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Practice typing by retyping ENTIRE novels
This reminds me of the a utility I made early in my career to type over quotes or fortune output with GNU Typist: https://github.com/micimize/type-quotes. IIRC the included json sources were munged from fortune files.
I think about it a lot in comparison to the vast swath of more ambitious or complicated projects I've done. Such a small script I threw together due to an immediate want, that still has merit and potential utility a decade later.
amphetype
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How to master a new layout?
For special symbols, there was actually a dedicated web app; I can't find it atm though a quick search yields results such as typing.io. You can also import such text into an universal typing-practice application such as Amphetype.
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Practice typing by retyping ENTIRE novels
I have recently started trying to learn colemak[^3], and came across the great cross-platform tool Amphetype[^1].
You can load in whatever document you want as a source, and it'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.
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].
1: https://gitlab.com/franksh/amphetype
2: https://ranelpadon.github.io/ngram-type/
3: https://gnusenpai.github.io/colemakclub/
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Typing Software and Less-Common Layouts?
FYI the current Amphetype version is here.
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QMK: Tap Dancing, Chords, and Combos ( oh my )
I guess try Amphetype and look at the 'viscosity' metric.
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Ergo keyboard? for a mech-noob
The README says you should download it from releases.
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Where is the best place to learn how to type faster?
Keep statistics that show you progress (because of motivation) and allow you to identify areas that you should improve. Specifically, I recommend using Amphetype, because it tracks typing fluency (latency between keystrokes) among other things.
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Touch typing tutor for ergo keyboards
AFAIK Amphetype is by far the best [free] application that lets you import any text you like and tracks a lot of statistics including fluency.
What are some alternatives?
speed-type - Practice touch/speed typing in emacs
monkeytype - The most customizable typing website with a minimalistic design and a ton of features. Test yourself in various modes, track your progress and improve your speed.
tridactyl - A Vim-like interface for Firefox, inspired by Vimperator/Pentadactyl.
mltype - Command line tool for improving typing skills (programmers friendly)
miryoku - Miryoku is an ergonomic, minimal, orthogonal, and universal keyboard layout.
vim-colemak - Colemak key mappings for Vim. Consider using Coleremak instead.
colemakclub - Fork of colemak.academy