Show HN: keyzen - my touch typing trainer geared towards programmers.

Posted by wwwtyro on Saturday February 25, 2012 @03:51PM
from the show-hn dept.

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Re:Show HN: keyzen - my touch typing trainer geared towards ... by joshkaufman on Saturday February 25, 2012 @07:30PM (#3634339)

Excellent - I'm planning to use this with Z-Type (http://www.phoboslab.org/ztype/) to learn Colemak. Thanks!

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Re:Show HN: keyzen - my touch typing trainer geared towards ... by wwwtyro on Saturday February 25, 2012 @09:20PM (#3634566)

Wow - that's a lot of fun!

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Re:Show HN: keyzen - my touch typing trainer geared towards ... by joshkaufman on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @07:07PM (#3677964)

Update: forked keyzen to make a Colemak version - https://github.com/eurekaoverdrive/keyzen-colemak

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Re:Show HN: keyzen - my touch typing trainer geared towards ... by epikur on Saturday February 25, 2012 @10:54PM (#3634748)

Spacebar doesn't work in chrome/win7... unless I'm in incognito mode. I'm not sure why.

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Re:Show HN: keyzen - my touch typing trainer geared towards ... by kallus on Saturday February 25, 2012 @04:02PM (#3633843)

Doesn't one learn faster by typing words instead of random letters?

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Re:Show HN: keyzen - my touch typing trainer geared towards ... by prinny on Saturday February 25, 2012 @06:09PM (#3634136)

I think this approach helps to avoid simply building up muscle memory for certain words.

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Re:Show HN: keyzen - my touch typing trainer geared towards ... by jtokoph on Saturday February 25, 2012 @06:55PM (#3634265)

The touchtyping keyboard layouts are based on n-grams in real words

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Re:Show HN: keyzen - my touch typing trainer geared towards ... by christiangenco on Sunday February 26, 2012 @11:37AM (#3635956)

Finally, a reason to force myself to touch-type numbers.

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