I can type at the incredible level of 70wpm.
Typing 118 WPM broke my brain in the right ways
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Re: Typing 118 WPM broke my brain in the right ways
#162Honestly, I’ve tried using keybr a few times, but not a fan - feels silly typing words that don’t exist.
I’ve found typingclub helped me a lot when I was starting and then monkeytype and now using typequicker - their practice mode has the detailed stats showing your weak points.
I made good progress on it after plateauing on monkeytype
Re: Typing 118 WPM broke my brain in the right ways
#163Monkeytype is better than keybr imo. More options (eg coding modes), actual zen mode, and doesn’t break above 149.5 wpm like keybr does (or did, haven’t been there in 2 years).
Yeah, I agree. It feels strange typing non existent words lol.
Used monkeytype for a while but then recently launched my own site: typequicker.com and been using it since
Would you consider giving it a go? Any feedback is appreciated
Re: Typing 118 WPM broke my brain in the right ways
#1645 minutes of typeracer saves 1 hour of procrastination Typing fast is a way to unlock the brain. Anything past 90, you start to focus on exactly what is needed to type accurately with speed. I average around 106-130 (depending on recent races) for the past 15 years, and it's still one of the best ways to "get into dev mode" really quickly.
> Typing fast is a way to unlock the brain.
Cannot emphasize this enough. I literally built my own typing app for this reason - plateaued on monkeytype and wanted better detailed stats so I build typequicker.com
Re: Typing 118 WPM broke my brain in the right ways
#165I’d be curious how many of the people on this thread are the fastest typists they know. There’s special pain involved in watching someone type slowly. Even worse when there’s repeated mistakes.
> There’s special pain involved in watching someone type slowly. Even worse when there’s repeated mistakes.
Oh yeah - it’s rough. I’ve gone fully down the rabbit hole lol.
Typed on various sites, then built my own (typequicker.com if you want to give it a shot), then discovered vim, then QMK, then built my own keyboard and completely modded, etc, etc. Got really comfortable navigating with shortcuts, etc
Having to screen share and someone who is sharing then struggles for a while looking for the pipe character when they’re typing out a shell command I told them…it’s rough.
I feel folks though - typing correctly and typing fast is never taught. There are no standardized systems in place that emphasize this. (Which is another reason I built the app lol )
Re: Typing 118 WPM broke my brain in the right ways
#166> No home row bull Learn to touch type (with the home row!) and learn Vim which appears to have been designed with touch typists in mind. When there is almost zero friction getting thoughts into code it's very easy to enter a flow state.
> When there is almost zero friction getting thoughts into code it's very easy to enter a flow state
Couldn’t have said better myself - I learned touch typing and vim in parallel early in my early days and doing any text work is a bliss
I literally wrote about this a couple days ago: https://www.typequicker.com/blog/how-to-type-faster
Re: Typing 118 WPM broke my brain in the right ways
#167The site he uses, https://www.keybr.com/typing-test , has such lovely design. I am a big fan.
To be honest I could never get into keybr - typing random words is kind of boring and pointless. I saw much better progress on monkeytype, typingclub and now typequicker
Re: Typing 118 WPM broke my brain in the right ways
#168I feel like i could never get to this level, but just doing a typing run at the beginning of the day feels like a really refreshing thing to do.
> but just doing a typing run at the beginning of the day feels like a really refreshing thing to do.
You might like typequicker.com - I added a daily typing test for this reason (has a daily leaderboard as well)
My friends now all ask each other “have you done the dsily?” lol
Give it a shot :)
Re: Typing 118 WPM broke my brain in the right ways
#169> We and our 953 partners process your personal data, ... Yeah, "partners"... I'd rather not let you profile my typing, thank you very much.
Yeah, I saw this and didn’t like this either tbh lol
Prefer monkeytype or typequicker
Re: Typing 118 WPM broke my brain in the right ways
#170All you fast typists... I'm in the 65 wpm club. :) Maybe I've slowed as I've aged. But I also never in my life have felt restricted by my typing speed.
It takes very little time/effort to improve honestly :)
Coincidentally, I actually wrote about this recently as well: