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<!-- Begin
msg = new Array("Practicing with your typing can greatly help your computer skills.",
"A new computer is sold in New Zealand every hour!",
"When will the next New Zealand general election be held?",
"Perplexing phrases, like this one, are quite difficult to type.")
word = 10
function m() {
msg = new Array("Practicing with your typing can greatly help your computer skills.",
"A new computer is sold in New Zealand every hour!",
"When will the next New Zealand general election be held?",
"Perplexing phrases, like this one, are quite difficult to type.")
word = 10
}
function e() {
msg = new Array("If you can correctly, and quickly, type this perplexing sentence, you are one superb typist!",
"You are an excellent typist if you can correctly, and quickly, type this long phrase.",
"I believe you're a good typist, so I believe you will correctly copy this statement!",
"Because this is not a fairly simple phrase, could you swiftly, and precisely, copy it?")
word = 15
}
function s() {
msg = new Array("Computers are the medium of the future.",
"Can you type this phrase rather quickly?",
"Who is the Prime Minister of England?",
"I believe that you can type well!")
word = 7
}
function beginIt() {
randNum = Math.floor((Math.random() * 10)) % 4
msgType = msg[randNum]
day = new Date();
startType = day.getTime();
document.theForm.given.value = msgType
document.theForm.typed.focus();
document.theForm.typed.select();
}
function cheat() {
alert("You can not change that!");
document.theForm.typed.focus();
}
function stopIt() {
dayTwo = new Date();
endType = dayTwo.getTime();
totalTime = ((endType - startType) / 1000)
spd = Math.round((word/totalTime) * 60)
if (document.theForm.typed.value == document.theForm.given.value) {
alert("\nYou typed a " + word + " word sentence in " 
+ totalTime + " seconds, a speed of about " + spd + " words per minute!")
}
else {
alert("You made one or more errors, but typed at a speed of " + spd + " words per minute.")
   }
}
// End -->