I want to improve my touch typing skills on Linux. I’m curious:

  1. What tool or program would you recommend for learning touch typing on Linux?
  2. For someone whose native language isn’t English, would you recommend learning on their native keyboard layout or switching to the US QWERTY layout for programming purposes?
  • balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one
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    1 day ago

    1-the tool you want to get better at

    Ex: if you are a software developer and mostly type obscure chains of semicolons, curly braces, and other infrequently used punctuation, using one of these websites to get better at quick brown fox typing will only half help.

    2-your native layout for the same reason

    I say this acknowledging there are two sorts of “I want to learn a skill” urges: the used and unused. I have plenty of things where I just wanted to learn the skill (take tying a few fancy knots for example). I don’t yet have a use for it. It’s just something I felt like learning. Touch typing feels more like the other kind, where the point of the skill is purely to use it. If you’re learning touch typing when you don’t type anything, do whatever makes you feel like you’ve learned something. If you’re learning touch typing to make typing faster, use the tools at hand.

    ->Put a box over the keyboard or turn your room lights off so you can’t see the labels very well.