I typed a bit of Alice in Wonderland. I (touch)type slower than I read. I'd like to do this more, but I'm worried about getting RSI.
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
#72I love the idea. Very good. I'm not seeing the autosave function work.
Hello! The site only saves after each page. Saving in the middle of a page is planned for a future update.
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#73Nice, 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!
One of the options I would suggest is to add the possibility to type the end bracket or parenthesis before the included code,by doing some kind of conditional forward lookup
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#74Love the idea! What about something like this but for software? Could be an interesting way to learn a new language/codebase
https://typing.io/ This is pretty similar I think, used in the past. Can use your own code with the paying/subscription
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#75This is a cool site, though I did notice something that I haven't seen anywhere before: the URL paths are JSON objects. Is there a reason for this? For example, for "The Call of Cthulhu", the URL is this: https://www.typelit.io/chapters/%7B%22bookTitle%22:%20%22The... Why not just use this? https://www.typelit.io/chapters/5f468ca35e91c10be0883a57/The... Also, the JSON object is fault tolerant and will display whateve…
This comment can’t be read, perhaps use code block formatting, or remove the http and domain info, so we can see what you mean? The link is getting truncated when it displays.
Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
#76Very cool, I'm also more interested in the "retype a novel to get better at writing" rather than "typing fast", but as I'm French, I'd love to type some french novels. Would you be able to add a simple DIY mode where I first copy-paste a text (for instance that I get from Gutemberg), and then it is either stored locally or uploaded to your server, so I can type it?
Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
#77This is a cool site, though I did notice something that I haven't seen anywhere before: the URL paths are JSON objects. Is there a reason for this? For example, for "The Call of Cthulhu", the URL is this: https://www.typelit.io/chapters/%7B%22bookTitle%22:%20%22The... Why not just use this? https://www.typelit.io/chapters/5f468ca35e91c10be0883a57/The... Also, the JSON object is fault tolerant and will display whateve…
Hey I'm glad you asked! It's the way Nextjs handles urls with more than 1 param. If I prettify the URL then for some reason the page can't access them. Don't know if they've improved on it yet (or, who knows, maybe I'm just using it wrong) but it'll be fixed eventually.
Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
#78This is a cool site, though I did notice something that I haven't seen anywhere before: the URL paths are JSON objects. Is there a reason for this? For example, for "The Call of Cthulhu", the URL is this: https://www.typelit.io/chapters/%7B%22bookTitle%22:%20%22The... Why not just use this? https://www.typelit.io/chapters/5f468ca35e91c10be0883a57/The... Also, the JSON object is fault tolerant and will display whateve…
This comment can’t be read, perhaps use code block formatting, or remove the http and domain info, so we can see what you mean? The link is getting truncated when it displays.
Those links are over 200 characters long, and just look like escaped JSON, so I don't think it would help much. You could just click on them if you really wanted to know the details, but I think the question is pretty clear regardless.
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#79"[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…
The analogy with music is interesting. Superficially, the musical activity which looks most like typing is simply playing an instrument. And sight-reading does feel a bit like typing. But I wonder if he's talking about transcription in that quote. One can sight read complex music without learning anything about it if they happen to just be a good sight reader. But transcription really does force you to pay attention to structural nuances you otherwise wouldn't get just by listening to a piece of music.
Re: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
Hey thanks -- this will be super useful!