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WPM Tray - monitor your typing speed
by Jason Clarke Oct 2nd 2006
WPM Tray is a new utility that was developed as part of the An App a Day project. As you all know, I love simplicity, and WPM Tray is simple, but fun. All it does is sit in your system tray, and monitor how quickly you type, giving a WPM number. Although the algorithm for determining your typing speed is admittedly over simplified, it's still very fun to see how you're doing as you're writing something. In fact, as I write this, I can't help but glance down to my tray to see how I'm doing. Right now it says I'm doing 96 WPM, but honestly that's only because it has a very forgiving algorithm, but I still feel pretty darn good about it! WPM Tray can also give you a 15 minute rolling graph of your typing speed. There's no installer, simply unzip it into a folder and run it. Why not?
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
