[Elecraft] Copying CW at high speeds

[Eric J]

For one, trhee is a lot of rdannudcey in lngugaae. Yuor biarn tkeas advgaante of taht. You cn'at wenn you can olny wrtie dwon leettr by leettr.

When you head copy words, even short phrases, your brain does a lot of the work it already knows how to do. That first sentence would take a lot of work trying to figure it out letter by letter, but most people can scan it for sense almost as fast as they can read correct text.

Eric KE6UWS

On 12/28/2019 7:43 PM, Robert G Strickland via Elecraft wrote:
Jim...

I am curious about which "... things do occur..." that help along the QRQ way.

Thanks for your interesting thoughts.

...robert

On 12/29/2019 03:16, Jim Danehy wrote:
The electrical pulses from your ear to your brain travel at extremely fast speed.

The speed of light in a vacuum is 186,282 miles a second ; about 670,616,629 mph.

My point ? At QRQ CW speeds something occurs that you normally do not encounter at slower speeds.  Look at a dictionary. Many words start with a common pattern. After 5 or 6 letters there are alternatives. At QRQ speed Your brain is actually ahead of what your ear is feeding your brain. It is giving you a choice of words to choose from.

The task is to choose the correct one. You are aided in that choice by the context of the message. I don’t know why this occurs. But it does.

So when you learn to copy Entire words rather than letters ; this is the phenomenon that occurs at high speeds. It helps but it can also throw you a curve ball. That is where message context enters the equation.

When you copy entire words rather than all the letters you have assistance. Your ability to copy faster speeds will improve with time. I only mention this as things get better the longer you stay with it.

It is called getting over the hump. Or through the walk.

It usually appears more difficult to increase your speed. However things do occur that help you achieve the ability to copy entire words. Then QRQ CW becomes conversational.  Kind of like auto fill with computer typing.

73
Jim
W9VNE / VA3VNE




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