Stickman Typing 3

    For the second game from http://games.eduxtive.com/ I have chosen "Stickman Typing 3". Something I get on a regular basis from my kids is “How do you type so fast without looking at the keys?”. This is largely in part to the decline of a class that simply teaches them how to type at lower levels. The “search and peck” method is in full force in todays tech laden world. The existence of auto correct also eliminates the need to be able to approach any type of passable keyboarding skills. 
    The game is an addicting speed based game that has the student in the role of a martial arts master stick man. Enemies are dropped from the sky in waves. Each wave contains an increasing number of bad guys that match the level. Meaning level 1 has one at a time, level 2 has two and so on. The bad guys each have a word above their head that you have to type correctly before he gets knocked out. If you mess up, the word resets and you have to start over. These dudes run around the "street" and eventually make their way to your character (which you can’t move) and begin to hit him. Each hit takes your health bar down a tic. I lost intentionally, out of curiosity, and it took quite a few hits before I died.
    The general strategy is to type the word closest to your character. Something I noticed though is that if they wander to the edge, part of the word can be off screen. The trick, if you can’t tell what the word is or aren’t sure how to spell it, is to look in the upper right hand corner, where it appears after you begin typing. This can also happen when you have multiple enemies and they stand in front of each other, although in that case you can just go for the one you can see. The main problem that I ran into, however, was when there were more than one word that began with the same letter. The game doesn’t wait for you to type the second letter before choosing an enemy. I twas typing a "G" word one time and kept starting over and began to have a slight case of gamer rage, until I saw that the game was attempting a different word that I had not even noticed yet. There’s no trick to this headache, you just have to pay attention.
    None the less, all of these things that can slow you down only encourage you to look at the screen instead of the keys (as I was doing when I typed this sentence). I very well may play this game on my own time. Both because of its innate tendency to improve my keymanship (Is that a word? It is now!), and the fact that its just plain fun! I find myself really trying to speed through words to protect my little kung fu man, although this only hurts my accuracy. This game comes even more highly recommended than the last one! Click the link above or play it here:  http://games.eduxtive.com/keyboarding/stickman-typing-3. While you’re there check out the crazy amounts of other games that they have for various content areas! I'm happy that I found this site, even if none of the 3 people who read this, play it!

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