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I completely agree with the criticism you raise towards the website. The nonsensical words make typing them much more difficult, but the real crux of the issue

I completely agree with the criticism you raise towards the website. The nonsensical words make typing them much more difficult, but the real crux of the issue is that you can't issue corrections. I prefer 10fastfingers as a typing test, because it's a list of actual easy words without silly capitalization and symbols. In my opinion, it's more representative of the way I would type most of the time than most of the other tests I've seen. I will say though, that 40 WPM blows my mind. What kind of a result do you get on 10fastfingers.com? Because I can do 30-40 WPM on my phone with Swype. EDIT: I used keybr for a longer period of time now and I think the start of the website gives a bad impression. The lessons don't feel quite normal, but once you finish them it ends up much similar to regular typing tests, where most of the words are actual English words.

nevi-me 8y ago
I get 70 - 75 with around 90% accuracy The word disappearing after a space was throwing me off at first, but I guess there's no one universal interface/UX that would accommodate everyone.
- Mirioron 8y ago
  Yeah, 70-75 seems reasonable enough. I'm sure if you did it more the numbers would creep up since you'd get used to the interface.
ragona 8y ago
Yeah, I don't love the nonsense misspelled words that is the default. However, it does provide some texts you can type against -- some little short story about a man who is left alone on the planet. I get pretty different results on the two texts: English story (capitalization and punctuation enabled): 109 avg wpm, 124 wpm top speed. Weird nonsense words: 81 avg wpm, 112 wpm top speed. But I totally agree -- the part that particularly bugs me is the BACKSPACE key. Being an effective typist requires being able to feel it when you hit the wrong key, delete the error, and continue. In general I just ctrl+backspace and delete the entire word, since that's way faster than just issuing a targeted correction. I get really stuck when the backspace key does nothing, then I have to figure out exactly which character it was and start mid-word, and it's super awkward.
coldtea 8y ago
>I prefer 10fastfingers as a typing test, because it's a list of actual easy words without silly capitalization and symbols. Well, if you write novels, sure. But programming is all about typing silly capitalization and symbols.
- horsawlarway 8y ago
  eh, I disagree. More symbols? sure. But most everything is still an English language word. Admittedly, sometimes smashed together in the thisVarIsHere way, or this_var_is_there way, but mostly still just normal words where having a "typing vocabulary" of words you can type from muscle memory is hugely important.

nevi-me 8y ago

I get 70 - 75 with around 90% accuracy The word disappearing after a space was throwing me off at first, but I guess there's no one universal interface/UX that would accommodate everyone.

Mirioron 8y ago
Yeah, 70-75 seems reasonable enough. I'm sure if you did it more the numbers would creep up since you'd get used to the interface.

ragona 8y ago

Yeah, I don't love the nonsense misspelled words that is the default. However, it does provide some texts you can type against -- some little short story about a man who is left alone on the planet. I get pretty different results on the two texts: English story (capitalization and punctuation enabled): 109 avg wpm, 124 wpm top speed. Weird nonsense words: 81 avg wpm, 112 wpm top speed. But I totally agree -- the part that particularly bugs me is the BACKSPACE key. Being an effective typist requires being able to feel it when you hit the wrong key, delete the error, and continue. In general I just ctrl+backspace and delete the entire word, since that's way faster than just issuing a targeted correction. I get really stuck when the backspace key does nothing, then I have to figure out exactly which character it was and start mid-word, and it's super awkward.

coldtea 8y ago

>I prefer 10fastfingers as a typing test, because it's a list of actual easy words without silly capitalization and symbols. Well, if you write novels, sure. But programming is all about typing silly capitalization and symbols.

horsawlarway 8y ago
eh, I disagree. More symbols? sure. But most everything is still an English language word. Admittedly, sometimes smashed together in the thisVarIsHere way, or this_var_is_there way, but mostly still just normal words where having a "typing vocabulary" of words you can type from muscle memory is hugely important.