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Split comparison
Compares your splits with a best run segment by segment, and sums the best segments into a run nobody had.
It runs entirely in this browser tab: nothing you type is uploaded, and every draw comes from a seed the result prints.
The columns it takes
- Split
- Text you supply.
- Time
- A length of time.
- Best time
- Optional.
An example
Forest | 1:42 | 1:39
Caves | 3:15 | 3:20
Bridge | 4:58 | 4:55
Tower | 7:31 | 7:40
Keep | 9:02 | 9:04
Settings
- The times are
- A timer writes cumulative times; people discuss segments. Reading the wrong one is the classic mistake. Choices: Cumulative, Segments.
- Show the best possible
- The sum of the best segments — a run nobody has ever had, and named for what it is.
How to use it
- Fill in the table above, a row at a time.
- Adjust the settings beside it until the result is what you wanted.
- Copy the result, or save it as a file. The result updates as you type.
Questions
- Why does everything have a seed?
- So that a roll can be checked. A draw here is a function of its seed: the same word gives the same result to you, to the person you send the link to, and to the desktop build. Leave it empty and a fresh seed is drawn and shown, so you can pin a roll after the fact.
- Can I use this to deal cards for money?
- No. The generator is reproducible on purpose and invertible from a single output, which is what makes it useful here and useless for that. It is not a cryptographic source of chance and the result says so.
- Why is there no word list in the word finder?
- Because a usable one is larger than this whole application, and a small one is worse than none: it says “not a word” about words. The list comes from you, and the result says how many words it searched so a search that found nothing is visibly a short list.
- Does the chess reader have an engine?
- No: no evaluation, no best move, no opening book. What it does is replay a game on a real board, which is a fact about the rules rather than an opinion about the moves — and it stops at a move that will not play rather than reading past it.
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