Build muscle memory with your favorite editor
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Build muscle memory with your favorite editor
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Re: Build muscle memory with your favorite editor
#2Wow, this is actually fairly awesome. Works better than the vim cheatsheet I have hanging next to my monitor.
That said, the site can be pretty confusing. What's the difference between practice and drill (other than slight interface difference?)
Re: Build muscle memory with your favorite editor
#3If you get something wrong, and what you type is longer than the expected answer, you end up failing the next couple of questions too.
muscle memory - if you type eg "uptime" when the answer should be "free", it fails on the first character, but you're still typing, by which time it's on to the next question. which you then fail, because the answer to the next question isn't "ptime"
Re: Build muscle memory with your favorite editor
#4Wow, this is actually fairly awesome. Works better than the vim cheatsheet I have hanging next to my monitor. That said, the site can be pretty confusing. What's the difference between practice and drill (other than slight interface difference?)
Seems like the drills count towards your accuracy scores, while practice does not.
Re: Build muscle memory with your favorite editor
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Re: Build muscle memory with your favorite editor
#6Not only is this a beautiful and helpful web app, but it supports many different editors instead of taking part in the text editor wars.
Re: Build muscle memory with your favorite editor
#7If you get something wrong, and what you type is longer than the expected answer, you end up failing the next couple of questions too. muscle memory - if you type eg "uptime" when the answer should be "free", it fails on the first character, but you're still typing, by which time it's on to the next question. which you then fail, because the answer to the next question isn't "ptime"
Yeah I noticed this when I opened it and tried to cmd+t a new tab open at the same time.
Re: Build muscle memory with your favorite editor
#8This is neat, but one thing it misses is the "reward." Not a gamification award, but the visual feedback from hitting a keyboard shortcut and seeing it actually happen, which helps reinforce the connection from muscle-action to program-action.
Another important component is seeing the scenario. Seeing the words "Duplicate line" doesn't hit the same neurons as seeing the situation in the text-editor that toggles my brain to think, "I need to duplicate a line here".
Obviously, none of these features are trivial to implement. Great work, though!
Re: Build muscle memory with your favorite editor
#9This is great, similar to the code drills posted a couple of days ago, pretty good way to get that crucial memory in place. Did drill, would drill again.
Re: Build muscle memory with your favorite editor
#10I have to enable way too much stuff in NoScript to proceed when I actually click on an editor button. Giving permissions just to shortcutfoo is not enough. NoScript also shows airbrake.io, stripe.com, olark.com. I don't know what any of those are, so I'm not enabling them. So I cannot use your website, as cool as the premise sounds :/