[Elecraft] Fwd: Re: [OT] increasing CW copy speed: practice slow -v- practice fast

[Ken]

I agree with you there Bob.   I know my CW speed jumped when I worked 
the high level CW nets (EAN) and suddenly HAD to copy fast and 
accurate!   I think in a few weeks I went from 20 to 29 wpm, my limit 
for printing each character.   There was no way I was going to keep 
asking for fills.

It was, however, many years later until I finally broke away from 
printing and started copying in my head.   IMO, when you get at the 
35-40 wpm level, CW totally changes and starts to become more like a 
normal person to person conversation.

Unfortunately, I was off the air for a dozen years and have not regained 
that speed.

On a different topic you mentioned, I HATE Farnsworth.  Yes, maybe it's 
a good way for people to learn but they fail to transistion to sending 
proper code.   There are too many people sending Farnsworth on the air 
and it is improper and sloppy code.  It's a shortcut to doing things 
right and it has a high penalty.

Ken WA8JXM

On 12/6/15 3:00 AM, Robert Harmon wrote:
> but to really increase your copying
> speed you need to spend some time exercising your copying abilities each
> day by practice copying ONLY at speeds faster than you can comfortably
> copy.  You wont increase your copying speed by always copying at the
> same comfortable speeds.  Practice at a speed where you are only able to
> copy one or two characters in each word. Concentrate !!