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Kudos for the last one: re-type the masters. It's brilliantly weird and wonderful! Reminded me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_t
by d--b 11y ago
Kudos for the last one: re-type the masters. It's brilliantly weird and wonderful! Reminded me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Quixote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Q...
- captn3m0 11y ago+1 for this. It should be a nice project for someone interested in learning JS, even.
- graham1776 11y agoI love this one too. How fun would it be to re-type a chapter of Hamlet, a Hemingway short story, a Walt Whitman poem? Also way more fun than the normal "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" prompts.
- jameshart 11y agoHamlet doesn't have chapters, it's a play. Sorry - pet peeve. It's like people asking if you've 'read Shakespeare'. Makes as much sense as asking someone if they've read Tarantino. Sure, you can read the script, but it's not how it's meant to be consumed.
- nekopa 11y agoYou could've read his sonnets...
- EvanPlaice 11y agoEver heard of Keybr? You can specify external sources for practice text. Why just read the news when you can practice typing while you read it. If you could find a hosted copy of a classical piece of literature, this does exactly what you described. Typeracer Uses text excerpts from popular movies and books with competitive match ups with other people. It selects competitors based on their current rated speed so it's challenging no matter how good/bad you are. For something as boring as typing, it's seriously addictive and fun.
- rmason 11y agoActually in his son's book he said that Hunter Thompson started out retyping Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Steinbeck etc. He used to give that advice to beginning writers as it allowed you to be able to develop a feel for what was good in your own efforts.