Update: Results
We’ve tested a few live races across simultaneous discord streams with promising results. Those of us in Math Club estimate that up to ten people can dream the same dream at the same time from anywhere on earth with only like one second of latency (but we haven’t tested more than 4, yet).
Now, we’re doing a tournament. THE ROYAL RUM BOWL: FIRST ANNUAL TYPE DREAMS CONTEST OF SPEED Next Saturday: Nov. 28th.
*Updated 11.24 *We’ve set up a bracket of 16 open slots for competitors. There’s a $10 registration fee; half of which goes to the pot ($80, provisionally). Winner takes all. The other half goes toward the continued development of Type Dreams. Competitors are invited to register now on the Type Dreams page.
I’ll update this thread as we build the race. Here’s the discord server where we’ve been practicing up and doing tests. As of tonight, the fastest official competitor so far is almost certainly minnie; we thought our best shot of getting a cheap victory against her was by racing the numbers 1-100. I actually won one (1) practice race against her before she began rehearsing that book and, as of yesterday, she can do “Numbers” at 124wpm w 100% accuracy. She’s still the most likely one to win Saturday’s race.
That’s fast, but it’s beatable. Minnie will probably exceed it. Can you?
We’re also discussing whether bots and “chorded” input will be allowed: Here’s a thread.
I wonder if somebody really astonishingly fast at typing registers for this tournament. Will that cause possible entrants to skip, instead? This and other questions will be answered in the days to come. Unless they somehow remain unanswered. In which case: there was many a mystery.
