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Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels

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post #36

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.

Hello! People kept asking for other languages, so I put some out but didn't have time to add an option for keystrokes on non-english letters to require the actual non-english keystroke. Rest assured it's coming soon, though. Thanks!

Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels

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post #35
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"[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...

He required copious amounts of Wild Turkey and cigarettes though

Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels

#43
Neat 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 mistake.

Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels

#44
post #34

This 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?

Hello and thanks for giving the site a go! Something like this is planned for the future, so do keep an eye out!

Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels

#45

Neat 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…

My wrists hurt just thinking about doing this for any reason.

Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels

#47
I have learn typewriting in school. This how we learn it in 1 hour class in year.

First 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

#48

Neat 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…

Hello! That's definitely not supposed to be happening. If you don't mind me asking, what browser are you using? In the meantime, Chrome should work ok

Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels

#50

This 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!

This looks like a pretty good starting list: https://concretecomputing.com/thoughts/list-of-public-domain...
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