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<subtitle>Rust + WASM typing game.
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<title>Make every passage long enough to be worth timing, and credit all of them</title>
<updated>2026-01-14T20:23:00+00:00</updated>
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The dataset's median passage was 69 characters, about twelve words, which is
over in twelve seconds at an ordinary speed. Some packs were worse: shell had
a median of 46 and a shortest entry of 17. That is the reason packs felt
small. It was not the number of entries, which was 15 to 37 per pack, but the
length of each one.

Multiplayer had already hit this and worked around it: load_race_texts
filters to 120 characters or more. That filter left only 61 of 350 passages
eligible, 38 of them from two packs, so races repeated constantly and four
packs could never come up at all.

Both halves are fixed.

Content: 104 longer passages added across every pack. The command packs get
whole pipelines rather than single flags, which is how the tools are actually
used and what the explanations were always for. Prose packs get passages that
run 150 to 320 characters.

Selection: a floor of 120 characters. Prose packs draw from their long
entries where a pack holds at least five, so no pack is reduced to the same
few passages. The command packs chain consecutive entries into one drill,
which is the natural shape for them, and the explanations are collected so
each line is still described.

Measured over 400 draws per pack, every category now runs a median of 146 to
218 characters with a shortest draw of 120. The race pool went from 61 of 350
to 130 of 454.

Attribution: 24 passages had none and displayed nothing at all under the
text. They now say Unknown, which is the honest answer for a fact written for
the pack, and the pangram is credited as one. The results and typing screens
both fall back to Unknown rather than rendering an empty line, and the pack
name is shown beside the source.

Multiplayer results, three fixes:

- PB never appeared. A race has no mode of its own, so modeKey was undefined,
  so recordResult never ran. Races share one key, because the passage is
  whatever the server dealt and a per-passage best would never be beaten.
- Play Again started a solo test. A race carries standings and a solo run does
  not, so the results screen can tell them apart and now queues for another
  race. The end screen's own cleanup leaves the old room first.
- CONSISTENCY was the longest label on the screen and made the accuracy
  column wider than the WPM column opposite it. It reads CON.

RaceText carries the pack name so the results can show it for a race the same
way single player does.

24 Rust tests and 3 browser tests pass.
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<title>Rebuild the generic packs, add shell and sysadmin, fix short race passages</title>
<updated>2025-12-07T19:58:00+00:00</updated>
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The packs were not proper. An audit found 86 of 253 items (33%) carrying an
attribution that just restated the category - prose *about* a topic with an
invented source, which is the same fault the movies pack had. Six of thirteen
packs were mostly that: technology had 15 items and one distinct attribution.

- science, technology, history, nature and business are now sourced quotes
  with real attributions: Feynman, Curie, Hopper, Dijkstra, Lincoln, Carson,
  Drucker, Goodhart. 82 items, all attributed to a person or a work.
- general is original factual prose, so it now carries no attribution at all
  rather than claiming "General knowledge" as a source. merge_packs no longer
  invents one from the pack's filename.
- Four explanatory passages in philosophy lost their "Philosophy" attribution
  for the same reason.
- One duplicated passage removed.

Generic attributions: 86/253 before, 0/349 now.

New technical packs
- shell: 24 awk, sed and pipeline drills, each explaining what the line does
  - field splitting, associative arrays, !seen[$0]++, process substitution,
  xargs -0, strict mode.
- sysadmin: 24 operational one-liners across systemd, disk, processes,
  network, permissions, SSH, backup and containers.
- programming grew to 37 and hacking to 30, with git bisect, window
  functions, EXPLAIN ANALYZE, certificate transparency and capability audits.
- All 115 technical drills carry an explanation.

Race passage length
- Multiplayer drew from the same pool as single player, so a race could land
  on a 22-character quote and be over before anyone had their hands in
  position. Races now require 120 characters; the filter is applied when the
  pool is loaded, not to the packs, since a short quote is fine to type alone.

For reference, TypeRacer organises by difficulty and language rather than
topic: one default English pool of ~11,900 texts plus per-language universes
and specials (accuracy, repeat, easytexts, anime). Their scale comes from user
submission with moderation, which is still the feature this does not have.
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