ZType – Typing Game

1/12/2025 at 9:11:01 AM

Neat! A couple gameplay suggestions I would have is that while the game does pretty well figuring out which word I'm typing sometimes I will get "locked" on a word that I decide I don't actually want to complete (for example, if something is coming at me faster). And, while probably intentional, sometimes I just can't see words or there is some delay in when they actually get destroyed.

by saagarjha

1/12/2025 at 11:47:09 AM

You can press backspace to unlock from the target you are locked to.

by nullify88

1/12/2025 at 10:19:39 AM

I guess best fix would be to just never propose 2 words starting with the same letter

by Szpadel

1/12/2025 at 2:53:44 PM

Games like this based on an existing skill would really benefit from the ability to start at higher levels. I'm a pretty proficient typist, it'd be a lot more interesting to me if there was any risk at all of me failing.

by omni

1/12/2025 at 5:06:10 PM

One of the features of this game is that you can provide a word list of your own. So you can probably generate a list of words above a certain length which will gradually get harder as more targets appear on screen.

by nullify88

1/12/2025 at 2:57:06 PM

Yeah. I gave up after about 10 minutes of it being not even remotely a challenge.

by dmd

1/12/2025 at 5:22:34 PM

Yeah, I was genuinely surprised when I could feel myself fat-finger a letter and it just continued as if I had typed the real word. It reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposed_letter_effect#:~:te...

by mdaniel

1/12/2025 at 5:18:39 PM

The game doesn't penalize wrong key presses. I made an automation cheat for it back in Dec 2013!

    import java.awt.*;
    
    public class autokey {
        public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
            // Give the user time to switch windows
            Thread.sleep(2000);
            
            // Repeatedly type the letters A through Z until the mouse is moved
            Robot rob = new Robot();
            Point prevLoc = MouseInfo.getPointerInfo().getLocation();
            while (MouseInfo.getPointerInfo().getLocation().equals(prevLoc)) {
                for (int i = 'A'; i <= 'Z'; i++) {
                    rob.keyPress(i);
                    Thread.sleep(1);
                }
                Thread.sleep(50);
            }
        }
    }

by nayuki

1/12/2025 at 7:12:36 PM

True, but it does reward accuracy. Note the bar that resets at the bottom on a wrong keypress.

by lwhsiao

1/12/2025 at 3:02:23 PM

Really cool! What I have always wanted was a version of those touch typing training sites like tipp10 but with some social aspects. E.g. like a running app where you can rack up kilometers against your friends but for typing lessons!

by sureglymop

1/12/2025 at 11:38:21 AM

I tend to play this at work when I need some downtime. If you want other suggestions, give Typing of the Dead a go.

by nullify88

1/12/2025 at 12:55:56 PM

That was really great. I did 7 waves on the phone and had fun! The music was phenomenal

by unixhero

1/12/2025 at 1:17:04 PM

I really like the game!

looks like the keyboard doesn’t work that well on mobile though (iOS). You need to press the keys below the key you want to type (eg if I want to type a T, I need to press G for it to work)

by drag0s

1/12/2025 at 4:13:21 PM

Ugh I've run into this issue as a developer before, IIRC it was something about the height of the bottom browser bar not being considered in touch targets. I think I was using the Canvas API when I hit it

by abound

1/12/2025 at 3:16:55 PM

I did not have this issue on iOS FWIW, so there must be something more subtle going on for this bug.

by x0xrx

1/12/2025 at 10:15:08 AM

reminds me of typing of the dead, well done

by VeejayRampay

1/12/2025 at 4:47:10 PM

For those seeking something multiplayer https://play.typeracer.com/

by moreati

1/12/2025 at 5:02:08 PM

Seems to be too buggy to play. First word I typed it wouldn't accept the last letter, and this happened again and again.

by bl4kers

1/12/2025 at 4:45:27 PM

Could you make it so that I can use my actual keyboard on mobile instead of being forced to use QWERTY?

by xigoi

1/12/2025 at 2:09:41 PM

Very fun game! Just would have liked to choose my keyboard layout (in my case switch y and z)

by eagleseye

1/12/2025 at 11:35:34 AM

Very good, I like it. I usually use NitroType, and I will use yours too.

by apirobots

1/12/2025 at 6:03:43 PM

For more of a challenge, there are these texts (0):

> Random Wikipedia Article (probably hard) [1]

> Moby Dick (hard) [2]

> Donald Trump’s Speech, South Carolina (incomprehensible) [3]

0: https://zty.pe/?load 1: https://zty.pe/?url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Ra... 2: https://zty.pe/?text=11e5dad15e3dca9b 3: https://zty.pe/?text=21bb8f1868f879f8

by 0x38B

1/12/2025 at 4:26:42 PM

Inspired by the classic Gar-Type I see !

by BlueTemplar

1/12/2025 at 2:34:08 PM

Doesn't work on FF/Linux

by deskr

1/12/2025 at 3:14:43 PM

I just played it on Firefox on Linux just fine.

by Shawnecy

1/12/2025 at 11:32:01 AM

Very good ideed! Give it try!

by daitangio

1/12/2025 at 12:27:30 PM

Too bad this doesn't use the system keyboard on mobile

by boogerlad

1/9/2025 at 9:34:08 PM

That was fun.

by Chihuahua0633

1/13/2025 at 4:06:28 PM

I would like it if there was a hard mode, where every wrong keypress would spawn another enemy.

by dasKrokodil

1/12/2025 at 9:06:13 AM

The irony in the typo of the submission for a typing game :-)

by adnanc

1/12/2025 at 5:06:07 PM

The current title of "ZType – Typing Game" seems correct. What was the title before?

by nayuki

1/12/2025 at 9:04:23 PM

Submitted title was "ZType Tying Game". We've since fixed it.

by dang

1/12/2025 at 3:42:06 PM

[dead]

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