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[Автандилина]

Stamina. There are several pages of opinions upon Stamina in the Russian part of the Forum http://urikor.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=422.

Yes, Stamina is very popular with the people visiting here.
Should be extremely useful for speed developing. Not for beginners of course (imho))).

:-) Usually, I use no tutors at all. Except Ежедневочка/DailyTasks just for the English alphabet and numerals, since February 2006. Before that, I was fully pleased with what I had earlier (200-250 CPM in English) - no need to type English :-)
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[Sensiblu]

well the russian championship sure seems more thrilling than the english one ) maybe i'll learn the russian layout if i have too much spare time.. that should be interesting just like in the good old days when I was trying to pass over 150 cpm )) Just kidding... I'm not that maniac Hmm.. I use Stamina every day to type text composed of random letters. It helps me increase my speed more. I find it very difficult to increase my speed since I've hit 350 cpm. I mean it was a steep increase from my original 150 cpm to 350 cpm (took me 3 months) but after that I didn't practice any more in the tutor which I had used (some program called GS typing tutor... it was pretty good for me although it didn't had such funny texts as Stamina has I did type a lot every day because I used to play a game until 3 weeks ago on IRC.. it's called trivia.. maybe you know what is like.. There are trivial questions posed by an irc bot (lag free bots)and you have to type the answer as fast as possible.. It shows you accurate speed in cps( characters per second) because the answer is usually only one word which is written in a matter of 1-2 seconds. The first answer gets some points the second place less points and there's also the 3d and 4th place. There are some pretty cool bots which have extensive statistics about the players and their speed, number of questions, answers.. personal bests.. and anyway.. it's pretty cool but also very addictive.. I mean it's an entire community of people who do that almost every day And they do it pretty good. And there are championships and... ok I should stop now.. Don't want anybody to play that game. I've quited 3 weeks ago because it started to ruin my real life It's a sad story .. sorry The truth is it's pretty addictive because you can talk with people in real time and play and talk ( there's a little pause between the questions) Anyway do not ever play it! Not even for curiosity search for a thing like that. It's the most horrible thing that can happen to a person who likes typing
Anyway .. back to my story and after those 3 months I've played trivia 7 months ... increased my speed to currently ~400-450 cpm on first sight text.. and can increase it to ~500 cpm when I practice a text many times.probabily would have been better if I would'n have stopped practicing.. but I could not noticed that it's very hard to push the limit when you already type at speeds that high.. I type a lot but still the increase in speed seems so small If you have some suggestions on how to increase speed when you already have a very fast typing speed I would appreciate For example I practice along with the normal text some random text(random letters) and that boosts the increase a little I would sure like to know how does Gem type 600 cpm almost every round besides the fact he just does it

Many Thanks for the translation Автандилина. I appreciate it!

[Sensiblu]

lol I like this one w e e k = week I discover new unlisted emoticons as I post more )) That's a cool collection of emoticons you have here like this or this ) and there are a lot more Cool! ) I like them

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[Urikor]

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[Urikor]

The problem with avatars is corrected

[Sensiblu]

Many thanks for the corrections made and the for the improvement you have in mind... It's good to see the administrators don't just talk but take part of the action

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Sensiblu, Urikor,
thanks for appreciating my translation of part of the Rules!
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[Sensiblu]

Yes... there are some people who have predisposition for addictions... Well that's me, one of them.. But I try to get my hold on life I should be in control not others. There are a lot of fast typist on IRC. Too bad I can't bring them all there... If I would be playing trivia this hole place would be swarming with typists ) But I can't. I made a promise to myself that I won't enter on IRC to ruin my life and I intend to keep it. I did advertise on 3 forums. I'll try some more in the future when I have the time.
Thanks for all the good advices... I saw that tip (about trying to type songs) on the guy who is second on english text on typingzone. He did that too Well it must be something about it I'll try it. And being hard to myself ... hmm... I'm not that hard to myself.. just that I keep repeating myself that I cand do better. Well yes, technically there is no reason to type faster when you already type fast but there's the competition that keeps me going and my willpower ) I won't stop increasing my speed until I'll be the first some day
Hmm.. about the online simulator... what do you mean by that?
I've tried typing zone but it gets pretty boring because there are these 2 permanent contests where the text never change. I've typed them hundreds of times and I guess I've reached somewhat my limits at english text. But I do believe that the speed is not computed correctly. It's smaller than it should be.. I mean I've typed that same text in other programs that allow that and it's always bigger than the one computed by the program. Of course there's the master of the month but it's only for 3-5 days a month and that sure doesn't satisfy my "need for typing" ) Besides these.. I like the site (I just love those flags displayed next to each user )

[Sensiblu]

Well about that daily task I didn't quite focused on it too much ) But yesterday it was a pretty easy text to type. Today not ) Just waiting for a better whan (with less punctuation to hit the 600s

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[Sensiblu]

692 cool i never typed that fast... I'm pretty constant. I can improve my typing from 400-450 cpm with no more that 100 cpm. I just can't although I practice a lot for those 100 cpm...

Well, I've seen the ghosts but didn't used them too much... although from what I've spoked with some fast typist (Son) he told me that they are pretty good in helping improving your speed on a text. I should get used to them and see for myself

And about the flags.. well I'm sure not a xenophobe or something like that but I tend to extend the competition to country vs country in my mind. It's more thrilling I guess )

[Sensiblu]

lol check this out http://www.tifaq.com/keyboards/vertical-split-keyboards.html

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[Urikor]

Thanks, Sensiblu, for the links.
The links is placed in a corresponding branch of a forum

http://urikor.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=995

[Sensiblu]

Besides the fact they are pretty expensive.. I never saw anything like it in Romania and probably won't see too soon. There aren't too much people who would use them I guess. I personally used 4 keyboards... Some standard microsoft 101/102 keys.. Didn't like it after I learned touch typing becaues the keys were pressing rather hard. Then I had a multimedia keyboard as a present ) but didn't like it too much how the keys were pressed... So I bought an A4Tech A-Shaped keyboard.. That's a pretty cool and very cheap keyboard. The keys press easily and its' supposed to prevent rsi. But I saw 1 week ago something cooler It's a keyboard that pressed like a laptop keyboard. I mean you only have to press a key about half of the press you would do on a normal keyboard... And besides that it's as big as a normal keyboard. I did type on laptop keyboards and I didn't like them because they had the keys very crowded and did a lot of mistakes and I could't hold my hands naturally but this one is just like a normal keyborad and presses like a laptop.. It's some kind of hybrid ) But I am very happy with it. It increased my speed by a constant 30 cpm ) Not as much as I expected but it's an improvement Well at least it gives me the sensation that I type really really fast when I type on it Guess its because of the short key press and I like that.
http://www.trust.com/products/productpic.aspx?id=126777&artnr=14489

Btw.. I also saw some alternative mouse devices on that site with the alternative keyboards... like the one that moves the mouse cursor with your eyemovements.. and clicks when you blink.. pretty cool But they are way too expensive for my budget

[Автандилина]

Sensiblu, congratulations! It's so very important to have a keyboard that feels the best !

I'm always in search. My old keyboard wasn't THE best, but it was rather good. It was a "no-name" thing, of NAN TAN COMPUTER Co., made in Taiwan. It had been working hard for ~18-20 years, until this winter . I hope I could find something instead. Your info and other (for instance here on the Urikor site - section "Keyboards" and forum) would be very helpful, to fresh my general view on the market possibilities. Thank you for the info!

For now, I just haven't anything of interest to tell on my current keyboards. Except the story of how I got that old one of mine

I've changed it by a person in office whom I taught using PC. (It happened in the early years of PC-office "revolution" in Russia). Both of us were given our PC's, keyboards included, at work, not picked the models to our own liking. (There wasn't even a place where to pick - no IT-shops in this country yet )). He considered his keyboard to be very annoying since it typed at the lightest touch a key. He was really HAPPY to get my "dummy-to-beat, and beat, and beat once more" of a box with buttons! He said: Now I can stay "lying" on it with all my upper body, and happily not a single letter will be typed!
...I wonder what did he need a keyboard for, at all...

The very point of the story is that at the time there was several hundreds of users whom I daily taught how to operate the PC (that was my work), and several hundreds of keyboards, respectively. And step by step I had tried those hundreds before there was a single one really comfortable for me!..

Many of people thought me just a capricious one... But we here do realize what matters, don't we... Reading you have 30% improvement due to the good-for-you keyboard - I can't but be happy about your luck

source: http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/faq_avtandiline/post15122113/
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[Gem]

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))) Gem, just so: ))))
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[Sensiblu]

If you press the pass button and press the esc key before the script is loaded some nasty errors appear. like startChars null or NoObject... and things like that. In Internet Explorer it only asks me if I want to continue to run scripts on the page but in mozilla firefox with IE tab plugin (10x for telling me about the existence of the IE tab plugin Roman) it asks me if I want to debug or not. And if I choose to debug there's the entire source code visible in plain text Didn't know this... Umm.. I don't know what causes the error... probably the objects don't get created or something like that... ?

[Автандилина]

I only know that the script is made to use with MS Explorer, and couldn't finction properly in other browsers.

So you have the reason to use Mozilla instead? Not just because of your personal likings, but because there's not a modul needed for comfortably staying with Romania language alphabet or layout, - so you have to quit your usual "working space" to participate in Urikor contest?

If so - yes it's a pity to take something uncomfortable and do excessive steps - to be able to participate at all. (For instance, I must go to Internet cafes to have a chance to type at a maximum speed. - There are no possibilities to do it at my home (some technological problems with my hardware). It's awful but what else can be done, I wonder... Still, I like the contest, so I do what I can under the circumstances). Some participants just HAVE to use MS Explorer for the contest, in spite of what's their usual browser.
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[Sensiblu]

No no no You got it wrong. It gives the same nasty error in Internet Explorer too. Just that in Internet explorer there is no "Debug" button on the error message.
I do not have to switch layouts to participate in the contest. I never used the Romanian layout because it's rather tiresome to type with the few extras symbols that the Romanian alphabet has and you can be understood very easily without those characters because it's only ţ î â ă ş which can be typed like normal t i a a s and the words are perfectly understandable (if you know romanian
I didn't quite understand why can't you type from you home? Is there a delay or something? I've experienced a delay of 5-10 characters when I went to a net cafe because they had a rather slow connection and old computers. Don't know which is the problem? Is it the computer or the internet connection?

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