Love this idea. I've recently decided to do some deliberate practicing around typing. I've been using keybr [1] which is a great site that randomly makes up phonetically accurate pseudo-words and has you type them. The goal there is to have you practice weak combinations of keys, and they have an excellent stats dashboard to show you your progress over time. I was able to raise my typing speed from ~90 wpm to ~110 wpm as measured on that site over about 40 days through 10 minutes of practice per day.
Based on my experience with that site, which I really love, I'd love to see some additional tracking of keys. The downside of your core idea is that you can't really do the trick of forcing deliberate practice of weak key patterns to engrain them into you.
Some other suggestions for stats, based on what exists on keybr and what I'd like to see
I also used keybr extensively for some time while switching to an ergonomic layout and I have two additions to that:
- The layout is much more bearable when using ublock to remove about 60% of the site, makes it much cleaner and more enjoyable to use
- In my native language that I used for training, german, the site would frequently generate words that exist but are just spelt wrong or just stop before the last character, ruining my stats because my brain is auto-completing and auto-correcting what I'm reading so I have to go back and correct my writing to something wrong. This gets very annoying very quickly. I switched back to english after a week because that works much better and I'd recommend others to do the same.
Based on my experience with that site, which I really love, I'd love to see some additional tracking of keys. The downside of your core idea is that you can't really do the trick of forcing deliberate practice of weak key patterns to engrain them into you.
Some other suggestions for stats, based on what exists on keybr and what I'd like to see
- Time practiced today and stats for today
- Daily streaks to encourage practicing
- Cumulative time practiced
- A 7 day running average of your typing stats
[1] https://keybr.com