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

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I'm productive in bursts as well. I have the feeling that in between bursts things are still computing in the background so it looks like you're not doing anything but the brain is still churning. This type of bursty productivity is very hard to account for in a corporate environment where one's productivity should be accounted for on a daily basis and laid down in cookie cutter time slots. I often wonder whether I h…

If you goal is to get prescribed stimulants (amphetamines, ritalin, or modafinil), it's pretty trivial to get diagnosed and prescribed. Psychs hand that stuff out like candy

I don't know how it is in the US, but I'm scared of even trying to be diagnosed in the UK. Once you're in the system as somebody with psych problems, a lot of things can get harder. I fear the risk is not worth satiating the curiosity.

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

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Great idea. A suggestion: you can gamify the WPM by making it always visible and giving three indicators: a WPM of the previous page, a WPM of the previous paragraph, and a "realtime" WPM based on the average of the last 5 words or whatever. Phenomenal work!

Hey that's a pretty good idea! I may think of way implement something like that. Thanks for the support!

If you introduce that feature please make it optional. I love the idea of typing novels to get a more intense connection to the content. Gameification for WPM would disrupt this. Please consider this use case even though I understand that this ist not your target audience.

Great Work!

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

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This is great. I do not see WPM and ACC stats though. It just shows empty placeholder for those. I use PiHole and https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts to block ads. I see that the google analytics is not resolved properly in dev tools. Is that the issue with WPM/ACC stats?

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

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This 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.

I think only the bookID is necessary
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