How I Write a Lot

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@Elliot

Not having high accuracy at something means you can’t considered it finished and ready to build multiple layers of other skills on top of. You can skip ahead with plans to revisit it later.

Yeah true. I guess for some reason I think like you should avoid skipping ahead. I know you’ve written about cycling between prerequisites and trying higher level things, though.

@Elliot

With typing, I don’t think goal accuracy should affect quantity (number of hours practiced). Being below your goal accuracy shouldn’t prevent you from practicing.

Yeah and if anything you should practise more if you aren’t accurate. Or at least yeah it shouldn’t prevent you practising. In the same way, being a low quality writer should mean you should be writing a lot (provided of course you want to get better at writing.)

@Elliot

If you spend the majority of your practice time making plans for how to be a great typist, and debating typing strategies, instead of actually typing, that would be a problem.

Yeah sure I get that. Things like that aren’t usually what stop me practising things more, I think. It’s usually more like finding no way to do something relevant to the skill that feels fun and easy to do.