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I made a prettier, nicer and more configurable one of these a while ago that works in Firefox too for my own use based off of Keyzen. You can set your preferred

I made a prettier, nicer and more configurable one of these a while ago that works in Firefox too for my own use based off of Keyzen. You can set your preferred target speed and it has more accurate wpm, click measure at the bottom to to make it skip over words after time runs out. Try it at http://thume.ca/keyzen http://thume.ca/keyzen Because of this post I also submitted it to HN, upvote if you like it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4829982 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4829982

clebio 14y ago
It works well and looks nice, but part of typing quickly is seeing the next word in advance so I know what to start typing after the space. Your app doesn't show me those words, so I have to hite space-bar and then wait some time before I know what key to strike next (probably worth mentioning that part of seeing the next word involves consuming the word, rather than individual characters -- so that standard letter-groups are queued up). Edit: ...and now I can reply. Go figure.
- trishume 14y ago
  There is a setting for that, look in the bottom bar. I had some friends test it out and got the same complaint.
  - clebio 14y ago
    Thanks for the quick feedback, and for giving an alternative option. But it doesn't do what I need: show the word _before_ I finish the previous word. I look at the next word as I'm typing the current word (something like: parse word, start typing, load next work, repeat). If I can't see the next word until I've finished the current, my overall speed goes _way_ down. Please understand that I'm not trying to be difficult, but that this is how I normally type. I'm interested because I haven't found the best typing app yet. But for a typing test to be accurate for me, it has to conform to the way text (or my train of thought) normally works.

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I made a prettier, nicer and more configurable one of these a while ago that works in Firefox too for my own use based off of Keyzen. You can set your preferred

by trishume 14y ago

clebio 14y ago
It works well and looks nice, but part of typing quickly is seeing the next word in advance so I know what to start typing after the space. Your app doesn't show me those words, so I have to hite space-bar and then wait some time before I know what key to strike next (probably worth mentioning that part of seeing the next word involves consuming the word, rather than individual characters -- so that standard letter-groups are queued up). Edit: ...and now I can reply. Go figure.
- trishume 14y ago
  There is a setting for that, look in the bottom bar. I had some friends test it out and got the same complaint.
  - clebio 14y ago
    Thanks for the quick feedback, and for giving an alternative option. But it doesn't do what I need: show the word _before_ I finish the previous word. I look at the next word as I'm typing the current word (something like: parse word, start typing, load next work, repeat). If I can't see the next word until I've finished the current, my overall speed goes _way_ down. Please understand that I'm not trying to be difficult, but that this is how I normally type. I'm interested because I haven't found the best typing app yet. But for a typing test to be accurate for me, it has to conform to the way text (or my train of thought) normally works.