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Typing practice apps
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 6 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Typing practice apps, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 6 complaints
- Switching categories doesn't reset scroll, so the list shifts under the typist and confuses them2026-07-18
- Tab key inserts no indentation, forcing manual space entry; horizontal scrolling hides text when resized2026-04-01
- Must click Continue with the mouse to move to next practice2025-12-15
- Single quote opens browser quick-search, breaking flow; moving yellow text is distracting2025-06-04
- Cannot correct typing mistakes, so one error causes a run of off-by-one errors2020-10-06
- Game registers typed word as a different word when multiple words share starting letters2013-11-02