Morse code · learningHow to Learn Morse Code
Start with two letters and add a new one when your accuracy reaches 90 %. A map of your letters shows what comes harder — and it stays in your browser.
Trainer · Koch method
Add a letter when your accuracy on the current ones is around 90 %. The order is the one operators use worldwide.
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Two ways and a study plan
From a chart
you learn for yourself, with children, or need to look up rare letters quickly.
at speed you translate each letter in your head, and that slows copying down.
By ear, Koch method
your goal is copying by ear, for example on the radio.
the first days feel slow, with few letters.
- 110–15 minutes a day without skipping — regularity matters more than length.
- 2Letters at 15–20 words per minute with stretched gaps (Farnsworth).
- 3Add a letter when your accuracy on the current ones is around 90 %.
- 4Weak letters get a separate session every few days.
About learning
Morse code is learned in two ways: from a chart, by memorising what each letter looks like or with mnemonics, and by ear, where a letter is recognised instantly as a whole sound. This trainer follows the second, the Koch method: letters play at working speed, and new ones are added one at a time once the earlier ones are mastered.
Koch method
SystemGerman researcher Ludwig Koch proposed in 1936 to learn letters at working speed from day one: start with two and add one at a time.
By ear
PrincipleA letter should be recognised as a whole tune, not by counting dots. That is why the speed is not lowered even at the start.
Farnsworth
SpeedLetters play fast while the gaps between them are stretched: there is time to think, and the rhythm of each letter stays intact.
Charts and mnemonics
The other wayA quick start through pictures and phrases. But at speed you end up translating in your head, and that slows copying down.
Russian order
Koch for CyrillicRussian letters follow the same order as operators use worldwide, by shared codes. Letters with no Latin twin come last.
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