Cool idea. It looks like it doesn't check if french accents have been typed. I could write the letter without its accent and it considered that it was good. And with its accent, it is good too.
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
#42"[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…
Sounds a little bit like the process of training a GPT-3 style network...
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#43Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
#44This is great for practicing! Would it be difficult to implement a page where users could copy-paste text and use the same engine to retype them?
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#45Neat project! Would be an interesting way to read a book. Not sure if this is a built-in feature for typing practice. But one small obstacle I encountered was that if I missed a space or I put in an extra character, but kept typing, then everything that came after was in red (wrong). May be hard to implement, but maybe letting a single mistake show in these instances without marking everything that follows as a mista…
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#46Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
#47First we start with single letter and need to type 10 page of every letter. Then we start with random combination 2 letter word, every line contain different word. For few day we practice with that. Then we start practising 3,4,5 letter combination
Slowly we moved to word -> line -> paragraph -> essay.
Learning typing will take type.
Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
#48Neat project! Would be an interesting way to read a book. Not sure if this is a built-in feature for typing practice. But one small obstacle I encountered was that if I missed a space or I put in an extra character, but kept typing, then everything that came after was in red (wrong). May be hard to implement, but maybe letting a single mistake show in these instances without marking everything that follows as a mista…
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#49Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
#50This is great. Can you add a separate category for kids?
Hello! If I can round up enough public domain children's books, I'll certainly add a kids category. Thanks for the suggestion!