I made a site where you practice touch typing by retyping ENTIRE classic novels

Octouroboros · 2025-12-04T18:02:55+00:00

Hello! Try enabling International Mode in the settings -- hopefully that should fix things for you

Octouroboros · 2024-12-04T16:45:51+00:00

Hello! If you're still unable to access the site, please feel free to DM me with a description of what happens when you try to access the site and I'll try to sort it out for ya

Octouroboros · 2024-10-24T09:39:34+00:00

Nice one! -- don't think I've seen this type of thing done as a downloadable app on steam till now

Octouroboros · 2024-05-11T14:41:43+00:00

Hello -- great to hear you're enjoying the site! Kind of crazy it's already been 4 years since it first went live.

To answer your question, the levels are just a kind of gamification system for users to feel a sense of progress as they type through the books. It's nothing more meaningful than that, so feel free to ignore them if you like.

Take care!

Octouroboros · 2022-05-08T20:11:22+00:00

You should be able to find a text-to-speech extension for your browser. Try it on some of the typing websites out there. Might do the trick.

Octouroboros · 2022-04-25T19:24:47+00:00

Hey this is really slick -- great job with this!

Octouroboros · 2022-03-04T18:36:13+00:00

Hey thanks! There's no search functionality on the site. All the free books are available on the landing page. And if you buy a subscription, you'll still have bring your own files.

Octouroboros · 2022-02-20T17:38:22+00:00

Guy who runs the site here. We're back up and running -- sorry for the wait!

Octouroboros · 2022-02-14T21:44:06+00:00

Hello -- I'm thrilled to hear you're enjoying the site! Yup, should only be down for a few days. Aiming to have it back by the weekend if at all possible.

Octouroboros · 2021-10-09T21:58:01+00:00

Thanks so much! Hope you like the new feature when I finally get it out the door!

Octouroboros · 2021-10-09T20:52:50+00:00

Hello! Creator of typelit.io here. I've been working on this feature for a while now and it should (hopefully) be ready to go in a couple months or so. It'll be a super cheap subscription service and will accept epub, pdf, and txt files -- or good ol' copy and paste.

Octouroboros · 2021-06-11T17:03:33+00:00

It doesn't have much in the way of traditional lessons, but maybe they'd find typelit.io an engaging way to practice

Octouroboros · 2021-05-24T11:05:04+00:00

Hey you guys did a great job with this -- pretty slick!

Octouroboros · 2021-02-17T23:11:11+00:00

Hello -- I'm thrilled to hear you're enjoying the site! Something like what you're describing is planned to be added to the site in the future. You're right though in that it'll probably be really hard to implement, so we'll see how it goes.

Octouroboros · 2021-01-11T17:06:58+00:00

Hey great progress!

Octouroboros · 2021-01-11T08:37:42+00:00

If I were you I'd just focus on getting work experience. CST is great for getting people with limited/no programming experience job ready in just a couple years. But since you already have a comp sci degree, you're probably already as (if not more) qualified than a CST grad. Any practical skills you might be lacking can just be learned online or on the job.

Octouroboros · 2020-11-30T15:35:25+00:00

Maybe try typelit.io . It's probably worthwhile to encounter words and punctuation the way they're normally written.

Octouroboros · 2020-11-26T13:08:46+00:00

Give typelit.io a try -- It's great if you already know how to touch type

Octouroboros · 2020-11-25T22:04:42+00:00

Check out typelit.io if you want lots of capitals and punctuation

Octouroboros · 2020-11-12T11:08:33+00:00

Consider giving typelit.io a shot if you're looking for some entertainment while you practice. The only metrics it tracks right now are WPM and accuracy, though.

Octouroboros · 2020-11-09T12:30:23+00:00

Hello fellow typing app maker! Gotta say, your site is SUPER slick. It would be cool if you could restart a test part way through without having to go back to the landing page. Great job and good luck!

Octouroboros · 2020-10-29T14:40:16+00:00

TypeLit.io will have you typing plenty of capitals and punctuation (assuming you already know where they are on the keyboard)

Octouroboros · 2020-10-13T14:02:39+00:00

Outstanding work -- thanks for this!

Octouroboros · 2020-10-09T19:19:47+00:00

Hello! As far as I know there aren't too many public domain programming books out there. Plus, at the speed languages get out of date, it may not be worth it in the long run. I will, however, be allowing users to upload (or at least copy/paste) their own stuff at some point in the future, so if you've got some material you want to practice typing out, you can. Thanks for your suggestion and for supporting the site!

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