Let's say I mistype and don't double the first "c", but otherwise type entirely correctly.
> acording to its archive...
This would be counted as having everything wrong except the first 2 characters, which doesn't feel like a good reflection of my accuracy.
I know this is a hard problem because I don't think there's any simple guaranteed way to re-align the string to account for a possible deletion or insertion, particularly if there are more mistakes in the following text, but finding and using some sort of accuracy-maximizing alignment would be great to have.
> according to its archive...
Let's say I mistype and don't double the first "c", but otherwise type entirely correctly.
> acording to its archive...
This would be counted as having everything wrong except the first 2 characters, which doesn't feel like a good reflection of my accuracy.
I know this is a hard problem because I don't think there's any simple guaranteed way to re-align the string to account for a possible deletion or insertion, particularly if there are more mistakes in the following text, but finding and using some sort of accuracy-maximizing alignment would be great to have.