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Very cool! But it consistently crashes for me at the end of the third wave. I'm on Firefox.

Crashes consistently for me too using Firefox on Ubuntu

Same here, wish it wasn't :( it looks awesome (and the first two levels were fun)

FF 42.0 here -- there isn't even an error message in the console

Also crashing for me right at that point (when the large ship comes out at the end of wave 3) on Firefox 42.0 on Ubuntu, and not in Chromium 47, where I can play until I lose naturally. :-)

Same here

I'm on FF current; no crashes through wave 14 or so (and died naturally). This laptop has Win7.

Same here

Same here, on Chrome

Great job, really fun!

On the higher levels, if you mistype the first letter of a word, you often start some other word that you don't know where it is. Maybe some targeting animation to draw your attention would help?

I enjoyed it. This was the promise. Amazing things all rendered in your browser. With mobile apps I feel that we did an about turn. And since apps took off it stunted the original promise.

Great, lots of fun. Would be better if it used numbers and other keys that programmer's use. Or perhaps I didn't get to a high enough level where they start appearing?

This would be awesome! There are a lot of interesting takes on the typing training game out there, but they often miss the symbols and numbers. Does anyone know of a good symbol-trainer? I jumble my '^'s and '%'s much too often..

When I reached the point with bursts of individual letters, I had to crank up the size to see some of the individual letters (e.g. is that an 'i' or an 'l') but that just zoomed in to the entire playing area, which meant I lost view of the top and bottom. And by that point my cpu was going crazy anyway, so I had to stop. But up to that point I was definitely having a blast, well, quite a few of them actually. :-)

I was pleasantly surprised at how smooth and polished the game is on mobile. But the sound!! Am I missing a setting? I couldn't turn off the noise without turning down the volume on my phone. Which reminds me of a saying my computer science professor had in college, "sure, feel free to add sound to your game. But if there is no way to turn off the sound you will get an F" ~ola

Nice game. I like that all ships are not on collision course with you and so you can prioritize which words to hit to avoid destruction. Would love to see an "abort word" feature, as over level 20 it's quite easy to accidentally start typing the wrong word and not know where the ship is. :(

You can abort the current word with the Escape key.

what defines which is "current" ?

The ships/words on screen all start with different letters. Once you type the first letter of a word, that one changes orange (and you have it finish it before your key presses will be recognized for other words).

This also applies to the single-letter bullets, unfortunately, so if you've just started typing "misappropriation" but a stray "s" is about to hit you, you're out of luck.

What got me a few times was a first-letter typo - which matched another word. Then I'd lose a few seconds just finding which word was claiming my key presses, and that'd be the end.

I didn't know Esc would work there! I'll try that next time around.

How do you abort on mobile?

or maybe show the current word you're typing somewhere on the screen would be nice too

Awesome job!

I agree with the feedback that it's not always easy to find where you got stuck since I'm already scanning away for words that I'll be typing next as I'm typing the current word... The stuck word does change colour but maybe something that would draw the eye back to it would help...

This is epic! And the keyboard on mobile is actually shockingly good. Sounds a re great. Phenomenal!

Just awesome, just plain awesome

No social sharing? I want to brag about reaching wave 26 with a 342 streak!

Agreed, was quite surprised not to see even a twitter icon at the score screen. Also 26?! Good job!

I used the original version of this to teach my son to type. Not only did he love it, his friends are now impressed that he can touch type. Thank you for providing much more than a game.

This. Is. So. Amazing. Specially since I am a horrible typist. This is a great and extremly fun way to improve one's typing skills!

The effects are also great

I really thought I wouldn't like this but when I started I found I enjoyed it. I only got to level 12 with 175 but that's ok

well done! some suggestions:

* +1 for symbols & numbers * maybe use spacebar for abort word(?) * would be cool to include phrases (boss mode ?)

great polish, i think i'd be fun if the words were taken from and ultimately formed a program

for instance, you complete a level and the reward is: ' congratulations you just wrote a basic physics engine in javascript', and show the code

I enjoyed the first version of this game and like this one also. Nice job.

+1 do it specially for programming languages - ruby methods; javascript methods; java methods; Objective-C methods :D :D etc!

holyshit this is fun. Should have a VIM mode. Who edits fastest wins.

Looking great, congrats!

cool. how come after a while i run out of ammo or something?

is the angle of the grid significant at all?

Slick and Fun!!

Nice job!

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