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This, 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
by amluto 2mo ago
This, 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.
- natebc 2mo ago[dead]
- yencabulator 2mo agoIt was never "correct" any more than a single space, it was a convention followed in some places, and not followed in others. Two spaces in monospace font is larger than the typical historical typeset sentence spacing, so it's always been somewhat misguided.
- mathfailure 2mo agoSir, this is a mistake. You've been trained by mistake to produce mistakes. We know it's awful.
- UI_at_80x24 2mo agoNo it is not a mistake. It is not fashionable in digital media thanks I believe to twitters character limits. Look at any printed media from the last 100 years. Printing presses, books, magazines, newspaper. A double space offers a visual clue where a 'mental breath' takes place.
- jasperry 2mo agoIt's true that the space between sentences should be larger than the space between words, as it is in properly typeset text, though not twice as large. Using two spaces is a way to approximate that when you only have monospaced fonts. It's no longer encouraged in electronic text when using proportional fonts because the rendering software _should_ adjust the spacing itself. edit: monospaced, not proportional.
- Ferret7446 1mo agoIt "should" adjust, but in practice most software do not render spaces after periods properly. There is no in band signal to distinguish periods for sentence ends vs e.g. Mr. Thus there is a clear argument for double spacing in all contexts
- skobes 2mo ago> Look at any printed media from the last 100 years. I have, and it contradicts your point. The single space is the nearly universal standard in modern print media.
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- ffsm8 2mo ago> This, like almost every typing training system out there, suffers from my pet peeve Did you know about https://zty.pe/ https://zty.pe/ It's a pretty old one at this point, but fantastic implementation
- murzynalbinos 2mo agoThat’s brilliant, thanks, I didn’t know that before
- jaronp 2mo agoi may actually learn to touch type with this 0_o
- bko 2mo agoI really liked typing of the dead. I feel like many years ago I found an online version you can play in a browser but now I have trouble finding it.
- subeadia 2mo agohttps://retroonline.net/Windows/The%20Typing%20of%20the%20Dead https://retroonline.net/Windows/The%20Typing%20of%20the%20De...
- squigz 2mo agoI don't really get this. This is how it should work, no? The point is to type the word correctly; if you miss a letter or mistype, and keep typing, then yeah, it's several mistakes in a row?
- hnlmorg 2mo agoLetters in a row maybe. But one mistyped word shouldn’t cause subsequent words to appear mistyped
- squigz 2mo agoThat doesn't seem to happen on typ.ing or really any other typing site I know of.
- eviks 2mo agoNo, the point is to type the word a you'd do in real life, that is, make the mistake, finish word/sentence/thought and then correct. And the correction would be changing just the first mistake
- squigz 2mo ago> the point is to type the word a you'd do in real life, I don't really know about that. I think the point is to practice typing, and that may or may not reflect how you type in everyday life. For example, most people don't spend their time typing random words without numbers or punctuation :) In any case, are you saying that if you correct a word during one of these tests, it simply should not count as a mistake? Because if not, then I don't see what the problem is again - typ.ing and most other sites note corrections, and distinguish between corrected and uncorrected mistakes. If so, I guess we might just disagree on what the point of these exercises is.
- IceDane 2mo agoI don't see how this can be so difficult to understand. If the second word in my first sentence were misspelled, does that make every other word or letter that comes after wrong?
- blehn 2mo agoThe bigger problem is that it doesn't help you learn the correct finger positions