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Discussion on: What bad habit do you have because you learned an approach *before* a better idea came along?

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Waylon Walker

Typing... They taught touch typing when I was in elementary school and I was terrible at it and didn't get very far.

I am now trying to break bad habits with keybr.com.

A few years ago I made major improvements, regressed a but and am now getting better than ever.

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Ben Halpern

I'm not a very skilled typer, maybe I should check this out too.

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Waylon Walker

It's Soooouch more advanced and cool than what I used as a kid. It has very clever ways of building word like things to stretch out certain fingers without being repetitive.

I remember as a kid it was. i i i ij ij ij iji I

It has also made me realize that my struggles are all in my left hand πŸ€”

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Stephen Leyva (He/Him)

typing.io/

This is pretty cool. Typing practice with coding in mind.

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Utkarsh Talwar

I've actually been thinking lately about improving my typing as well. Thanks for the resource!