Network CD 1/Network CD.iso/amospd/561-570/apd566/ascii/typing speed tester.doc

Text File | 1994-01-01 | 2KB | 30 lines

                 *** T Y P I N G   S P E E D   T E S T E R ***

                Written in 1993 for AMOS Basic by Glenn N Babic



I wrote this program so that I could improve my rusty keyboard skills - better-
ing by chances of getting a job!  It allows you to enter text from a book or
other source within a time limit so that you can easily test your typing speed
and accuracy.  Although the higher your typing speed, the better, you should try
to keep your accuracy above 98%.  You cannot correct errors that you make (this
should help to keep you from looking at the screen), but you may start a new
paragraph by pressing RETURN and you may indent by pressing TAB.  Pressing ESC
at any time will end the current test and your speed will only be calculated
from the time for which you typed.  The program will work out how many words you
typed, though you can change this.  As this program can't tell if words are
spelt correctly or not, you will have to count how many are wrong and enter this
value when it is requested.  To quit enter the value of 0 for the test time.

That's about all there is to it, except for a special mode I have included that
counts your words every five characters instead of by actually spaces between
words.  This method is used by many speed test books to help people manually add
up the approximate number of words typed, and is allowed by the Standards Assoc-
iation of Australia (so it would be legitimate on a resume!).  To activate this
special mode, simply delete the ' on line 13 so that M0DE=True.

                                                                 - Glenn N Babic
                                                                   Reg. #1646