Show HN: Keyboard Drill – Minimalist Typing Drill to fix common mistakes

Re:Show HN: Keyboard Drill – Minimalist Typing Drill to fix ... by kuehle on Sunday January 09, 2022 @05:05PM (#29867786)

Do you have any ideas for the feedback when your speed is to low? I am not a designer and struggle to find ideas that keep the UI as minimal as it is right now while improving the user experience.

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Re:Show HN: Keyboard Drill – Minimalist Typing Drill to fix ... by chronogram on Sunday January 09, 2022 @06:03PM (#29868322)

I like the minimal feedback as it is right now: you just have to try again.

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Re:Show HN: Keyboard Drill – Minimalist Typing Drill to fix ... by brownbat on Monday January 10, 2022 @07:33AM (#29873816)

A hint at what wpm I just typed at would be nice. So if I only hit 50 wpm a 50 off to the side or below the dotted line.

This is fascinating when picking a liminal wpm. Single hand words are so much harder.

I can cruise along until I hit words like "exact"

EDIT: You could make a list of bigrams as people type and average the wpm for words with that bigram, then you could weight the randomly chosen words by the difficulty of the bigrams, to really help people focus on their biggest stumbling blocks.

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Re:Show HN: Keyboard Drill – Minimalist Typing Drill to fix ... by fouc on Sunday January 09, 2022 @09:00PM (#29869691)

the dashed line under the input could be briefly turned red (for 400-500ms) when you clear it on fail

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Re:Show HN: Keyboard Drill – Minimalist Typing Drill to fix ... by doctorbuttes on Monday January 10, 2022 @12:56AM (#29871159)

I think just a brief "too slow" underneath the input would suffice.

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