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Improve your touch typing
- briantmaurer 11y agoI have used Keybr for only a few hours and have already seen a big improvement in my wpm (compared to other touch typing resources I have tried). The key feature is that it targets your weak keys and key combinations and forces you to practice those repeatedly.
- rmxt 11y agoThis is a real throwback to many days spent "playing" Mavis Beacon in computer class. It's interesting to see the breakdown in speed on a per key basis: it really makes you conscious of the keys between your hands when you are in the home row. However, no matter what happens I still have brain farts when trying to type out nonsensical words, or words that are close to real words but still nonsense. I got really locked up on "ohioh" (not "onion") and the speed scores reflected that.
- briantmaurer 11y agoI agree, it took me a while to get somewhat used to fake words. Conveniently, in the settings there is a way to set a source. Recently I have been using articles (via url) as the source ~2 times a week. This has helped me improve speed and accuracy (there were a handful of real words which I consistently mis-typed) without fake word headaches!
- JoshTriplett 11y agoWould be nice if the site defaulted to a source that tended to provide real words rather than artificial ones (or real but obscure ones).
- jff 11y agoInteresting, Twiddler uses this technology to teach you how to type on their chording keyboard: http://twiddler.tekgear.com/tutor/twiddler.html http://twiddler.tekgear.com/tutor/twiddler.html
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- angersock 11y agoInteresting thing that I've noticed--not all programmers are touch-typists, but almost all serious gamers are.
- Raphmedia 11y agoYes! And my method of touch typing shows that. My left pinky is ready for the special keys, unused for much of the typing, usually curled toward ctrl. My left hand resting position is on ASD, ready to press W at any time. My left thumb will always be resting on spacebar.
- angersock 11y agoHah! That's almost exactly how I do that, especially the spacebar bit. :)
- eterm 11y agoActually this tutor made me realise that I use my index fingers for ~90% of the keys, middle finger for the rest of the alphabetic keys and don't use my ring fingers at all when I type "naturally". I find the proscribed touch-typing method of using all the fingers I found painful after a few minutes.
- ionised 11y agoI found the same.
- xienze 11y agoI think it's an exceedingly small number of programmers that can't touch-type. I mean, you're really in the wrong line of work if you can't do it. I've met exactly one hunt and peck programmer, and I mean like agonizingly slow hunt and peck. Suddenly his lack of productivity made sense to me.
- ionised 11y agoThis comment really irks me the wrong way, and actually pisses me off a bit. I'm a dev and cannot touch type. 2/3 of the team here can't touch type properly either it seems. Seems I should quit my job then? In a test I just took I averaged 86 words per minute, that's using just my index, middle and third fingers and occasionally looking down at the keyboard. I don't position my fingers along the home row, because doing so just leads me to type at a snails pace and consistently make mistakes. I've tried to practice it and I just don't improve. Luckily programming aptitude has fuck all to do with how fast you can type.
- codezero 11y agoVery neat tool. I especially like the analytics, and the heatmap of my hit/miss ratio :)
- mangeletti 11y agoOn this webpage, in order to correct an incorrectly typed letter, you have to press backspace, type the previous letter again, then type the correct letter you meant to type before pressing backspace. This completely breaks the normal flow of typing. In order to acclimate to this, you will need to learn how to type incorrectly...
- JoshTriplett 11y agoI very quickly hit that as well, and it took a few tries to figure out the behavior and why it was completely breaking my expectations.
- littleajax 11y agoGo to settings > miscellaneous > and uncheck 'Stop cursor on error' That'll fix the issue and let you type properly.
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- bballard 11y agoThis should really be the default and only setting. It's very annoying and incorrect otherwise.
- xrjn 11y agoI have to agree with bballard, this is incredibly frustrating, and had I not have read your comments I would have abandoned the site. Please make this the default - many people are used to typing this way.
- dragonwriter 11y agoIs it trying to approximate the correction-tape workflow from a manual typewriter?
- mixedmath 11y agoI noticed something was weird about that, but I couldn't figure out the exact mechanic. Perhaps the intended lesson is to correct mistakes later (i.e. not now). This is how I was first taught years ago, even though it is not how I normally type things out now.
- carsongross 11y agoAwesome service! Pair with Das Keyboard for ultimate in masochistic fun: http://www.daskeyboard.com/daskeyboard-4C-ultimate/ http://www.daskeyboard.com/daskeyboard-4C-ultimate/
- lfowles 11y agoThis would work pretty well for learning an alternative/chorded keyboard especially. (Although the graphic would be wrong shrug but that's true of almost all typing tutors) http://www.alphagrips.com/ http://www.alphagrips.com/
- angersock 11y agodose action shots tho
- CrystalGamma 11y agoI'm actually typing this on a Das Keyboard 4 Ultimate (no C) which I specifically bought to learn typing without looking on the keys, because I don't have the discipline to use apps like the OP. Also, thank you for your link. When I need another keyboard, I'll consider the compact version. The tenkeys are really just a dead weight (literally, given how heavy Das Keyboard is :D) for me. Good that it has media keys too, I could never live without them (especially volume obviously; sadly GNOME has a bug that makes play/next/prev useless after a few suspend-wake cycles).
- Nadya 11y agoI think I'm one of the few people in the world who types better on a Rubber Dome keyboard than Cherry switches. And I type 140-160 WPM. Cherry switches and the sensitivity behind them slow me down as I must be a lot more precise with my keystrokes to prevent accidental keystrokes (and thus more typos, more time wasting pressing ctrl+backspace)
- ggreer 11y agoUsing this tutor was an incredibly frustrating experience for me. I blazed through all the letters until Q. After five minutes of typing "squall" and "qual", my left hand hurt and I gave up. Also, correcting doesn't seem to work like any typing tutor or text editor I know of. Every time I hit backspace and typed the correct letter, it said I typed the wrong letter. Apparently, backspace acts like some weird double-backspace. You have to retype the letter before the mistyped one as well.
- lqdc13 11y agoSame thing here. "Q" is just out of the way so I can't go past 36 WPM for that letter. Backspace functionality is frustrating as hell. The algorithm settled in the local minimum. But after doing that for a good 20 minutes, they gave up on teaching me how to type "Q".
- jimminy 11y agoI had the same issue, regarding the Q section. Part of the issue was that Z comes right before that and was filled with one-sided words like 'dazed'(5/5 left-handed strokes) and 'sized'(4/5 LHS's). And then you qet to Q and you're now forcing yourself to go in the opposite direction with a fatigued hand.
- Aoyagi 11y agoI'll make do with physical keyboard, thanks.
- CrystalGamma 11y agoYou do know that the term "touch typing" predates the invention of the touchscreen by decades?
- Aoyagi 11y agoWhoops, my bad. Apologies. In my defence, the site didn't load at first. I'll be in the corner.
- gepoch 11y agoI would love to see this support numbers and symbols, as well. I have a sneaking suspicion that would play very nicely with the developer crowd. I wonder if they just don't fit as well into their pseudoword generation scheme. There's an option to enable punctuation, but nothing for symbols or numbers. Not going after the full keyboard seems like a missed opportunity.
- infogulch 11y agoYes! I've been able to touch type normal text for years now, but symbols and numbers have always been an exception. Which can be especially painful with all the symbol-heavy languages. Braces, brackets, and parenthesis especially.
- eterm 11y agoI like the way it builds up through the sequence of most common to least common (in English) letters ETAOIN... instead of focusing just on "home row" keys like Mavis Beacon used to, which I always found artificially hard because it meant lots of side-ways combinations. Both of course have their limitations in terms of appropriate words or chunks however.
- mightybyte 11y agoThis is looking nice, but I am frustrated because I have yet to see what I think is a properly designed set of introductory exercises. IMO there are two big issues for people learning to touch type: learning where the keys are and developing the motor coordination to move the fingers from the home row to the non-home-row keys and back again. Every typing program I've seen seems to focus on the former and not the later. This site teaches the letters "eaint" first. I think it's better to introduce the home row first. Don't worry that you can't type much English with the home row (unless you're using another layout like dvorak). Just get them good with different combinations of "asdfjkl;". Then once you have that, you introduce new keys by having them practice the jump from the correct home row key typed with the same finger to the new key and back. Let's say we're introducing 'e' next. The exercise would be something like this: ded ede dde eed eded dede deeded edded ... This gets them familiar with precisely the right motor recruitment pattern. The point of this exercise isn't to achieve the absolute maximum speed. It is to exercise the movement pattern of moving a certain finger from the home row to the key and back. Obviously you need to make sure they're keeping their hands on the home row and not typing d and e with two different fingers to go faster on this particular exercise. But that shouldn't be hard to do in your instructions. You can start to dissuade this in your next exercises by bringing in the home row letters typed with the adjacent fingers. fesd sefd sdfesd fdsefd ... I think this kind of exercise pattern should be used to introduce all the keys. Once the student has established these motor patterns in the process of learning where each key is, then you can go on to English text. Of course you can put English into these exercises when possible, but not to the detriment of the main point which is motor movement patterns. If you already know how to touch-type and are learning a new keyboard layout, then obviously you already know the motor recruitment patterns and the approach used by this web app is great.
- kainsavage 11y agoBiggest annoyance with this software - backspace is, apparently, something that I alone exercise. If you type an incorrect letter, it simply doesn't advance the cursor rather than advancing the cursor and marking the letter as incorrect. Since I am already a pretty good touch-typist, I routinely KNOW I have hit an incorrect key, hit backspace, and correct it and progress with the word. However, very often I will do something like spelling "icnorrect" from feeling, then hitting backspace exactly eight times and re-type "ncorrect"... which is simply not supported by this software.
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- Cushman 11y agoI had the same complaint, but there's actually a setting for that. Uncheck "stop cursor on error" under Miscellaneous.
- learnstats2 11y agoIf you want to teach people to type for real, this should be on by default. And, it should move the cursor without moving the text.
- Cushman 11y agoI agree for skilled typists, but if you were just trying to learn the keys at first I could see wrangling backspace being more distraction than learning.
- Jemmeh 11y agoI disagree. In real word processors the cursor would move forward and people should get used to that, instead of having to learn one thing here and something else in the rest of the world.
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- DrPhish 11y agoBest way to learn to touch type: 1) Buy a sliding under desk keyboard tray 2) Leave it under the desk while you type. Don't slide it out 3) a few weeks/months of pain 4) perfect touch typing You will be shocked how often you were unconsciously looking down at the keyboard as you typed
- agumonkey 11y agoGreat point, peripheral vision helps you find the location of a key instead of getting it from memory. Also, typing blind helps you learn how to be sure of where you are in the sentencem I'm actually typing this without looking and it's easier and faster than with my eyes open.
- clebio 11y agoOr a blank keyboard (e.g. Das Keyboard). That was why I bought it, and is what eventually helped me stop peeking at the keyboard.
- Istof 11y agoor just add a non-sliding shelf under your desk to remove the temptation from sliding
- dragonwriter 11y agoI think the best way to learn to touch-type is to actually replicate typewriter-style touch typing exercises: get a source document, put it up somewhere convenient to your workspace where you can comfortably look at it but not your monitor or keyboard at the same time, and type from that into a text editor or word processor window (something that doesn't autocorrect as you type, so if it has that feature, disable it.) Time yourself on a particular work, and go back and verify that its error-free once you are done. Rinse, repeat.
- ArturT 11y agoIs anyone use Vim without touch typing? I learned touch typing with typing.com course and the main reason was that I wanted to use Vim more efficient.
- LanceH 11y agoI hate Vi because of touch typing. hjkl for the movement keys is one off from the home row jkl; for one. Second, if I've turned off the system bell and I'm touch typing but somehow I'm in command mode, I'll look back at a completely destroyed buffer. Touch typing is as much about not looking at the output as it is not looking at the keyboard.
- ninjakeyboard 11y agoHOW DOES IT KNOW I'M USING COLEMAK!
- nathanb 11y agoMy complaint is that it will often give you words that are nearly English words (but not actually). If you really want to type quickly, you will sort of type one word at a time rather than one letter at a time (time yourself typing an English phrase rather than words composed of random letters). I kept getting errors because I would type the words my fingers thought was coming, not the actual non-word I was supposed to type.
- ansible 11y agoYes, I type words, not letters. So I saw 'pon' and tried to type 'upon'. That and the not-supporting the backspace thing got me a bit. Still, its a great website design, very easy to get started.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> Yes, I type words, not letters. So I saw 'pon' and tried to type 'upon'. "pon" is an English word, its a (perhaps rare, now) shortened form of "upon" (through age, among other things, it is established both with and without an apostrophe.)
- devindotcom 11y agoI've only ever seen it as 'pon, which like wav'ring or 'neath, doesn't indicate to me a new word, just a poetical elision of an unwanted syllable. At any rate, word or not-word, it's rare enough that I'd think it an error if I encountered it in a typing improvement program from 2015.
- Qwertious 11y agoIt might be a word in English[dictionary], but it's not a word in English[used]. On that subject, what does the word "wyrm" mean?
- giarc 11y agoSounds/Looks like the name of a tech startup. :)
- neovive 11y agoFor programming practice, I've used typing.io (it was announced on HN a few years ago [1]). I'm especially error-prone on the right-pinky keys, which are critical when coding (enter, semi-colon, forward- and back-slash). Typing.io tends to work more of these keys in the code keys. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4419030 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4419030
- dkhenry 11y agoI started with keybr.com just to learn touch typing, however I quickly found that you can upload your own words, I got my hands on some source code and I was off to the races.
- darkstar999 11y agoPretty cool how I can emulate a different layout! Maybe I will finally convert to Dvorak one of these days.
- ukoki 11y agoOn the off-chance anyone wants to do this with Victorian erotic fiction, I made a similar game a couple of weeks ago: http://gentletouch.peterellisjones.com/ http://gentletouch.peterellisjones.com/
- hydandata 11y agoI learned to touch type using this website. Now I am learning Colemak there as well. There is also a setting for Dvorak and ability to enable punctuation and other characters. I find it really good for practice. The not-quite-correctly-spelled words actually force me out of comfort zone and that is exactly what I need for practice. Since English is not my native language I also use Type Racer but find that Keybr forces me to focus on typing correctly and fast better than other websites by giving me a typing score along with the speed measurement. The statistics and the dark theme are also really nice features since I use this for hours.
- emrekzd 11y agoThanks for building this web application. I think these should be improved for a more effective teaching experience: 1) The app should offer guidance on which finger should be used to reach each key. Initially learners are more open to developing wrong habits and using particular fingers (they feel more comfortable with) to reach keys. 2) There should be a better flow for communicating progress. What is my overall progress? Am I assessed for all the keys? what are my strengths / weaknesses? what should I work on? etc. 3) I think there should be a language support. Typing words in a language become automatic as you do them more often, for example the stop words that come up very often in English are usually typed really fast by people, because they have memorized the sequence by having typed them thousands of times.
- dkhenry 11y agoI have been using keybr.com since I ordered my Ergodox and its been awesome, I have even made the top ten a few times. My typing speed have gone from 40wpm to 110wpm and you really notice it when programming or emailing or IM's with coworkers. The next step is to fire it up while having a conversation and try to maintain good typing form while talking to someone. Doing that slows me down to a snail's pace, but its also something I find myself doing all the time as I work out code with others.
- Glyptodon 11y agoI literally can not speak while typing. :/ I'd be pretty happy even if I could do so slowly. Apparently it can be somewhat funny because it's so hard-coded I'm not always conscious of it.
- mightybyte 11y agoFeynman noticed things similar to this. It's shows a really interesting picture of how different people think things differently. He discusses it here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj4y0EUlU-Y&feature=youtu.be&t=143 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj4y0EUlU-Y&feature=youtu.be...
- Glyptodon 11y agoTwo things: for some reason when it first focused on the letter 'Q' it made my hand sore (my speed also fell a lot). Not sure if there's something ergonomically problematic with the early 'Q' words or it's just me or what. The other thing I wonder is if that style of word display like speed readers use where each word shows up by itself in the middle might be more effective. There were definitely times that I felt like my line scanning was delaying somehow.
- fl0wenol 11y agoIt uses a lot of words with 'q' and 's' it seems when it introduces it, and these are typed with your pinky and ring fingers, which are the weakest fingers on what is probably your non-dominant hand.
- songzme 11y agoIt would be phenomenal to be able to change the keyboard... This tool would make learning dvorak a whole lot easier.
- inclemnet 11y agoYou can change the keyboard in the settings panel. Apparently both colemak and dvorak are supported.
- mstechfreak22 11y agoYou can learn dvorak by using http://www.typingstudy.com http://www.typingstudy.com ;) helped me a lot
- mrzool 11y agoGreat analytics and interesting approach overall--what's the deal with that 9px font-size everywhere though? I might learn how to touch-type but I'm afraid I'll lose my eyesight in the process.
- abecedarius 11y agoThe graphs it can show you are good, but don't tell you about your accuracy, which is probably my biggest problem with my own typing.
- egonschiele 11y agoUsed it for 20 minutes and bookmarked so I can use it more. Great tool!
- texan 11y agoI would like to see an option to type in languages other that read from right to left. My English typing is alright but when I have to deal with foreign characters, Arabic or Hebrew, it really slows me down. Is that a possibility, or would the algorithms and systems in place not work with those languages?
- sriram_sun 11y agoAlso try GNU Typist http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/ http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/. I learned to touch type using this software around 2000. It was really good. Haven't had to look at the keyboard after that.
- davidrusu 11y agoThis might be of interest to people here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/type-the-web/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/type-the-web/ I built this addon for people who want to improve their typing while reading the websites they usually do. It lets you select some text (like the inspect element selector) and do a typing test starting at that point on the page.
- sozforex 11y agoAwesome, thanks!
- pkamb 11y agoTheir finger diagram makes the same mistake that most do: outward slanting finger columns of Q-A-Z, W-S-X, E-D-C, R-F-V, T-G-B. http://i.imgur.com/9X0nFgv.png http://i.imgur.com/9X0nFgv.png The Q-A-Z finger layout requires extremely un-ergonomic compromises: a bent left wrist and/or using side-to-side finger movements rather than "curls". A simple switch to using the columns Q-A-Shift, W-S-Z, E-D-X, etc. puts your left hand and fingers into a far more comfortable position. Neutral inward-slanted wrists and naturally curling fingers. I suppose E-S-Z might be even better. I'm very surprised that the "standard" Q-A-Z finger placement for the left hand is still taught. There is a far more comfortable alternative available on any hardware keyboard. I'm curious if there are any other W-S-Zers who type the same way I do.
- latortuga 11y agoI'm astounded by the comment because, until right at this moment, I had not considered how I type these letters. I've been touch typing for 16 years give or take and I just now realized that I don't actually use my left ring finger for any key on the bottom row - I type both Z and left shift with my pinky and do W-S with ring and E-D-X with middle. I guess you can count me as half-following the more ergonomic method :)
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- simias 11y agoHeh, I'm glad I read your comment. I'm in the same boat as yours, when I learned touchtyping I wound the outward slant extremely uncomfortable on regular keyboards (it works better on "matrix" keyboards though). I naturally ended up using the finger placement you describe.
- pkamb 11y agoYeah, that's what I find so funny about "column" keyboards such as: http://www.typematrix.com/ http://www.typematrix.com/ http://www.keyboard.io/ http://www.keyboard.io/ Standard keyboards already have pretty good columns when you use a neutral slanted hand position. The right side especially, and the left isn't bad as long as you use the W-S-Z offset bottom row.
- AustinG08 11y agoI would love it if the multiplayer would eventually pair you with faster typers.
- ElijahLynn 11y agoWish there was an option to pay to remove ads. I have adblock on and I get an nag ad saying "View ad. Be upset. Keep us running. You may not like this ad, but it supports the developer and keeps this site free." which is fine but please offer me the ability to pay to remove them. Nothing is more distracting when trying to learn touch typing than ads flashing all around. I initially learned on TypingWeb.com (I think that is right) and keybr.com beats it in many ways. The extra book marklet to turn any web page into a lesson is the 1st, the 2nd is the ability to upload your own text. A 3rd I would like is to give the URL of a Github repo and select a tag then you would be able to type every single file of the repo. It would keep track of your progress for that tag. You could even compete with others for typing say the entire Drupal 7.32 release etc. I had bought a domain of doing something like this a while ago but only becuase nobody else had done it. keybr.com seems like it has what it takes to do this and I am going to just see if I can get the owner/maintainer to do it instead!
- frankacter 11y agoIf you are using AdBlock you can use the element hider helper to hide the div for you. https://adblockplus.org/en/elemhidehelper#installation https://adblockplus.org/en/elemhidehelper#installation
- ElijahLynn 11y agoYeah, I could do that but I do want to help support the site. We have an open discussion about charging a subscription as an alternative. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/keybr/PsYcvOkJyWE https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/keybr/PsYcvOkJyWE
- fl0wenol 11y agoUsing this tool made me realize something; I don't move my fingers from the home row in a traditional way anymore. Depending on the words I'm typing in typical English text, I have a tendency to use different fingers (and even different hands) for letters towards the center of the keyboard; whatever is easiest/fastest for the words. Did anyone else notice this going through the automated ramp up?
- karmakaze 11y agoThis is something I've noticed even before this tutor. Sometimes with the central letters and also with punctuation/digits. Probably has something to with coding before learning to type--higher use of symbols. I've also noticed that I have varying shift key usage. Sometimes using the same hand as the shifted key. What I'd like to know is if I would be a better typist with more consistent patterns.
- liquidcool 11y agoThis game was posted back to HN some time ago; I find it a lot more fun, if not as instructive. http://phoboslab.org/ztype/ http://phoboslab.org/ztype/
- kentt 11y agoOh, that was fun. Thanks for the link.
- 6d0debc071 11y agoIt's an interesting approach, and I feel like it's onto something with the algorithm. Bit like the flashcard programs in that regard. It might be worth generating words in a natural language structure. I don't know about others but I tend to read a little ahead of what I'm typing. Pick up the words rather than the letters. When the words are fairly rare, (lots of these words are, at least for me,) and don't seem to follow a linguistic structure, this reduces to reading letter by letter fairly quickly and then searching the string for the next letter. Like, normally my brain would be going 'This is a thing and my fingers are just filling in in the background. They're not suffering from my conscious attention.' And at the moment it's going 'o-r-g-o-t' ... 'e-u-g-e' ... 'g-e-r'
- arfar 11y agoI keep getting: "Cannot read records from database Because: A mutation operation was attempted on a database that did not allow mutations." and nothing loads past that. Firefox 38.0.1 on Windows 7
- wz1000 11y agoSame with Firefox 37.0.2 on Arch Linux
- johnong 11y agoWhen I was in high school, my sister was learning to type because of a secretarial course she was taking. And there is a lesson to type "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog". This string will cover the A to Z. Do this thousand of times and I assure you, your typing will greatly improve, don't need no software!
- mikerichards 11y agoI don't consider you a touch-typist unless you're doing modal typing...as a programmer.
- mitul_45 11y agoIt lost me when I saw those infinite number of bubbles for tutorial!
- aliakhtar 11y agoDoes touch typing make a difference in terms of comfort / less stress on fingers / being better for you?
- Kiro 11y agoI know touch typing. My problem is correct fingering. I type fast but mainly use my index and middle fingers. How can I improve this?
- jedberg 11y agoGet a split keyboard. I had the same problem until I switched to a Microsoft split keyboard. It forced me real quick to learn to type with the right fingers, because the wrong fingers don't reach correctly.
- sancha_ 11y agoI learned it using typingmaster pro, a program for 30 bucks. It starts by teaching you the keys under your index fingers. Then additional keys for your middle fingers, so on and so forth. It shows you which key is supposed to be typed with which finger. Of course you have to make sure that you use your fingers correctly. I was already typing with five to seven fingers, but training with the program for about two weeks, everyday 30 minutes, greatly improved my typing, now I use 7-10 fingers. Although I still use my index in middle fingers to often.
- mightybyte 11y agoSee my other comment here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9578463 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9578463 Since I wrote that comment I discovered that the GNU typing program called gtypist appears to use an approach close to the one I describe there. You might try that one.
- yAnonymous 11y agoWhenever you find yourself typing a word incorrectly, delete and retype it. It will take some time, but that's the only way to lose the habbit.
- mstechfreak22 11y agoTry http://www.typingstudy.com http://www.typingstudy.com to improve your touch typing. it was very useful for me when I started using colemak and dvorak
- dsego 11y agotypingclub.com is much better.
- tentorange 11y agoIs anyone having problems with their ö,ä,ü's, too? I cannot configure my keyboard in any fashion to recognize my german special characters. Is there a wy to fix this?
- ancis 11y agoI have the same problem (keyboard layout: German/Germany): ö is mapped to ü ä is correct ü is mapped to ß ß is mapped to - ^ is mapped to ö # is mapped to <
- tentorange 11y agoDifferent problem, actually. These letters are not even 'calibrated' in the application. I tried contacting the developer but got no response.
- ionised 11y agoApparently I'm useless at touch typing. I can barely break 15 words per minute on this thing without making mistakes after 30 minutes versus 86 wpm using my normal style, which involves me using my index and middle fingers and occasionally looking at the keyboard. Shame, as I wouldn;t mind actually learning to touch type properly considering I'm a dev.
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- greggyb 11y agoWhy do all typing programs force you to type in line with the text you are copying? Either one mistake propagates and you can ruin an entire line by double typing some letter or the thing blocks until you hit the correct one. Why is there not just a sample text and a simple text box that you type the entire sample into? Then your product can be diffed against the source and an accuracy rating calculated? This actually matches the normal typing experience.