After last week’s plateau, I was worried about my Dvorak progress, but hope has apparently been restored. The last three days have been quite productive, each resulting in new records and good averages. Today I broke the 60 wpm mark with a high score of 63 and an average of 58.76. It was a particularly [...]
Entries from August 2008
Milestone: 60 WPM
June 26th, 2007 · No Comments
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Plateau
June 21st, 2007 · No Comments
Well, my worst fears have been realized: My dvorak speed has been stuck around 50 WPM for the past 7 consecutive days. I did manage a new highest WPM of 56.0, but my average remains dismally at 50. I still stumble around the keyboard searching for keys, so this is by no means my maximum, [...]
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Milestone: 50 WPM
June 9th, 2007 · No Comments
Today I hit 50 WPM for the first time since switching to Dvorak. Things are starting to flow more easily, and while I still stumble and freeze sometimes, it is becoming less and less often as time goes by.
Today’s Stats:
Average WPM: 48.76
Max WPM: 50.60
Error Rate: 5.19%
It’s about time for another graph. The best WPM [...]
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Adding PostGre SQL support to Uniform Server (or any PHP install)
June 9th, 2007 · No Comments
For those of you who don’t know, Uniform Server is an amazing WAMP environment that literally makes installing apache, php, perl, and mysql into a one-click (don’t kill me amazon! ) process. I recommend it to anyone, novice or professional, who has any interest in web development.
That being said, UniformServer does NOT come with [...]
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Day 22
June 5th, 2007 · No Comments
I find myself working harder and harder to maintain my upward climb, but I end up making it so I suppose if that is what it takes… My average WPM for today is less than 1 more than yesterday, but I demolished (sort of) my old fastest speed of 41.53 with a hefty 46.67. Beating [...]
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