u/Timely_Gas_2273

I'm new to this, but I've been known as the one who types fast my whole life, like when you have to log in using your credentials in a computer class at university, everyone turns around at the noise my keyboard makes and what my fingers are doing without having to look at the keyboard while typing.

I finally decided to measure how fast I can really type, not just in a lazy one-off way like before when friends would ask me for a rough estimate, but I mean actually try to set records over and over until I realize I reached my limits, as well as my keyboard's, which is a Logitech G512 mechanical keyboard with brown switches (EU hardware layout, US software layout). I absolutely love this keyboard, but I feel like key travel is long and requires a decent amount of force when it comes to raw speed, otherwise I like how it feels since it doesn't matter outside of this competition.

Anyway, I've been trying 3 different scenarios for the last couple of hours with minimal breaks (I know that's a horrible idea, but I was too curious about the final results, so it was really addicting) and this was so intense and stressful that I'm definitely taking a cold shower in a bit since I'm too sweaty right now (in my defense, it's really hot here), but it was totally worth it.

Here it is (all default settings aside from what's listed below):

1. 175 wpm / 100% accuracy (88% consistency) in 15 seconds for lowercase words only.
2. 154 wpm / 100% accuracy (84% consistency) in 15 seconds with full punctuation (capitalization, symbols like single and double quotation marks, dashes and so on) and numbers (up to 4 digits).
3. 137 wpm / 100% accuracy (79% consistency) in 60 seconds, same conditions as above. This is the one that killed me and I have no intentions of attempting it again or it will literally kill me. The problem here was getting the accuracy from 99% to 100% because I would always make one or two mistakes as a result trying to type too fast and struggling to maintain focus at the same time which is a recipe for disaster. The thing is, the one or two mistakes that I'd make over and over again wouldn't even meaningfully slow me down at all (I think my previous best was 132 wpm / 99% accuracy), it's just that I can be a bit of a perfectionist sometimes, so I wanted 100% accuracy across the board. Personally, I don't think it should count if you made mistakes because, well, anyone could type faster at the expense of accuracy.

I achieved all 3 of these personal bests within a few minutes apart from each other.

Thoughts?

By the way, for some additional context:

At first, I only practiced the first scenario last night for around 15 minutes (made it to 157 wpm / 100% accuracy) because I wanted to go for the biggest possible number as an indicator of plain speed at which my fingers can accurately press keys on the keyboard, rather than some real-world office scenario or whatever.

I never bothered with these typing tests before because they all default at like 30 and especially 60 seconds which feels like eternity to me and trying to focus on something this intense for that long is just "too much" for me in terms of stress (and it's not representative of my actual speed as a result, which is annoying), so I tend to avoid such things these days which is really unfortunate because I've always enjoyed chasing high scores in time-based stuff like this and just video games, but I don't handle it well anymore.

However, I felt like only 15 seconds and plain lowercase words could be seen as artificially inflated for showing off and not so representative, almost like it's something you can "cheat" at since it's much easier to optimize the run to perfection and regardless of that, the skill floor is still much lower since you only use the easiest, most frequently used part of the keyboard which doesn't require stretching your fingers all over the thing. Well, that just feels cheap to me, so I enabled everything for it to be realistic, but still kept it at 15 seconds because I cannot properly concentrate for 30 or 60 seconds. Then, to be 100% fair, I did not 30, but 60 seconds (so that there are no idealistic estimates by the computer) and with everything enabled.

Thanks in advance. Looking forward to seeing your results, especially in different scenarios like me.

I only heard of the name in Fallout: New Vegas and assumed it must be some exotic desert thing that I can't relate to.

Well, I live by the sea in Croatia my whole life and for some reason, I only found out the other day that I've been seeing these things relatively often my entire life and that they're edible. No idea what they're even doing here, but yeah, they can be found easily enough and absolutely no one here knows it's a fruit, not even I did until a couple of days ago and I've tried (let alone heard of) more fruit than 99.99% of people here. In Mexico and in the desert US states where this cactus is native, it seems to be a regularly eaten fruit, but no such thing here at all despite me being shocked like "wait, no way, prickly pear is THIS generic thing?", go figure.

Crazy.

So, is it worth picking one and trying it, that is if I can manage to do so without dying in the process? Speaking of which, what's the most painless way (literally and figuratively) to harvest and clean it for someone like me who's lazy and doesn't have any fancy tools like a blowtorch and whatever?

At the same time, the general consensus seems to be that all Dutch universities are equally great (same national standard, more similar curriculum than not) and no one within the country cares which one you went to, so Dutch people just choose based on which city they prefer more than anything, but the general consensus also seems to be that TU Delft in particular is just better, especially because it's a technical university. Well, which one is it then? It feels like you can't say one is better than the other, but you also can't say one isn't better than the other either. I ended up going to VU Amsterdam, not only because I didn't get into TU Delft and TU/e (oops), but also since it was (kind of) my first choice all along simply because Amsterdam is Amsterdam at the end of the day, even though Den Haag, Rotterdam and Delft are all amazing places in their own ways and they exceeded my expectations for sure, but still.

I posted here a couple of times, first to ask whether laxative effect concerns are exaggerated online, then to ask if mine was ripe.

Well, now that I ate it, it was... alright. I mean, it's nice, but it's more similar than different compared to the standard pink dragon fruit, even though that one is agreed to "taste like nothing" (though I find that's not true even in the case of that one). For 10€ for a fruit the size of a tennis ball, I expected more than a sweet water with the occasional flavor. Again, it's nice in a vacuum, but nothing special at all in any way. The seeds are so annoying, it felt like there was more of them than the actual flesh, but you don't really notice them in the pink variant which is also bigger and costs less than half of this one.

I ate it almost 24 hours ago now and literally nothing happened afterwards, let alone the worst diarrhea of my life or whatever horror story. So, I find that everything about this fruit is really exaggerated, both the deliciousness (once again, nothing wrong with it, but it just doesn't really have much of a flavor) and the concerns.

It was a Palora, Ecuador one which looked as good as in any picture and was ripe in every (other) aspect. Hopefully it somehow still wasn't the right one, otherwise this is really disappointing. I thought it was supposed to be like lychee, but lychee reminded me of that blue Powerade which I used to be obsessed with as a kid, almost artificially sweet and delicious like that, like it shouldn't be possible for a natural fruit to taste like that.

Oh well.

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This thing is so small and it costed 10€, so I want to make sure I get the most out of it because it's definitely not the kind of fruit you eat every day, not to mention seeing it here feels like winning the lottery because even the standard pink ones are ultra rare. Anyway, it's from Palora, Ecuador and it gives a little when pressed, no noticeable any smell anywhere, including the stem.

I hope the flavor can still be as good as it gets despite having no smell at all from outside, since I have an air-freighted mango which smells like perfume from a mile away to the point that my hands retain the smell just from carrying it. It's the Kent variant from Peru, impossibly and I mean impossibly good flavor and especially texture, by the way. Air-freighted (MD2?) pineapple from Costa Rica is also heaven on Earth, it has a vivid orange color while all the generic supermarket ones look dull and green, so as soon as you see it and smell it, you know it's an entirely different story.

I asked yesterday whether the laxative effects are exaggerated and that turned out to be the case (too many comments to reply individually, not to mention redundance, but I read and upvoted it all), at least outside of America anyway due to their lack of healthy or should I say "real" food, so here it is. Yay.

I hear horror stories about how as little as a single yellow dragon fruit is enough to give you the kind of diarrhea that makes you regret being born and that just sounds insane to me.

I wonder if this is a typical case where loud minorities all gather online to complain, but you see nothing positive because everyone else is too busy having good experiences.

I have no such radical experiences with any food, including the standard dragon fruit (which I had several times and always eat the whole thing at once), it sounds unimaginable to me because just 1 fruit really, really shouldn't have such extreme effects.

Well, too much pineapple (and I mean obviously too much, I'll elaborate in a bit) gives me that common sensation in my mouth, one time it lasted for hours, made white bread with Gouda cheese taste like Mexican and Indian food combined afterwards in terms of burning, and also made me feel a bit sick, but that's because I was being stupidly curious to see if it would happen again like it did years ago. Well, now that I have pineapple in normal amounts and stop the moment the first warning sign kicks in, I get no side effects whatsoever. Would the same be possible with this fruit or do you only find out when it's too late?

I thought and just now realized I saw the yellow dragon fruit in a store here and got so excited, I wouldn't think in my wildest dreams that it could exist here, so it really sucks to read all these horror stories because I also hear it tastes great and much better than the standard dragon fruit, which made me interested since so long ago. I aim to at least try every fruit out there.

This is obviously my first time ever playing a video game, not just Resident Evil (4).

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