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amlutoHNSource authorAug 23

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One typo should not become ten mistakes

amluto points out a frustrating typing-tutor behavior: one extra or missing character can turn every following character into an error. They suggest edit distance, with a bounded correction region near the caret, as a design direction worth exploring.

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“This, like almost every typing training system out there, suffers from my pet peeve: if you type an extra character or miss a character,”
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ffsm8HNAug 23

> This, like almost every typing training system out there, suffers from my pet peeve Did you know about https://zty.pe/ It's a pretty old one at this point, but fantastic implementation

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hombre_fatalHNAug 23

I think what makes that so annoying is having to backtrack which is super jarring. One idea is letting you press enter to jump to the start of the next word and immediately resume.

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SeanLukeHNAug 23

I was trained to type two spaces after a period: it's in my muscle memory. This website treats it as a mistake. No typing teacher would downgrade for that. It's awful.

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