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kool-keys t1_jcekpeh wrote

Reply to comment by cromagnongod in New record! Road to 70WPM is on by UnseenYouTube

Which is why I also recommend quotations... and real life typing as part of the practice routine. However, using English 10K in Monkeytype, does expose you to many, many more ngrams in a real woRd setting, even if it's not a real worLd setting, and is still highly beneficial when practicing.

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>The english 200 setting thing is very true, I'm 130-140wpm on that setting and only 110-120 on english 10k, add punctuation and caps to that and I'm like 100-110 at best

Don't worry about speed. It's not important.

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_Wars t1_jcehvzk wrote

Reply to First and last MK, my end game. Love typing on it, absolutely no desire to tinker with it or replace it. I'll hand in my /MK membership card now. (Keychron Q1, Gat Pro Brown, AliEx keycaps) by InstantlyTremendous

precisely what I said upon building my first keeb. Don’t make the same mistake of watching mechanical keyboard videos. 3 months after I built my first and last “endgame”, I build another one. And another. And another. And another. I just dropped $500 (blueberry “bouncy castle” 65) on a keyboard and I don’t know how to stop…

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cromagnongod t1_jcefylt wrote

Reply to comment by kool-keys in New record! Road to 70WPM is on by UnseenYouTube

The english 200 setting thing is very true, I'm 130-140wpm on that setting and only 110-120 on english 10k, add punctuation and caps to that and I'm like 100-110 at best

But the english 10k also isn't representative because all the words are equally random whereas in actual english some words are used much more than others. Quotes are the best for practice probably

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SheeBang_UniCron t1_jcdkmdw wrote

Reply to comment by unexpectedit3m in New record! Road to 70WPM is on by UnseenYouTube

Here’s a practical experiment for you. Do a typing test in Monkeytype with words set to 10, and do another time set to 60s. Are they the same? By your logic, it should be. I don’t understand why some people can’t seem to grasp this concept. If you want a car analogy, you can do the same thing, drive until the end of your street and drive until the next town over, is your mph the same?

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