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Re: Show HN: Keyboard Drill – Minimalist Typing Drill to fix common mistakes

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Post by jacobmischka »

resonator wrote: post #20
kuehle wrote: post #2

I've created this small project to fix my own typing and thought you might benefit from it as well. To calculate the WPM words with 5 letters are taken. To reach e.g. 80 WPM you'd have 150ms per character. The application uses ~1000 most common english words and only gives you the next word once you've cleared the word in the calculated time. The time is measured only as soon as you press the first key. Give it a try…

That's great but I'm getting tripped up when I delete a word with ctrl-w and correct it. Even if I get it correct, it marks as incorrect.

This has happened to me a few times too, I have to complete a word 3 times before it actually marks it as correct. I almost wondered if it was intentional because it happened so often.

Re: Show HN: Keyboard Drill – Minimalist Typing Drill to fix common mistakes

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Post by shpx »

xwowsersx wrote: post #16

I have tried several times to relearn typing, but each time I've fallen back to my old ways. Has anyone actually been successful in learning how to type correctly from scratch? If so, how did you do it?

I switched to Dvorak.

Re: Show HN: Keyboard Drill – Minimalist Typing Drill to fix common mistakes

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Post by skupig »

This is super addictive... it would be nice if the word cleared instantly without hitting enter, having to stretch my pinky so often is kind of hurting my wrist. It'd also be nice if clearing the text box reset the timer so I could just start over when I make a typo (I either have to fix the typo, which is bad practice, or type the word twice).

Re: Show HN: Keyboard Drill – Minimalist Typing Drill to fix common mistakes

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Post by AriedK »

skupig wrote: post #43

This is super addictive... it would be nice if the word cleared instantly without hitting enter, having to stretch my pinky so often is kind of hurting my wrist. It'd also be nice if clearing the text box reset the timer so I could just start over when I make a typo (I either have to fix the typo, which is bad practice, or type the word twice).

Note that you can also clear the word by hitting SPACE, which mimics actual typing too.

Re: Show HN: Keyboard Drill – Minimalist Typing Drill to fix common mistakes

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Post by johnofthesea »

kuehle wrote: post #2

I've created this small project to fix my own typing and thought you might benefit from it as well. To calculate the WPM words with 5 letters are taken. To reach e.g. 80 WPM you'd have 150ms per character. The application uses ~1000 most common english words and only gives you the next word once you've cleared the word in the calculated time. The time is measured only as soon as you press the first key. Give it a try…

I've tried to replace words (for different language) in console but `words` are defined as `const`. Any idea how to hack it?

Re: Show HN: Keyboard Drill – Minimalist Typing Drill to fix common mistakes

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Post by bloopernova »

kuehle wrote: post #2

I've created this small project to fix my own typing and thought you might benefit from it as well. To calculate the WPM words with 5 letters are taken. To reach e.g. 80 WPM you'd have 150ms per character. The application uses ~1000 most common english words and only gives you the next word once you've cleared the word in the calculated time. The time is measured only as soon as you press the first key. Give it a try…

This is really cool, definitely going to use this! (and share it at work, since there's a lot of people whose typing can be greatly improved, lol)

Re: Show HN: Keyboard Drill – Minimalist Typing Drill to fix common mistakes

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Post by skupig »

AriedK wrote: post #44
skupig wrote: post #43

This is super addictive... it would be nice if the word cleared instantly without hitting enter, having to stretch my pinky so often is kind of hurting my wrist. It'd also be nice if clearing the text box reset the timer so I could just start over when I make a typo (I either have to fix the typo, which is bad practice, or type the word twice).

Note that you can also clear the word by hitting SPACE, which mimics actual typing too.

Ha, I should have tried that, but I just kept doing the first thing I noticed worked :)

Re: Show HN: Keyboard Drill – Minimalist Typing Drill to fix common mistakes

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Post by kataklasm »

xwowsersx wrote: post #36
sva_ wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I relearned touch typing using https://www.keybr.com several years ago. It looks a bit different now, but seems to be the same concept as before.

I'll check this out. Thanks a lot.

Can confirm this. I recently used keybr to unlearn QWERTY and learn Colemak from scratch, since I wasn't overly relentless it took me about 3 or 4 weeks, although I used the layout everyday even when I wasn't fast yet and that helped a ton.

Re: Show HN: Keyboard Drill – Minimalist Typing Drill to fix common mistakes

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Post by brownbat »

kuehle wrote: post #8
Acen wrote: post #4

Feels like it needs some sort of feedback when you type too slowly to get the next word. Plus maybe making it a bit more obvious that you can select a target speed for the WPM.

Do you have any ideas for the feedback when your speed is to low? I am not a designer and struggle to find ideas that keep the UI as minimal as it is right now while improving the user experience.

A hint at what wpm I just typed at would be nice. So if I only hit 50 wpm a 50 off to the side or below the dotted line.

This is fascinating when picking a liminal wpm. Single hand words are so much harder.

I can cruise along until I hit words like "exact"

EDIT: You could make a list of bigrams as people type and average the wpm for words with that bigram, then you could weight the randomly chosen words by the difficulty of the bigrams, to really help people focus on their biggest stumbling blocks.

Re: Show HN: Keyboard Drill – Minimalist Typing Drill to fix common mistakes

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Post by stunt »

Cool! But, as someone who used to be very competitive with fast touch typing and then suffered some long-term injuries, I say do not overdo it. It hurts your fingers. Learn how to type correctly, but do not hurt your fingers and do not aim for speed.

Even though I have recovered physically, my fingers still (mentally) hurt when I try to type very fast. It hurts even when I think about it.

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