u/somethingmorecrazy

I've finished lesson 40 and added these 10 extra characters, but I think they are really slowing me down. I currently practice these at character speed 36wpm but an effective speed of only 6wpm and I'm still struggling not to make 1-2 mistakes per minute.

I am trying to slowly bring my character speed down and my effective speed up hoping they meet in the middle somewhere between 14-17wpm, but I'm really hitting a plateau. I feel like the extra characters are a little more complex and often sound a little similar to one or two of the other characters which is really tripping me up.

Is it better for me to stick with Lesson 40 and get rid of the extra work/character spacing and then add them back, or should I stick with it and try to push through the plateau?

In your experience how important are the extra characters and if important how/when should they be added?

My biggest fear is that by practicing with such low effective wpm I'm cementing that spacing as "normal" for me and maybe letting bad habits form.

Any thoughts or advice are appreciated. :) Thank you!!!

Looking for advice; I have a a touch of the 'tism and really like to get into the weeds.

How much did/do you practice a day?

How do you build your stamina? A few weeks ago I could only practice 10-15 minutes a day, now I can do 30 minutes before my brain is mushy, but that's like 10 minutes 3x a day.

Should I practice focus groups of sound alikes?

Does it matter too much what/how fast I practice, or is it most important to just get a lot of it through my ears/brain?

Currently on LCWO lesson 40 at 29wpm character speed but only 5wpm actual speed.

ANY tips would be greatly appreciated.

Hey everyone, I started learning MC a year or two ago, but not seriously, just made up a bunch of pneumonics to remember the rhythms of the letters--I never counted dits and dahs, but had dumb little phrases like songs for the letters, things like: J=J-jaws jaws jaws, K=Kill them ALL, Q=Queen kills the King.

Now I've recently got more serious about learning. I joined this subreddit, and saw a super helpful post Gaining MC Proficiency w/ LCWO.net and I think I've screwed up royally.

I do 1-minute lessons on LCWO and I can do through lesson 20 between 25-30 WPM character speed and 8-10 WPM real speed. A lot of the letters I just recognize, but for quite a few I still hear my dumb pneumonics overlaid in my head.

I guess I'm not sure what I should work on first, should I work on getting character speeds up higher? Longer lessons to build stamina? Saying the letters and not just typing them? Or should I finish the lessons and then work on these things?

Also, I am REALLY struggling to hear the difference between these symbols / , = are those normal ones to get stuck on for a while?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated