Question, is it possible to avg 100% accuracy? What other sites should I use. I have also been using keybr as well as typingcat. Any feedback is appreciated.
Did you hear about monkey-type.com? There are three difficulties in there (normal, expert, master), blind mode and a lot of different settings which include training accuracy so you can play with it.
]]>I type-read books using Amphetype, as the article shows. I've enjoyed that quite a lot. I particularly enjoyed Lovecraft, while Carroll was a bit tiresome due to an abundance of dialogue. Typing double quotes, period and Enter over and over again isn't easy on the hands.
]]>Many typists have hang-ups like typing 'teh' instead of 'the'; these are worth removing. I'd make a lesson in Amphetype to practice the offending n-grams a little more.
Interestingly, top typists like Sean Wrona (QWERTY) and Viper (Colemak) are very good at entering punctuation and real text. Viper trained Colemak by having books in front of him and just entering their content into a simple text editor! I do believe that not losing your flow completely because of punctuation is a valuable skill, but it shouldn't be a goal to type past it at top speed either. In fact, I believe that the ability to vary your typing speed on the fly to account for more or less text complexity is a valuable asset. And the top typists seem to support this.
But yes: You may be overanalyzing this. ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
]]>> My experience typing on Colemak is that I wish I had done this earlier in life
Same feelings here
> I believe the reason is I consciously decided I was not going to waste brain space on [Qwerty] anymore
This was also my perspective. Depending on people's jobs, there might be some who still need to use Qwerty from time, but for those who can avoid it, maintaining Qwerty for the sake of it is just a liability.
> is it possible to avg 100% accuracy?
Well, technically since even a single mistake will knock your average below 100%, this is not a reasonable aim. My accuracy isn't super great even now after 6 years, but I consider it to be "good enough" - especially compared to my pre-Colemak ability.
]]>Obviously, no average accuracy can be exactly 100%. For that to happen you'd have to never type a single key press wrong, which isn't realistic at all. I'd go for 98% accuracy if I were you. I'm mostly fine with 97% myself.
]]>I seem to have lost the ability to type on Qwerty without deep thought. I have heard that most people retain Qwerty but get slower at it, for me this was not the case. I believe the reason is I consciously decided I was not going to waste brain space on it anymore and that Colemak was all I will ever need. If I did not make such a decision and completely stop typing on it, I would probably be OK at typing on it. But I don't feel lost without it mostly because I only use my own computer and keyboard.
From just over one month of learning Colemak, I definitely recommend it to anyone who is willing to learn. The first days up till about two weeks typing felt very exhausting, I was very slow, painfully so and it was a mental exercise to remember where the keys were. My keyboard does not have any letters or numbers printed, so I cannot look down and I did not print any sheet to reference. I would use the internet to pull up a reference If needed but I went cold turkey, all in.
Question, is it possible to avg 100% accuracy? What other sites should I use. I have also been using keybr as well as typingcat. Any feedback is appreciated.
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