Subj : Yet another morse proggie
To   : Angus McLeod
From : Deuce
Date : Tue Aug 23 2005 03:42 pm

  Re: Yet another morse proggie
  By: Angus McLeod to Deuce on Tue Aug 23 2005 16:43:00

 >  > Actually, I'm thinking now...
 >  > i) Learn entire code set
 > 
 > But how?  You can't expect someone to memorize the entire charset in one
 > go.  You need to break it up into smaller groups.  When you achieve some
 > measure of success, you move on to the next group.  When you measure
 > success with the new group, you start adding characters from the previous
 > group.
 > 
 >  > ii) Get drilled using REAL words
 > 
 > But this can be achieved before the entire charset has been mastered.
 > Once you have 8-10 characters, you can start drilling with simple words
 > that can be constructed from those characters only.
 > 
 >  > iii) Drilling on random groups
 > 
 > 5-letter and 5-figure groups should come last.

Hrm... well... Koch sounded "best for most" in my research, but I'll give it
some more thought then.  But 15 min/day using Koch has gotten some good results
apparently.

So bascially, you're suggesting something along the lines of:
i) 2 minutes of drilling farnsworth style using similar group
ii) 5 minutes of drilling using words, pause after each group rather than each
character, real words in somewhat sensical order
iii) 5 minutes of drilling as with ii, but using all groups drilled to date.

Then, the user decides when to move to another group.  During the first group
of course, iii is skipped.

So bascially, a 12 minutes drill session (With, of course, breaks in between).

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