Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels

Re:Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyp... by puzz on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @09:04AM (#24697237)

That's a cool idea. I once made a similar site but for a completely different purpose -- language learning. Unfortunately I never finished it but it's still in my TODO list.

The workflow was:

- you read the sentence

- the sentence disappears

- then you type from memory

- every time you mistype something -- the next couple of words appears for a few seconds and you keep typing

That way you not only learn to type that foreign language. But you also memorise the sentence in your short-time memory and you get a feel for sentences are created (order of words, phrases, etc.).

PS. Didn't finish the site, but I did made a simplified version as an Android app: https://github.com/tkrajina/10000sentences

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Re:Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyp... by 082349872349872 on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @09:34AM (#24697473)

The schtick of the Pimsleur Method was to train by starting with a chunk at the end of a sentence, and prepending until one had recall of the entire sentence. That way, once you get over the hump of the newer material, still fresh in mind, it's all downhill revising the older.

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Re:Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyp... by whoomp12342 on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @09:12AM (#24697299)

this is an amazing idea. I wonder if you could do it with an auditory fashion, I think that would be very useful too!

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