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

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Got to 666 (level 7) and wanted to stop, so I did. Of course, the problem is that when, as in this case, there are only two columns remaining, that limits how many letters it can throw at you at once and it actually becomes easier to keep up - you can theoretically go on as long as you want.

Maybe it also needs to be clearer that the key closest to the bottom of the screen must be typed first, that wasn't obvious to me immediately.

I think it's good to try random letter games like this occasionally as well as regular typing tests.

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

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Did anyone else play Mavis Beacon growing up? I recently got a mechanical keyboard and there’s an online version of Mavis Beacon that held up surprisingly well, and got me used to typing on the new layout.

My favourite thing about that were the little games like the driving one, the racing one and the supermarket checkout (numeric keypad). However at the time I suspect I didn't pay proper attention to finger placement.

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

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this is pretty cool. ty for sharing. >You can type 74 words per minute

>You can type 84 words per minute (After a few attempts) I self learned to type using "Iankey"[0] (the manual[1]). In my opinion, it is one of the best training tools I tried - I should search around my old backups to see if I can still find it. [0] https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/68105/Iankey/ [1] https://www.habisoft.com/pcwwiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=apl...

It seems to have been preserved here with a download link https://www.habisoft.com/pcwwiki/doku.php?id=en:aplicaciones...

Somebody also uploaded it to archive.org: https://archive.org/details/IanKey-Crash-Course-on-Typing-v3...

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