Try these exercises - any programmers out there?
David wrote: > Given that speed and accuracy is what makes fitaly benefical > it would be nice to have a drill program like grafitti has to > build speed and accuracy. A while back, I made up the following paced exercises, starting in the middle and working outwards. When you're done, you should know the whole keyboard. I discussed with Jean Ichibah writing a program on these lines - a little game, perhaps, like Giraffe - but I'm not good enough at programming on my PalmPilot. Anyone else is welcome to try, now that you and Jean have reminded me about it; write Jean (ichbiah@fitaly.com) if you think you could make something worth distributing along with Fitaly. Making a trainer run on all the Fitaly platforms would be a good idea - Waba or CASL might do this, I wouldn't know. Hogging memory wouldn't be a problem, because once the user's up to speed, they can delete the program. Without a program or eyes that swivel independently, you could try what I actually did: dictate each of these exercises on cassette tape - one word every 4 seconds, say, and then again, one every 3 seconds. Then practise the exercise over and over until you can get through it reliably at the faster speed. This will take a while, but when you're done, you'll pretty much know those letters and you can go on to the next exercise. I'm not sure if this was the last version of my list; improvements are also welcome.
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