One suggestion having just started using the site (AND LOVING IT) is to enable a "don't progress until correct mode" that way you don't miss a string of characters at a time. LMK if this is already a thing or if you are accepting PRs. I'd love to contribute!!!
Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
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Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
#272"[Hunter S. Thompson] chose, rather than writing original copy, to re-type books like The Great Gatsby and a lot of Norman Mailer, the Naked and the Dead, a lot of Hemingway. He would sit down there on an old type-writer and type every word of those books and he said, 'I just wanna feel what it feels like to write that we'll.'" HST: "If you type out somebody's work, you learn a lot about it. Amazingly it's like music…
> Amazingly it's like music. Maybe he means like jazz musicians? (I'm one.) Every musician I know has transcribed solos. You pick some solo you like but have no idea what they're doing, transcribe it, and learn to play it along with them. Bits and pieces perhaps will rub off in your own playing. You don't want to sound like them, but it's good to be able to if you want – and for that you need to absorb their style, s…
Why would you take his general statement (musicians) and turn it into such a specific example (_jazz_ musicians)? You make it sound like jazz musicians are the only ones who would transcribe music to study it.
Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
#273I remember that at least in the past you could copy books (and sell those copies) as long as you did not automatically copy the content. I.e. Copyright would not trigger in this case. Re-typing a book was expressly allowed.
Is that still the case?
A site like this could then used to make legal replicas of books.
Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
#274This site isn't compatible with "Go Back With Backspace" [1] extension by Google on Chrome.
Everytime I hit backspace, it will just go back.
I assume it's because it doesn't use standard text area and didn't take consideration there might be a conflict in hotkey.
Here is the code from that extension about how it detects the "editable" elements, if it helps: https://robwu.nl/crxviewer/?crx=https%3A%2F%2Fclients2.googl...
Please fix it if you can, thanks.
[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/go-back-with-backs...
Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
#275Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's interesting. Thanks for pointing me towards Next.js. I wasn't aware of that framework, but I'm checking it out.
Super cool framework that is only getting better. If you’re interested in framework spelunking-check out Remix by Ryan Florence and Michael Jackson (no, not that one...). It’s actually going to be paid but I’m very excited to try it. It handles some data loading pain points among others that seem very interesting.
Link to the mentioned framework “Remix”: https://remix.run/
Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
#276Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess that’s one benefit of the US’s terrible health system? There isn’t a single “system” so even if one doctor diagnoses you with something, a different doctor in a different office won’t have any idea about it unless you volunteer the information.
Wait the US doesn't have a centralized/shared medical records service? I never realized that! In France, I suppose like in the UK, we have our "Carte Vitale" ("Life/Vital Card"), which is scanned each visit to a doctor, hospital, pharmacy, etc, each updating your personal database nationally. It also serves as a link to your insurance provider in each location, so reimbursements are automatic.
Nope, doctors can't see you medical information unless you give it to them.
Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
#277I think I have found a bug. It is in typing "The Art of War". The "s" in the first sentence of "Sun Tzu said:" does not want to be recognized. My "s" key works fine in other contexts, and other letters before this one are recognized just fine. EDIT: Actually, this seems to happen for different books, relatively early on in each. I am also seeing it in "Grimm's Fairy Tales." I have a MBP 2020, and I am using Safari.
I encounter no problems typing that phrase in The Art of War on macOS 10.14 in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox.
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#278This is awesome and I love every bit of it. I just wished there was a login that I could associate my progress with it. Nice work!
Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
#279I'm the developer of a wiki platform that allows editing of large structured texts (documents, books), and it took a whole day to type War and Peace into it. :)
https://quanta.wiki/n/war-and-peace
The book is mainly for demonstrating the platform capabilities, but I thought you guys might find this platform interesting.
Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
#280Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Amazingly it's like music. Maybe he means like jazz musicians? (I'm one.) Every musician I know has transcribed solos. You pick some solo you like but have no idea what they're doing, transcribe it, and learn to play it along with them. Bits and pieces perhaps will rub off in your own playing. You don't want to sound like them, but it's good to be able to if you want – and for that you need to absorb their style, s…
Why would you take his general statement (musicians) and turn it into such a specific example (_jazz_ musicians)? You make it sound like jazz musicians are the only ones who would transcribe music to study it.
It's a safe bet that it's more common among jazz musicians than among classical musicians, who have access to the sheet music for practically everything they play.
Probably also more common among jazz musicians than rock musicians, who don't emphasize sheet music and music theory as much (as much, it's certainly more prevalent than outsiders would naively think).
And of course, all these categories blur together. There wasn't any reason to take his post and interpret it in absolutist terms.