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I learnt touch typing with KDE's Ktouch (a touch typing tutor program), which has auto-generated courses for various layouts but also has a manually laid-out co
by tmtvl 1y ago
I learnt touch typing with KDE's Ktouch (a touch typing tutor program), which has auto-generated courses for various layouts but also has a manually laid-out course for Dvorak. It really made me appreciate how well Dvorak works for learning TT, because when a Qwerty course has me just typing out sdfjkl nonsensical gibberish, the Dvorak course had me typing silly but memorable stuff like 'none hunt out the one ton nun'. And yeah, just having actual words to type from lesson 2 on really made me feel a sense of progression which gave me the motivation to power on through it even when I started running into the limits of my dexterity.
Now that I can touch type, though, I'm actually kinda interested in stenography. I wonder whether that can be as much of a force multiplier as touch typing.
EDIT: shout out to typelit as well, I discovered it here on HN (<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34193504 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34193504>) and it's awesome.
- Izkata 1y agoStenography is very different and limited - it's something like, you hit all the keys for a word at once and it's interpreted from left to right on the keyboard when you release them. So you're typing in a phonetic shorthand instead of full words, and stenography keyboards have some duplicate letters to support the left-to-right ordering when multiple are needed in a word. It can definitely be faster when typing English (court reporters do this to keep up with everyone's speaking speed), but I expect you'd need something new for other domains like programming.