Has anyone given any thought to submitting a press release about Colemak to PRWeb? (http://www.prweb.com/)
It costs $80-$360 depending on how much visibility you want for it, but it might be worth considering to bring it to the attention of journalists etc.
I have a better tactic..
What if someone just make a new typing record with Colemak, then the PR will be all free of charge! :)
You're nominated! :-)
lmao.. I'll second that!
I'm not volunteering, but for fun I tried to beat my record today. And I beat it!
Well, only by one character ;-) My old record was 630 characters per minute, and my new record is 631 characters per minute, so it still calculates as 126 WPM.
I'm having difficulty improving now, which is not surprising since there is no longer any specific weakness in my typing. Rather, there is a wide range of little weaknesses which I can only improve on gradually.
However, it makes me thing I should revisit the idea of adding statistics to the test which can point out your weakest words, letters and letter combinations.
My typing record: http://hi-games.net/typing-test/watch?u=1
However, it makes me thing I should revisit the idea of adding statistics to the test which can point out your weakest words, letters and letter combinations.
If you can do that it would certainly make your website more unique place for people to come work on their typing skills. It's a nice setup now for testing speed, but I have actually been using it to work on my speed by trying to slow down some and work on a more consistent rhythm.
This may be asking for too much but imagine a graph showing a line of instantaneous typing speed versus an time or versus the characters.
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Hopefully something that nifty done as well as what you have already done would attract more traffic that would help your advertising revenue and expose Colemak to more people at the same time, so it would be a win-win.
To return to the original topic:
Has anyone given any thought to submitting a press release about Colemak to PRWeb? (http://www.prweb.com/)
It costs $80-$360 depending on how much visibility you want for it, but it might be worth considering to bring it to the attention of journalists etc.
May be worth thinking about, but a press release needs a newsworthy event to hang it on. How about the first official releases of one of the major Linux distros with built-in Colemak support, e.g. Ubuntu release 8.04 (Hardy Heron) on 24 April? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28Linux_distribution%29#Releases.)
I have no experience in PR, but I'm not sure if PRWeb would be the best vehicle for such a press release - from a quick look it appears to be mainly about improving search-engine visibility. Might be cheaper to submit a press release directly to the various Linux magazines and websites.
If any magazines pick it up it would also help establish notability on Wikipedia.
imagine a graph showing a line of instantaneous typing speed versus an time or versus the characters.
What is really far more helpful in my opinion is an analysis that finds your most common mistake patterns. But if I have time, this graph would also be fun to make :-)
Until then, there is a lot you can notice and improve upon just by watching the replay. I noticed my two biggest problems: 1) I look ahead 4 or 5 characters so that my finger prepares to move into position to type a key ahead of time. In a word like "analysis" I found that my right index finger might prepare to type "l" even before it has typed "n". So I need to be careful when the same finger is planning to type two keys. 2) Once again with same finger repetition, I often miss one of the presses (typically the first one since I try to hit it quickly for speed).
My typing record: http://hi-games.net/typing-test/watch?u=1
