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I want to share this with my daughter who needs some practice with these, but the timer just causes anxiety. Could you add a mode with unlimited time but three "lives"?

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Hey, thanks for checking it out! I had the idea for a "zen" mode where you could play forever with no timer. Didn't think of adding lives though. Cool idea.

Would you want separate statistics for these "lives mode" games?

Count the streaks until you click "pass" and then display the highest number of streaks.

Appreciate the update. We will try this after school today!! Kids are pumped! Appreciative of the quick integration of the features.

Quick test this am - looks like a small bug with the M.N. Counter for arithmetic in lives mode is getting to numbers that arent possible based on the combos available. First one works, second gets into 20s. I thought it might have just been a presentation issue but when i subtract the new MN from the previous one and input that it gives me a lost life!

Bug looks resolved - or I can't replicate it.

Thanks for checking out the update and getting back to me. That's very odd — the only way the Magic Number should get into the 20s (on addition mode at least) is if you have longer equations enabled in the settings.

Glad it's not happening anymore, but I'll look into it, thanks for reporting.

Open your browser's JS console and run:

    gameTracker.timeLeft = 9999999999

This will add ~300 years of playtime.

it is not enough

Hey, just wanted to let you know I just launched an update that includes a lives game mode, as well as some other game modes and features. Thanks for your suggestion again!

That timer is brutal. Do you even „get“ any time for solving anything? Or is this just meant to run for a minute and then u lose?

Haha ya that's how it works atm.

My idea was that you could run a few rounds to practice certain operators and watch how your average scores improve over time. And since the rounds are only a minute, it's low commitment.

Going to add other modes though based on feedback

Exactly what I came to the comments to request.

Thanks for feedback! Same question for you as well: would you want separate statistics for this type of mode?

I can’t think of any use case for statistics, personally or for my kids.

I'd want separate.

Check out monkeytype (free typing practice thing) that has a nice stats-over-time/personal-best scores.

Thanks will check that out!

Hey, thanks again for your feedback. Just wanted to let you know "lives" mode is now live, along with some other modes.

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