Show HN: Keyboard Drill – Minimalist Typing Drill to fix common mistakes

I&#x27;ve created this small project to fix my own typing and thought you might benefit from it as well.<p>To calculate the WPM words with 5 letters are taken. To reach e.g. 80 WPM you&#x27;d have 150ms per character.<p>The application uses ~1000 most common english words and only gives you the next word once you&#x27;ve cleared the word in the calculated time.<p>The time is measured only as soon as you press the first key.<p>Give it a try.<p>Controls: [Space] or [Enter] to complete a word. [Esc] to move on to a next word<p>Click [wpm] to set your target speed. The default is quite low but you might still find words that you can&#x27;t type within the time limit. Click [log] to see a log of your individual attempts.<p>How it was build:<p>No dependencies, single html file<p>Respects system preferences for dark them<p>Keyboard friendly (autofocus, tab &amp; enter for settings, etc.)<p>Next up:<p>Using Service Workers to allow offline usage

I have tried several times to relearn typing, but each time I&#x27;ve fallen back to my old ways. Has anyone actually been successful in learning how to type correctly from scratch? If so, how did you do it?

I really like it, great work!<p>It would be great if [Enter]&#x2F;[Space] would clear a wrongly typed word, maybe with some visual indication that it wasn&#x27;t typed correctly and maybe also show the mistyped word. Having to delete the word because of a single mistake really takes you out of the flow, and the timer doesn&#x27;t reset till you delete and retype the word correctly.<p>Displaying the target ms&#x2F;character for the specified word count might also be beneficial to quantify what you&#x27;re working toward.

the minimalist interface have so much potential<p>edited&#x2F;failed words should be silently saved to a separate list the performance of every word typed ranked 2&#x2F;3&#x2F;4&#x2F;5 characters that occur consecutively should be analysed also to learn about user&#x27;s weakness<p>all then can be used to reappear in optimal learning interval so user can improve :)

This is super addictive... it would be nice if the word cleared instantly without hitting enter, having to stretch my pinky so often is kind of hurting my wrist. It&#x27;d also be nice if clearing the text box reset the timer so I could just start over when I make a typo (I either have to fix the typo, which is bad practice, or type the word twice).

Looks good. My wish list (some of these are mentioned below by others):<p>- don&#x27;t worry about target wpm, just worry about getting faster from a baseline and automatically adjust that baseline from current speed.<p>- repeat words that recently failed &#x2F; took longer to type after some spacing (spaced repetition)<p>- fail words which are committed rather than making me correct them to continue (I&#x27;m of two minds about this, is correcting a mistake faster than just continuing and coming back to mistakes or the other way around?)<p>- consider a prose mode that shows more context to type (grab some paragraphs from project gutenburg perhaps?)<p>- consider a code mode (more difficult as autocomplete is a thing and different per IDE)

Enjoyed this, though as a typist in British English some American spellings really tripped me up

Feels like it needs some sort of feedback when you type too slowly to get the next word. Plus maybe making it a bit more obvious that you can select a target speed for the WPM.

Cool! But, as someone who used to be very competitive with fast touch typing and then suffered some long-term injuries, I say do not overdo it. It hurts your fingers. Learn how to type correctly, but do not hurt your fingers and do not aim for speed.<p>Even though I have recovered physically, my fingers still (mentally) hurt when I try to type very fast. It hurts even when I think about it.

It&#x27;s a cool challenge! I tried it at 90wpm and cleared most words. Some I had to do 2 or 3 times to do fast enough. Then I hit my nemesis: I can&#x27;t type &quot;necessary&quot; fast enough for 90wpm. Tried it 20 times.

It&#x27;s good stuff. It might be good to have an option to have a time threshold based on when the typing starts, not when the word appears. In that way, the time taken to recognise the word becomes irrelevant.

I don&#x27;t know if it works, but it is addictive...

not going to lie, I was hoping this would be a power drill somehow reconfigured to output keystrokes