Fastest Fingers

[Ecosse]

Not done this for years but when young I wrote a program to do the exact same thing. Myself and a coworker had constant battles for the 'fastest finger' champ.

My long standing record is 1.76 seconds.

Dougie.

[bolt pp]

i keep forgetting what comes after L but it takes me about 6 seconds up to that point so i predict if i knew the alphabet properly i'd get it in about 12 seconds but i lose about 6 seconds when i get to L and have to take my fingers off of the keyboard and count the alphabet on my fingers.

[bolt pp]

My long standing record is 1.76 seconds.

bollocks

[Ecosse]

My long standing record is 1.76 seconds.

bollocks

Being serious, I've been programming for 21 years and can type like hell. A close competitor in my current work can get 2.3 seconds quite easily.

Why would I lie ?

Dougie.

edit : vb code for said program :-

Dim TotalTime As Double
Dim StartTime As Double
Dim Counter As Long
Const AlphaString = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"

Private Sub Text1_GotFocus()

    Text1 = "Start Typing" + vbCrLf
    Text1.SelStart = Len(Text1.Text) + 1
    Counter = 0

End Sub

Private Sub Text1_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)

    Character = UCase$(Chr$(KeyAscii))
    Counter = Counter + 1
   
    If Counter = 1 And Character = "A" Then StartTime = Timer
   
    If Character <> Mid$(AlphaString, Counter, 1) Then
        KeyAscii = 0
        Beep
        Counter = Counter - 1
        Exit Sub
    End If
   
    Text1 = Text1 + Character
    Text1.SelStart = Len(Text1.Text) + 1
   
    KeyAscii = 0
    If Counter = 26 Then
        TotalTime = Timer - StartTime
        Text1 = Text1 + vbCrLf + vbCrLf + "You Took " + Trim$(Str$(TotalTime)) + " Seconds" + vbCrLf + vbCrLf
   
        Text1.SelStart = Len(Text1.Text) + 1
        Counter = 0
    End If
   

End Sub

[KingPoker]

My long standing record is 1.76 seconds.

bollocks

Being serious, I've been programming for 21 years and can type like hell. A close competitor in my current work can get 2.3 seconds quite easily.

Why would I lie ?

Dougie.

screen capture it, thats superhuman if true!

[Ecosse]

My long standing record is 1.76 seconds.

bollocks

Being serious, I've been programming for 21 years and can type like hell. A close competitor in my current work can get 2.3 seconds quite easily.

Why would I lie ?

Dougie.

screen capture it, thats superhuman if true!

After about a dozen tries, still a bit early in the morning :-

[matt674]

Wow, do you all suck or what?

Here's my effort, given half a chance i could probably beat it again but i'm in work now so just had a quick go during lunch.

[UpTheMariners]

i keep forgetting what comes after L but it takes me about 6 seconds up to that point so i predict if i knew the alphabet properly i'd get it in about 12 seconds but i lose about 6 seconds when i get to L and have to take my fingers off of the keyboard and count the alphabet on my fingers.

N  come on everyone knows that!

[matt674]

i keep forgetting what comes after L but it takes me about 6 seconds up to that point so i predict if i knew the alphabet properly i'd get it in about 12 seconds but i lose about 6 seconds when i get to L and have to take my fingers off of the keyboard and count the alphabet on my fingers.

N  come on everyone knows that!

its S isn't it - then D?

[bolt pp]

aaaaarrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhh!!!

I'd got it down to 14 seconds, now you're just confusing me

[Claw75]

the world record is apparently 1.152 seconds

[NoflopsHomer]

I think if you want to get a really fast score, just keep going through it starting slowly and gradually increasing your speed.

[matt674]

the world record is apparently 1.152 seconds

£20 says it was done on an alphabetic keyboard..........

[AndrewT]

the world record is apparently 1.152 seconds

£20 says it was done on an alphabetic keyboard..........

Or they remapped their keyboard.

[kinboshi]

The quickest time is 1.00001 seconds (not sure on the number of decimal places).  That's the minimum the game allows, and I guess some have mapped the code and used a script to mimic the key entry.

Sort of ruins the fun though.