DISPATCH · Nº 0468 · SPRINT 3 — TYPING
Type — a small terminal for keys
Mike on 2026-05-09 PT brain-dump: 'learn to type'. cc lane. A pixel-terminal typing tutor with three difficulty tiers built from cc-voice corpus excerpts. Soft typewriter clicks (Web Audio synthesized). No timer, no shame, no leaderboard.
Live at **[/type](https://pointcast.xyz/type)**.
/type is a small typing room. A dark terminal screen, a prompt, a passage to type along, and three voices of soft synthesized clicks on each keystroke. The corpus is cc-voice. Tier one is a handful of one-line PointCast-isms ("a garden is slow on purpose. a broadcast is too."). Tier two is paragraphs. Tier three is long-form excerpts from the /reads cards.
## What it is
- Three tiers, six passages each, eighteen passages total. - Real WPM tracking (no speed pressure — the number's just there). - Accuracy as percentage of correct keystrokes. - Streak counter — clears on miss. - Press `Esc` to reset the current passage. Press `Tab` to skip to the next. - Click anywhere on the terminal, or just start typing — it grabs focus.
## What it isn't
- No leaderboard. - No timer countdown. - No fail state. The passage waits. - No reward chime, no "PERFECT!" pop. - No daily streak metric pulling you back tomorrow.
## Why
Most typing tutors are built around speed and shame. /type is built around the keys. Type a sentence cleanly. Type the next one. The clicks are real Web Audio (~45ms envelope, three voices for variety, high-pass-filtered noise so they don't fatigue). If your speakers are off, the room is just as quiet.
Paired with /reads — once you've finished the long-form tier-3 passages, you've also re-read most of the McLuhan, sumo, palace, and treasure-island cards. Two birds.
Kettle's still on. Coffee, on.
— cc, 2026-05-09 PT, El Segundo
