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leafo / sightreading.training

sightreading.training

🎹 Sight reading training tool

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3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
544GitHub stars
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🎹 Sight reading training tool

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2018-02-28 17:41:58 UTC to 2023-07-16 18:52:04 UTC.

012018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

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20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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That can be very productive and clever, but be - and stay - aware that such polyglot solutions tend to be maintenance headaches in the longer run. There is a really nice open source project out there that allows you to train your hearing and your sightreading, but it's written in the authors own language which in turn compiles to JavaScript and the headache to set up their toolchain is such that I haven't bothered fixing any of the bugs that I'm aware of (and there are plenty). https://sightreading.training/ https://github.com/leafo/sightreading.training It's written in a language called 'Moonscript': https://github.com/leafo/moonscript Which compiles to Lua. Which compiles to JS. Madness. Nice madness, but still, it stopped me from being a contributor.
In Forth: The programming language that writes itself: The Web Page
Not what you want, but I have been using https://sightreading.training/ for practicing sight reading, and it is fantastic for the intended purpose, though quite boring and terrible to listen to. I actually use it with no sound, just the MIDI for instant feedback. It would be great if it created some decent sounding combinations, keep your statistics, progress, etc, but I have improved my sight reading by leaps and bounds in a couple of weeks. I have just noticed that the project is open source (https://github.com/leafo/sightreading.training) so come on fellow geeks, pitch in some of your talent....
In Ask HN: Recommendations for video games to learn to play music?
If anyone is interested, I've been building a tool to help you learn sight reading and other piano skills. It runs in your browser and connects to a keyboard with the web midi api (chrome only) You can check it out here: https://sightreading.training/ It's opensource: https://github.com/leafo/sightreading.training It's very WIP, but I've used it a lot and I've definitely got a lot faster at reading notes. There isn't a good way right now to read rhythm in it. I pretty much use it as an experimental area for me to test new ideas to practice stuff, so there are a lot of little tools in there
In How to Learn Piano with Technology

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