swift - how to stop refreshing taps?

I have made a bit of code that when the user taps everywhere on the screen the points/score/taps will increment by 1. But the problem is then it counts how many continuous taps I make and then if I leave a 1 second gap between pressing it will restart the counter. Is there any way I could make it stop restarting?

CODE:

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {



    @IBOutlet weak var tapsLabel: UILabel!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
    }

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
        // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
    }


    override func touchesBegan(touches: Set<NSObject>, withEvent event: UIEvent) {

        let touch = touches.first as! UITouch
        let tapCount = touch.tapCount


        tapsLabel.text = "Taps: \(tapCount)"

    }
}

The tapCount documentation says:

The value of this property is an integer indicating the number of times the user tapped their fingers on a certain point within a predefined period.

It's supposed to reset after some “predefined period”. You're trying to use it for something it wasn't designed for.

Instead, you need to create a property on ViewController to count the number of total taps:

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    private var tapCount = 0
    @IBOutlet weak var tapsLabel: UILabel!

    override func touchesBegan(touches: Set<UITouch>, withEvent event: UIEvent?) {
        tapCount += 1
        tapsLabel.text = "Taps: \(tapCount)"
    }
}

(Please note that my code here is for the iOS 9 API. The touchesBegan:withEvent: method signature is slightly different than in the iOS 8 API.)