I have switched to using the Glove 80, and part of that change required getting used to many things on the keyboard. This repo holds data sets for MonkeyType which will help you gain muscle memory for typing various patterns while coding.
Because of the limitations on MonkeyType, the pipe | character will not be
present in any of the data sets, this character is used to separate each block
of data that goes into MonkeyType.
I'll get back to this
Going to a new keyboard design, keymap, or just getting started with taking your typing speed and accuracy seriously; there will be a few issues to overcome. For me in particular I created a symbol layer on my keyboard, which is a whole new way of processing what keys to type. Beyond the use of the shift key for capitalising letters and also getting alternative symbols, I want to exclusively use a new Symbol layer key to access any symbol that isn't on the base layer of the keyboard. So now I have to learn:
- Using the Shift key with the thumbs.
- Accessing many of the most common symbols in very different locations.
- Alternating between the Symbol layer and the 'Shifted' layer (especially when coding).
MonkeyType already has 'languages' for many programming languages, but the data they provide does not actually help in typing patterns that include symbols. Their data provides keywords and common 'vocabulary' when coding in a language, but the don't provide many symbols. Test this out by typing "we are very fast at some things" compared to "ah eot gsvy rrea ei msen satwft" -- you are going to be much more accurate and possible much faster at typing the words you are familiar with. I have never typed symbol patterns as fast as I type words I'm used to, and my accuracy on symbols is poor, I want this to change.
So this repo will provide data sets that make sense for what you will actually
be typing in real code. In the JavaScript language on MonkeyType, it provides
something like attributes i++ || the toLowerCase() and typeof -- and that's me
cherry picking the parts that have symbols, symbols rarely show up in their
tests. The vocabulary of the common functions and keywords is good, but what
about the addition of some of the most common symbol patterns too:
const helloWorld = () => {} for (item in arr) {}
const fooBar = myObject.someFunction();
if (thisThing === thatThing && something < another) {}