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- k2enemy 2mo agoWould be great to have an option for two spaces after a period. I had to go back and fix the first letter of every sentence!
- Kinrany 2mo agoCool UX. A bit jarring that after making a typo one should not press the correct key before continuing.
- demibabs 2mo agoYou can backspace
- neduma 2mo agoLike it.
- antics9 2mo agoWould be fun to load text from some book from Gutenberg. Edit: found that functionality. Nice!
- pmkary 2mo agoThe best ad I have ever seen!
- n2d4 2mo agoThis is really cool! Although a little disappointed that it punished me for using an emdash instead of a dash when an emdash would've been syntactically correct :)
- Zambyte 2mo agoAs noted in the default test, this site is by ZSA, a keyboard company. Their boards are pricey, but excellent. I have both their Moonlander, which sits on my desk at home, and their Voyager, which I went with quieter key switches (brown rather than blue) for taking on the go. Their boards are very comfortable; I highly recommend considering split, columnar keyboards like what they offer if you spend most of your day at a computer. As a side, I switched to Dvorak when I first bought my Moonlander about 6 years ago. I have only used split keyboards with Dvorak, and I have only used traditional staggered keyboards with QWERTY. My muscle memory is well isolated between the two, and I have no trouble switching between them (though as it has now been many years since I regularly used a physical QWERTY keyboard, my WPM on one is definitely lower than it used to be).
- crimsoneer 2mo agoHonestly, ZSA deserves so much love. I have a Moonlander and Voyager and they're both so darn excellent.
- ssl-3 2mo agoBut why? I've had dozens of keyboards in my PC life, so far. The earliest examples were Chicony clicky-mechanical boards in the late nineteen-eighties. Those were pretty cool (and they're very much NLA). I've had innumerable membrane keyboards. Some were more useful than others. I had a very long and pleasant run of membrane boards made by NMB, which were good while they lasted. Over the past 5 years or so, I've been mostly using boards with Cherry MX Blue switches -- assembled by whomever. Those worked fine, too. And lately, in the past month or two, I replaced the one at home with a keyboard that uses Hall effect sensors for each key in place of any kind of conventional electrical switch. It's been fine; in fact, it's been quite lovely so far. It's a joy to type with. --- I haven't named any keyboard makers here except for 1980s-era Chicony and PS/2 era NMB. Some of my keyboards have been good, some have been great, and some others have been trash. That's my background. What's yours? What makes ZSA deserve "so much love"? Can you elaborate?
- __mharrison__ 2mo agoWhy? They brought columnar lately to the mass(es).
- ssl-3 2mo agoSo straight-and-narrow columns of keys are what they're into, and that's a big push that is an important part of what they're doing? (I did look at their website earlier and the details of what I found seemed to get wrapped up in the tiny details of some low-profile keyswitch or other. It's also possible that I am unobservant, stupid, or otherwise inept and that I missed the main concept, but that's what I found and I didn't think it was very interesting.)
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- demibabs 2mo agoGoated domain
- menno-sh 2mo agoHmm, I made it to #4 in the daily challenge on a 14" MacBook keyboard. Surely you can do better, guys.
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- JustinELRoberts 2mo agoI do the daily challenge almost every day - I recommend checking it out!
- albert_e 2mo agoI very much like the forgiving UI -- you can either go back and correct your mistakes or move on with the typing after mistyping a keystroke. We can adapt (steal) this idea (thanks vibe coding) and practice our own topcis of interest and learning daily!
- robbiet480 2mo agoThis makes me wonder: what's your daily driver keyboard? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402769
- squigz 2mo agoMonkeytype is still my favorite https://monkeytype.com/ https://monkeytype.com/
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- nullishdomain 2mo agoGraphite[0] is my keyboard layout of choice for anyone looking to switch. Huge fan! Had previously used QWERTY and Colemak. These types of sites help tremendously when learning a new layout. [0] - https://github.com/rdavison/graphite-layout https://github.com/rdavison/graphite-layout
- baw-bag 2mo agoThe thought of learning a new keyboard is kind of scary. Is there any true difference? 30 years of typing on a QWERTY here. I wonder how long it would take to get to 75WPM on graphite. A decade?
- cynerx 2mo agoProbably around one month. Using Colemak Mod-DH on an external keyboard and QWERTY on my Macbook. My brain is switching automatically, cannot use them in a reverse order.
- nullishdomain 2mo agoNot nearly a decade. There are great resources that start you with just a few keys and add more over time. Once you have all 26 letters, it’s time to move on to MonkeyType or an equivalent. You will absolutely have reduced output for a few weeks. I notice a huge difference compared with QWERTY when typing on a MacBook all day. You should not switch layouts for speed, but rather for comfort. The GitHub link contains a few interesting graphics about efficiency if you’re interested, but the very high-level result is sizable comfort gains.
- opan 2mo ago>I wonder how long it would take to get to 75WPM on graphite. A decade? Assuming you can already type that fast, 3-6 months at most I would think (with daily practice / full immersion). My best speed with QWERTY was 160wpm and I was able to get to 120wpm+ with Dvorak and later Workman in under a year each. One big tip I have is to not avoid typing particular things. Enable the punctuation, symbols, numbers. You're gonna be slow at everything at first, so might as well train in a well-rounded way. A friend of mine chose not to do this and struggles greatly with typing numbers and symbols. monkeytype is my favorite site to train speed, but there are some others that are useful for the first few days as you're drilling where the keys are and getting used to typing common bigrams.
- baw-bag 2mo agoI loved it! As soon as I start to do these things, I get stressed and become much worse! Anyone remember the car game where you raced against others by typing? That was fun but forgotten the link.
- senkora 2mo agoMaybe https://play.typeracer.com https://play.typeracer.com ?
- peesem 2mo agonitrotype?
- tikhonj 2mo agoI had some typing classes in middle school but they never stuck. The only reason I became a reasonably fast and confident typer—which ended up being amazing for everything from work (emails and Slack more than code!) to HN to writing a lot on Quora—was Type Racer :P It's amazing how much easier gamification can make it for me to stick with something.
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- gregsadetsky 2mo agoTwo things I'd love: to try out this keyboard before buying it (I keep repeating myself, but I'd love a retail keyboard trying out store in NYC - Micro Center isn't cutting it) And two - does anyone know of a keyboard that has some-trackpad-like (or pure scrolling..?) device pretty much where the trackpad would be on a laptop? I spend time working on my laptop, get used to scrolling / moving the mouse "under" the keyboard (ie closer to me) using the trackpad, and when I go back to my desk with my full sized keyboard, I see myself reaching for a phantom trackpad. Thanks!
- funnygiraffe 2mo agoMaybe this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589279 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589279
- gregsadetsky 2mo agoBingo!! Thanks a lot. Sold out - ha. It’s too good! :) Can’t wait to try.
- opan 2mo agoWith QMK you can have mousekeys including scrolling in another layer. IME mostly useful when you can't use j/k or pgdn/pgup or similar.
- ssl-3 2mo agoThat's a neat UI. It does some, uh, interesting things with the Dark Reader extension, though, at least with the default light theme darkened by Dark Reader. Errors are displayed. Corrections are highlighted. But there's no cursor shown, and no progress displayed for completed input. It felt very strange typing like that. I somehow managed to get 65 wpm in that mode, but it was weird the whole time -- like my eye/brain combo had to focus on only one word at a time, without any lookahead, since I was typing into the void. It felt arduous in ways that are otherwise difficult to describe. Switching to the site's dark theme and turning off Dark Reader seemed so much better, and was much faster. I got a fairly-lazy 88 wpm on the first go with it running with its intended level of feedback. But the interesting part is that I was able to notice that my eyes wander all over the place while typing. I found that I looking several words ahead, and scanning the context, and watching the progress, and that my eyes don't move linearly at all. I suppose that's a thing that I've been doing for decades. But I definitely never noticed it until Dark Reader made this website unintentionally run on hard mode and thereby provided a contrasting experience. Weird stuff. I'm reluctant to call it a bug; instead, it seems like maybe it is a feature that could be further developed. It might help to train for accurately entering long arbitrary phrases (like passphrases, license keys, and credit card numbers) where visual feedback is deliberately limited.
- whartung 2mo agoIt says I'm terrible. But I've known that for a long time.
- SoftTalker 2mo ago11 wpm 19.80% Accuracy 320 Errors Thinkpad keyboard.
- NooneAtAll3 2mo agoI wish it told how fast/slow the result is compared to other people
- Zizizizz 2mo agohttps://monkeytype.com/ https://monkeytype.com/
- absoluteunit1 2mo agoIf you want something with more advanced analytics that also targets your weak points, give https://typequicker.com https://typequicker.com a try.
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- nesk_ 2mo agohttps://keybr.com https://keybr.com is also a really good tool to learn typing on your keyboard.
- newtwentysix 2mo agothis one is good. I tried now. thanks
- skavi 2mo agothis one actually did get me typing faster. and also helped me get over my desire to look at the keyboard. it’s been a while since I used it but I recall it being good at targeting certain patterns that you struggled with.
- brewmarche 2mo agoI’ve used https://www.typingclub.com https://www.typingclub.com for learning touch typing from scratch. It has worked really well for me
- pizzafeelsright 2mo agoOxford comma but not double space after a sentence? You have until overmorrow to correct it.
- NDlurker 2mo agoAnyone remember Mario Teaches Typing?
- felooboolooomba 2mo agoToday’s typ.ing: Speed: 420wpm Accuracy: 100.00% Training Set: Onboarding Keyboard damage 12% Capitalization: Numbers: Punctuation:
- projektfu 2mo agoI enjoyed playing with this. I should do some typing tutor on my new keyboard so that I can get faster at using it. I think a typing tutor is better if it can re-sync when you have an insertion or deletion error. That is, if you miss one letter but everything else is correct, or if you mash an extra letter but everything else is correct, that is one error, not a full list of errors. It is distracting to have to look at your output to make sure you didn't make one of these mistakes.
- amluto 2mo agoThis, like almost every typing training system out there, suffers from my pet peeve: if you type an extra character or miss a character, then you end up with a series of “mistakes” instead of just one. Why don’t these programs use some form of edit distance? I’m sure that one could come up with a way to freeze the edit beyond some distance from the caret to reduce the potential for spooky UI action at a distance.
- hombre_fatal 2mo agoI think what makes that so annoying is having to backtrack which is super jarring. One idea is letting you press enter to jump to the start of the next word and immediately resume.
- lukeschlather 2mo agoMy muscle memory usually presses ctrl-backspace when I mistype a word, which typ.ing actually handles better than most typing software, which is to say ctrl-backspace does what I expect, it deletes the word and I can retype it, which is what I do normally.
- SeanLuke 2mo agoI was trained to type two spaces after a period: it's in my muscle memory. This website treats it as a mistake. No typing teacher would downgrade for that. It's awful.
- rossant 2mo agoTwo spaces after a period is correct?
- rererereferred 2mo agoIt was on typewriters because the fonts were monospace so the period would have some extra space to its left, the double space after it made it easier to see at a glance where a new sentence occurs.
- pianoben 2mo ago96.5% accuracy at 85 WPM. Would've been better except that they had _one_ space after periods and I'm still used to two - the UI didn't really indicate it very well for me. Full stops should mean something dammit! (/s)
- phyzix5761 2mo agoKeystroke dynamics are a type of behavioral biometric identification system.
- vedmed 2mo agoI would not object to seeing my statistics compared to the statistics of others, what percentile I am in, what percentile I am in based on referrer source and operating system.
- itake 2mo agoI wish you could choose the language. I ended up building my own tool to practice typing in Vietnamese: https://www.kcoleman.me/vietnamese-typing/ https://www.kcoleman.me/vietnamese-typing/
- hliyan 2mo agoI do love the fact that I can use this interface without touching the mouse or touchpad. Between the /, Enter and Esc keys, I can pretty much get to anywhere within the application. Even within settings, you can just start typing "Line..." and it will take you to Line Width setting. Wish more applications did this. Easier to develop, easier on the resources, and easier to automate. Alas, it doesn't help maximize engagement metrics, so most consumer applications never do.
- kqp 2mo agomonkeytype.com is the gold standard here. Typing tests are a dime a dozen because you can make a bad one in 15 minutes, but Monkeytype seems to actually be made with care. Never tried typ.ing before but it seems better than the cheapo ones, but less polished than Monkeytype. It adds keyboard navigation and code snippet presets and syntax highlighting over Monkeytype, which may be why it’s posted here.
- novoreorx 2mo ago[dead]
- wieczorek1990 2mo agoPreferring monkeytype.com
- utopiah 2mo agoFirst time I notice the error as superscript, very nice.
- ymc9 2mo agoI used to be a very fast (and accurate) typer, and the very first thing that makes me aware of aging is the drop of typing performance.
- Jcampuzano2 2mo agoI wouldn't say that I'm up there in age, as I'm only 33, but I do think that I typed away faster when I was about 18 to 19 and gaming every day. But that the way that I typed led to issues with my wrists and hands later on. I never had any dedicated typing classes like I know some younger people get now (like my younger brothers), so I just learned by doing and while I could touch type I had a bastardized technique that had my hands flying around all over the keyboard. Nowadays, I type around 20-30 WPM lower, going down from closer to 120 to 140 to closer to consistently 90 to 100, but my technique is completely different than the past.
- rav3ndust 2mo agodaily challenge and keyboard yoga were very cool. thanks for sharing, bookmarked.
- vegnus 2mo agoToday’s typ.ing: Speed: 127wpm Accuracy: 100.00% Training Set: English, most common 100 words Capitalization: Numbers: Punctuation: Lifetime Characters: 10982 Finally
- Mariaq 2mo agoLike it
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