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Re: A tool that increased my typing speed

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Post by boogies » Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 5:28 PM UTC

shock wrote: post #27

If you're on Linux and want to do this look for ibus-typing-booster. I submitted it 6 days ago, but it didn't get much attention. Unlike the author's method of manually setting up shortcuts for the most used words, ibus-typing-booster learns your most frequent words and then it's just a matter of typing a few chars followed by space, which inserts the whole word.

Nice! Another option is to create a ~/.XCompose¹, which only activates manually — you add your own custom abbreviations there, and they’re only expanded when you prefix them by tapping Compose².

¹https://wiki.debian.org/XCompose

²You can make this quite convenient with xcape:

  setxkbmap -option compose:sclk && xcape -e "Shift_L=Multi_key"

will make tapping (but not holding) left shift act as tapping Compose

Re: A tool that increased my typing speed

#172

Post by thotsBgone » Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 6:33 PM UTC

dnautics wrote: post #166

thotsBgone wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you do daily practice in that time?

No.

I had the experience of changing to colemak and then spending maybe two months not practicing deliberately. Progress was slow. But then, I started practicing every day and I was back to my qwerty speeds within a few weeks. The incidental practice you get from typing in your everyday life isn't enough to quickly get learn a new layout, unfortunately.

Re: A tool that increased my typing speed

#173

Post by boogies » Mon, Oct 19, 2020, 9:07 PM UTC

boogies wrote: post #171

shock wrote: post #27

If you're on Linux and want to do this look for ibus-typing-booster. I submitted it 6 days ago, but it didn't get much attention. Unlike the author's method of manually setting up shortcuts for the most used words, ibus-typing-booster learns your most frequent words and then it's just a matter of typing a few chars followed by space, which inserts the whole word.

Nice! Another option is to create a ~/.XCompose¹, which only activates manually — you add your own custom abbreviations there, and they’re only expanded when you prefix them by tapping Compose². ¹ https://wiki.debian.org/XCompose ²You can make this quite convenient with xcape: setxkbmap -option compose:sclk && xcape -e "Shift_L=Multi_key" will make tapping (but not holding) left shift act as tapping Compose

Oh, and not that > ~⅖ people ±⅞ will read this but there’s also https://espanso.org/ which supports inserting script results; and quite a few other ‘text expanders’ and other tools that will do similar things https://alternativeto.net/software/espanso/?license=opensour...