<story><title>Practice typing by retyping entire novels</title><url>https://www.typelit.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davisoneee</author><text>I have recently started trying to learn colemak[^3], and came across the great cross-platform tool Amphetype[^1].&lt;p&gt;You can load in whatever document you want as a source, and it&amp;#x27;ll randomly select chunks of whatever size you want (i.e. about 200 words-worth). It then gives you analysis of your performance, as well as breaking down what trigrams and words cause you the most trouble.&lt;p&gt;Combine this with ngram training to get the muscle memory of the most common chunks of english and you can really quickly improve your fluency [^2].&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.com&amp;#x2F;franksh&amp;#x2F;amphetype&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.com&amp;#x2F;franksh&amp;#x2F;amphetype&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ranelpadon.github.io&amp;#x2F;ngram-type&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ranelpadon.github.io&amp;#x2F;ngram-type&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;3: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gnusenpai.github.io&amp;#x2F;colemakclub&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gnusenpai.github.io&amp;#x2F;colemakclub&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vlmutolo</author><text>Do you use Vim or a modal editor? I’ve been considering switching to Colemak, but I can’t figure out how I’d get past the fact that hjkl would be in a different spot.&lt;p&gt;I could change the shortcuts in software, but then it starts a cascade of changed shortcuts. Plus, I could then only use software that I’ve specifically configured. How do you SSH into a server?</text></comment>
<story><title>Practice typing by retyping entire novels</title><url>https://www.typelit.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davisoneee</author><text>I have recently started trying to learn colemak[^3], and came across the great cross-platform tool Amphetype[^1].&lt;p&gt;You can load in whatever document you want as a source, and it&amp;#x27;ll randomly select chunks of whatever size you want (i.e. about 200 words-worth). It then gives you analysis of your performance, as well as breaking down what trigrams and words cause you the most trouble.&lt;p&gt;Combine this with ngram training to get the muscle memory of the most common chunks of english and you can really quickly improve your fluency [^2].&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.com&amp;#x2F;franksh&amp;#x2F;amphetype&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.com&amp;#x2F;franksh&amp;#x2F;amphetype&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ranelpadon.github.io&amp;#x2F;ngram-type&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ranelpadon.github.io&amp;#x2F;ngram-type&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;3: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gnusenpai.github.io&amp;#x2F;colemakclub&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gnusenpai.github.io&amp;#x2F;colemakclub&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_duke</author><text>As a point of warning: at some point I started learning Dvorak.&lt;p&gt;I learned it well, switched to it completely, and it was great.&lt;p&gt;Except that it was absolutely horrible.&lt;p&gt;Not because of the layout, but: maybe it&amp;#x27;s just me, but I completely un-learned QWERTY.&lt;p&gt;Every time I had to touch someone else&amp;#x27;s computer, or a phone, or work with some kind of QWERTY embedded keyboard, it devolved into either immediately switching the layout, or looking like a clueless old person doing one finger typing while staring at the keyboard.</text></comment>