One issue with tools like these is that it's pretty artificial. You rarely need to type nonsense series of lowercase only words without punctuation at a consistent character speed.
I did a similar little tool at some point where I just used some books from the gutenberg project and normalised it a bit so there were no weird typographic quotes etc.
It both forces me to become good at the punctuation, and it's more interesting as I will accidentally start reading that book.
I have been a user of keybr.com for a long time, and I didn't really like things like for example only practicing one word at a time or the algorithm trying to force you to type each character at the same speed, that's why I made my own. It has an algorithm that selects words randomly with weights based on how long you take to type each letter, you accuracy with each letter and how common the letter is in English (you should type more-common letters faster!).
This is great! I have daydreamed about how to do a more complex algo: instead of character speed and frequency you could do bi-character speed/frequency/error rate and probably improve over keybr further.
Nice effort!
All these tools teach typing and looking at the typed text. Only few programs make physical separation between the source and the typed text or do hide the text currently typed. Try it... yet another level... :)
Does anyone have any suggestions for typing practice programs that involve coding symbols? I recently got a new mechanical keyboard and I want to practice the new layout when I'm not also trying to think and solve programming problems.
Looks nice! Reminds me of a similar program (a bbs door, really) named ‘yogurt’ by @sedatk — I remember using it to improve my fast-typing around 2002-2003. This brings back memories :)
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Shouldn’t this be a “Show HN”?
Thank you for the stars, just went from 1 to 27 stars! :3
Several years ago (around 2015), I also developed a typing learning web application. It was inspired by another application that had originally been developed for Windows 95 - with that app, I learned how to type. So in 2015, I decided to implement a web-based version of it.
http://touchtyper.net/en
However, I just checked out keybr.com and have to say - it's a much better system for learning to type! As of today, I now realize I have a huge problem with the letter "q" - I had never noticed that before! ^^