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

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Post by avnigo »

I really like it, great work!

It would be great if [Enter]/[Space] would clear a wrongly typed word, maybe with some visual indication that it wasn't typed correctly and maybe also show the mistyped word. Having to delete the word because of a single mistake really takes you out of the flow, and the timer doesn't reset till you delete and retype the word correctly.

Displaying the target ms/character for the specified word count might also be beneficial to quantify what you're working toward.

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

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Post by flyingfences »

cachvico wrote: post #31
inclemnet wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've known people say that they found it "easier" combining learning touch typing with learning a new keyboard layout. It's harder moment by moment, but there's no bad muscle memory to fall back on.

I had that experience. I learned Dvorak and my touch-typing form got a lot better (as you would expect..) I then went back to Qwerty (it took a little while to switch back..) and retained the better form.

I had a similar experience using Colemak near-exclusively for several years, then going back to using QWERTY in the office.

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

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Post by cocoflunchy »

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 bought a keyboard with blank keycaps and started using it at work. I sucked for a week or two but now I hardly ever watch my hands.

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

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Post by cocoflunchy »

kuehle wrote: post #11
psimm wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree, I didn't understand that one can change the WPM before reading this thread.

Good point, I've added a help button in the top left corner that briefly explains the concept. Maybe that already helps a bit.

it helps, but I was very confused at first too (the button is not very visible)

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

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Post by kuehle »

jacobmischka wrote: post #41
resonator wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you delete and retype the word it is technically the same attempt and you are not being fast enough, so it is in deed a feature to practice the words you have made a mistake in in the first place. But I can see how that can be less than obvious. I fixed that now.

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

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Post by joshka »

Looks good. My wish list (some of these are mentioned below by others):

- don't worry about target wpm, just worry about getting faster from a baseline and automatically adjust that baseline from current speed.

- repeat words that recently failed / took longer to type after some spacing (spaced repetition)

- fail words which are committed rather than making me correct them to continue (I'm of two minds about this, is correcting a mistake faster than just continuing and coming back to mistakes or the other way around?)

- consider a prose mode that shows more context to type (grab some paragraphs from project gutenburg perhaps?)

- consider a code mode (more difficult as autocomplete is a thing and different per IDE)

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