How to learn morse code - Lesson 11

It is very important that you have now used your time well by training and practising your morse code by listening for hours and hours to an increased speed of random groups of letters, numbers and special characters.

Often people ask me about the time it will take to learn the morse code. My answer is that nothing comes for free. It takes many, many hours to learn, only a few days for some and many weeks for others.

If I was really pressed for an answer I would tell you to count around 150 hours of practising. After so long everyone should be able to read the code at a somehow usable speed.

The normal situation is to "hit the wall" at a speed of about 8 wpm (words per minute: How many times a word of 5 letters - normally referred to as the word PARIS - is sent during the space of 1 minute)

The reason for everything to seem to stop up completely at this time is that this would be the limit for a person to have the time to think in the  way of counting the dots and the strokes of a letter in his mind. To be able to cross this invisible limit one will have to be able to "see" the letters from their rhythm rather than their coding.

This is why I suggested earlier that you to keep the speed up and not use too much spacing inbetween the letters before adding your next letter to train on. This way I believe that your speed of learning should be rather fast and correct even as you increase both the speed and the number of letters you are able to read .


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