Surprisingly this is the first time my typing mod has caused me this problem. Couldn't out run… - Feed Post by mog86uk
Surprisingly this is the first time my typing mod has caused me this problem. Couldn't out run inevitability forever, but just surprised it took this many months for a situation like this to occur.
(Typed "country" but it wanted the longer word "countryside" and was unlucky that there was another answer it matched...) xD
(Typed "country" but it wanted the longer word "countryside" and was unlucky that there was another answer it matched...) xD
posted by mog86uk
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Also, in case anyone was wondering why I didn't look at the answer choices before submitting my answer, all the answer choices are completely hidden until I click Submit. Would be pretty pointless typing the answers if I could still see them. So there wasn't any way I could have known about that other answer choice being there to catch me out until it was too late. ;_;
I'm glad you added that extra comment cause that was going to be my question lol
Also that mod looks pretty cool.- I was intending to release it publicly a while back. I decided against doing this because I don't want to do something which may be problematic in anyway for this site. I've only sent the mod to a couple of other users and to Beeant.
I haven't updated the mod for a couple of months now. I was going to try to make it amazing so that there shouldn't be any problem with releasing it, but I'm perfectly happy enough using it with how it is and lost interest in doing any more work on it.
One thing I might change now though is what happens in situations like my screenshot showed.
For Reverse Vocabulary questions like in the screenshot, you type in English and it tries to match your exact phrase to each of the answer choices. If it matches only one answer, it clicks it. If it matches two or more answers, then it doesn't click any of them.
It has to be complete words though. So I could have typed just "area" and it would have matched the correct answer. Or I could type a two word phrase like "rural area" and it would match it. But "countryside area" would not work as it matches exact phrases. It also doesn't match if you only type part of a word... i.e. "count" will not match any of those answers.
What I should probably change now is to make it check whether there are also incomplete word matches (but not make it so that you can answer with them). What I mean is: if I type "country", it should still only match complete words, but I should alter it so that it checks that there are no incomplete matches before it clicks the answer.
I don't want to make things easier though. The original point of my mod is to make things as challenging as possible. - Another idea is that I could make a dictionary of accepted alternatives. It really bugs me when I type something like "humour" and it doesn't match anything so no answers appear, and I sit there trying to figure out what else the answer could possibly be. And then after ages of thinking I realise that it wanted "humor" (American spelling)... (>.<)
So annoying when that happens. Very tempted to at the very least put a American > British translator in my mod. Haha. ^^ - LOL the American English spellings always look strange to me, things like color and tire XD
- Yeah, "tire" is ridiculous, lol. One of the other weird ones is "story" when talking about different floors of a building (instead of "storey")...
Some other ones I keep getting caught out on in Practice are:
memorize (memorise)
apologize (apologise)
criticize (criticise)
neighbor (neighbour)
neighboring (neighbouring) "neigh + boring"? :D
...but then there is a different question where it is only written as "neighbourhood" (not "neighborhood"?), which is a pain if I try to second guess it thinking Practice wants it spelt without the "u"... :/
