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General Discussion

Possible Feature: Shortcuts for Challenges and Quizzes?

Maybe I'm just being lazy, but I would love some keyboard shortcuts for Challenges and Quizzes.

Something for Refresh Preview, Check My Work and Next.

Now, it could be just because I'm mainly a designer and not use to going from typing to mouse, typing to mouse. But being pampered by Photoshop's and Illustrator's keyboard shortcuts may be the cause of this laziness(?)! haha.

Excuses aside, I think it would be pretty handy and efficient. Just my two cents.

13 Answers

@Brandon +1 this idea. Shortcuts would increase my efficiency.

+1

I created a greasemonkey userscript to add the shortcut features to quiz areas. Install the script and use ctrl+r to refresh the preview, ctrl+w to submit work, and ctrl+n to advance to the next question.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7898741/teamTreehouseShortcuts.user.js

Tampermonkey for chrome: http://bit.ly/QYxFaZ Greasemonkey for firefox: http://bit.ly/fKh8Ao

In Chrome, CTRL+W and CTRL+N are already allocated and do not work as intended with your script.

Does the teamTreehouseShortcuts.user.js file still exist somewhere? It would be greatly appreciated. I know this post is old and this is a shot in the dark but fingers crossed... Thank you!

That's amazing @Mark! I'll check it out today! Thanks man! I haven't used Tampermonkey or Greasemonkey before, stoked to try!

+1 this idea. Even a simple CMMD+RETURN for "Check Work" would make me more efficient.

+1 really got used to the keyboard shortcuts at Code School!

Absolutely +1

I am astonished, that they don't exist. That seems like an absolute basic

FWIW, there is at least a shortcut for "Check Work" - it's Ctrl + Return/Enter (yup, it's still Ctrl and not Cmd even on Macs). I haven't found one for moving to "Next Task" yet though :/

+1 Use the one for Check Work all the time, but really want one for Next Task.

+1

+1

KEEPING THIs ALIVE!

give us a next task hotkey!

haha! this is great. thank you! it's been a while since i've checked this...

For those interested, I use Vimium in Chrome (may be available in FF). It is two 4 keystrokes but helps me to keep my fingers on the keyboard.

  • Press f
  • vimium finds the next button and highlights the key combination I need to press
  • press key combination (by default mine is gf)
  • browser goes to next page

up!

Give us the keyboard shortcuts, guys!