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Little games to play with Morse Code in the browser

51 pointsby otrasover 3 years ago

6 comments

curiousfabover 3 years ago
The timing sounds off (incorrect dot-dash-pause ratio) and the characters are not well shaped keyed, not very pleasant. There are much better options, among others:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;morsecode.world&#x2F;international&#x2F;trainer&#x2F;trainer.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;morsecode.world&#x2F;international&#x2F;trainer&#x2F;trainer.html</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lcwo.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lcwo.net&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elkins.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elkins.org&#x2F;</a><p>Here&#x27;s a comprehensive list of Morse resources:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;morsecode.ninja&#x2F;resources&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;morsecode.ninja&#x2F;resources&#x2F;index.html</a>
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ummwhatover 3 years ago
I recently learned Morse code. Long story short, for a while my life took a strange turn where I had full reign over someone else&#x27;s Airbnb, and was free to modify the place in my image. We found this big light fixture meant for the ceiling, but in a moment of divine inspiration put it out on the fire escape and ran the wire to the house server as our &quot;semaphore&quot;. Originally I was going to add server code to translate messages from some API endpoint into Morse. But just to get things off the ground, I set it up as a normal light switch and started keying in messages by hand.<p>I spent a few afternoons keying out random silly &#x2F; vulgar messages. Stuff like &quot;- .... . &#x2F; ..-. -.-. -.-. &#x2F; .-- - -. - &#x2F; .-.. . - &#x2F; -- . &#x2F; -...&quot;, &quot;- .... . &#x2F; .-.. .. --. .... - ... &#x2F; -. --- - &#x2F; - .- .-.. -.- .. -. --. &#x2F; -.-- --- ..- &#x2F; .... .- ...- . &#x2F; --. --- -. . &#x2F; -- .- -..&quot; and &quot;.. -- &#x2F; -- . ... ... .- -.. .. -. -.. &#x2F; .- -... --- ..- - &#x2F; -.-- --- ..- .-. &#x2F; -.-. .- .-. ... &#x2F; . -..- - . -. -.. . -.. &#x2F; .-- .- .-. .-. .- -. - -.--&quot;. At first I had to look at a Morse reference sheet while keying these in, but after a few hours I was no longer looking at the sheet.<p>Moral of the story, it only takes a few bored afternoons to learn Morse. You should do it.
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SaberTailover 3 years ago
The trick to getting good at Morse code is to learn how the letters (and eventually words) sound, rather than parsing individual dits and dahs. I wouldn&#x27;t recommend using this on anything but the &quot;fast&quot; speed, and even then, it&#x27;s almost too slow.<p>I&#x27;ll second the recommendation of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lcwo.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lcwo.net</a> . That&#x27;s how I learned it, and I was able to get up to about 10 wpm after a couple months of practice.
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nickcwover 3 years ago
This is a fun game - more Morse code games are a good idea!<p>The slow setting is painfully slow though - that isn&#x27;t teaching the right sound of the morse code.<p>So I&#x27;d suggest the minimum letter speed should be 20wpm but with spacing between the letters to make it easier to understand when you get up to words.<p>Note dot time in ms is 1200&#x2F;wpm if that helps!<p>PS speaking as someone who can do morse at about 15 wpm now after having studied on LCWO for quite a few months!
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sirmarksalotover 3 years ago
I&#x27;m seeing a bug where if you interrupt a listening exercise, i.e. by pressing &quot;try again&quot; because you missed something, it starts playing it at max speed. Any ideas what could be causing this?
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sundarurfriendover 3 years ago
A question: Is there a shortcut for the &quot;Try again&quot; button?<p>And a suggestion: Pressing that button clears the input, which is annoying when you have partial input correctly entered there.
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