish/

[Unagi]

I have to find some people to try playing this with.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04 ... m-go-fish/

Yeah, that's pretty trippy. I don't know if I could find a couple people to put up with all that.

[LordMortis]

I have to find some people to try playing this with.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04 ... m-go-fish/

We could try in the forum games once I wrap my head around it.

[MusttafaJabber]

https://typingmentor.com/articles/alphabet-typing-test/

See how fast you can type the alphabet.

3.37 seconds is the current world record.

[Blackhawk]

6 seconds, 92%. I've gotten awful.

/edit - I pulled 60 WPM on one of their non-alphabet tests, which isn't as fast as I used to be, but isn't as awful as I'd feared. It was really weird taking a typing test where I was expected to actually use backspace. I think the last time I took a typing test was on an IBM Selectric.

[Chraolic]

4 seconds. I can't seem to find how to display hundredths of a second, but I tried their minute challenge and boy was that a mistake.

[aftab11aftab]

Practice spamming by spamming!

[Sudy]

I mean, say what you want about the tenets of national socialism, at least these bots are persistent.

[Isgrimnur]

https://sinerider.com/

[Sudy]

Browse Star Trek Enterprise bridges in 3D:

https://roddenberry.x.io/2151-enterprise-nx-01/

[AWS260]

This has become an everyday timewaster for me:

https://thricegame.com/

Each day, there are five trivia questions covering anything and everything under the sun. You get up to three clues for each question, with more points for using the fewest number of clues. It's just a really solid and engaging little trivia quiz.

[disarm]

This has become an everyday timewaster for me:

https://thricegame.com/

That pretty interesting...some obscure clues, but they do a pretty good job of nudging you toward the right answer.

I managed 12 points today

[Kraken]

10 points! woohoo!

I should just automatically pass on all entertainment questions. I suck at pop culture.

[Zenn7]

10 points! woohoo!

I should just automatically pass on all entertainment questions. I suck at pop culture.

10 points, ditto.

[Jaymon]

well, I got 2 points. I am not the trivia master.

[AWS260]

Dragonsweeper: it's Minesweeper with monsters. The number in each revealed cell shows the total level of monsters in all adjacent cells (regular monsters are 1-11, mines are 100).

[TheMix]

Beat it. But it took a number of tries. Some because I was still trying to suss out how it works. But I enjoyed it. Thanks for posting!

Full disclosure, I played 100s of hours of minesweeper in college. So this was right up my alley.

[Dave Allen]

This about to be my first win, but I never found the one, red-headed, level zero guy.
What does he do? And based on the state of my game in this screenshot is it possible to uncover him and still win?

[Dave Allen]

I became afraid that this browser game would time-out before I heard from anyone so I won by defeating the dragon.
After the win, I was given a final score of 255.
I suppose my score would be a lot higher if I hadn't used all my hearts uncovering more squares when I could have killed the dragon much earlier.
I wonder how the final score is calculated.
FYI, the red-headed level zero guy is worth 10 gold when you find him.

[TheMix]

You definitely don't need to find everything to win. A full clear isn't necessary. But I would assume that, if you are going to score, then you'd want to clear as much as possible. You definitely could have cleared another 14pts, used the heart, then cleared 15pts, then leveled.... After that, I'm not sure.

The only zero I see is to the right of the 11.

Going down that side, it looks like...

7
2
0
2
6

BTW, you know you can put your own numbers in the blanks to help keep track, right? By right clicking. Also, that 5 Green Slime/Cube is collectable. Which actually put you in an even better position.

And did you get the scroll to destroy the bombs? I saw it mentioned, but I've never gotten it.

[The Meal]

This is a fun one I keep coming back to, despite hitting the 303 max score three times now. A big part of the fun is finding out the patterns in the game, and I’m not going to reveal them. When you lose, especially early, and the remaining board is revealed, those patterns are available to get sussed out. I’ll spoil a list of the particular pattern-related items I’ve identified (but not the actual pattern).

Spoiler:

The 11-point bomb scroll guy
The 1-point reveal-the 5’s and 8’s dude
All 4-point gargoyles
The 5-point rat revealer
The 5-point “gazers”
The worth-10 points elf

Thanks for sharing this one!

[Dave Allen]

You definitely don't need to find everything to win. A full clear isn't necessary. But I would assume that, if you are going to score, then you'd want to clear as much as possible. You definitely could have cleared another 14pts, used the heart, then cleared 15pts, then leveled.... After that, I'm not sure.

The only zero I see is to the right of the 11.

Going down that side, it looks like...

7
2
0
2
6

BTW, you know you can put your own numbers in the blanks to help keep track, right? By right clicking. Also, that 5 Green Slime/Cube is collectable. Which actually put you in an even better position.

And did you get the scroll to destroy the bombs? I saw it mentioned, but I've never gotten it.

Yeah, the zero guy was right where you show it was.
I do put a red "X" where I am sure there is a bomb. Then I try to make a path to the corners and find the level 11 guy. It was a winning strategy for my first win. Having all the bombs defused at once is awesome.

[TheMix]

FYI, it is apparently possible for that elf/gnome to not be 10 points. For some reason he was worth zero when I found him last night.

[Dave Allen]

Here's what one gold short of perfect looks like. Drat.

[Dave Allen]

Here's what one gold short of perfect looks like. Drat.

Actually, this could have been a perfect score. I just didn't understand how the mimic worked.

[The Meal]

Dragonsweeper: it's Minesweeper with monsters. The number in each revealed cell shows the total level of monsters in all adjacent cells (regular monsters are 1-11, mines are 100).

This got updated!

[Dave Allen]

Dragonsweeper: it's Minesweeper with monsters. The number in each revealed cell shows the total level of monsters in all adjacent cells (regular monsters are 1-11, mines are 100).

This got updated!

Only one spot initially revealed, but larger. And the Dragon is 13.
So, does this make it harder or easier?

[The Meal]

I’ll spoil a list of the particular pattern-related items I’ve identified (but not the actual pattern).

Spoiler:

The 11-point bomb scroll guy
The 1-point reveal-the 5’s and 8’s dude
All 4-point gargoyles
The 5-point rat revealer
The 5-point “gazers”
The worth-10 points elf

I've noticed some updated/new patterns:

Spoiler:

The tell associated with the rat revealer
The six-point ogres

I'm not convinced that's all of them, especially considering the two ?'s available to us in the right-click menu.