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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 ygra »

Octouroboros wrote: post #53
ygra wrote: post #49

This seems to have problems with dead keys. Typing ' and then d on US International results in 'd, but doesn't count as such and instead is an error.

Hello! If you don't mind me asking, what browser are you experiencing this issue on?

All done with US International, but should be reproducible with other keyboard layouts; just that with, e.g. a German layout it might be harder to find digraphs that can be typed by forcing a non-combination for a dead key.

Firefox 81, Windows: Dead keys and the corresponding combination of letters where no single letter is defined by the keyboard layout don't even appear. I.e. I type ', and then s, which normally causes the digraph 's to appear, but here neither the ' nor the s afterwards register.

Chrome 85, Windows: The key sequence registers as just one letter, but apparently not as the ', which thus is marked as an error. This was also what I've seen in Edge (Chromium-based, probably similar version number).

Internet Explorer 11: Same as with Chrome. However, with the added bonus that typing a space seems to be impossible. No idea whether that browser is even on the compatibility list for that site, but it's all I have lying around here right now.

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

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Post by terr-dav »

technoplato wrote: post #103
rozab wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've always thought of typing lessons as being a thing from long before computers. Back then it was treated as a serious skill which could lead directly to employment. Now it's just something you're expected to know. I had plenty of basic IT education at school, but was never taught how to type at all.

It’s an interesting idea that we still “need” typing practice. We do it every day why would we need to practice extra? To provide an additional use case, my wife just got me an awesome and completely configurable ergonomic keyboard for my birthday and I’m considering switching to Dvorak or Coleman layouts after typing QWERY my entire life. I NEED a long form practice like this instead of just typing nonsense short bl…

It took me 3 years off and on (and mostly at work) to become fluent in Dvorak. Good luck!

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

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Post by aasasd »

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…

In regard to typing out novels, HST went on to say that Faulkner (iirc) doesn't have an out-of-place word anywhere. So yeah, he was speaking about the style: putting down words in an interesting order.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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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 anchpop »

terr-dav wrote: post #292
technoplato wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s an interesting idea that we still “need” typing practice. We do it every day why would we need to practice extra? To provide an additional use case, my wife just got me an awesome and completely configurable ergonomic keyboard for my birthday and I’m considering switching to Dvorak or Coleman layouts after typing QWERY my entire life. I NEED a long form practice like this instead of just typing nonsense short bl…

It took me 3 years off and on (and mostly at work) to become fluent in Dvorak. Good luck!

If you do it on and off you'll be much slower. I switched cold-turkey to Colemak and could type reasonably after a month and quickly after 3 months. The hardest part was retraining my muscle memory for keyboard shortcuts (but it wasn't so bad because in Colemak many are unchanged)

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

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Post by anchpop »

Octouroboros wrote: post #235
fudged71 wrote: post #200

My wife is a teacher, and she is reading harry potter to her students. It would be fantastic if she could find 3 pages of text from her next chapter, upload it to this tool, and get a URL that she can send to all of her students. Then they can all do a typing assignment in line with their reading, from just a link. (This could apply to many more courses, and cover many aspects of the curriculum!) Would you be interes…

Hello! I'm kind of trying to keep copyrighted text off the servers -- though I am planning on adding a feature where you can add your own text and then immediately type it. Probably more work on the teacher and student's part, but maybe it would accomplish the same thing.

Being able to add my own text then immediately type it would be amazing. I would use this app every day if that feature existed. Thank you for making this!

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

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Post by [deleted] »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #169
grugagag wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> 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 is something that's bothered me since my university put out a survey asking about time spent on homework. Suppose the following things happen: 1. A math class assigns a proof. 2. I look at the problem, fiddle around with it for 20 minutes, and get no…

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