# LOL.py
# Original skeleton by Profs Van Loan and Lee (cs-1110profs-L@cornell.edu)
#  and Alex Parkhurst (anp56@cornell.edu)
# PLACE YOUR NAME(S) AND NETID(S) HERE
# Feb 2016
""" Explores how long it takes you to enter a given random length-3 string."""

from datetime import datetime
from random import choice

# S1 is the random test string
# S2 is the response string
# t1 is the first timestamp string
# t2 is the second timestamp string

##  Note: if you want to make the text-entry challenge easier, delete some
## characters from alfa
alfa = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
x = raw_input('Press the return key when you are ready.')
S1 = choice(alfa) + choice(alfa) + choice(alfa)
print '\n      The test string: ' + S1
# First time stamp...
t1 = str(datetime.utcnow())
S2 = raw_input('Enter the test string as fast as you can: ')
# Second time stamp
t2 = str(datetime.utcnow())

# Display the two timestamps...
print
print t1
print t2

###### Only add code below this line ##############################

# Process the correctness of the response...
if len(S1) != len(S2):
    print 'Your response has the wrong number of characters!'
elif S1 != S2:
    print 'There is a character mismatch in your response!'
else:
    print 'Correct response.'

# Compute the elapsed time
T1 = float(t1[17:])
T2 = float(t2[17:])
if T1>T2:
    # Have to add 60 if a "new minute" begins during the response
    EllapsedTime = T2-T1+60
else:
    EllapsedTime = T2-T1
print 'Ellapsed Time = %6.3f  seconds' % EllapsedTime