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Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

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Post by jfaucett » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 10:27 PM UTC

dkersten wrote: post #46

It doesn't appear to respect my keyboard layout - I'm using colemak (which works fine) but with UK symbols instead of US (which works everywhere else, including the HN comment box, but not in Typing.io where it wants me to type US symblos: eg " and @ are swapped).

yea, german keyboard here and it doesn't recognize my "=" ( so couldn't get past line one. Looks really cool though, I hope it gets I18lized sometime soon :)

KeyboardJS has a basic locales mapping: https://github.com/RobertWHurst/KeyboardJS , Unfortunately it appears to only have en_US at the momment though

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

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Post by cgag » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 10:30 PM UTC

We attempted to make something very similar at a hackathon. It's cool to see a more polished, complete version. Ours was more of an attempt to make a version of typeracer (http://play.typeracer.com/) using code samples from rosetta code. All we really got done though was handling typing the code (hilighting errors, letting you use tab for whitespace, etc), we didn't get around to recording stats.

This is all bringing back horrible memories of our disastrous demo actually, but very nice otherwise.

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

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Post by moonboots » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 10:31 PM UTC

sdh wrote: post #53

cool, but what's this -really- for? ;) recruiting coders? optimizing keyboard layouts? optimizing character usage for new language or framework development? advertising open source projects?

I found myself fat fingering too many keys, wanted to improve my typing, and one thing led to another...

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

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Post by thoughtpalette » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 10:43 PM UTC

I learned I really need to type correctly.

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

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Post by moonboots » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 10:47 PM UTC

kanchax wrote: post #58

Really nice. It felt like shadow-boxing the creation of a language. What I mean is that the ability to type what giants typed before me in such an easy and accessible way made it worthwhile. I'll do it again.

Love the metaphor and glad you enjoyed the experience

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

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Post by zapt02 » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 10:58 PM UTC

Doesn't work at all with nordic (swedish) keyboard - it doesn't recognize the less than (<) sign.

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

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Post by rapind » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 11:05 PM UTC

I've been using the opensource Keyzen to polish up those awkward coder keys.

http://wwwtyro.github.com/keyzen/

That being said, this also looks great. Love the idea.

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

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Post by grecy » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 11:08 PM UTC

moonboots wrote: post #32

grecy wrote: post #24

Why do you want me to sign in with Google?

You can try typing.io without signing in by clicking the 'demo' link under the signin button. I choose Google because I didn't want to worry about email verification, salting, key derivation functions, etc.

Why do you want me to sign-in at all?

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

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Post by gosu » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 11:16 PM UTC

ericmoritz wrote: post #28

It would be awesome if they're keeping stats on each language so that we can find out which language is the easiest to type.

Or which language attracts the most expert typists.

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

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Post by haukur » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 11:29 PM UTC

I couldn't type various characters, such as ={ and probably others that I didn't get to try out. I have an Icelandic keyboard layout, if that matters. I should probably switch to the American layout anyway. Ubuntu 12.04, Chrome version 21.0.1180.79.

This is still excellent. If these keys worked I would definitely use it.