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Any good tools for learning blind typing?
Submitted 2 weeks ago by pixeldaemon@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Trex202@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I remember my parents in the 90s using a tea-towel over their hands and keyboard
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And put stickers on your keyboard. Start with a few on the home row and gradually expand once you don’t have to think about the location of the keys anymore.
Overkrill@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Overkrill@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
this is what we used in the mid 90s. weird but worked.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
one of the best things my parents did for us was make us learn to type
BloodMuffin@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Mavis beacon
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
www.keybr.com is a free 20 minutes a day practice tool that i tey to use daily. starts easy, then slowly ramps up to new letters for you to practice.
ryan_@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
When I was in high school I was playing WoW when Wrath came out. I was doing a lot of PUGs so there wasn’t any coordinated voice chat so I HAD to type in order to communicate, so that’s when I really learned to touch-type.
Lexam@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Good for you. I did not think typing was a skill that would be lost and so quickly. It boggles my mind they don’t teach it in school now.
luthis@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
Every time you type a wrong key, hit that finger with a hammer. You’ll only need to do it once or twice before you’ve terrified all the fingers into only ever pressing the right keys.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Playing a MMO.
You will learn where every button is. Or die trying.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They make games where you have to spell words quickly or you lose and that’s how I learned as a kid.
Like one where you’re in a spaceship and have to shoot lasers at asteroids that are coming at your ship. You have to spell the word that’s written on the asteroid to hit it with a laser.
Idk if any of them are free but they’re basically simple coded flash games so I’m sure you could find one on the internet pretty easily
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing! And Reader Rabbit. And Treasure Mountain (although that’s more math I think). Loved that shit as a kid.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In the 80’s we had games to learn touch typing that were very helpful and also quite fun, compared to old school methods.
Here’s a site that claims to have that sort of games:
www.typing.com/student/gamesmrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Mavis Beacon motherfucker!
Widdershins@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
1 Purchase The Typing of the Dead, the House of the Dead spinoff available for PC and Sega Dreamcast.
2 While TTotD is downloading or shipping go ahead and get some blacked out keyboard keys and install them.
Here’s the tricky part:
3 You have to learn to type or you will die.ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 weeks ago
nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
Learned Colemak there, liked it. Unfortunately, no support for more niche layouts, like regional variants of Colemak.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 weeks ago
Shit, I’ve checked it and now I’m thinking about learning a new layout. Thanks. Like I didn’t have enough things to do…
miyaheemiyahoo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
eyelids
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What if I don’t havs them?
antimongo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I used to be a hunt-and-peck typist. For me, first you have to build muscle memory for key fingerings, which key is pressed by what finger. Then you can start to get faster. Building a strong foundation first.
I would have this site open on one window: www.keybr.com
And this image on another for reference: Image
KeyBR has “levels” where you work on a specific set of letters first, until you’re fast enough and they give you then next set of letters, adding on to what you’ve already done.
Once you’ve completed all letters, you stop professing and just type words with all letters.
For me, after my first completion of keyBR, I spent a day or so practicing at the “endgame.” After that, I’d restart the entire module from scratch, back to the individual letters. Rinse and repeat.
After about a month or two, I was already touch-typing.
Then I got really into monkeytype.com, and started typing faster and faster.
billbasher@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Older but Mario Teaches Typing playclassic.games/…/play-mario-teaches-typing-onl…
CoffeeFriend@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The way I learned to type is by dividing my laptop screen into a left side, where I read, like the news, or Kindle, or some website I like, and a smaller right side that I don’t look at, where I type into Word, or simply Notepad. I went from zero to 60 words a minute fairly quickly. I’m so used to it now that I like to type the books I read. It helps me also because I’m a diagonal reader. Typing what I read forces me to slow down and assimilate more of what I’m reading.
waldfee@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
If you’re just getting started touch typing you may as well consider switching to a more comfortable layout like Dvorak for example before spending uncountable hours on learning qwerty
False@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nah, bring able to type on any common keyboard is more useful than a 50-100% speed increase. I can usually type faster than I can think. Typing isn’t usually the bottleneck.
Unless you feel like learning both.
dustyData@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s not about typing faster. Effectively the difference of speed between qwerty, dvorak, colemak, etc. Are significant but not very big.
It’s about avoiding repetitive strain injuries. If you type all day long for a living, something like carpal tunnel syndrome can destroy your career. Did you know that Emacs pinky is actually a type of injury. Anyways, keyboards are the number one source of RSI in office workers. Alternative keyboard layouts reduce fatigue and strain to hand ligaments by reducing the need for repeated awkward finger motions.
If you actually wanted to type as fast as people speak, you need something like a chorded steno keyboard. If you think you can type fast on qwerty, you have never seen a stenographer doing their thing.
waldfee@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
The keyboard itself doesn’t really matter for this, you just need to set the layout in your own computer and that’s it. Unless you often have to type on other people’s computers?
Unless you feel like learning both.
That’s a bad idea. It’ll just make you slow with either layout
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My first recommendation is maybe consider a different layout. If you have been typing for long you will have muscle memory that will be hard to erase, I could mostly blind type (though not touch type) on qwerty, I decided to learn Colemak for touch typing and have never looked back. I still retain the muscle memory and can type somewhat fast on qwerty but after years of correct typing I notice just how bad what I was doing was.
IIRC I used thetypingcat.com/typing-courses/basic and trained on that and similar websites for a long time. You have to know that you will be very slow during a while and have to be prepared for that, but it does pay out in the end. While I didn’t increased my typing speed significantly (70 to 85) it is a lot less strenuous on my hands.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Typing of the Dammed?
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Typing.com is how I learned and recommend people learn
Then I use typeracer to have some fun
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 2 weeks ago
I simply just painted over the keys on my keyboard so I couldn’t read the letters I had to keep some of the symbols tho
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
TypingMaster for PC was what I learned multiple keyboard formats. Now i use one on mobile and another for touch typing!
Its bery strange
9point6@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Honestly, just type a lot and try to get it done quickly. I never did anything specifically to try and learn, it just happened naturally following that for me.
I’ve heard people have a lot of success with various typing games, there’s a few on steam now if that’s your jam. Glyphica and The Typing of the Dead are the ones that immediately jump to mind
dihutenosa@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Just type stuff. Take a frequeent word you use, then repeat it until fluent.
notsosure@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
A keyboard or a typewriter?
CallMeAl@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Print out a big image of your keyboard layout and hang it on the wall in your line of sight where you type. Never look at the keyboard, only look at the image on the wall. It won’t take long to build the muscle memory this way.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This sounds like a good idea. How about getting a cheap projector to project a keyboard visualizer for immediate feedback and practicing?
CallMeAl@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Personally, I don’t think its needed. You can look at the screen for immediate feedback of what you typed and there are typing practice games which certainly help with good practice.