This is a little browser-based widget for typing drills. I'm using
it to teach myself stenotype. It's still early in development, but
you may find it useful and/or fun. I have it set up with only a
gh-pages branch which means it will show up on the web at:
https://joshuagrams.github.io/steno-jig/
index.html has the basic structure you need to use it: for basic
exercises you can pass an array of strings (each of which must
be a single word with no leading or trailing whitespace or the
answer matching won't work).
If the words represent a static text (i.e. a sequence of words in
a particular order), that's all you need. If you want to set a
time limit, you can also pass a number of seconds. If you pass
true as the third argument, the words will be randomized and
recycled until the time runs out.
I have a bunch of existing word sets in word-sets.js. One of
these sets is the New General Service List: 2800 root words in
common use, aimed at ESL students. It's organized as a set of root
words with variations, so I've kept the base set that way, and set
the code up so that each entry can be an array of words instead of
just a single word. In this case, it will randomly shuffle the
entries, and then randomly choose from the words in the current
entry. But it may be better to use the NGSL_all_forms list which
has been flattened and sorted by frequency.
There are also a bunch of translations in plover-translations.js so it
can display hints for the next word. Many words have more than one set
of legitimate strokes, and it will show all of them unless you filter
the given options with TypeJig.longestTranslations or
TypeJig.shortestTranslations.
numbers.html has a more complex example which overrides the
exercise's nextWord function to generate a sentence at a time
and spit out random sentences with lots of numbers in them.