Abandoned Insanity

Remember when typing was an elective in school? You’d have to spend hours learning “asdf jkl;” and everything in between. I never really liked the way they’d teach you in school with those vintage typewriters than appear to be made of rust than steel. Eventually, computer programmers find a way to make learning typing less sterile with Kindergarten-ish typing apps (remember Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing that came with your first non-PPC Mac?). The games were fun—racing cars, shooting bugs, or what have you. Before you knew, you were typing admin speed at 50+ WPM.

Now there’s a new web-based typing tool for those of you needing a little typing practice or for those just wanting a little afternoon entertainment. It’s called TypeRacer. You can start out by practicing and typing movie quotes or book quotes. Make a typo, and you’ll have to fix it. By the end of the race, you’ll get your score in WPM.

Those with fidgetty fingers should have fun with this…

Visit the site here: play.typeracer.com

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LOL. I’m idling around at 50+/- WPM… i never liked straight-up typing.

Let’s face it. Long ring tones, no matter how cool, are annoying.

This brings us to Kim Possible. She carries a “Kimmunicator” which is a video phone, pager, computer, analyzer, do anything kind of gizmo.

But the best part is, the Kimmunicator has a very cool, very short ringtone. Four quick notes and it’s done. Most people don’t even notice it. Though if you are in a crowd you may see some some kids looking around wondering where Kim is.

I couldn’t find an official version anywhere, so I used an audio capture utility and nabbed those four notes from one of the episodes.

Anyway, I thought I’d share. So here it is… MP3 file, 6KB… have fun!

Kim Possible Kimmunicator Ringtone