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Practice typing for Code

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Re: Practice typing for Code

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Post by Egregore »

UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #37

I never understood the obsession with coding speed. There seems to be a lot of people who claim a modest change in input speed is a massive productivity change to them (and how they justify their dedication to their preferred editor/UI/keyboard/language/et al). I might be an edge case, but when I "code" the minority of the work is actually writing source code. The majority is research/thinking/copy+pasta/et al. When…

It's great to be able to type quickly all you have in mental cache, until that cache expires.

Re: Practice typing for Code

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Post by jlewes »

prateekmi2 wrote: post #25
thameera wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We will be adding an Options panel soon, and we'll make it possible to opt for this. Thanks!

Another side effect is that sometimes I accidentally skip sentences that start with s because i invariably forget to press enter before starting.

I also did this several times initially.

Re: Practice typing for Code

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Post by jlewes »

[100% hunt-and-peck typist here]

I thought this was great! I really like it.

I think the asdf fdsa and jkl lkj ... lessons should mix the order up. I actually failed to learn jkl with the lessons provided (!) and had to switch to emacs and give myself a hand-created lesson with them mixed up.

Can we have a P for previous shortcut in addition to skip?

I got used to the enter-to-start thing eventually but I messed it up several times initially, accidentally skipping lessons.

Re: Practice typing for Code

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Post by jlewes »

UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #37

I never understood the obsession with coding speed. There seems to be a lot of people who claim a modest change in input speed is a massive productivity change to them (and how they justify their dedication to their preferred editor/UI/keyboard/language/et al). I might be an edge case, but when I "code" the minority of the work is actually writing source code. The majority is research/thinking/copy+pasta/et al. When…

> I never understood the obsession with coding speed....

I can't touch type. Dunno about coding but it would make my IM communications with colleagues a hell of a lot more efficient!

Re: Practice typing for Code

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Post by urlwolf »

I just got a Maltron keyboard that has symbols in non-standard places. Was thinking on using clavaro with code fragments when I saw this. Great job! I'll probably use it till I get 40 wpm at 100% accuracy on colemak. I'm at 20 wpm 100%.

Re: Practice typing for Code

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Post by Noxchi »

The enter to start and s to skip is very poorly thought out. I find myself forgetting enter literally every time and I've been though 20 or so lessons, and when the lesson starts with s, I press it (forgetting the enter) and skip the lesson. I don't know how to go back to the last example (undo the skip), and now I have to fucking pick a different lesson in the drop down, then reselect the one I was doing, then skip over every example I did, then fucking press S again because I forgot enter, and have to do that shit again.

If you're going to design something, free or not, do it fucking right.

Your product made me mad enough to actually post this.

Re: Practice typing for Code

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Post by johncoltrane »

Well, beside this tool not supporting AZERTY or DVORAK or BEPO or whatever other layout than QWERTY, I find the focus on typing speed quite myopic. As a programer, I spend most of my time thinking, moving around, substituting names, changing this or that, reading documentation… Nowadays, with completion, snippet expantion and tools like Sparkup/Zen Coding/Emmet, typing speed is not that relevant anymore.

Switching to Vim from TextMate has been enough to make me save a good 50% of my time. At this point, shaving off another, asy, 10% doesn't sound that compelling to me.

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