Emacs Typing Tutor
Recently I have been looking into learning how to type better as well. I can type at over 100 wpm without trying, but I do so in a weird way that I learned as a kid and never learned &quot;proper&quot; typing. I cringe at the thought of some of the stretching I force my fingers to do on a daily basis. While I don&#x27;t yet have any RSI problems, I want to keep it that way so I looked into ergonomic keyboards and got an Ergodox EZ, a split ortholinear keyboard. I also looked into alternative layouts that were more ergonomic and set up Colemak Mod-DH on the keyboard.<p>To help learn how to type from scratch I used keybr.com. It teaches you common short English morphemes like &quot;ing,&quot; &quot;ent,&quot; etc. It starts you off with very few letters and slowly introduces new ones. I believe this aligns well with Yegge&#x27;s guitar lick analogy that the author links to in the first paragraph, in contrast to the author&#x27;s mention of the &quot;speed-type&quot; package which presents you with a real passage from a book.<p>After having used keybr.com I am not sure if the morpheme method has any advantage over the &quot;full passage&quot; method. In theory it makes sense, but I found that after months of practice I was still only presented with morphemes using a handful of letters, so typing any real words was still a big challenge. It also doesn&#x27;t expose you to any punctuation which was a particular challenge due to the keyboard I used.<p>I would recommend giving keybr.com a try, but I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if something that uses real passages would be more effective.<p>As for my progress, I gave up after a couple months. I think I made the mistake of changing too many factors at once. I will try again learning &quot;proper&quot; QWERTY first, then consider switching to a split keyboard, and only <i>then</i> consider switching to Colemak.