Typing practice

What are some tools/strategies you use to improve your typing? I've messed around a bit with gtypist and it's basically what I'm looking for but i'm curious if anyone can rec something better. The biggest issue for me is the stock text they use for lessons is excruciatingly boring. Thinking about writing a script to pull wikipedia articles or something and parse them into lesson files. Does such a thing already exist? I know the text is chosen for pedagogical purpose and not to be interesting, but I think it'd be easier to get practice in if it doubles as the kind of mindless reading I kill time with anyway.

Typing essays and "free typing" are the best imho. You don't react to external stimuli, but rather work on an internal model of what you want to produce.

>>16331 >What are some tools/strategies you use to improve your typing? I switched to using Dvorak over Qwerty and I also type a large amount of text every day, for practical purposes. Maybe you'll find value in joining an IRC channel, where you'll be expected to type quite a bit. Putting yourself in this position regularly should naturally improve your typing skills. I suggest always using full sentences and avoiding abbreviations, so you don't practice poor form.

i'm thinking of combining >>>/tech/24759 and >>>/r/16334

>>16332 can you elaborate on this? do you mean journaling your thoughts stream-of-consciousness? part of what i'm looking for is something meditative that i can do without putting a lot of thought into it like what would be required to write an essay. problem is, like i said, typing drills are boring. it would be nice to get a tiny bit of mental stimulation, like on par with watching tv. that's why i was thinking that copying wikipedia articles transcription style would fit the bill. >>16333 i do type quite a bit in my day to day life and i'm not slow per se but i feel like i could use some more structured practice to help with accuracy and building good habits. right now i'm essentially doing what you're suggesting (minus the dvorak for now) by just paying attention to where my hands are and making sure that I use the correct finger to press each key. >>16335 fair enough. my interest here is more about practicing typing as a skill rather than "what keyboard should i get" but the two are definitely related.

>>16337 nonono i'm suggesting you try https://zty.pe/ like i do with practicing colemak also i'm working on translating an article from Russian but with colemak, so it's double the learning and double the fun! same goes for qwerty dvoark and everything else, exposure and practice, bonus points when you make it all fun

>>16473 oh thanks for the rec, that game is really fun

Championship Typing can skyrocket your typing speed. Mine was 40WPM before, and 97WPM after. The strategy is, rather than typing words or sentences, to type one keystroke per letter. Because the eyes and mind can fluctuate during recognition and typing words and sentences, this strategy removes fluctuation, and gets down to letter recognition followed by single keystroke, repeat. The fastest Championship typist can type well over 100WPM. Unlearning prior strategies can be a challenge, but it can be done through repetition. Good luck and godspeed!

>>16808 Wow, that's a significant improvement. I could muster sixty wpm at best. Do you use QWERTY or switched to DVORAK?