Feature Request: "Stumble Count" (funbox) #8356
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Right now, Monkeytype’s raw accuracy metric treats all typing mistakes equally. However, there is a massive behavioral difference between two types of errors:
1.The Quick Typo: Typing 1 letter wrong and immediately fixing it.
2. The Runaway Cascade: Typing 5+ wrong letters into a word before realizing you messed up your muscle memory.
Currently, the second scenario completely destroys your accuracy percentage, even though both scenarios represent only a single mental lapse (forgetting or messing up one specific word).
Proposed Feature - I propose adding a toggleable setting in funbox mode called Stumble Count, built specifically to complement the stop_on_word mode.
How it works: When you make a mistake on a word, the counter ticks up by exactly 1.
The Constraint: If you continue to mash keys or type 5 more incorrect letters within that same word, the counter stays at 1. It caps the penalty per word.
The Reset: The counter freezes for that word and can only increment again on a new word, after the user has successfully gone back and corrected the original mistake.
Why this helps
Standard accuracy metrics only evaluate how messy your recovery cascade is. This new metric would evaluate how frequently you trip up. By calculating accuracy as usual alongside this new "Stumble Count" variable, users would get a much clearer diagnostic tool. It will show them whether they are making frequent small mistakes, or if they just have rare, chaotic muscle-memory lockups.
And yes AI was used :D
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