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?
  • Pissmidget@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    For the second part of your question, it wholly depends on your input language and keyboard layout.

    As a Norwegian user I’d rather shit in my hands and clap than using the plain us keyboard.

    Mind you Nordic QWERTY is fairly similar to most other QWERTY variants.

    As for a tool, most people I know in a professional setting are at around 75-90 wpm, and never learned touch typing specifically. They just type, a lot, and repeatedly. There are many on-line typing trainers.

    When it comes to programming, it’s not about typing quickly. Unless you’re churning out the most mindless of boilerplate it’s far more important to consider how to solve a task and why, then quickly shitting out lines of code.

    Mind you this is all based on my experience, and your mileage may vary. Best of luck!