When enemies come from the left side, I get to see the last letters of their words before I see the first ones, which means I have to guess. Even when they come from the right side, I sometimes tried to guess the ends of the words before knowing the start. I'm not quite sure the turrets helped: when I type normally, I don't skip letters, unless I'm relying on things like autocorrect and know before I start typing a word which letters I can get away with skipping, so having to skip letters on purpose would actually be slower. Well, at least typing an already-typed letter wouldn't force me to retype the word, which would have been annoying.
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Thank you for your comment. Indeed the turrets can be difficult to work with, the way I found works best is to put the turrets at the extremities and close together. That way, they might be able to eliminate some enemies completely, letting you focus on other enemies. Also, because it doesn’t really punish you when you type the wrong letter, you could just retype the world world, and it will pick up the enemy once you arrive at its letter. It will only counts as errors in the stats.