Esport Serious Rhythm Game
RhythmicTypeX is an adaptive rhythm game designed to develop typing & coding virtuosity on the keyboard, based on musical rhythmic training techniques used by professional musicians. The game play and mechanics adapt in real-time to your performance, adjusting the tempo and rhythms progression in real-time, so you can focus on performance, while the game keeps you in a good flow with an effective training pace and an excellent challenge for your current level.
RhythmicTypeX helps you to push your limits and acquire ever increasing finger dexterity in typing and/or coding, is up to 750 BPM if you can reach that! It is designed to easily learn and train the 10 fingers typing method, applied to letters, special characters (SHIFT & ALTGR) and your custom text input (ex: coding expressions). Supported keyboards: US (QWERTY) and German (QWERTZ) + 91 variations (click Supported Keyboard Layouts for the list and all the details)
Pushing Your Limits & Competition
This game is a high speed typing performance game that supports up to approximately 750 BPM, so you can gradually improve with the game mechanic that adapts automatically to your performance, to keep you an effective practicing pace, pushing you to your limits. You will get better results if you start slower, then you can go ahead and make your way to compete for the best score in a specific mode and give your best. You can compete in each specific modes (see options in game), provided that the text is a specific one that other players can set. For Competition, the conditions need to be identical for all players. If others want to beat your score, they have to use the same mode and the same characters sequence in the game and the Focus mode is not allowed.
To validate your score and compete for the RhythmicTypeX titles, just add a link to your videos in the comments below. The only way that makes sense for now, if you want to validate your score for ranking and claim your title or position, is to make a video capture of the whole round AND film your hands. Add the link of your video in the comments of the following video, so we can all keep track of the scores.
This is an example of how your competition video should like, it is also my own first official record for competition:
Customize Your Training
The target keyboard layouts are the US (QWERTY) and the German (QWERTZ), but many variations of those 2 layouts also work for this game. See the list of supported keyboards:
The options look like this:
Rhythmic Training methods – This Game’s Background
For the purpose of designing this game, I made a Proof of Concept as Bachelor project in Games Programming, where I studied various rhythmic training methods used by processional musicians to acquire dexterity. Most of the rhythms used in this game, as well as the adaptive mechanic have been tested by participants for this research, some new ones were discovered later and were implemented in future updates and I thoroughly tested them with several music instruments and this game, for many months to observe their effects. I implemented the very best ones that boosted my performance the best and that, according to my understanding, should boost yours too along with the more established patterns, which are in majority.
If you are interested in the exact methodology and the work associated with this game, you can look online for this proof of concept, the name is ‚Conception of New Rhythm-Based Dexterity Training Methods with Adaptive Mechanics and AI‘ , it is published on academia.edu.
RhythmicTypeX on Facebook
Post your videos playing RhythmicTypeX or give your take part in community conversations on the on the ‚Rhythmictypex‘ Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/RhythmicTypeX
Sharpened Games on Youtube (Competition happens on this channel)
Visit the @SharpenedGames Youtube channel and see videos about RhtyhmicTypeX: https://www.youtube.com/@SharpenedGames
© Yann Savard, Zorneding, Germany, 2023