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Naming
- "Typing Test" removed from the browser tab, the crate description and the
READMEs. The scope outgrew it: solo practice, live races, code drills and
adaptive weak-key training.
Content
- Movies was prose *about* film, not film quotes - the same mistake the
programming pack had. Replaced with 28 attributed lines. New anime pack,
28 lines across 24 series.
- This follows the model TypeRacer states outright ("type quotes from popular
music, songs, anime, comic books and more"): short excerpts attributed to
the work they came from. The scalable half of their approach is user
submission with moderation, which is a feature this does not have yet.
Leaderboard
- An empty board tells a new player nobody is here. Bots now race the eight
fixed-length leaderboard modes, seeded with a fortnight of backdated results
on first run and one new result every 90 seconds after.
- They are ordinary users carrying is_bot, returned by the same query and
labelled "bot" in the UI. Seeding a board is reasonable; passing synthetic
scores off as human results is not, so the flag travels with the row.
- Seeding is checked per mode. A single result from the live ticker used to
satisfy an "any bot results" guard and leave every other mode empty forever.
Stats
- The per-key accuracy data Practice mode is built on was computed, used to
generate text, and never shown. The screen now ranks your weakest keys with
the error rate and pause length behind each one.
- Added recent form against your lifetime average, best accuracy, and tests
this week.
Multiplayer standings
- Now place, racer, WPM, accuracy and time, with column labels - the columns
TypeRacer and 10FastFingers both show.
Site furniture
- Share (Web Share where available, clipboard otherwise - no third-party
button, no tracking script), a GitHub link, and a real privacy page written
from what the code actually stores rather than from a template.
Button hierarchy
- Everything was an outlined box of roughly equal weight, so a screen's one
real action, a settings toggle and a filter chip looked alike. Three tiers
now: primary (filled, one per screen), default (outlined), quiet (toggles
and filters, bordered only when hovered or active).
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End screen
- Every figure is now a dim label directly over its value, the two centred on
each other, grouped by what they qualify: RAW and PB under WPM, ERR and
CONSISTENCY under ACC, KEYSTROKES and CHARACTERS either side of TIME. The
row is a grid so TIME sits on the graph's exact centre line rather than
drifting with its neighbours' widths.
- Errors go back onto the wpm line. Their own y axis implied a magnitude a
mistake does not have; what matters is when one happened.
- Graph hover reads "wpm ... raw ... time" - the figures first, the second
they happened in as the qualifier.
Mode picker
- Opens from the Single Player button itself, and choosing a mode starts it:
picking what to type and starting it are one action. The control has now
been a chevron notched into that button, a caption between the two buttons,
a pill above them and a chip row below them; as the button's own menu it
needs no separate real estate at all.
Corners
- Settings and Store move to the bottom-left. The top-left is the wordmark's
alone.
- The global racer count is gone from the home screen - it is not something
you can act on there. The Friends control carries "N online" instead, which
is.
- Presence: users gain a last_seen column, touched at most once a minute per
active user on any authenticated request, and the friends list reports who
has been seen inside a five-minute window.
Multiplayer race view
- The standings move to the middle of the screen, the space the end screen's
graph occupies, and now include your own row rather than opponents only.
Pinned to the top-left corner they put what you are racing against in your
peripheral vision and left out the one bar you most need to see.
Programming mode
- Snippets carry an explanation of what the code does. Shown under the passage
while you type in single player; in multiplayer that space belongs to the
standings, so it waits for the end screen, where it appears either way.
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Multiplayer
- Quick match: POST /api/multiplayer/quickmatch returns whichever room is
still filling, or opens one. Players never see a room code; joining by
code stays for racing specific people.
- Bots fill quick-match rooms after a short wait so a new game is never an
empty lobby. They only ever join quick-match rooms, never a room opened
by code. One or two per room, drawn from separate ~40 and ~80 WPM tiers so
two bots are never near each other's pace, and they stall to correct
mistakes rather than typing a clean straight line.
- Live player count via GET /api/multiplayer/online, shown on the
Multiplayer control and under the main menu's Multiplayer button.
- Per-racer colours: you are the theme accent, opponents take distinct hues
that stay the same from lobby to race.
- The countdown no longer holds the room lock for its full three seconds,
which is what reset clients mid-countdown.
Typing languages
- 16 languages for the generated-word modes, each with its own
high-frequency vocabulary rather than a translation of the English list.
- Picker in the top-right rail; non-English uses its own list at every
difficulty tier instead of falling back to English words.
Fix UTF-8 accuracy in the game core
- update_game_state mixed byte and character counts: total_characters_typed
accumulated byte-length deltas while total_correct_characters compared a
char index against that byte count. Equal on ASCII, so it went unnoticed;
a correctly typed Spanish passage scored 6%. The old byte slicing would
also have panicked if an index landed inside a multi-byte character.
Rewritten char-based, with regression tests.
Programming mode
- Replaced prose about programming with real code: 26 syntax-highlighted
snippets across JavaScript, Python, Rust, C/Go/Java and shell. Single-line
by necessity, since the typing input is a single-line field.
Layout and readability
- One icon rail arrangement on every screen: Settings/Store under the
wordmark, Language/Theme/Friends/Account top-right, Stats/Leaderboard/
Multiplayer bottom-right.
- Main menu: mode picker moved out of the Single Player button, which it was
notching a divider through and pushing the label off-centre.
- Escape returns to the menu, closing any open popover first, and confirms
before abandoning a live race.
- Split --text-color and --sub-color per theme; they shared one value that
measured 3.65:1 against the background, below the 4.5:1 body-text floor.
- Semantic colours used in exactly one place each: gold for a personal best,
amber for the race countdown and the mobile-result badge.
- Passage now sits in the same place on the typing and end screens, and its
column is a whole number of characters wide so wrapping cannot leave a
permanent gap on the right.
- End screen: keystrokes and a correct/wrong/extra/missed split, attribution
carried over from the typing screen, and a graph with a separate error
axis, axis titles including seconds, and smoothed lines.
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