alt Hacker NewsThank you :)
> One piece of feedback and a gripe I have with a lot of these is that missed or extra characters throw off the entire next sequence and essentially require backing up to deal with them, as opposed to wrong characters which are fine to just be mistakes you move on from. It'd be great to have some detection for when the user is continuing that re-aligns their string.
Thank you for the feedback! I’m not entirely sure I can visualize exactly what you mean by this:
> It'd be great to have some detection for when the user is continuing that re-aligns their string.
Could you give an example of this?
I curious because I’ve been exploring alternative and unique UI ideas for typing practice so this could lead me into a new direction
I pulled up the first text I found from the site:
> according to its archive...
Let's say I mistype and don't double the first "c", but otherwise type entirely correctly.
> acording to its archive...
This would be counted as having everything wrong except the first 2 characters, which doesn't feel like a good reflection of my accuracy.
I know this is a hard problem because I don't think there's any simple guaranteed way to re-align the string to account for a possible deletion or insertion, particularly if there are more mistakes in the following text, but finding and using some sort of accuracy-maximizing alignment would be great to have.