Suggest more features and ideas for implementing in mitype about mitype

[Mithil467]

Alright! 🙌🏼
The realtime feedback sounds good @himadriganguly

@ac030540 has some good points about this

• It will encourage them to type faster in the session to achieve their target.
• If we get results at the end then it's often hit or miss.

May you please raise a feature request issue for this? We will discuss it further there. 😄

[himadriganguly]

@Mithil467 raised feature request issue.

[Mithil467]

Rotate as in changing the text to next text? If that is what you mean then yep #18 is under process!

[Mithil467]

Yes @SanchitJain123 awesome!
Isssue #39 has been created to address this! :)

[Mithil467]

Do you mean some web platform to have users on board, and then socializing? This would be entirely a new different project in itself. So currently I am not looking into that part of the project! :)

[Unviray]

Before implementing other features, why doesn't create an HUD. I mean a welcome page which we can choose to start, tweak settings, view history of score and quit

[Jitsusama]

I'll create an issue on it shortly, thanks.

[BassCoder2808]

We can add that if a user has a slow typing speed. Then we should suggest them some links or some suggestion to improve it.
The next thing we can do is to give topics according to categories. So basically first we will sort the text according to different categories and then when the user chooses a particular category we will show the texts/samples of that fields.

[BassCoder2808]

I had a doubt regarding the closure of this issue as this is a discussion forum how will you assign this to a particular person and what we have to do in the pull requests so that it gets accepted.
Can you please elaborate on it.

[Mithil467]

Hey @BassCoder2808 👋

I created this issue for discussion related to improvements and ideas. So there is nothing to work upon here (as in code) and hence no one will be assigned. If there is a good feature or issue, we will implement it going ahead.

I am glad you have a suggestion for the project. 😄

However, the resources to improve speed can be easily googled for and technically, it is not increasing much value of the project.

Giving categories choosing option is great, but it doesn't have a high use case. Also, implementing it would be difficult as we would need to get texts of all sorts. Hence the option to choose your own custom text is available through --file command line parameter.

Thanks for your input!

[himadriganguly]

Realtime WPM on the top left corner of the screen. I think it will be a good feature. I am working on it, will create a PR.

[Mithil467]

Hey @himadriganguly 👋
Thanks for the suggestion!
It looks visually appealing. However, realtime stats are a major distraction.
Hence I always refrained from implementing it.

[himadriganguly]

But it will be helpful for the user. It gives realtime feedback to the user. I implemented it but it doesn't look a distraction. But definitely, it's your decision to merge the PR or not.

[himadriganguly]

Another idea is to rotate text using the CTRL+R key. It will be better to rotate the text as well if the user wants.

[himadriganguly]

Rotate as in changing the text to next text? If that is what you mean then yep #18 is under process!

Ok great.

[bchmnn]

The database and the command line options could be extended to support code samples (e.g. from GitHub repos) (inspiration).
For example mitype -l python gives you some random python code snippet.

[Mithil467]

Hey @bchmnn 👋
Thanks for the suggestion! :)
All newlines and tabs and other combinations of whitespaces are squashed in the sample text. Enter key and tab key is reserved for some other purposes.
Also, this will require usage of other keys, like arrow keys because most people tend to first write the brackets () then they press left arrow key, then enter further code, as in void main(int argc, char** argv)
So currently, there is no possibility of writing code, as it will bring in lot of complexity.

[SanchitJain123]

Hi @Mithil467, the idea is that we can create user-profiles, through which the user can track the history of their typing test that they have taken. A progressing history does increase morale as you aim for better speed. Also, we can let them add friends too to see how other people are doing in the typing tests.

[SanchitJain123]

Oh, maybe I was a bit late, what about adding friends as well.

[NinoDoko]

I'm a big fan of typeracing, and I want to contribute! One suggestion I can make is a way to restart the game, so you don't have to run the command again. Where this would work in the end screen and in the middle of a text - sometimes you mess up big time.

I already made this by having Tab be used as a restart button, but since you mentioned above that Tab is reserved, I can probably try and get a key-combination trick to work.

Edit: After a bit of playing around, I realized there is a reset_test option which just resets the current test. I am more interested in having a reset button which gets a new text.

Also there is currently an error with resetting, as the key for resetting text is ESC, but that is also the key for exiting the game.

[Mithil467]

Awesome @Unviray Currently! It is very simple and straight forward to access all the features through command line parameters. Though I am still considering a configuration setting to be added, just that there aren't enough attributes to configure. If someone can find a way to specify any he value for color of text or background, etc (currently by default there are only about 8), it would be cool!

[Mithil467]

Very happy to see your enthusiasm for contributing to mitype! @NinoDoko 👋🏼
Really glad to have suggestions from you :)

PR #33 has been initiated with the exact same use case. But there is also #18 which loads next or previous text from database. For any user, these text samples would be uniquely random! Hence it serves the same purpose. So instead I have asked the contributor to restart current text upon pressing tab (when on results page, otherwise esc key resets current text when in playing mode already). Hence I mentioned tab key is reserved!

[Jitsusama]

I've noticed some minor typos and docstring inconsistencies. Would that be an alright thing to open up a PR for?

[Jitsusama]

I was also noticing some aspects of this program that differs from other speed typers I've used, mainly how when you make a typo you have to backspace out your mistake. Would you welcome a PR to call this detail out in README.md/--help?

[Mithil467]

Hey @Jitsusama 👋🏼
Very glad to see your interest in contributing to mitype :)

You may want to create an issue for docstring inconsistency and work on it :)

A PR for adding docstrings to all existing functions is highly appreciated. Along with this, you may slip in the typo fixes in same PR. But if there are just typos, I request you to create an issue instead. Let me know if you are interested to work on this!

Regarding the detail of erasing the mistype word, it is not required as the user will understand it on the first run itself, just a bit of trial :)

[Mithil467]

Hey everyone! 👋

Thank you very much for all your suggestions, ideas and PRs that has made mitype better. ❤️
I'm closing this thread, but you can always comment here or create an issue for a feature request :)