I’ve recently (Jan 2025) started learning Morse Code, inspired by a potential future project: Pocket Phone Interface.
I’m learning using lwco.net. Which is a lovely old looking website, I quite liked how on signing up providing an email address was optional, I could choose to only provide a username. Something I miss about older sites.
LWCO has a lesson format where each lesson has a set number of letters in it, and you receive a minute of code to transcribe. My issue with that format is you can only check your answer if you have a full answer, which sometimes I don’t if I get lost half way through. It can be frustrating to have to retry from the beginning.
Instead what I’m generally using is their Morse Machine, which lets you select the letters you want to test, and will play one at a time, with bars for your error margin for each. This is pretty nice, but isn’t as fully formed as the desktop program they copied, which unfortunately doesn’t play nice with the far too modern PipeWire audio system that my machines use.
Here’s a funny blog post about Morse Code being faster than the old phones with physical number buttons.