My attempt to beat the “World’s Most Dangerous Writing App”

This is my first interaction with the very addictive new website, “The World’s Most Dangerous Writing App.” It’s a website I discovered today where if you stop writing for more than five seconds, it permanently deletes everything you’ve written in your current session.

So I guess this is a test of how one writes. If I were to stop writing for more than five seconds, I would lose all my work. You might think this is funny, but in fact, it isn’t at all. Quite the opposite, when you think about it. Imagine writing a huge book, and then all of a sudden, everything you wrote was gone, because you got something in your eye, or the phone rang, or you went to check your email.

Obviously, that’s the point of this app — It forces complete and utter focus — But it would still scare the living hell out of me to type something of any value here. For instance, right now there are two men in my bedroom fixing my AC/Heating unit. What if they need me for something? The timer at the top says I have 3:25 left on this writing session. Do I make them wait? What if they need me right now? Or now? I’d lose everything I typed above.

Funny thing, if they DID need me right now, you’d never know it, because this entire article would be lost.

It’s now 2:55 left on the five minute writing session I’ve chosen in this ridiculous website app. Yet I totally get how it could be a fun test. Perhaps it’s a great way for writing short stories? Perhaps it would allow me to just do a stream of consciousness post, similar to what I’m doing now?

Note the “WIN! Retry?” tag in the top right corner, taken after I was able to write a coherent story for five minutes straight.

Two minutes left on this five minute writing block before I can stop, and I’m hearing more and more strange noises coming from the other room. They seem to be spraying something on the HVAC unit. I’m worried that they’re going to need me in the 1:45 left on this writing block before I can stop typing.

This is like that film “Blown Away” with Jeff Bridges, where one of the first scenes is him defusing a bomb at the computer lab of MIT — a spurned boyfriend had set up a computer so that if his girlfriend stopped typing, it would explode. Of course Jeff Bridges saved the day. This isn’t to be confused with the movie “Blown Away” that starred the two Corys — And Nicole Eggert, who may have been underage when the movie came out.

I’ve got 30 seconds left to type. I’ve typed 388 words so far, which is pretty impressive. Around 90 words per minute, which is pretty “meh” for me — Usually I’m better.

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