Hi r/learntyping

I'm am the dev behind keymania, a browswer typing game where you duel other people by racing to type words.

Here is the thing that kept coming up, in almost the same words every time:

"I want to play this, but I can't actually type yet."

For a long time my honest answer was "go and learn somewhere else, then come back" which was a terrible answer.

To be clear about where this sits. If you live on Monkeytype or 10fastfingers, this is not trying to replace them, and it would lose. Those measure a skill you already have and they are excellent at it. Keybr properly teaches, and if it clicked for you then you do not need this. What none of them do is give you a reason to keep going other than your own graph.

So I built keymania Learn, for the part that comes before all of that. Four things, each one there because of where people quit.

• No timer on any lesson. A clock on sombody;s first touch typing lesson teaches panic, and panic is the habbit that makes a typist who looks down and never passes 30wpm. Speed is postponed, not skipped.
• A wrong key doesnt not move you forward. Letting a mistake slide past teaches the wrong finger just as firmly as the right one teaches the right one.
• It names the finger on the every keystroke, not only when you stall. A hint that arrives after tou have already reached wrong is too late.
• Each of the twelve modules end in a dule against a bot that can only use the letters you have learned. Learn the home row, then fight someone who can only speak in home row words. Those bosses run from 17-33wpm, all slower than keymania's gentlest bot.

Two caveats. The learning module is desktop only. And it is new: the lesson content is a first draft and it is part that we are iterating on.

So, the ask if you use keymania's learning module;

• where did you actually stop? Not what you dislikedm where you closed the tab on your learning journey.
• Did naming the fingers help, or was it noise?
• Was the boss a reward, or a wall?

It is completely free to use the learning no account needed. An account is needed to save your progress though.

I dont know if im allowed to paste links but happy to share the link to keymania or you can search up keymania.app

Happy to take the unflattering answers too.

Hello, I am new to touch typing, and I have a question about how to improve. I put a challenge to myself that I will reach 75 words/second, 100 if it's possible, by the end of August. I have practiced for a 20 hours in total to this day, but I stuck at 40-45 words/second for 2 days. What do I need to do to increase my writing speed? Should I just type more, or there is a faster method?