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

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Post by mikorym »

yesenadam wrote: post #207
bravura wrote: post #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…

> Amazingly it's like music. Maybe he means like jazz musicians? (I'm one.) Every musician I know has transcribed solos. You pick some solo you like but have no idea what they're doing, transcribe it, and learn to play it along with them. Bits and pieces perhaps will rub off in your own playing. You don't want to sound like them, but it's good to be able to if you want – and for that you need to absorb their style, s…

> transcribe solos

Do you mean learn other people's songs from sheet music, or do you mean write down, from the sheet music, the same song again on blank sheet paper?

Edit: Or do you mean write down the song via hearing?

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

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Post by Octouroboros »

jedberg wrote: post #238

Love the idea, love the interface! How much do I have to type to get the WPM and ACC to start showing up? I did a whole page and it was still just showing --.

Hello -- currently you have to type a whole page. Going to add an option to change it to after each word probably this week. Thanks!

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

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Post by Octouroboros »

seedie wrote: post #183
Octouroboros wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

Absolutely it will be optional. The intention behind the site is as much to support author's works as it is to practice typing. I originally figured that having it update more often than once a page might be distracting, which explains why it works the way it does now.

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

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Post by beachwood23 »

I think I have found a bug. It is in typing "The Art of War".

The "s" in the first sentence of "Sun Tzu said:" does not want to be recognized. My "s" key works fine in other contexts, and other letters before this one are recognized just fine.

EDIT: Actually, this seems to happen for different books, relatively early on in each. I am also seeing it in "Grimm's Fairy Tales."

I have a MBP 2020, and I am using Safari.

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

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Post by gojomo »

Love the concept.

Consider adding poems, too:

• many already like to memorize poems, to drill their ideas/emotions, improve one's own prosody, & be able to perform for others

• quicker feeling of success than just being a page/chapter into something massive

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