This doesn't seem to work with keyboard layouts that are different than US keyboards. My german keyboard didn't work :(
Neither did my Croatian
Typing Practice for Programmers
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#193I honestly didn't mean to break it! It does seem however under Safari OS X it doesn't like alt + 3 for hash, which for the C++ ones is a big thing.
Hash doesn't work for me either (Mac osx Chrome Version 21.0.1180.79). This app will change my life and i really need to use it!
:)
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#194This. Is. AWESOME. Let me tell you what this is useful for by telling you my story: I'm a pretty fast typist (80-100WPM on TypeRacer, usually) and I really never put much thought into my typing, since it was good enough. But I recently started paying attention to the kinds of mistake I make on Typeracer, and realized that I have certain combinations of keys which I don't make using the "home row" of the keyboard, but…
Thanks, I'm glad you found the stats useful. In my initial version, I wasn't requiring the user to correct errors. I was personally getting errors rates around 3~5% , which appear good but seemed too low for the amount of errors I feel I make. Adding the need to backspace and correct keys revealed the true cost of mistyping a key, namely the wasted keys typed before correcting and all the backspaces. Thanks for point…
I had the same problem with not getting enough feedback on the errors I made. For example, I mistyped ")" a few times. But to correct it I need to know whether I hit the key to the left or to the right of ")" so I can move my finger accordingly. (I often type US-Dvorak on a spanish layout keyboard, so looking at the physical keys on the keyboard is pointless).
Re: Typing Practice for Programmers
#195Re: Typing Practice for Programmers
#196This. Is. AWESOME. Let me tell you what this is useful for by telling you my story: I'm a pretty fast typist (80-100WPM on TypeRacer, usually) and I really never put much thought into my typing, since it was good enough. But I recently started paying attention to the kinds of mistake I make on Typeracer, and realized that I have certain combinations of keys which I don't make using the "home row" of the keyboard, but…
Thanks, I'm glad you found the stats useful. In my initial version, I wasn't requiring the user to correct errors. I was personally getting errors rates around 3~5% , which appear good but seemed too low for the amount of errors I feel I make. Adding the need to backspace and correct keys revealed the true cost of mistyping a key, namely the wasted keys typed before correcting and all the backspaces. Thanks for point…
FYI I did the Symfony demo, then signed in with Google and got a 404 error. It did save my progress, but I had to re-authorize before I could get back to the list of languages.
Fantastic product, though. I see myself using this a lot. Any chance of a C# version coming along?
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#197It 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).
Same problem with fr_FR on an azerty keyboard (Ubuntu or Windows 7). For example I can only type by typing instead of the correct + . For a I would type + .
It occurs both in Chrome and Firefox.
Re: Typing Practice for Programmers
#198It 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).
Yeah. On a portuguese layout, doesn't recognize the "=" character. Problem with other characters as well...
This on Firefox 14, Chromium 18, Opera 12, for Linux Mint.
Otherwise, this is great!
EDIT: Does it read the key-code, instead of the character? Is it not possible to listen for the character input?
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#199It 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).
strange. i have no problems whatsoever regarding keyboard layout. and i am using an obscure one. is this os-dependent in a way? (i'm just curious and want to understand the problem)
Chrome on Windows 7 64bit does what I explained above. Chromium on Arch 64bit works fine.
In windows, I made my own keyboard layout in Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (so that I could switch the symbols to UK but also so I could add some dead keys to AltGr for various unicode symbols). I did "fix" the VK codes for the alphabethic characters, but I guess the symbols are still using whatever the key is assigned by default and I guess JS (at least in Chrome on Windows 7) checks the key code reported by the OS, rather than the value reported by the OS.
On Arch I use the GB colemak layout that came with the distro and I guess it sets all the key codes correctly to where all the symbols are...
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