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This has to be rage bait lol

My thoughts exactly haha

Yeah - definitely there's always a few engineers with custom keyboards who type like 200wpm but on average its folks who seem to look down occasionally and type fairly slow (noticable when they're screensharing)

I worked at FAANG and at a few mid tier companies and in my experience that hasn’t been the case with majority of my coworkers surprisingly

> I am convinced that AI is going to be a force for evil.

In so many ways too. I cannot fathom the scale of mass data collection and surveillance.

Multiple people I’ve recently spoken with (very smart and educated people) consistently are using it to discuss some of the most intimate things about their life.

Things that no existing social media platforms or any other tools are simply capable of that.

> It's like meditation but actually useful.

Exactly this. I share this sentiment. Great post - I actually wrote about this same thing recently: https://www.typequicker.com/blog/learn-touch-typing

Yeah this is really good site!!

I used it for a while but plateaued after some time. Using https://www.typequicker.com/practice now - has more detailed stats and a daily typing test with a leaderboard to motivate me to do at least a little each day Lol

Wow, insane numbers!

Give typequicker.com/practice a try -(we’ve got a few text topics to choose from and capitals, numbers, etc) - just hit configure

It takes very little time/effort to improve honestly :)

Coincidentally, I actually wrote about this recently as well:

https://www.typequicker.com/blog/how-to-type-faster

Yeah, I saw this and didn’t like this either tbh lol

Prefer monkeytype or typequicker

> but just doing a typing run at the beginning of the day feels like a really refreshing thing to do.

You might like typequicker.com - I added a daily typing test for this reason (has a daily leaderboard as well)

My friends now all ask each other “have you done the dsily?” lol

Give it a shot :)

To be honest I could never get into keybr - typing random words is kind of boring and pointless. I saw much better progress on monkeytype, typingclub and now typequicker

> When there is almost zero friction getting thoughts into code it's very easy to enter a flow state

Couldn’t have said better myself - I learned touch typing and vim in parallel early in my early days and doing any text work is a bliss

I literally wrote about this a couple days ago: https://www.typequicker.com/blog/how-to-type-faster

> There’s special pain involved in watching someone type slowly. Even worse when there’s repeated mistakes.

Oh yeah - it’s rough. I’ve gone fully down the rabbit hole lol.

Typed on various sites, then built my own (typequicker.com if you want to give it a shot), then discovered vim, then QMK, then built my own keyboard and completely modded, etc, etc. Got really comfortable navigating with shortcuts, etc

Having to screen share and someone who is sharing then struggles for a while looking for the pipe character when they’re typing out a shell command I told them…it’s rough.

I feel folks though - typing correctly and typing fast is never taught. There are no standardized systems in place that emphasize this. (Which is another reason I built the app lol )

> Typing fast is a way to unlock the brain.

Cannot emphasize this enough. I literally built my own typing app for this reason - plateaued on monkeytype and wanted better detailed stats so I build typequicker.com

Yeah, I agree. It feels strange typing non existent words lol.

Used monkeytype for a while but then recently launched my own site: typequicker.com and been using it since

Would you consider giving it a go? Any feedback is appreciated

> I have yet to meet someone who replies "me too" when I mention I use dvorak-fr.

I see - that's something I was afraid of. Way before releasing Type Quicker I had actually started working on adding all these layouts but put that on hold to prioritize other things. So far, it seems QWERTY is still like like 99% of users

Hey!

Thanks a lot for checking out the site - OP and creator here.

> That makes it easier to follow and learn

Yeah, that was my goal. It's pretty much what I used to learn as well.

I started this site ages and slowly added more and more features. I wanted to improve my coding skills while improving typing.

Primagaen always said to build what you want and use, so that's what I did haha

I will be adding many more features - I have a massive list! Thanks for the support. Any feedback is welcome: issues@typequicker.com

> I'm surprised that we are mentioning a paid site here and we are not mentioning tools like monkeytype and typeracer where you can do good practice for absolute free. In this particular space monkeytype is a super customizable tool that can fit tons of different people.

OP and site creator here.

Yeah I agree, monkeytype and typeracer are awesome! Huge fan and user of both.

I've just released this TypeQuicker app and I'm figuring out the best ways to monetize. I'm really hoping never run ads (I'm huge into anti-ad websites. I pay for things like Kagi for example, even though Google Search is free to use) which is why I'm settling for the freemium model (with some paid features).

For the record, everything the other sites you mentioned, I offer for free by the way :)

The paid features on https://www.typequicker.com/pricing are for AI powered, personalized learning. SmartPractice which analyses typing history and creates personalized, natural text focusing on user weakpoints, target practice to generate natural text based on certain sequences, etc.

Check out the video demo at the pricing page I added - I don't think any site offers this for free and that's all I'm charging for (I need to pay for the LLM API).

Let me know your thoughts! I'm really passionate about typing, keyboards, etc. I want to build the best typing platform and I want it to be valuable.

Oh interesting!

I'm going to be adding additional keyboard layouts to https://www.typequicker.com/practice soon for the keyboard visualization. This might help people who are starting to learn it.

Dvorak seems to be mentioned frequently on this thread alone - I was surprised how many folks use this layout.

> normal keyboards are strictly inferior.

Amen.

Had terrible pain in wrists. Switching keyboards, learning touch typing, learning to use just enough force when typing, etc helped with wrist pain so much

Hey - see my reply to the top comment on this thread about my experience with hand pain.

> I wonder whether it is just a lack of getting used to it or whether people who do the full on touch typing a lot just fuck up their body regularly.

For me it was a matter of getting used it and building up that finger dexterity. Mind you, I now use an ortho, split keyboard (Kinesis adanvatage 2 ) and touch typing on it, hitting "c" feels natural for me.

I can see how on other keyboards it may not be the case.

Touch typing "best practice" is after all just a general guideline. These things vary so much because everyone has different keyboards, different sized hands (different finger length).

My suggestion is to focus on not tensing up and using just enough force to trigger the key when typing. Starting from touch typing and then adjusting the technique to your own preferences over time.

I've seen typist who do 200wpm+ by a technique that they came up on their own based on touch typing.

> I get pretty bad wrist/finger pain (rsi I guess?)

First of all, I'm really sorry. Persistent rsi/hand pain was brutal and terrifying for me. I went through a heavy phase where I even considered having to quit my dream job at the time at a financial tech start-up.

I had a mentor (software dev) at this company who shared his story - and he had rsi and it flared up so bad at one point he said he took ~6months sabbatical to recover.

Treat it seriously and look for ways to improve if it's bothersome and gets worse.

Things that helped me:

- rest, breaks, stretching, drink water, frequently - less gaming (I played a lot of league of legends) - learning to type with correct force (often overlooked topic). Practice typing slowly and gently so that you're pressing keys just hard enough to trigger the switch. Mindful, typing practice. Don't focus on speed or accuracy - just the force - switching keyboards; I went through a huge phase of various keybaord (corne/crknbd, various other mechanical keyboards, different layouts) and finally settled on a QMK-modded Kinesis Advantage 2. It's expensive but worth it. My mentor that I mentioned had it too and he recommend it a lot. - breathing; something I'm still working on. I learned that as most people type, they don't breathe and tense up. This has negative effects on your muscles/tissues and leads to unnecessary strain. - posture (split, ergo, ortho keyboards help with posture naturally).

Good luck - wrist pain is scary but it's really improved for me. I typed a lot every day - programming, prompting, messages, emails, etc and no pain. (It's fucking magical)

That's commitment - I love it!

I'm learning a bit more about various layouts that people use - I'm considering adding a feature to my https://www.typequicker.com/practice where folks can build any layout (and have the hand+keyboard visualization of that layout they built).

Do you think this would be appealing to folks who try alternative layouts? It would involve a bit of work from my end so I want to prioritize accordingly on my TODOs

> I repeatedly cheated by lifting the paper obscuring my hands and never learned how to type

Haha, this is how I feel towards a second language. In Canada, French classes are mandantory to a certain grade - I wish I put in more effort - it's so fun knowing other languages even a bit

> It's a notable lifetime regret!

Change that ;).

Never to late - I built https://www.typequicker.com/practice (I'd welcome the feedback as well!) for this reason.

I learned touch typing in my mid twenties - took me a while to get to my current speed (partially also because I explored various split keyboards and layouts and such) but it's just a few minutes every few days

Yeah, absolutely - this is a big one for sure.

I was lucky that I picked up during school so that it wasn't as much of a sacrifice of productivity.

What is your current typing habit? Do you pick-peck or is it some variation of the standard touch typing technique.

One thing I tried when I started touch typing as well was to progressively learn it. e.g.: "I'm just going to focus on using the correct finger for this one symbol/character for now" and just do that until it became natural. Can integrate that into your work potentially?

Oh that's a smart idea!

Did you intentionally order custom keycaps and replace it on your keyboard?

One solution I'm trying out to help users is on https://www.typequicker.com/practice I added a keyboard + hand visualization guide - to help so that folks get used to not looking down on their keyboard.

> Not sure if schools still have typing classes now

They don't!

My high school nor elementary school didn't have it - even though we literally had a computer class. It was never even mentioned.

Most universities don't have it. It's mind blowing - it's such a common activity across every desk job and yet no one is teaching it.

Oh interesting! Was a course in school that was required?

It's a shame that there's no standardized typing courses or tests nowadays. It's such a critical skill...

I often compare touch typing (and just typing fast in general) to a chef's knife skills in the kitchen.

You'd be bullied out of a kitchen immediately if you didn't know how to cut/chop properly. Yet when it comes to typing, it's not the case even though folks type on keyboards on their jobs all day long.

Hey!

> I like this site, I have been trying.

Thanks a lot - was nervous to release it so having validation is great! I would have happily continued tinkering with it in my code cave while continuing to delay the release date lol

> One suggestion to you OP, if there is a way you can make lessons and if one can practice through one by one, it would be great!

I have a feature I'm working on that's exactly this - a progression type mode. I will prioritize it on next release! Thank you for the feedback and confirming the feature idea :)