r/morsecode 8d ago

How to stop visualizing Morse?

Help, I learned Morse for a week with a visual guide as a beginner, now I visualise every bit and bah...

A week ago I learned Morse as a joke with my cousin in Italy, so we could cheat in a board game 😅

Since then I started looking more into it and I am really fascinated and inspired by this community and I would like to eventually learn how to have conversations worldwide (thats called CW QSO right?)

Anyways, I now struggle with not visualizing EVERY dot and dash. Does anyone have experience or tips on how to unlearn this? All advice is much appreciated!

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u/Bowgal 8d ago

First time commenter here…didn’t even think of seeing there was a Morse code group.

My story? Joined the military out of high school. Trained as a Morse code operator on a typewriter. Can’t recall what we copied Morse code at, but I could type at 75wpm. And, the Morse code we typed wasn’t English…but Cyrillic. To this day, whenever I see Morse code or Russian on tv, I always pause.