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
#2"[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. And from typing out parts of Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald - these were writers that were very big in my life and the lives of the people around me - so yea I wanted to learn from the best I guess."
http://brianjohnspencer.blogspot.com/2014/06/hunter-s-thomps...
Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
#3Love the idea! What about something like this but for software? Could be an interesting way to learn a new language/codebase
Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
#4Nice, this is very enjoyable. Will definitely pick this up again, after I get a new ergonomic keyboard.
Would be nice to also type code from famous open-source projects, to practice hitting all the parens etc.
Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
#5Sometimes when I really had to memorize things including nitpicky semantics I would retype them into diff. It works reasonably well and is a moderately enjoyable (if you're in the mood) mindless task kind of like driving.
Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
#6Love the idea! What about something like this but for software? Could be an interesting way to learn a new language/codebase
Hello -- I'm glad you like it! I believe typing.io has something like this, but for programming languages.
Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
#7It reminds me of "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" by Borges [1]. If I re-write Ulysses from scratch, line by line, is it still the same book? Is mine better than Joyce's?
1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Q...
Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
#8Nice, this is very enjoyable. Will definitely pick this up again, after I get a new ergonomic keyboard. Would be nice to also type code from famous open-source projects, to practice hitting all the parens etc.
Hey that's a really good idea! I'll add it to the ever-growing to-do list. Thanks!
Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
#9I've practiced typing by retyping webnovels.
I made it about halfway through Worm.
Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
#10Love the idea! What about something like this but for software? Could be an interesting way to learn a new language/codebase
Also works for human languages!