FWIW this has been posted a few times already, nonetheless it's a great app
Typing.io: Typing Practice for Programmers
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#12Touch typing is like cursive writing. I want to be able to do it, but I probably never will, and I think that's ok.
Are you a programmer? I wonder what you think of this argument: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirties...
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#13Nice web app! One thing though, notify the user when he has Caps Lock on ;)
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#14The problem is that nobody writes code like that (char by char, like prose). You often jump back and forth between statements and parens, and code from inside out.
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#15What's the motivation behind doing this exactly? Why not actually write some code to practice...writing code.
I've wondered for a while what my WPM is when writing code. It's slower than plain english text, partly because there's so many more characters in code than in plain english. So something like this lets me see the difference between regular typing tests (e.g. typeracer.com) and coding -- and presumably, which languages are either more familiar to me, or more syntactically sluggish.
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#16What's the motivation behind doing this exactly? Why not actually write some code to practice...writing code.
+1
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#17I find that covering up the next letter with the arrow makes this very difficult.
I was confused by it as well. It expects you to backspace and fix your mistake before continuing.
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#18What's the motivation behind doing this exactly? Why not actually write some code to practice...writing code.
Their pricing page shows that it has what appears to be a nice set of features to actually help you get better (note to site owner: might be an idea to put this on the main page).
Despite that I can't imagine myself typing code just for the sake of typing code. Seems to me this would make more sense as a plugin for an IDE. Watch my every keystroke as I do real work and show where I am constantly having to correct myself, and offer ways to prevent that.
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#19Probably whitespaces should be ignored (except where they are mandatory, e.g., Python).
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#20This is pretty cool. One thing that bugs me is that the code isn't formatted the way I write. For example, my muscle memory does not involve typing a space inside parens - "function ( selector )". I miss those every time.
Could be nice if they allowed you to apply your own code style (autoformatting) on the source first.