It has been suggested we establish a policy forbidding “chorded” or “Plover-style” typists on Race Day but… I kind of want to see it, first. There are plenty of yootoob clips of 200wpm+ speeds but I haven’t seen it function in Type Dreams. I don’t doubt that it’s possible! I doubt that it’s likely.
I regard bots and scripts the same way. Clearly the in-game AIs can produce high-frequency keystrokes (I’ll never win in Toronto), but there’s a lot more that goes into creating a bot which can win races, as a player, against other players. To do this, it’d have to either….
• read the screen and derive only the input text, then discern keystrokes from that text, then issue them as keyboard input commands within a frequency range which doesn’t fracture the interface but is fast enough to win
//==// OR \==\
• contain all the text in Type Dreams, readily accessible to its operator whenever a book is decided. I’ve tried this with a range of keyboard macro software and it can work. …until the given text is new material, on which this approach is useless.
I send my sincere warmest wishes to anybody experimenting with a bot for this. Please reach out or reply here if I can help somehow. All players are welcome in these and all other ways to bring whatever cheap tricks, shortcuts, buffs, etc to the math club server where you can show off and we’ll make a decision. Unless you want to wait til race day, in which case… no promises.