Spent a ton of yesterday trying to find and solve ways to "cheat" in the Typing Tutor.

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Some of these issues are my own fault, mostly due to how I did the "WPM x Stars" setup, but I'm fairly sure other typing tutors must have similar issues, right?

So, the idea is to take the WPM, give Stars as you go depending on how accurately you type, then multiply everything at the end.
The "cheat" would be to..
1. Type the first 2 lines perfectly accurately to earn 6 stars.
2. Hammer the keys, hit return, over and over for the next 6 lines. The inaccuracy of these lines give 0 stars each, but something improbable like 350wpm each line.

Then the total ends up being something like 350wpm x 6 stars = 2,100 points.

Compare that to 8 perfectly well written but slower lines, which gives say 60wpm x 24 stars = 1,440 points..

And you can clearly see that cheating works really well, here.
There's a few easy ways to cheat the points here, so I spent a little time trying to find those and "fix" them in some way.

Now, then, the more inaccurate your typing is, the more the wpm gets reduced, so there's less of a possibility of you cheating the game.
Is that a "good" thing for a typing tutor?
I'm not sure. But I think, at some point, I need to decide whether this is an "AGameAWeek Style Gamey Thing" or a proper tutorial.
I don't think it's a proper tutorial!

And that makes me wonder which direction I should take the actual tutorially bit of the tutorial. Should I keep them "proper", and sensible, or do I go off the wall and crazy.
At what point of the range of sensible vs humorous do I settle, here?
Hmmm..

Where's the line?

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