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Typing tutors
Raised as a usability problem by 14 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2012–2024), in 3 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 tutors, 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 14 complaints
- Letters appear in scattered spots, which is annoying and doesn't match how they type2024-01-05
- Typos are hidden with only highlighting, and the font makes uppercase I look like lowercase L2024-01-05
- Skipping to next word without a space feels unintuitive and slows typing, frustrating the user2012-11-26
- Friends find the tutor infuriating within seconds of starting it2012-11-26
- Cannot type the caret character on AZERTY or QWERTY keyboards2012-08-27
- Pressing Enter twice to skip a line registers as one newline and then an error2012-08-25
- Semicolon not recognized on Swedish layout; must switch to English layout to continue2012-08-23
- Underscore cannot be typed on a British layout Mac keyboard in Firefox2012-08-23
- Fading cursor makes it hard to track current position when correcting mistakes2012-08-23
- Underscore, quotes and Caps Lock don't type correctly, forcing awkward workarounds2012-08-23
- Doesn't show which key was mistyped, so user can't tell how to correct2012-08-23
- Editor gets slower and blurry over lessons, hiding cursor and making backspacing hard to track2012-08-23
- No visual feedback on wrong characters, so it's hard to see how to correct errors2012-08-22
- Doesn't show incorrect characters typed and blocks navigating back to fix errors2012-08-22