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    Popular english verb list ordered by their endings

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    I'm desperately trying to identify which words I enjoy typing.  It's difficult!

    I used to practice alot with popular word lists.  So figure that's a good place to begin.

    I grabbed a list of popular verbs from here:

    http://www.acme2k.co.uk/acme/3star%20verbs.htm

    This is a list of 331 words, comprising the most commonly used english verbs.

    I sometimes reorder my word lists to break the monotony.  Sometimes randomly, sometimes alphabetically.  Today I had a revelation, and ordered the list by their endings!

    The nice thing about having a list of words ordered this way, is that you get to focus a little on practicing common word endings.

    Alphabetically sorted:

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    If anyone wants to do this, I basically imported a list of words into a Python list, then looped through all the words, added the reversed words to a new list, that I then sorted.  I then reversed the words again - and dumped them to a text file.  I'll try and do something useful like write a list of utilities to share at some point.

    Last edited by pinkyache (05-Mar-2013 16:48:16)

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    And for fun, to get you in the competitive spirit, here is a screenshot of the result of an end sorted run:

    Klavaro fluidity results
    http://postimage.org/image/n67nz4wuv/

    That's 74WPM.  I should be a little faster, as I must type them often.

    It's easier to identify the words that I have trouble with rather than the ones I enjoy.

    Last edited by pinkyache (05-Mar-2013 17:15:32)

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