i love to watch justin.tv especially the gaming channels. i’ve found a lot of really interesting japanese videogames to play online from there. last night i stumbled across typemania and my fingers now hate me.

i am a really fast typer. about 80 wpm, but i do make a lot of small mistakes and hit the backspace. i’ve learned how to hit it fast enough that it doesn’t usually count against me in time though. i love typing games but this one knocked me flat on my ass.

in typemania you type out the lyrics to a song one line at a time as it plays. there’s a time bar that counts down for that specific line and you try to beat the time line with your typing. there is no backspace.. and oh yeah.. you’re typing japanese!

the songs are all from videogames and anime from what i can tell. for me it was a lot of fun. but it drove me nuts trying to type the words . even though they are english characters, they are japanese words, and so it gets a little confusing when you’re used to quickly typing english words. all in all i loved it. i’m sure i’ll be addicted to it for a while.