LibreWriter

A touch-typing coaching tool with a little bit of snare.

Motivation

I have for a while now been trying to teach myself to touch type, with the distant target of surpassing a 100 WPM average. To do this, so far, I have utilized the free online service KeyBR.com as a guiding hand. But as my skills have now grown, and with now years of background using it, I now desire to create a better, and open-source alternative, with more advanced featues to guide users beyond the beginnings of touch-type exercise.

One such point is "misstake-categorization"; With KeyBR, any typing-misstake is the same, and although this is to some extent helpful in forcing you to simply "git gud", it's also lacking in crucial insight into exactly why you are making said mistakes;

• Are you pressing certain keys too quickly?
• Missing space-bar presses between words?
• Accidentally double clicking letters you meant to only press once?

Indeed, all of these misstakes do lead to the same outcome; misspellings, and with KeyBR, errors are simply tracked per key as a ratio between miss-clicks and good-clicks. However, it is my belief that addressing these issues require drastically different methods of practice. For instance; Double-clicking the D in window obviously doesn't mean you should now be practicing typing O's for the next three days, just because that is the logical key you technically miss-pressed, and so forth.

TODO:

A non-comprehensive lists of features to be implemented

• Log parsing
  • [~] Words-Per-Minute (WPM)
    • average
    • median
    • 99%/95% avrg
    • **5%/10% worst
  • Characters per Second (CPS)
    • average
    • median
    • 99%/95% avrg
    • **5%/10% worst
• Intelligent log-analysis:
  • early (skipped current) key-press?
  • late (repeated previous) key-press?
  • "slight of hand" (correct hand, key beside)?
  • Twitch? (wrong hand / completely wrong)