This is something that started as a passion project - I wanted to see just how effective of a typing application I could make to help people improve typing speed quickly.
It’s very data driven and personalized. We analyze a lot of key weak points about a user’s typing and generate natural text (using LLMs) that target multiple key weak points at once.
Additionally we have a lot of typing modes.
- Code typing practice; we support 20+ programming languages
- daily typing test
- target practice; click on on any stat in the results and we generate natural text that uses a lot of that (bigrams, trigrams, words, fingers, etc).
I’ve tried it and really enjoyed how it works. I’d like to suggest a small UX improvement: for a typing app, it would be much easier to avoid using the mouse. When a practice ends, the user should be able to press the RETURN key to move to the next practice. (instead of clicking the Continue button)
That's a good point - we actually do have keyboard shortcuts but their discovery is definitely lacking! Using the return key as the default seems more intuitive - thanks for the suggestion!
This way - even if the user changes themes, the colors of the image will be consistent with whatever theme is currently active. Also - the loading time is near-instant since we don't need to fetch the img file for the blog post image - just render the svg.
Just skimming throught the first two paragraphs felt like I as reading a ChatGPT response. That and the fact that there's multiple em dashes in the intro alone.
Tangentially related, but I'm low key miffed that em dashes get a bad rep now because of AI.
They're a great way to "inject" something into a sentence, similar to how people speak in person. I feel like my written style has now gotten worse because I have to dumb it down, or I'll be anxious any writing/linguistic flourish will be interpreted as gen AI
i'll never give up the em dash. and i will continue to evangelize the en dash from now–forever (hint hint, ranges should use en dashes instead of hyphens).
I'm doubling down on emdashes. May even start using language-appropriate quotes too („aaa“ «bbb» 「ccc」and so on). This meme about surface-level LLM tells is actively dangerous.
> The loneliness. The pressure. The constant decision-making. The endless context switching. All the invisible work that isn’t coding. These are the things you learn once you’re already in it.
> It’s more chaotic and demanding than it looks, but also more rewarding in ways you don’t expect.
The first few lines immediately captured my attention because that's exactly how I've been feeling since going solo.
I left my big tech job about 5 months ago and started building my app - it's been a roller-coaster and I think this write-up summarizes how I've been feeling really well. I especially relate with the "constant decision making" - this can get exhausting; I definitely get decision fatigue frequently lol
For me, it immediately made me think of Psycho-Pass.
It’s a cyberpunk anime where society uses a system called the Sibyl System to constantly scan people’s mental states and “crime potential” (their Psycho-Pass).
People can be arrested before they’ve done anything - just because the system picked up certain signals from them.
https://typequicker.com
This is something that started as a passion project - I wanted to see just how effective of a typing application I could make to help people improve typing speed quickly.
It’s very data driven and personalized. We analyze a lot of key weak points about a user’s typing and generate natural text (using LLMs) that target multiple key weak points at once.
Additionally we have a lot of typing modes.
- Code typing practice; we support 20+ programming languages - daily typing test - target practice; click on on any stat in the results and we generate natural text that uses a lot of that (bigrams, trigrams, words, fingers, etc).