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Elie Gould

Typing Stars is meant to be a relaxing 'straightforward game that helps you master typing speed and accuracy,' but it just completely stresses me out

Screen with the word Help on it.

I haven't played a typing game since I was in the first year of high school and was forced to complete courses in Dance Mat Typing. I didn't do a great job back then, and after all these years of honing my own Frankenstein's monster version of touch typing, it turns out I haven't gotten much better.

The goal in Typing Stars is just to type 60 words as quickly as possible and climb your way to the number one rank. There's nothing else to it. But even still, I found myself dedicating way too much time to trying to beat my new arch enemy, who has been sitting at the top of the leaderboards since I started this game. That enemy’s name is Mollie Taylor, PC Gamer's features producer.

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