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monkeytype
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monkeytypegame / monkeytype

monkeytype

The most customizable typing website with a minimalistic design and a ton of features. Test yourself in various modes, track your progress and improve your speed.

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What it is

The most customizable typing website with a minimalistic design and a ton of features. Test yourself in various modes, track your progress and improve your speed.

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HN mentions by year7 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-10-28 07:43:18 UTC to 2025-04-25 20:34:48 UTC.

0122020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 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): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
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 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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From the GitHub repo[0]: Monkeytype is a minimalistic and customizable typing test. It features many test modes, an account system to save your typing speed history, and user configurable features such as themes, sounds, a smooth caret, and more. Monkeytype attempts to emulate the experience of natural typing during a typing test, by unobtrusively presenting the text prompts and displaying typed characters in-place, providing straightforward, real-time feedback on typos, speed, and accuracy. For over 30 years, I typed using 5-7 fingers. I could touch type (in the sense that I never looked at the keyboard) but my speed was obviously limited. Several times over those years, I tried to learn to touch type 'properly', but gave up after ~30 mins because it was so slow. After almost 50 hours using keybr.com (over a couple of yea
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rs, but mostly in a couple of periods of a few months each), I managed to learn to touch type properly, and exceed my prior wpm. I've improved a little since then, but not by much. This doesn't limit my work, but I'd still like to type faster. I decided to use Monkeytype to fix that. I read a reddit guide[1] that recommends: 1. Use the 'English 1k' word list. 2. At the end of each test, click the 'warning' icon to repeat missed words, until there are none left. 3. Focus on accuracy instead of speed (aim to maintain 98% or more). 4. Practice a small amount every day. [0] https://github.com/monkeytypegame/monkeytype [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D9hzmKMCWzbqIBqpA4j02a2X...
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