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Re:Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyp... by codeisawesome on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @09:39AM (#24697534)
Would be super interesting if this holds true for 'copying out' code as well... it's all the edge case handling that can get boring to re-type out without context / comments...
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Re:Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyp... by tsumnia on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @02:29PM (#24700855)
It does hold out! Here is a link to my research on retyping code [1]. To summarize my findings, students that regularly completed typing exercises earned higher course grades and submitted less erroneous code.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3373165.3373177

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Re:Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyp... by codeisawesome on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @09:56PM (#24704561)
Interesting - thanks!
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