K=D8HB wrote:
"b.b." wrote

How long will it take the code teachers and
code advocates to catch on to the concept,
or will they coninue on with the stepped hoops?

"Stepped hoops"? In my experience, people tend to learn Morse not in ste=
ps, but
by gradual increases. Granted that there are some "plateaus" (approximat=
ely
10WPM and 25WPM) but these are found to be related to the "mental mechani=
cs" of
learning.

Up to about 10WPM trainees can still "count the dits", so moving beyond t=
hat
speed requires them to learn to recognize the "sound of the character" wi=
thout
deliberate "counting the dits". This is what makes the Farnsworth traini=
ng
method effective, in that the trainee is early acquainted to the "sound o=
f the
character" at the higher speeds.

The 25WPM plateau seems related to sublimating copying to a "middle consc=
ious"
level, where the characters flow at an almost sub-conscious level from th=
e ear
to the fingertip without active thought about the actual characters heard.

73, de Hans, K0HB

Like I said...

Maybe Morse can go back to being an encoding scheme, and Farnsworth can
go back to being a teaching method. And maybe without artificial
testing steps, Morse can develop more along the lines human learning
and consciousness.