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My 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 on
by nathanb 11y ago
My 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. :)
- mod 11y agoIt's sometimes used for mob names in video games, where it is interchangeable with "worm." Edit: Apparently I'm wrong (it's not interchangeable for worm), and it means snake/serpent.
- Narishma 11y agoDragons, not worms or snakes.
- scrollaway 11y agoWyrms are dragons, or similar creatures of legend. You'll encounter them pretty commonly in video games. This is a mana wyrm from Warcraft: http://huangstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/WoWBurningCrusade_ManaWyrm.jpg http://huangstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/WoWBurningCrusade_... And this is a wyrm from the Final Fantasy universe: http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/ffxi/images/e/e9/Wyrm.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20070602135151 http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/ffxi/images/e/e9/Wyrm.jp... I'll let you google some more. :)
- e12e 11y agoÆfter ðám wordum wyrm yrre cwóm After those words the wrathful wyrm came, atol inwitgæst óðre síðe awful cruel visitor a second time, fýrwylmum fáh fíonda níosian with hostile, gleaming flood of fire to seek his foes láðra manna·sydaudio líg ýðum for· the hated humans; the flame came forth in waves, born bord wið rond· byrne ne meahte burned shield to the boss; the byrnie could not geongum gárwigan géoce gefremman to the young spear- fighter lend support ac se maga geonga maéges scyld but the young man, under his kinsman's shield elne geéode þá his ágen wæs courageously advanced, when his own was glédum forgrunden. Þá gén gúðcyning consumed by fire. -- http://www.heorot.dk/beowulf-rede-text.html http://www.heorot.dk/beowulf-rede-text.html
- 300bps 11y agoI type 142 WPM on average. I think the lack of real English words is a structural flaw of this application. To get really fast typing speed, you need to develop muscle memory for words not just letters. For example, when I type the word "complete" I don't think "c", "o", "m", etc. I literally just bolt out the word complete without even thinking about it. I don't believe there is any other way to be able to type more than 2 words per second. This might be useful to get you to a certain level of moderate proficiency but I believe it will hurt you at higher levels.
- thedufer 11y agoIt uses a lot of uncommon words (and at least some proper nouns - small cities and such), but I have yet to see something that's not a word. Also, it gets better once you get through calibrating a few letters. There just aren't that many common words that use only the 5 letters it starts out with.
- garduque 11y agoThis is the last set I had: ven␣yearly␣ter␣timentain␣him␣they␣brokent␣clar␣wers␣quest␣wils␣comewhat␣lead␣who␣the␣luctive␣wills␣missue␣and␣the␣advant␣edmunion␣that␣suffect␣who␣the There seems to be at least a handful of made up words in there.
- jeorgun 11y agoWould it be possible to edit this comment and stick that in a code box or something? It's breaking the page width.
- developer1 11y agoCan you please edit your comment to add some spaces? This comment makes the comment section horizontally scroll and very difficult to read other comments. Why doesn't HN force wrap long lines? :/
- e12e 11y agoArguably, hn should break up long "words" outside of "code"-blocks. Just stick in a few zero width space[1] U+200B/ or soft-hypens[2] U+00AD/­. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_space http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_space [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_hyphen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_hyphen
- yAnonymous 11y agoI think for practicing it's better to not rely on muscle memory.
- e12e 11y agoNot if you want to improve your muscle memory, which after a while becomes the point of continued practice. Unless you're training to transcribe cipher text (truly random sequences). I haven't seen any research specifically for typing -- but I think it stands to reason that we use word-images when typing, just as we do when reading, listening and speaking. Once we become proficient at using typing to communicate.