Playing a MMO.
You will learn where every button is. Or die trying.
Any good tools for learning blind typing?
Submitted 13 hours ago by pixeldaemon@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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VitoRobles@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
CallMeAl@piefed.zip 13 hours 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 12 hours 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 12 hours 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.
makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Trex202@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I remember my parents in the 90s using a tea-towel over their hands and keyboard
Widdershins@lemmy.world 4 hours 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.Overkrill@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
Overkrill@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
this is what we used in the mid 90s. weird but worked.
BloodMuffin@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
Mavis beacon
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 13 hours 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.
ryan_@piefed.social 11 hours 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.
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 12 hours 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.
Lexam@lemmy.world 11 hours 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.
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 4 hours 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
Buffalox@lemmy.world 12 hours 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/gamesluthis@lemmy.nz 11 hours 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.
CoffeeFriend@lemmy.world 9 hours 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.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 10 hours ago
nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 10 hours ago
Learned Colemak there, liked it. Unfortunately, no support for more niche layouts, like regional variants of Colemak.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 10 hours 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…
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 7 hours ago
Typing of the Dammed?
miyaheemiyahoo@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
eyelids
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
What if I don’t havs them?
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 6 hours 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.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 11 hours 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 11 hours 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
Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
You you like guitar music?
dihutenosa@piefed.social 12 hours ago
Just type stuff. Take a frequeent word you use, then repeat it until fluent.
notsosure@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
A keyboard or a typewriter?
Mok98@feddit.it 12 hours ago
Typeracer
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 12 hours ago
I learned it by getting an a3 sized piece of light cardboard and a bit of string, hanging the cardboard around your neck so that it blocks the view of the keyboard, and then get a tool like https://klavaro.sourceforge.io/en/index.html for training (In school we used TippFix, an ancient Dos-based tool. Because this was a Computer Science School and we all were lazy fucks back then, someone in our class created a TSR Program which allowed people to simple hold Alt-Ctrl-LShift and it typed automatically and towards the end of the graded lessons we simply made 2 or 3 typos on purpose for plausible deniability, buy you also could simply edit the plain text files to contain rows consisting of a single letter)
frischkaesbagett@feddit.org 13 hours ago
Use neo-layout on normal keyboard /s
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 3 hours 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 hours ago
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing! And Reader Rabbit. And Treasure Mountain (although that’s more math I think). Loved that shit as a kid.