Detect typing speed

[ant]

Ok, i have the following label caption:

ABC

How do i make it so that, when someone finishes typing abc in a textbox, it tells how many wpm they typed it, and their accuracy?

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[srinika]

WPM would be a bit difficult but letters per minute (LPM) is not a prob.

Start a timer in a keypress event of a text box for it's first keypress.
Keep a button to indicate the end of typing.
Until pressing that button, increment a public variable.
When the stop button is pressed, stop the timer & get the duration & number of key presses by the public var.
From above u can get what u want!!!

Accuracy cannot be measured as there is no reference and no way to think of ur accuracy needed. For e.g. it is not clear whether the "case" of the letter is taken in to consideration or not.
If the issue is to compare two words & check whether each character is similar or not, then a error-counter can be incremented for each mismatch. Finally comparing the number of letters & the erroneous letters, the accuracy can be given

If Any clarification is needed contact me.
Good luck

Srinika

[Ghost308]

Hi there,
Srinika is right! I just wanted to clear up one little thing. You can get a WPM count if you divide the Character /min count by 5. Since true words per minute wouldn't be fair (the word "I" and the word "Polymorphic" are both 1 word apiece but they sure differ in size!), most speed typing applications count every 5 characters (not spaces) as a word. Implement that in your app and you'll generate results comparable to other typing apps on the market.

Jeff