I ended up with a combination of touch typing and my previous typing, which made the accuracy worse. My lack of accuracy frustrated me and slowed me down. You get to type paragraphs from novels and it will tell you what you've typed, so that's quite interesting. Unlike the other two sites, if you make a mistake you have to fix it, you can't just continue. Mostly I've just practised, rather than racing other people. TypeRacer is all about speed, so I haven't done it as much. Whereas in the lessons some of the things you type are just bizarre. It also has choose your own adventure games, so you get to read a story while typing. I found it because I was looking for typing games and discovered it has one that's like Fruit Ninja (which I love) but instead of swiping the screen you press letters on the keyboard. So you can practise typing HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Usefully, for coding, it has a coding section. It also keeps track of how long you've been typing so you can set a goal and it will tell you when you've reached it. It also has levels and achievements, which I thought would annoy me or I'd just ignore, but it turns out they motivate me. I find it easier to be accurate if I'm not worrying about my speed. I like that this has a focus on accuracy. It still tries to teach you with a US keyboard layout. I then went to which teaches you similar things, but although it has a UK option, all that means is that the words are spelt using UK English. Plus my accuracy was not great and when typing outside of it I got so frustrated I'd go back to my old typing method, which didn't help with getting my muscle memory working for touch typing. But as you go through there's a minimum speed you have to hit to get all stars and I got really stuck on that. There's a lot of practise in there and you get stars based on how well you've done. Although whichever you pick you still get a picture of a US keyboard. They teach you to type letters, numbers and symbols (except backticks and Euro symbol) and there's a UK or US edition. Having to keep looking down for numbers and symbols was annoying me, so I decided I'd try touch typing. I can type without looking at the keyboard, but I don't use all my fingers and I can only really do letter. It was on a bit of a whim after I saw people talking about games you can use to learn/practise touch typing. A bit of a tangent this week, but still something I'm learning.
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