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Life tips #5

Here are our weekly tips for this week.

And as a bonus here are some useful links regarding Windows XP Service Pack 3.

For those who are using the softwares below, there are already updates for them.

Category: Geek Alert by Ryman
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Numeric Maze

Mazes and numbers. To play this game you need to enable your Num Lock key because you will have to use the numeric keypad. You have to find your way to the maze’s exit by pressing the right keys. You have to press the number in the square where you want to move. Your only opponent in this game is time. If you go to a wrong path or got stuck, just click restart.

Click here to play the game (opens in a new window)

Category: Online Games by Ryman
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Profile update

Just a quick note on the updates and changes I made on this site.

You can now add me as a friend at Friendfeed and Imeem. Here are my profiles:
Friendfeed Imeem

You can view the full list of my profiles at this page.

I removed Yapped since their service is already gone from the web.

Yappd

Changes made at the about me page.

Category: Site News by Ryman
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Random Thoughts #2

I should get a notebook to organize my thoughts. Random stuff happens all the time, and most of the time, I forget to blog/post it. It’s not really interesting, just a way to get it out of my thoughts. And you should wonder why this post is in the “Random Rants” category. You see, even my sentences doesn’t make sense. It’s all random, I tell you. Random #1

  • Already finished 4 of 7 J-doramas I’m currently watching. By tomorrow I should finish Proposal Daisakusen.
  • Is Yamashita Tomohisa (山下智久) that popular actor in Japan? I’ve already seen him in four J-doramas. That includes (1) Kurosagi, with Horikita Maki, (2) Nobuta wo Produce, again with Horikita Maki, (3) Proposal Daisakusen, and (4) Dragon Zakura. I should ask the girls that question.
  • I feel frustrated about not being able to play Audition Online. I haven’t been able to play that game for a couple of days now. And just yesterday, I applied another major patch but my game won’t run. I guess it’s a way of telling me to quit playing.
  • I haven’t acquired the three badges from PMOG to which I’ve already complete the requirements in more than a month. And I also lost the alpha badge.
  • I’m thinking of getting a 4×4x4 Rubik’s cube or a 5×5x5 Rubik’s cube. Since I’ve already mastered the regular 3×3x3 Rubik’s cube, it seems too boring to solve it. And now almost everybody can solve it, of at least trying to. I’ve seen people from all ages in different places holding a Rubik’s cube. The 5×5x5 cube costs around 600 php at National Bookstore, and as for the 4×4x4 I haven’t seen one yet. There’s also that 2×2x2 cube, for around 200 php.
  • And what’s with people hanging stuff around their neck. If you are one, don’t flame me for this post ok. There are more and more people hanging cellphone around their neck. Small ones are somewhat acceptable, but not large smartphones. You, yes you the guy/babe with a N90 or SE P990. This reminds me of a time while I was walking towards the gate at our subdivision. I saw a guy (definitely a guy) with a cellphone dangling around his neck. His phone was small, which is ok, but the worst part of it is his phone’s keychain. It was a bear, not just an ordinary bear, but a bear larger than the phone itself. I tried to keep my poker face as I passed by him, and said to myself, “WTF was that”.
  • Oh and don’t even think of hanging your PSP or Nintendo DS. I’ve seen a few of this roaming around malls. Don’t try bragging you have a unit that cost around 11k, you just look stupid with a sign, please make me a victim of a hold-up. Oh and while your at it, why don’t you hang your laptop too so you will look like a pabitin.
  • I’m also wondering where are all the traffic from my 2nd most commented post coming from. But I’m not complaining, thanks guys and gals. I think the commenter’s there are mostly girls, based on the replies.
  • Playboy is already here in the Philippines. Yey! Playboy Philippines. It’s much more tamer than FHM. Boo! What’s the point of calling it Playboy, if it isn’t Playboy.
  • Philippines TV hostess and soap actress Ira Eigenmann has a leaked nude photo scandal. That’s according to various adult related sources which unfortunately I couldn’t link here. How come I always read news like this first from an International source, when I’m already here in the Philippines. I’ve already seen the photos, and I can rate it to a scale of 8.5/10.
  • And lastly. How come I wasn’t born in Japan? Answer to that in the next post.

N2S: I should get a notebook or anything to write on. And a good pen too.

Ciao.

Category: Random Rants, Real World by Ryman
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Speed Typing Tests, Again

I was browsing my old posts lately, then I came upon this topic of speed typing. In today’s generation, a majority of computer users already have fast typing skills. I also wonder if my typing speed improved these past few years.

So I decided a test. I took various online typing test (I don’t want to bother downloading and installing a software). I took 5 sessions (no resets or repetitions) on each test so I can measure the average. The tests also differ in recording your WPM (Words-Per-Minute) speed, and some are long paragraphs while others are short sentences.

The results:

Calculatorcat.com: 71-75-65-64-55 = 66 average
A quick typing test. Short paragraphs and you can edit the mistakes you made. It calculate in real time as you type. It doesn’t record mistakes you’ve made.

Typeonline.co.uk: 57(2)-56(3)-60(2)-58(1)-65(1) = 59.2 average (mistakes)
A long paragraph typing test. You can edit your mistakes but it will lessen your speed. It records your mistakes after the test.

Powertyping.com: 61(5)-61(7)-67(3)-65(5)-59(7) = 62.6 average (mistakes)
An average length paragraph, you can’t delete mistakes but you need to type the correct character. You can’t go back, and you don’t need to hit the enter key. Everything is done in a one line format. It records everything, including your mistakes-per-minute.

Typingtest.com: 50(55)-55(56)-60(62)-55(57)-49(54) = 53.8 average (56.8 WPM gross speed)
Before the test you can choose the time duration, the text, and the speed unit. In typing, you have to type the whole text, including the title. You have to type the underlined-blue text. Mistakes can be edited as long as you are still within the word itself, once you hit space bar or enter you can’t edit the word. WPM is calculated in real time, and mistakes are subtracted from it. And because it runs on Java, sometimes it doesn’t load the next page properly. I ran my own test in 1 minute durations.

Learn2type.com: 49(48/1)-53(52/1)-55(54/1)-55(55/0)-65(64/1) = 55.4 average (54.6 adjusted speed/mistake)
An average length typing test. It measures WPM and reduce it by your mistakes. The result shows your WPM, along with your mistakes and adjusted speed. If you get a mistake in a punctuation, the whole sentence after that is already a mistake.

Speedtest.10-fast-fingers.com: 58(305/1)-58(326/3)-57(314/1)-54(327/0)-61(331/1) = 57.6 average (CPM/mistake)
This is a quick test with random words appearing. Just start typing the highlighted words and press space until the timer reaches zero. The results show characters per minute (CPM) as well as mistakes.

Testmytyping.com: 52(216)-47(228)-64(248)-68(280)-58(275) = 57.8 average (CPM)
It measures both your WPM and CPM. And also shows your typing accuracy based on your mistakes. Since it runs on Java, sometimes the interface stops due to the way of typing too fast.

In speed typing, spelling accuracy and punctuations are very important. Also another thing to remember is your position in front of a computer like, sitting, the monitor’s eye level, and the placement of your mouse and keyboard.

As a side note, typing tests is not 100% accurate. Because when you are typing something, there is always a chance that you will encounter a special character, like a bullet, or a word format. And gradually, if you type long paragraphs and different formated document, your frequency of typing varies.

Category: Analyze Self by Ryman
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