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MI0PYN

MI0PYN

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As a noob who was determined to finally learn CW, I've tried many different ways of forcing the code into my skull.

Of all the different things I tried, for me the Learn CW Online (https://lcwo.net/) site by DJ1YFK has been the most helpful. It allows you to track your progress through an accuracy metric as you go through the lessons, and has a useful implementation of the "Morse Machine" which has you type in each character you hear on a keyboard. This is good for judging your reaction speed as it tells you the effective speed at which you're copying too. 
This will obviously be lower than writing with a pen or pencil unless you can touch type, but it's still a useful metric when you're learning as your typing speed should remain constant, which means your copying speed is the only factor which changes the effective WPM above a baseline.

Has anyone else found it useful, or has anyone else found something else to be better?
 
Hey!
I didn't realise that LCWO worked like that. I was thinking that it was along the lines of the CW Academy where you have to work together online as a group.

I had looked at trying out CW Academy, but at the time pretty well all of the online 'sessions' were geared up to occur during times when the USA would be awake! I think for the UK the local time for us would have been the wee small hours or at least very late at night.

Seem to recall though that they may have some session times geared more for Europe possibly these days.

Anyhow, going back to LCWO, I'll have a look at for sure. It might be fun to see just what the old 'wet ware' is capable off! ;D

73, Mark... :)
 
It allows you to place your scores on a global leaderboard, but unless you're specifically interested in speed, I'm not sure why you would. I did find it a useful individual training tool though, especially when used as part of a number of different tools.
 
I cannot recommend LCWO highly enough.

I used it exclusively to get through the 40 Koch lessons because you get immediate feedback on your progress.

The forum on there helps to decrease the sense of isolation you can get when learning - you know there are others in the same boat.

And after you've completed the 40 Koch lessons, there are several other tools to keep you interested and building your speed.
 
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