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Mobile phone offers noplace to edit the original text. What am I doing wrong?


I tried to make it responsive because I knew a lot of people would visit the site on their phone. In my testing, gameplay works on mobile...without an on-screen keyboard. When that keyboard pops up on the screen, there isn't much room for anything else.

If you think it's something other than your on-screen keyboard that's messing it up, feel free to link a screenshot and tell me your device, browser, etc so I can look into it.


I see no on-screen keyboard. I cannot get one to appear. How should I be typing, without one?


I'm not sure why a mobile phone wouldn't show an on-screen keyboard with a textarea in focus. Doesn't sound like an issue with Brevity 500.

The site is visually designed to be responsive but it's really designed to be used with a non-mobile screen and a real keyboard.


Android 11, in Chrome. And in Firefox. Options offered (in place of any keyboard) are Copy, Search, Select All, and Share.

Well, it's a lovely thought. Maybe someone can make one that works on mobile phones.


I'm using the same setup. There were several pages to click through before the timed text editing challenge. Two pages showed the text to edit in a static form before the timed challenge.


And the prize goes to entwife, I mistook the preliminary text display for the one we were supposed to edit.

Thank you.




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