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One issue with tools like these is that it's pretty artificial. You rarely need to type nonsense series of lowercase only words without punctuation at a consist
by procaryote 1y ago
One issue with tools like these is that it's pretty artificial. You rarely need to type nonsense series of lowercase only words without punctuation at a consistent character speed.
I did a similar little tool at some point where I just used some books from the gutenberg project and normalised it a bit so there were no weird typographic quotes etc.
It both forces me to become good at the punctuation, and it's more interesting as I will accidentally start reading that book.
- Rygian 1y agoI self taught touch typing by copying chapters of It. Eyes focused on the book, keyboard hidden under the desk, and only looking at the screen at each paragraph end. Worked great.
- Sakura-sx 1y agoMore characters soon, thanks for the suggestion!
- ubercow13 1y agoI like this one https://typeonline.uk/speed-test/word https://typeonline.uk/speed-test/word
- alabhyajindal 1y agoI love this! Reminded me of TypeLit.io [1]. I would love something similar for programming: typing out snippets of code, that make sense, to improve typing speed involving special characters and symbols. Maybe selecting code snippets from popular open-source projects and presenting them to the user is a good start! 1. https://www.typelit.io/ https://www.typelit.io/
- tough 1y agoI'm pretty sure this existed (typing out code) can't remember the name now
- alabhyajindal 1y agohttps://typing.io https://typing.io ? I like it but feels outdated, and has many little QOL issues.
- tough 1y agoyep was this one ty, would be cool as TUI
- mylesp 1y agomonkeytype.com has this option, along with many many more.
- alabhyajindal 1y agoYes but the issue is those code snippets are generated artificially and are not coherent. Same issue as artificially generated prose.
- absolute_unit22 1y agoThank you! :) Yes!! I have this on my todo list (along with many other features I've always wanted) actually!
- absolute_unit22 1y agoI couldn’t agree more on this honestly. https://www.typequicker.com https://www.typequicker.com kinda focuses on this sentiment. AI generated natural text that targets user weak points. The more you type, the better the targeted exercises are. The whole app essentially focuses on natural text (except for drills)
- darrenf 1y agoI could only get through a few rounds of this -- it messed with my brain much more than my fingers. Proper nouns without capitals, flipping between -ize and -ise, and the outright bad grammar were all reasons I typed slower than I normally would. > geohumanities, sometimes written geohumanities or the geohumanities is a term has been used with varied meanings to describe areas of academic study
- absoluteunit1 1y agoOh thanks for mentioning this. Which practice mode did you use? Capitalization, text length, and topics can be adjusted. (Just click on the topics buttons or whichever mode you’re using for additional setting).
- darrenf 1y agoI'm not sure what mode at all - I just clicked "start", and after each exercise I just clicked "continue". I didn't adjust any settings, just dived straight in!
- absolute_unit22 1y agoGotcha - thanks for mentioning this though. I’ve been meaning to make some changes to the default text in the practice mode so this bumps it up on my todo list. Thank you!
- tough 1y agoi liked one that let you type codebases, great way to learn syntax alongside typing someone else shared on other comment typing.io pretty sure it was this
- agumonkey 1y agoI was thinking of using typing drills as hidden spaced repetition for books just yesterday. Not for learning a topic per se but for a kind of memory rehab. I wish there was some kind of slow audio speech mode to spell each sentence once, so that you can avoid memorizing your finger position while doing exercises.