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This works pretty well: accepting auto-correct fixes & working in both portrait & landscape. It also has a free-form input mode to measure speed when composing as well as typing from copy. This is nice, since one is more often composing than copying on mobile. It doesn't handle next word prediction at all however (as each word is "graded" in sequence), so even if your keyboard correctly offers multiple word predictions you cannot use them during a test. Also, many of the tests seem to contain words that are marked wrong even when input correctly. I mostly noticed this with words that included a quotation mark or other punctuation. The text of the tests are also a little weird, with some instances of odd capitalization or incorrect punctuation, but this actually forces the user to pay closer attention to the text in order to match it properly so isn't really a downside for the intended use. Overall I'd rate this 3-stars, since the mis-graded words make many tests very difficult to use. However, few other typing test apps are actually any better so I'll rate this a 4. As it is one of the best available.
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Darshan University
October 16, 2020
Dear Justin, really appreciates your suggestion. We will consider it and improve our app in the new version. If you have questions or suggestions please contact us at aswdc@darshan.ac.in.
A Google user
Overall I love this app. Offers great practice tools and multiple tests you can take. A few issues I've encountered are weird symbols suddenly showing up in the sentence structure which is automatically going to give me an error because they are not part of the English language. There are also spaces missing in between the different sentences which is not accurate form in the English language often causing another error due to natually hitting the space bar at the end of the sentence.
429 people found this review helpful
Darshan University
January 7, 2020
Thank you for your valuable feedback. We have forwarded the issue to the technical team and the updated version of the app will be available soon at the Play Store.
Please write to us at aswdc@darshan.ac.in for more suggestions and feedback.
A Google user
This is pretty good, but please change the test copy font to something with serifs -- on single letter training, I can't tell the difference between a uppercase "i" and lowercase "L" (I vs l). Additionally, every once in a while, a curly " will appear, to which I don't think standard Android keyboards have access to.
25 people found this review helpful
Darshan University
January 18, 2020
Dear User, we really appreciate your suggestion. We will consider it and improve our app in the new version. If you have questions or suggestions please contact us at aswdc@darshan.ac.in.