ranelpadon / ngram-type

Touch typing trainer using N-grams as data source, with options to customize the auto-generated lessons and specify the minimum typing performance needed. There are sound/color effects as well.
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Frequency Adjusted Adjacent Words #26

Open drewwc opened 1 year ago

drewwc commented 1 year ago

Hello, I love ngram type, and I've been using it for awhile now, but there is something that I think could help improve the words feature even more. Whenever you use the words feature, it doesn't give any importance (or at least not much) to adjacent words that have a higher frequency of occurrence whenever we use English. For example, whenever I choose a combination of 2 and a repetition of 1, uncommon or nonsensical combinations show up repeatedly, such as "a have" or "the be". This is a pretty big opportunity cost whenever you practice and could be fixed, but is exponentially costly the more words you explore, so a limit of the ten most commonly used words in English might be something to explore for this problem.