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Interesting concept, but little more. Enforcing keystrokes every 5 seconds is a horrible way to facilitate writing. In fact, this reminds me quite a bit of th
by jayhuang 11y ago
Interesting concept, but little more.
Enforcing keystrokes every 5 seconds is a horrible way to facilitate writing.
In fact, this reminds me quite a bit of those algorithmic sites that give interviewees a time limit (ie: 30 minutes) to come up with a solution. As the timer approaches 1 minute or so, the timer turns red, blinks, sometimes increases in size, or beeps. I'm sure if you measured the output during those stressful moments, productivity goes down immensely.
- derefr 11y agoI don't see what's so stressful: you're exchanging "sit and think while not touching the keyboard" for "sit and think while tapping the spacebar." The point is to keep you from mentally context-switching to anything else, not to keep you literally pounding out words.