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Ben Lang

Code Racer - Find out how fast you code

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Halloween costumes aside, reckon you're a speedy unicorn-rockstar-ninja coder? Yeah, we thought so. That's why we created Code Racer. Find out just how brilliant and speedy a coder you really are! And in the spirit of Halloween, challenge your friends with your coding tricks and get a treat when you beat them. Let the race begin!

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Aaron O'Leary
Fun app! any plans to add more stacks?
Valerie Ceder
Maker
@aaronoleary Thanks! We'd love to. Got any suggestions?
Aaron O'Leary
@valerie_ceder Maybe swift or react could be some cool additions
Leah Sushelsky
Maker
@valerie_ceder @aaronoleary Great ideas! We will add to our lists. We choose to just start with the "classics" first :)
Matt Taylor
Fun idea! Make the enter key stop the timer so you don't need to grab a mouse or use the trackpad
Valerie Ceder
Maker
@matttaylor8910 Thanks for the feedback Matt! We're on it ;)
Amir Wilf

I like this but I think coding by nature is more of a design/visualization activity where people spend more time thinking about the underlying processes of their algorithms as opposed to seeing if you can write a small function off by heart as fast as possible which this application seems to emphasize.

Pros:

Fun interaction

Cons:

Not really a coding simulation

Yoav Matchulsky
Really fun! I can definitely see myself and some of my friends competing for hours
Leah Sushelsky
Maker
@matchulsky Thanks, Yoav! Us too. We don't plan on getting much done today πŸ˜ƒ
Omri Shabi
Nice! Turns out I'm a Ninja Rockstar πŸ˜ƒ
Leah Sushelsky
Maker
@omrishabi hahahaha, keep on practicing and you will be a unicorn in no time! :)
Rony Klachko
Pretty Fun :) Turns out I need some practice...
Leah Sushelsky
Maker
@rklachko don't we all ;)
Jirka TΕ™ečÑk
Ninja Unicorn, yay! But the anti-cheat engine could use some work, as others seem to hack it, therefore there is no point in trying to be the first :( Other than that, pretty nice game! Other languages like Swift'd be amazing :)
Leah Sushelsky
Maker
@jirka_trecak We love the idea of using Swift'd, we will look into it! πŸ˜‰
Robot Γ–zdevi
it is really fun! but I think code editors more flexible. I don't know but most of the case, I press curly brackets and parentheses keys sequentially then move the caret one letter to left and write variable name or number etc. When I try, it has counted as an error. I think it would be better if we have to press the space key.
Valerie Ceder
Maker
@ozdevisiri Really glad you had some fun with Code Racer and thank you for that feedback, we'll consider it πŸ˜ƒ
Keenan Milligan
Shame to see some abusing the leader board, by the way do you have to click done after each challenge? Can we just press the enter key? Great concept!
Valerie Ceder
Maker
@keenan_milligan Thank you! Yesterday there was a bug with the done button but now you can click enter key to complete the challenge.
Dror Ceder

The Desktop UI is intuitive and simple. Just start typing. I love that!

Pros:

cool game!

Cons:

a little bit buggy

Leah Sushelsky
Maker
Thank you for the feedback. We know its a bit rough around the edges, but glad you had fun playing πŸ˜‰
Elad Itzhakian

I had fun playing around with this. Really like that the code switches up so I’m not playing over the same snippet each time.

Pros:

Fun and challenging

Cons:

None

Omri Spiguel

I can't stop trying to beat the high scores

the multiple syntaxes is also very challenging

Pros:

this is so much fun

Cons:

addictive

Avi Smila

very nice idea and fun to play

Pros:

Very fun

Cons:

Time consuming :)

Noa Keren

This game is really cute and quirky. Cool idea.

Pros:

Nice interface. Clean and simple.

Cons:

You should add more stacks

Leah Sushelsky
Maker
Thanks, Noa! Happy coding πŸ˜‰
Drey Suvorov
awesome idea, however, as we do use now apps like sublime, vscode... it autocompletes several things while taping, I think it should be quite the same. It's quite difficult to search chars like } ) as you almost never type it.
Valerie Ceder
Maker
@belperhat Really happy you like the idea and great suggestions, we totally agree.
Reeve Klutzy
Seems like this is more of a speed typing challenge than a coding challenge. All you need to know is how type, not code!
Valerie Ceder
Maker
@reeve_klutzy hahaha! We know, it's really a fun way of testing how fast you type code. We are thinking of unveiling another version with coding challenges. Do you have any suggestions?