Impossible
The idea is good, but the game is just too hard. And there are some problems with punctuation marks.
Reviews for "The Essay"
An interesting concept.
The fact that punctuation is "typed" automatically is a little jarring, especially since the spaces before or after any punctuation is NOT automatically counted. I imagine if a person played it long enough, this might not be an issue.
But if the idea behind the whole thing is to type what you see accurately as quickly as possible (and it is), then automatically counting punctuation but omitting spaces seems just plain inconvenient.
Does that make any sense? I'd love to see another version of this where everything you'd have to type in a real essay acted as a barrier to your progress.
Cool idea; terrible bugs.
Of course we're not able to type the whole thing. It's incredibly buggy to the point where we can't. There was actually a point where I sat there typing one letter at a time to make sure that they registered, and even that didn't always work.
The idea is simple though nice, but those bugs were infuriating within the first minute or two.
Also, if the whole point of the game is to type as quickly as possible, one of the biggest things that should be allowed is fast typing. If I typed too quickly, it didn't register ANYTHING and would start freezing and locking up.
eh.....
same as others have said, i type too quickly and it doesn't register.
Something to do
That's pretty much all it was. It's clever as a concept, but in reality it's not that entertaining. More an exercise in satisfying the ego with a pointless challenge. Nice try.