How good IS Megaword?

[Brisul]

I didn't mean to cause a great eclipse. Nevertheless, 200 words is a great milestone, congratulations!

Of course, I'm kidding. 316 words is off the charts awesome! Also, thank you iBnutz for the kind words

[MegaWord]

I just finally crossed the 200 word plateau yesterday. Can't you at least give me a 24 hour window to bask in my own glory?

I didn't mean to cause a great eclipse. Nevertheless, 200 words is a great milestone, congratulations!

[iBnutz]

Brisul, 200 words was just AWESOME!

[Brisul]

New words record on 5x5 - 316 wds! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Um0vQKaszM

The puzzle was ideal, had a plenty of words and most of them I could type quick. My fingers were feeling a bit sticky and I wasn't fully warmed up yet. I didn't feel much nerves, cause I didn't realize I was at such a good pace, made all kinds of errors throughout. Encouraging though, seeing the potential for much improvement.

I just finally crossed the 200 word plateau yesterday. Can't you at least give me a 24 hour window to bask in my own glory?

[MegaWord]

New words record on 5x5 - 316 wds! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Um0vQKaszM

The puzzle was ideal, had a plenty of words and most of them I could type quick. My fingers were feeling a bit sticky and I wasn't fully warmed up yet. I didn't feel much nerves, cause I didn't realize I was at such a good pace, made all kinds of errors throughout. Encouraging though, seeing the potential for much improvement.

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sometimes...I play in my head, just before I nod off to sleep...it's kinda weird and slightly disconcerting, but then.....I smash it because my brain puts in which ever letters suit the string it's working on....zzzzzz.

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How good is Brisul??? Yaaaay!

[Brisul]

I've never had an average in the 990's for longer than one game in all my time on the 5x5 boards. I just now reached a 995 average in my 28th game of the month! Yes, I'm patting myself on the back

[RussDNails]

I do that sometimes. Just stare at boards while not logged in, not even looking at consonants and just focusing on vowels to see what I can string together. Gets a little tedious and I tend to drift back to playing real games and as soon as I do I just don't key in fast enough on words that start with vowels.........

[MegaWord]

I'm not sure how to help you, but I have that problem with the ch, ph, words, basically double consonant starting words. I see them much slower and neglect them more often. I get confused easy cause they're more complicated to me. Maybe a way to train vowel words is to play some games intending only to find words that start with vowels, that will force you to improve.

[RussDNails]

Nice work............I'll likely never achieve what you do but I wish I could get a little closer to at least be able to push you a little bit! I'm a decent typist with a fairly strong vocabulary but my Achilles heel is that I simply cannot train my brain to see words that start with vowels. When I come across a board you've scored 1200-1500 I usually get 900-1000 and when I look at your word list you typically have 50-60 more words than I do and 90% start with vowels. Plus I usually know most all of these words but just don't see them. If I could somehow train myself to see the words that start with vowels I'm sure I could rapidly increase both my average and number of words per game. If you want some real competition, tell me how to reprogram my brain to see words that start with vowels

[MegaWord]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOU-91V2G7M

This good, some games this month on 5x5.

[DonGuy47]

Typing 50 words per minute is not fast at all! Brief internet search says that lots of jobs require 60, and some require 100 wpm. And I'll bet those numbers were much higher back when typing was considered a critical skill for everyone. The world records, in various categories, are all over 200 wpm. There must be millions of people who can manage 100!

Back when I practiced typing specifically to improve my Boggle scores, I got up to around 80 wpm, and there were still plenty of people CRUSHING me at online Boggle.

[Giovanni6]

I just played a board where I got 565 and I thought I'd done pretty well. Megaword got 1355 on the same board. But it was more than 1/3 this time, at least.

[Naboka]

No, not saying there is cheating. I was wondering how people can get so many words so quickly. I guess I need more practice.

Practice is only part of the equation. Crazykate alluded to one of the easiest ways to increase your speed and score. It's called chunking. If you see s, e, r, you automatically know to type ser, res, era. S, a, r provide sar, ras, ars. You don't have to think about these chunked words, you just quickly type them. E, a, s provide sea, eas, sae. If you found all four letters s, e, a, r you'd add ear, ears, are, ares, era, eras, sera, sear, arse, rase (and maybe more I'm not aware of) which provide 17 words instantly that can be typed in seconds.

Other combos follow these. Like finding l, i or c to add to sera to make seral, serai and serac. Boysmom taught me that one and I've found them a lot.

If you had an extra e you could make seare. There are bunches of ear words that adding an e give you about 8 points a word. You'll find steare frequently. Deare, heare, feare and others. I'm not certain which are valid, but the pattern will give you quick words and points.

You want to learn anagrams such as wake, weka and weak. Add an s and you've doubled your words and gotten tons of points.

Since I'm mediocre, I'm still puzzling through the 3 and 4 letter anagrams, but the really good players will have chunked 5, 6 letters and more with all the possible word combinations. They don't have to "find the words" because they already know those words exist in those letter combinations.

Seeing a, k, e automatically leads to ake, kae, kea and all the bake, cake, make, makes, mak, maks, tak, taks, take, takes, bakes, baked, baking, baker, bakers possibilities.

You want to study word elements. Roots, prefixes, suffixes. If you add re to words you can pile up points. See becomes resee, resees, reseeing, and so on. Lots of points.

There are certain letter patterns that can provide a lot of words: ele can give you sele, tele, pele, dele, hele, vele, stele, doubled by adding an s. You'll find ene, eme and ere help form several worlds.

The more patterns you find and chunk, the quicker you become.

My wife, who's a far better typist and far faster reader can't approach my scores because she says I use, "fake words." Getting up to mid-range decent at word twist requires learning a lot of "fake words" and how they pattern and chunk.