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Re: Show HN: I made a game to improve my typing speed

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Post by dwringer »

throw1234651234 wrote: post #5

That's great, but the question of the decade is still what finger to use on the spacebar. P.S. Looks like it's also a working memory trainer, since you have to remember which letter chain appeared on the screen first. Still kind of cool.

I had the idea to wait for a few letters so I could type them all at once, but by then, it was too hard to figure out which one had come first (I'd assumed it didn't matter and was just trying left-to-right) before they all reached the bottom and I couldn't catch up.

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Post by BtM909 »

cocoflunchy wrote: post #7

Little tip if anyone is serious about learning to touch type: what worked for me was buying a keyboard with blank caps. Struggle for two weeks and boom! You know how to touch type.

I fillowde yoir tip amd yiu are rigjt. I can ty[e blinmd;y and don't jave to wprry that I ise ghe wrpmg keus.

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Post by evanjrowley »

dingo999 wrote: post #10

Has anyone tried this game that uses typing as part of the game play? https://store.steampowered.com/app/940680/The_Textorcist_The...

1. That looks super fun

2. Reminds me a bit of Typing of The Dead: Overkill[0].

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/246580/The_Typing_of_The_...

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Post by xwowsersx »

crimsoneer wrote: post #6
BossingAround wrote: post #4

Cute! Thanks for sharing! I love the ZSA's tool for learning to type on their keyboards [0] - you might take inspiration from that. I love that they have both prose and programming modes, since you might want to improve your typing speed of non-alphanumerical characters as well. [0] https://www.zsa.io/live-training/

Honestly, ZSA are bloody wonderful. I bought a Moonlander this year and the whole vibe is so cosy

Got one a few months ago. With Oryx to configure it, it's an absolute game changer.

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Post by Retr0id »

hodanli wrote: post #14

I've found that learning to type fast using individual keys doesn't work for me. Instead, I think I learn better using whole words. The flow is more important than the location of each key.

ztype is a similar typing game, but based on whole words: https://zty.pe/

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Post by mtlynch »

This is neat! Thanks for sharing!

One thing I've been looking for (and would pay money for) is a tool/game that helps me improve my typing speed in real-world scenarios, especially writing code and/or editing documents.

I purchased a subscription to keybr,[0] and it's pretty nice, but it assumes you're always typing brand new text linearly. There's no way to practice things like jumping to a previous line, jumping to the beginning of a line, deleting a word.

I recently switched to a Kinesis Advantage keyboard (my first mechanical keyboard), and I was able to build muscle memory for the standard letter and number keys in a few days, but I'm still trying to get comfortable with control keys, arrow keys, and Home/End/Del in real-world flows.

[0] https://keybr.com

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Post by morley »

dingo999 wrote: post #10

Has anyone tried this game that uses typing as part of the game play? https://store.steampowered.com/app/940680/The_Textorcist_The...

I've played Textorcist! It's a solid game, and it's fun insofar as it's challenging and makes you want to play it more.

(It's been a couple years since I've played it, hence the vagueness.)

IIRC there's a bit of a difficulty spike when you have to transition from typing English to typing Latin...

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Post by chriskanan »

What made me very fast was playing MUDs during high school (25+ years ago, and specifically Arctic MUD, http://mud.arctic.org/ ). Have to type fast or your character is going to die.

Once you get used to it, an ergonomic keyboard helps a lot to speed up typing as well.

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