Show HN: Typing Practice for Hackers

#1

Post by Parapheen » Sun, Jan 12, 2025, 9:05 AM UTC

Traditional typing apps aren’t built for coding. They miss key features that coders need:

1) Syntax highlighting to replicate real coding environments.

2) Practice with tricky symbols like {, }, ;, and |.

3) Real-world coding snippets to make typing practice meaningful.

So I built typinghackers in 8 days with go (pocketbase), react (yes, shadcn xd) and sqlite. Rsync to the vps and let it go.

Show HN: Typing Practice for Hackers
typinghackers.com

Re: Show HN: Typing Practice for Hackers

#2

Post by pachun91 » Sun, Jan 12, 2025, 1:17 PM UTC

I created an account just to respond to this. I’ve been using keybr.com to learn to type on my very different ergonomic keyboards. I paid for keybr and spent about 30 minutes a day on it. I can type regular English on those keyboards great now. Every time I need to write code, though, I slide it aside and go back to the MS sculpt I’ve been using for 13 years now. I’ll be trying this out. Thanks.

Re: Show HN: Typing Practice for Hackers

#3

Post by Parapheen » Sun, Jan 12, 2025, 3:34 PM UTC

pachun91 wrote: post #2

I created an account just to respond to this. I’ve been using keybr.com to learn to type on my very different ergonomic keyboards. I paid for keybr and spent about 30 minutes a day on it. I can type regular English on those keyboards great now. Every time I need to write code, though, I slide it aside and go back to the MS sculpt I’ve been using for 13 years now. I’ll be trying this out. Thanks.

That’s very interesting, and happens to me as well. Do you have any idea why is it happening?

By the way, what languages are you coding? I’d prioritize those to add the typing snippets

Re: Show HN: Typing Practice for Hackers

#4

Post by vivaldi00 » Sun, Jan 12, 2025, 5:08 PM UTC

That is actually cool! Good luck man!! Hope to see more templates!

Re: Show HN: Typing Practice for Hackers

#5

Post by Parapheen » Sun, Jan 12, 2025, 6:28 PM UTC

vivaldi00 wrote: post #4

That is actually cool! Good luck man!! Hope to see more templates!

Thanks! What languages would you like to be added first?

Re: Show HN: Typing Practice for Hackers

#6

Post by gus_massa » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 12:45 AM UTC

If you want to know which languages to add, you can try looking for popular languages in https://octoverse.github.com/2022/top-programming-languages and https://octoverse.github.com/2022/top-programming-languages

Probaly JavaScript

Re: Show HN: Typing Practice for Hackers

#7

Post by Parapheen » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 6:43 AM UTC

gus_massa wrote: post #6

If you want to know which languages to add, you can try looking for popular languages in https://octoverse.github.com/2022/top-programming-languages and https://octoverse.github.com/2022/top-programming-languages Probaly JavaScript

Yeah, JS is coming today-tomorrow

Thank you!

Re: Show HN: Typing Practice for Hackers

#8

Post by Parapheen » Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 7:02 PM UTC

pachun91 wrote: post #2

I created an account just to respond to this. I’ve been using keybr.com to learn to type on my very different ergonomic keyboards. I paid for keybr and spent about 30 minutes a day on it. I can type regular English on those keyboards great now. Every time I need to write code, though, I slide it aside and go back to the MS sculpt I’ve been using for 13 years now. I’ll be trying this out. Thanks.

Have you got a chance to try it out?