⌨️ | Typing Cubers

[Maddoxer]

I know there a quite a lot of cubers who type for fun, because the two hobbies have some transferable elements to eachother. After looking around the forums, I couldn't find any threads for typing cubers, the closest being "Keyboarding Cubers", and general typing discussion, which were mostly just early threads. After finding the Local Cubing Groups category, and finding other threads of different cubers' hobbies, I just decided to start the Typing Cubers thread!

The thread is to:
Find other cubers who enjoy typing, compare things between cubing and typing, discuss typing and other things related to it, such as keyboards, discuss improving WPM, and really any other typing conversation you can think of!

 

[Justincubes]

I do! I taught myself how to touchtype using typing.com, and now I use monkeytype.com an keybr.com daily so that I can improve. You can see all my stats/pbs here. I'm pretty happy with how quickly I'm improving too: for every hour I spent typing on monkeytype I improved by 7 WPM. I can type 100 on a 60 second test, but only around 80 if it has punctuation and numbers.

Keyboards matter too! I really don't care whether I'm using my MacBook air keyboard to type or the mechanical one I bought off of amazon (which I modded and added lubed akko cream yellow switches too): I like them both the same. I think I'm better at typing longer text on my MacBook, but shorter on my other keyboard.

 

[Maddoxer]

Nice, I also taught myself to touch type (but I still constantly look up and down from the screen to my keyboard out of muscle memory, like I'm having some sort of fit), and use monkeytype almost daily as well. Only 70-80 WPM here, but considering I was averaging <60 WPM at the start of last month, I'm definitely improving.

Would link to my monkeytype acc but don't know how

 

[Justincubes]

Nice, I also taught myself to touch type (but I still constantly look up and down from the screen to my keyboard out of muscle memory, like I'm having some sort of fit), and use monkeytype almost daily as well. Only 70-80 WPM here, but considering I was averaging <60 WPM at the start of last month, I'm definitely improving.

Would link to my monkeytype acc but don't know how

it's just monkeytype.com/profile/yourusername. Tbh, I don't even know how I type so fast compared to most people when they learn to touch type, I was consistently doing 60 wpm after I learned in September. Have you ever tried doing a 10 minute typing test? I've done two… Surprisingly, I got 98 wpm, but my hands were hurting so much when I finished. It was also on English 200 instead of English 1k, which I've been practicing lately.

 

[Maddoxer]

Hang on, I've just reverse engineered it by changing the url of your account link and putting in my account name instead.
Link

 

[Maddoxer]

it's just monkeytype.com/profile/yourusername. Tbh, I don't even know how I type so fast compared to most people when they learn to touch type, I was consistently doing 60 wpm after I learned in September. Have you ever tried doing a 10 minute typing test? I've done two… Surprisingly, I got 98 wpm, but my hands were hurting so much when I finished. It was also on English 200 instead of English 1k, which I've been practicing lately.

Replied at the same time
Anyway, I think I've done at least one 10 minute test, could be weird memory though. I know I've done an hour long test twice, one logged in, and the other before I had an account.
@Justincubes

 

[Justincubes]

Hang on, I've just reverse engineered it by changing the url of your account link and putting in my account name instead.
Link

I really like your keyboard XÐ

Now get to four hours typed in a month. You can do it. My account is newer than your yet I have more hours than that. Get to four hours and you will be typing at 200 wpm (not true, but at least you'll be faster than you are now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

 

[Maddoxer]

I really like your keyboard XÐ

Now get to four hours typed in a month. You can do it. My account is newer than your yet I have more hours than that. Get to four hours and you will be typing at 200 wpm (not true, but at least you'll be faster than you are now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

My account is older because I got a bit into typing when I created the account (August 2023) but then quit till last month when I rediscovered monkeytype.
Also thank you for noticing my keyboard. Whenever someone asks what I have, I always reply with that, and they stare back at me and roll their eyes. It must be a sign of absolute amazement.

 

[Justincubes]

My account is older because I got a bit into typing when I created the account (August 2023) but then quit till last month when I rediscovered monkeytype.

Excuses. Get to a 100 day monkeytype streak and only then will I talk to a puny mortal like you

 

[Justincubes]

Replied at the same time
Anyway, I think I've done at least one 10 minute test, could be weird memory though. I know I've done an hour long test twice, one logged in, and the other before I had an account.
@Justincubes

HOW. My fingers would fall off. And I wouldn't have an hour of time, I bet I would be interrupted or something. What was your wpm? 60?

 

[Maddoxer]

HOW. My fingers would fall off. And I wouldn't have an hour of time, I bet I would be interrupted or something. What was your wpm? 60?

Just went into my statistics to search for it. Can't find it, but I know WPM was pretty bad but reasonable, I think it was mid to high 50s.

 

[Maddoxer]

Working on improving my accuracy by using expert/master mode in monkeytype.

Also I do one mobile test and -

 

[Justincubes]

Working on improving my accuracy by using expert/master mode in monkeytype.

Also I do one mobile test and -
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HOW. Even if I could get the wpm, I would have 80% accuracy. I suck at typing on my phone (and I don't really like it either)

 

[Maddoxer]

HOW. Even if I could get the wpm, I would have 80% accuracy. I suck at typing on my phone (and I don't really like it either)

I think there was a bug of some sort, I managed to lag it out so much during the beginning I think I confused it? The test lasted three seconds anyway (check photo again)

 

[Maddoxer]

The first 3 minutes of typing in the day, I always press either the 'c' or 'n' (oh no that looks like the word corn) instead of the spacebar and end up getting 60% accuracy

 

[Jorian Meeuse]

I never knew typing was a hobby

 

[Maddoxer]

I never knew typing was a hobby

I guess we just like the fast-paced nature of it, like in parts of cubing

 

[Justincubes]

I don't exactly do it that often, about 10 minutes of day maximum. Mystical rocket on YouTube is absolutely insane though, he can get 300 wpm with 100% accuracy and got 235 or something on a 1 hour long test. So yeah, it is a hobby (well getting fast at it is) but I don't do it for that long, cubing and coding are the higher priority hobbies

I never knew typing was a hobby

 

[Jorian Meeuse]

I don't exactly do it that often, about 10 minutes of day maximum. Mystical rocket on YouTube is absolutely insane though, he can get 300 wpm with 100% accuracy and got 235 or something on a 1 hour long test. So yeah, it is a hobby (well getting fast at it is) but I don't do it for that long, cubing and coding are the higher priority hobbies

Why is it measured in words per minute though? That seems quite inconsistent, because some words are really long and others are only one letter. Shouldn't it be something like hits per minute?

 

[Maddoxer]

Why is it measured in words per minute though? That seems quite inconsistent, because some words are really long and others are only one letter. Shouldn't it be something like hits per minute?

I guess that makes senses, but did some searching and found that most typing websites count every 5 letters as a word rather than every time the space bar is hit.

(I eat = 1 word,
Rhinoceros = 2)