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Word found per minute is the key to learn proper Morse code and it is missing completely.
Question for you though - how would you calculate this? Would it be timing of each element.
Typically in morse "PARIS" is used. So if you send PARIS 5 times in a minute (5WPM) you have sent 250 elements (using correct spacing). 250 elements into 60 seconds per minute = 240 milliseconds per element. We are doing each letter - not whole words in morse-learn. So do you say "A": 20ms (2 units = 10ms/unit) P:" 50ms (4 units = 12.5ms/unit) etc.. and average this out? Bear in mind the really tricky bit is that morse-learn isnt teaching any inter-character timing.
https://morsecode.world/international/timing.html
It's spinning my head out how you'd work this out - any advice given and I'll see how we can implement this
Hi, Will mentioned to me that you had this question (I run the morsecode.world site). I had a quick look at https://morse-learn.acecentre.net/ as a result.
Although you are not teaching inter-character timing, you are using it to a degree in that you have to decide when someone has stopped keying a character. The dits and dahs you are using also have a set duration. I don't know if your decoder is fussy about the pauses between parts of a character (intra-character spacing)?
I suppose what I am saying is that you inherently have a character speed / WPM in the software to at least some degree. You have a (fixed?) dit length which should determine the speed.
From what I understand, you're not trying for speed anyway.
Sorry to share this but it was such a long time ago that I have lost all the intricate ideas that came to my mind at the moment when I started the issue. I actually spent considerable amount of time with the Gboard learner. My worry about WPM was genuine and to be able to get back to the position from where I can discuss better, I shall use it all over again and arrive there. Please bear with me for a few days and I shall be back.
@Sep83ch - there is some speed though to this and people want to know if they are improving or not. So although End of character isn’t really a thing when using this you can press a dit and dah key quickly. The difference I think is timing is nothing like the traditional calculations because a dah is not three times a dit in two switch mode. It’s equal. I think we just measure the average letter speed - or we could measure the average dit/dah time and so some maths from that. That’s probably better