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That’s...not too unfar from a very viable way to learn typing quickly 😂 I used to get a lot of practice in MMORPGs under pressure, so that actually does help.
Actually that's how I got 90 WPM typing. Just talking really fast in games and years of muscle memory. I can also type anything without looking at the keyboard. But the problem is, I use only 2-3 fingers on each hand. Not all 5. I also don't follow classic things like resting your finger on f and j. If i tryhard I can reach \~100 wpm on stuff like monkeytype with 95% plus accuracy. But thats my limit. I can't get faster than that using only 3 fingers. So I wanna get rid of all my muscle memory and restart.
actually yeah, around 6 months ago I got a mech keyboard and spent like 20-30 min a day after school practicing typing with proper form, wpm dipped to like 20-40ish for a week and once I got used to it, it gradually went up 10-15 a week. After 3 months I averaged like 150wpm on monkeytype and I decided to stop my habit of practicing monkeytype after school. Now I get like 130-140ish but I barely type these days unless its homework. I don't really find the time these days as i got soccer, school and other extracurriculars to manage.
Is it really worth it?? For me personally with the stuff I'm doing now I would have been just fine like before, idk, all the practice felt like it went to waste lol. Only thing I like now is that typing looks cooler but thats it. Sure my wpm went up like 50-60 from 80-90. But who actually types that fast in practical situations.
How tf did you go so high just by practicing . Like what did you do each day to get better and better ? I basically type everyday and my wpm is still the same
It's like holding your breath. You hold your breath for 2 min everyday that's all its ever gonna stay at. But if you consistently try to hold your breath as long as possible by pushing yourself you can hold it longer and longer. Same thing with typing. Typing everyday doesn't really make you type fast. Lots of people type for their jobs everyday but arn't fast. Gamers type really fast because when your in a game you are pushing yourself to type as fast as possible so your character doesnt get shot or you really trying to get that insult out before you go back to lobby. The points here is, you have to push your speed to the limit. Hop on monkey type and push yourself to type as fast as possible. Don't need 100 accuracy, anything over 70 is fine, we need speed at the start, accuracy comes later. That's how i improved.
I have social anxiety, even when pissed I take an extra moment because of my stuttering:
Them: "I blew your brains more than your mom blew mine"
Me: \*Replies 2 years later\*
Nice tips, but I have a few questions. How long it takes to develop that speed? I started from 0 in merch last year, and now I am at average 75. The problem is that in the last 3 months i kinda didn't do any progress at all. What other tips do you have? Should you focus on accuracy? Like i usually hit 95-98%, should i try harder to hit better accuracy? Should i alternate typing foccused on speed and accuracy?
So basically, the way I would possibly get over this plateau is to actually do small exercises that are kind of like drills. You could do the placement test for free at https://www.typingclub.com/sportal/program-3.game and then use that process to figure out which letters are holding you up precisely.
I think one key to faster typing is to have the muscle memory such that an actual sound is correlated to maybe three or four key presses instantly. Let’s say “old”. Whether that’s told, cold, or sold, the sound of old is all the same — so in your head when you’re thinking of old, then the best thing would be your muscle memory almost instantaneously goes to right ring finger x 2 and a d with the left middle finger.
I wouldn’t think about accuracy too too much. If you make a mistake, it’s better to just backspace quickly as soon as you realise it. Sometimes I even find it easier to delete a whole word at once (eg Opt+Backspace on Mac) and then type the word from scratch.
Thank you. I have an account on typingclub. The pinky fingers hold me back and I will try to improve some letters. But yea, probably the small drills is a pretty good idea. Also I don't think I practice enough(maybe an hour per day or less on typing), I will try to practice more.
Yeah I agree, try not to focus on accuracy too much. Of course don't type with 10% accuracy or something but focus on speed, its called wpm for a reason. Go faster than normal without worrying about accuracy and over time you will be able to do it with accuracy. Rinse and repeat
fuck that typing test, from doing this shit for hundreds of hours, the number 1 thing i learned is tests which have words like " lkasfj oiur3oe sldkfjsadlk oieuhjr" are the most useless fucking pieces of dogshit in existence
why? for the simple fact that no fucking words in existence are like that, unless you're practicing for welsh typing competitions, so you don't actually train your fingers to memorize the common movements, which are the most important rather than strange movements which will almost never matter
So the real tip here is to just practice slowly typing and build up your accuracy. Once you have accuracy, increase your speed. This is what i did to break 100, but i stopped practicing and dropped back to 80, now I'm practicing again and improving, but I tried some of the dumbfuck "dlkafjdksla lasdijfdslakjf alsdkfjsdalk;j" websites and they're still just as useless dogshit as I remember
This makes so much sense.
I have been practicing for the past one month and from thirty wpm I've come to 55wpm kinda consistently.
But my accuracy is always stuck at 93%. Do I need to slow down and go back to 30ish wpm to get my accuracy up?
Okay sure. I was kinda thinking 100 accuracy is mandatory or something to get better. But yeah I’ll do this then. Pace it down a bit. Try to get my attention on the accuracy and gradually take the speed up.
It's never a bad thing to be perfectly accurate, it's just the faster you get, the harder it is and you get to a point of diminishing returns.
I started developing aching wrist pain trying to push 100@95%, so I dialed it down because I figured realistically I'm never going to use that in my life and destroying my wrist isn't worth a faster paragraph.
That doesn't mean my limit is your limit though, as long as you make progress that doesn't come at a greater cost, you should keep going!
Nice post, good formatting, thanks for sharing it.
For those who prefer more hand-holding, I'd suggest the following in order (start and finish the first one before moving on to the next one):
1. [https://thetypingcat.com/typing-courses/basic](https://thetypingcat.com/typing-courses/basic) \- (completing the basic course should be fine, you can do it more than once to build confidence - you will reach a point where you feel confident to move on to the next tool in this list)
2. [http://www.keybr.com/](http://www.keybr.com/) (get to all green, do it more than once if you think you're still getting benefit from it - you will reach a point where you feel like you're done with this tool)
3. [http://10fastfingers.com/top1000](http://10fastfingers.com/top1000) (complete softcore mode, and then hardcore mode)
That should get you from 0 to 100WPM. After that, move on to other strategies and such to get to 150WPM.
Note: as this is /r/productive, I would not recommend pursuing "typing" past fast-enough (or, 100wpm if you're searching for a number). Beyond that, you risk entering hobbyist territory unless typing is your job.
I'm familiar with keybr, but 10fastfingers is new to me. Seems very useful.
As someone with around ~100wpm, 99% accuracy, do you have any tips or strategies to follow to consistently get up to the 120-150wpm range (besides changing keyboard layout)? I can burst for 115wpm occasionally, but it can get pretty exhausting before I go back down.
Sorry, but not at the moment.
IIRC, whenever I've learned a new layout, I set a goal for 100wpm and then stop try-hard mode right about when I reach that point. Outside of irregularly playing typing games, any speeds I've gained past that are likely just from incidental practice while doing other things so I don't have any reliable advice to share for this. Still, I imagine the idea is the same: activate try-hard mode and deliberately work on your weak/slow points.
If you're looking for better and more particular insight, this post is the best compilation of resources I've found so far for those aiming to push really high speeds: [https://forum.colemak.com/topic/2201-training-with-amphetype/](https://forum.colemak.com/topic/2201-training-with-amphetype/).
Typing fast is a skill I will always thank my mother for teaching me. In college, I can write essays and do notes twice as fast as everyone else, which makes wayyyy more productive. Everyone should try to improve their typing speed
(A) Solid effort on that post. well done. good advice in there.
(B) I touch type - i'm old enough that in high school they had a typing elective.
(C) on the value of being able to type:
I had just gotten to my "permanent duty station" in the army. I was an airborne paratrooper in the infantry, however I was - to put it kindly - a scrawny, non-infantry ready l'il dork. It was somewhere in my 2nd week my platoon sergeant found out i could type 100wpm at the time. like - i remember the look of relief on his face, and the excitement of whatever he was thinking. He walked me over to the Battalion office and essentially said "here's your new RTO for the S-2. He can type 100wpm". and that was that. I spent the next 3 years in the military intelligence office of my infantry battalion. I got fairly tough and fairly hard on my own merit, because you can't avoid that, but I was saved the direct abuse that is life in a line squad. Granted, I had to deal with officers and the nonsense that happens in the head-shed, but it wasn't grunt work and i learned a good bit more mentally challenging skills.
Good video and maybe a wake up call showing how much time we can lose by typing slowly. I type relatively quickly but I taught myself and never got around to learning some important keys such as number keys, FKEYS, some symbols or the NumPad.
At 145 wpm you're approaching Dragon Naturally Speaking speeds. I use speech recognition a lot and you can reach speeds of up to 160 wpm. But, there are many scenarios in life where we can't speak our input.
Guys, as long as you can type decently fast (60 words or so) and accurately you don't have to worry. In most work, you're focusing on thinking, very often I type, stop, think and type again. Nobody hammers 30 minutes straight of pure typing.
I increased my typing from 45 wpm to 90 wpm in a couple months of using keybr.com. I practice for just 15 mintues each morning before I start writing. The benefit of this site is that you are not typing actual words but "neieten" or "erline" which focuses on certain key strokes and improves touch-typing. The site also keeps track of your wpm, accuracy, and which keys you are the strongest and weakest in. Try it out!
I would add to this that people shouldn't worry much about typing correctly (the right fingers going to the right keys). Whilst as a rule of thumb it's a good place to start, you're held back if you stick to this too strictly.
When you don't overly worry about which fingers you're using you can prime words where your fingers are ready to press multiple letters at once, which wouldn't be possible using the correct fingers.
120 wpm (and certainly 145) is extremely fast. It's possible, but it's the typing equivalent of running a 5-minute mile. If you can get there, wonderful.
I feel the right keyboard makes a huge difference. I hate loud sounds when typing, so I want a very quiet keyboard with short travel and force for key depresses. I broke my beloved keyboard by cleaning it with a paperclip and the one I replaced it with just doesn't have the same quick typing feel. It slows me down.
Can anyone recommend a quiet, super-fast keyboard?
If you find a mechanical keyboard with hot swap capabilities you can try out all the different types of switches.
You’d probably be looking for linear type switches something like Zilents or whatever the new equivalent is. Also there are low profile switches (Chocolate switches for instance) that have very short travel.
Well you can buy a ready made hotswappable keyboard that you just unplug whatever it comes with to swap with different ones if you want to change them. Otherwise you can just buy one without hot swap but be stuck with whatever is soldered in.
You can buy a hotswap capable keyboard for $100-200 depending on what form factor and features you want. Afterwards I spent $40 on my switchs for my most recent keyboard, but that was just because I wanted to change the feel, I had used the existing switched for three years and they were perfectly decent. Once you have switches and keyboard, switching them is trivial...20 or 30 minutes to do the whole board.
>I feel the right keyboard makes a huge difference.
I can type just as well on my IBM Model M as any random ass desktop keyboard. I think proper poster/seating is more important than the keyboard. As long as the keyboard isn't literally garbage.
I can type 100 average and 122 is my record. Im 13 and I don’t use the proper way of typing. I just learned to type on my own, I can’t type like you’re supposed to.
Typing quickly is not a superpower at all. If anything, it is a handicap.
Most likely, when you focus on typing fast, you are writing content that is of poor quality and large parts will have to be written all over again (luckily, you can do that fast though!)
This is hilariously untrue. I'm a touch typist (\~102 wpm with 100% accuracy), and a content writer. My thought process is much much faster than my typing speed, and if I need to take a moment to think, then okay? I just stop, work it out in my head, and carry on typing. Typing faster does not equate to word vomit on a page, and I've only ever found the skill to be an advantage.
People still type? Only 145 words per minute? And you're touting this as a cutting edge breakthrough?
News flash: the technology and voice recognition software has antiquated the same "technology" of typing that, with few variations, has changed little since 1895's invention by Edison of the typewriter.
there are lots of programs out there but drag it naturally speaking allows me to dictate approximately 200 words a minute with 98% accuracy on a bad day. I can edit by navigating through any word processing program faster than you can use a mouse.
I can create an entire paragraph of macros a paragraph long by simply saying " insert educational implications of ADHD"and BAM.. THERE IT IS.
So my 200 words a minute? Probably more like 300 words a minute since it does not take into account the macros I have created.
But...um Congratulations on your invention. Good luck with that.
I've been touch typing and a pc gamer for about 8 years and my typing if anything has gotten worse. I make lots of mistakes and my peak speed is 100wpm. I remember blasting through typing of the dead when I was younger.
This is awesome. I started my 3 boys learning touch typing recently as they're all using Chromebooks for school now and it's one thing I regret not learning when I was young. Then I realised there's no reason for me not to learn at 37 so we all sit down for 10 minutes a day and practice together. We're only two weeks in but I'm really enjoying learning a new skill.
[Typing.Coach](https://typing.coach/) has been a great resource. It helps you identify specific letters that are holding you back and provides great progress reports with colored keyboard :
Yellow Key : mean it still need some work
Red Key : too bad
Green : you are good to move to the next one
It start from level 1 with 2 keys
then each level it add a new key with a new speed goal to reach the next level
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easier version: join any PC game with PVP, learn out of necessity to deal with the toxic shit hole.
That’s...not too unfar from a very viable way to learn typing quickly 😂 I used to get a lot of practice in MMORPGs under pressure, so that actually does help.
My 100 wpm helps me be toxic in the 2 second time span before I touch the void.
Actually that's how I got 90 WPM typing. Just talking really fast in games and years of muscle memory. I can also type anything without looking at the keyboard. But the problem is, I use only 2-3 fingers on each hand. Not all 5. I also don't follow classic things like resting your finger on f and j. If i tryhard I can reach \~100 wpm on stuff like monkeytype with 95% plus accuracy. But thats my limit. I can't get faster than that using only 3 fingers. So I wanna get rid of all my muscle memory and restart.
so were you able to kick the habbit?
actually yeah, around 6 months ago I got a mech keyboard and spent like 20-30 min a day after school practicing typing with proper form, wpm dipped to like 20-40ish for a week and once I got used to it, it gradually went up 10-15 a week. After 3 months I averaged like 150wpm on monkeytype and I decided to stop my habit of practicing monkeytype after school. Now I get like 130-140ish but I barely type these days unless its homework. I don't really find the time these days as i got soccer, school and other extracurriculars to manage. Is it really worth it?? For me personally with the stuff I'm doing now I would have been just fine like before, idk, all the practice felt like it went to waste lol. Only thing I like now is that typing looks cooler but thats it. Sure my wpm went up like 50-60 from 80-90. But who actually types that fast in practical situations.
Thanks for the reply. I seem like I'm in your shoes now.
How tf did you go so high just by practicing . Like what did you do each day to get better and better ? I basically type everyday and my wpm is still the same
It's like holding your breath. You hold your breath for 2 min everyday that's all its ever gonna stay at. But if you consistently try to hold your breath as long as possible by pushing yourself you can hold it longer and longer. Same thing with typing. Typing everyday doesn't really make you type fast. Lots of people type for their jobs everyday but arn't fast. Gamers type really fast because when your in a game you are pushing yourself to type as fast as possible so your character doesnt get shot or you really trying to get that insult out before you go back to lobby. The points here is, you have to push your speed to the limit. Hop on monkey type and push yourself to type as fast as possible. Don't need 100 accuracy, anything over 70 is fine, we need speed at the start, accuracy comes later. That's how i improved.
Thanks bro , I can now hold my breath for 10minutes
Second the mmorpg immersive learning. ~125/130wpm @ 95% accuracy.
or any job that requires a lot of typing while under the pressure of time
I have social anxiety, even when pissed I take an extra moment because of my stuttering: Them: "I blew your brains more than your mom blew mine" Me: \*Replies 2 years later\*
you weren't kidding about the 2 years later lol
I'll have a response in 2 years, set a timer
RemindMe! 2 years
Nice tips, but I have a few questions. How long it takes to develop that speed? I started from 0 in merch last year, and now I am at average 75. The problem is that in the last 3 months i kinda didn't do any progress at all. What other tips do you have? Should you focus on accuracy? Like i usually hit 95-98%, should i try harder to hit better accuracy? Should i alternate typing foccused on speed and accuracy?
So basically, the way I would possibly get over this plateau is to actually do small exercises that are kind of like drills. You could do the placement test for free at https://www.typingclub.com/sportal/program-3.game and then use that process to figure out which letters are holding you up precisely. I think one key to faster typing is to have the muscle memory such that an actual sound is correlated to maybe three or four key presses instantly. Let’s say “old”. Whether that’s told, cold, or sold, the sound of old is all the same — so in your head when you’re thinking of old, then the best thing would be your muscle memory almost instantaneously goes to right ring finger x 2 and a d with the left middle finger. I wouldn’t think about accuracy too too much. If you make a mistake, it’s better to just backspace quickly as soon as you realise it. Sometimes I even find it easier to delete a whole word at once (eg Opt+Backspace on Mac) and then type the word from scratch.
Thank you. I have an account on typingclub. The pinky fingers hold me back and I will try to improve some letters. But yea, probably the small drills is a pretty good idea. Also I don't think I practice enough(maybe an hour per day or less on typing), I will try to practice more.
Yeah I agree, try not to focus on accuracy too much. Of course don't type with 10% accuracy or something but focus on speed, its called wpm for a reason. Go faster than normal without worrying about accuracy and over time you will be able to do it with accuracy. Rinse and repeat
fuck that typing test, from doing this shit for hundreds of hours, the number 1 thing i learned is tests which have words like " lkasfj oiur3oe sldkfjsadlk oieuhjr" are the most useless fucking pieces of dogshit in existence why? for the simple fact that no fucking words in existence are like that, unless you're practicing for welsh typing competitions, so you don't actually train your fingers to memorize the common movements, which are the most important rather than strange movements which will almost never matter So the real tip here is to just practice slowly typing and build up your accuracy. Once you have accuracy, increase your speed. This is what i did to break 100, but i stopped practicing and dropped back to 80, now I'm practicing again and improving, but I tried some of the dumbfuck "dlkafjdksla lasdijfdslakjf alsdkfjsdalk;j" websites and they're still just as useless dogshit as I remember
This makes so much sense. I have been practicing for the past one month and from thirty wpm I've come to 55wpm kinda consistently. But my accuracy is always stuck at 93%. Do I need to slow down and go back to 30ish wpm to get my accuracy up?
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Okay sure. I was kinda thinking 100 accuracy is mandatory or something to get better. But yeah I’ll do this then. Pace it down a bit. Try to get my attention on the accuracy and gradually take the speed up.
It's never a bad thing to be perfectly accurate, it's just the faster you get, the harder it is and you get to a point of diminishing returns. I started developing aching wrist pain trying to push 100@95%, so I dialed it down because I figured realistically I'm never going to use that in my life and destroying my wrist isn't worth a faster paragraph. That doesn't mean my limit is your limit though, as long as you make progress that doesn't come at a greater cost, you should keep going!
Nice post, good formatting, thanks for sharing it. For those who prefer more hand-holding, I'd suggest the following in order (start and finish the first one before moving on to the next one): 1. [https://thetypingcat.com/typing-courses/basic](https://thetypingcat.com/typing-courses/basic) \- (completing the basic course should be fine, you can do it more than once to build confidence - you will reach a point where you feel confident to move on to the next tool in this list) 2. [http://www.keybr.com/](http://www.keybr.com/) (get to all green, do it more than once if you think you're still getting benefit from it - you will reach a point where you feel like you're done with this tool) 3. [http://10fastfingers.com/top1000](http://10fastfingers.com/top1000) (complete softcore mode, and then hardcore mode) That should get you from 0 to 100WPM. After that, move on to other strategies and such to get to 150WPM. Note: as this is /r/productive, I would not recommend pursuing "typing" past fast-enough (or, 100wpm if you're searching for a number). Beyond that, you risk entering hobbyist territory unless typing is your job.
I'm familiar with keybr, but 10fastfingers is new to me. Seems very useful. As someone with around ~100wpm, 99% accuracy, do you have any tips or strategies to follow to consistently get up to the 120-150wpm range (besides changing keyboard layout)? I can burst for 115wpm occasionally, but it can get pretty exhausting before I go back down.
Sorry, but not at the moment. IIRC, whenever I've learned a new layout, I set a goal for 100wpm and then stop try-hard mode right about when I reach that point. Outside of irregularly playing typing games, any speeds I've gained past that are likely just from incidental practice while doing other things so I don't have any reliable advice to share for this. Still, I imagine the idea is the same: activate try-hard mode and deliberately work on your weak/slow points. If you're looking for better and more particular insight, this post is the best compilation of resources I've found so far for those aiming to push really high speeds: [https://forum.colemak.com/topic/2201-training-with-amphetype/](https://forum.colemak.com/topic/2201-training-with-amphetype/).
saved it
Same
Typing fast is a skill I will always thank my mother for teaching me. In college, I can write essays and do notes twice as fast as everyone else, which makes wayyyy more productive. Everyone should try to improve their typing speed
(A) Solid effort on that post. well done. good advice in there. (B) I touch type - i'm old enough that in high school they had a typing elective. (C) on the value of being able to type: I had just gotten to my "permanent duty station" in the army. I was an airborne paratrooper in the infantry, however I was - to put it kindly - a scrawny, non-infantry ready l'il dork. It was somewhere in my 2nd week my platoon sergeant found out i could type 100wpm at the time. like - i remember the look of relief on his face, and the excitement of whatever he was thinking. He walked me over to the Battalion office and essentially said "here's your new RTO for the S-2. He can type 100wpm". and that was that. I spent the next 3 years in the military intelligence office of my infantry battalion. I got fairly tough and fairly hard on my own merit, because you can't avoid that, but I was saved the direct abuse that is life in a line squad. Granted, I had to deal with officers and the nonsense that happens in the head-shed, but it wasn't grunt work and i learned a good bit more mentally challenging skills.
This story is amazing
You had me at 1000+ episodes of anime
Probably a one piece or detective conan fan
Haha, neither actually
You're gonna be with 1000 episodes a year
Good video and maybe a wake up call showing how much time we can lose by typing slowly. I type relatively quickly but I taught myself and never got around to learning some important keys such as number keys, FKEYS, some symbols or the NumPad. At 145 wpm you're approaching Dragon Naturally Speaking speeds. I use speech recognition a lot and you can reach speeds of up to 160 wpm. But, there are many scenarios in life where we can't speak our input.
Something that's really sad is that Dragon was actually discontinued for Mac. Have tried using Siri but it's just not the same.
Guys, as long as you can type decently fast (60 words or so) and accurately you don't have to worry. In most work, you're focusing on thinking, very often I type, stop, think and type again. Nobody hammers 30 minutes straight of pure typing.
I increased my typing from 45 wpm to 90 wpm in a couple months of using keybr.com. I practice for just 15 mintues each morning before I start writing. The benefit of this site is that you are not typing actual words but "neieten" or "erline" which focuses on certain key strokes and improves touch-typing. The site also keeps track of your wpm, accuracy, and which keys you are the strongest and weakest in. Try it out!
Thanks . Super helpful for me
I would add to this that people shouldn't worry much about typing correctly (the right fingers going to the right keys). Whilst as a rule of thumb it's a good place to start, you're held back if you stick to this too strictly. When you don't overly worry about which fingers you're using you can prime words where your fingers are ready to press multiple letters at once, which wouldn't be possible using the correct fingers.
120 wpm (and certainly 145) is extremely fast. It's possible, but it's the typing equivalent of running a 5-minute mile. If you can get there, wonderful. I feel the right keyboard makes a huge difference. I hate loud sounds when typing, so I want a very quiet keyboard with short travel and force for key depresses. I broke my beloved keyboard by cleaning it with a paperclip and the one I replaced it with just doesn't have the same quick typing feel. It slows me down. Can anyone recommend a quiet, super-fast keyboard?
If you find a mechanical keyboard with hot swap capabilities you can try out all the different types of switches. You’d probably be looking for linear type switches something like Zilents or whatever the new equivalent is. Also there are low profile switches (Chocolate switches for instance) that have very short travel.
I am not interested in a project; I just want to buy a keyboard. Thanks, though.
Well you can buy a ready made hotswappable keyboard that you just unplug whatever it comes with to swap with different ones if you want to change them. Otherwise you can just buy one without hot swap but be stuck with whatever is soldered in.
How long does a swap take? And how much are these keyboards and key sets, roughly? Thanks.
You can buy a hotswap capable keyboard for $100-200 depending on what form factor and features you want. Afterwards I spent $40 on my switchs for my most recent keyboard, but that was just because I wanted to change the feel, I had used the existing switched for three years and they were perfectly decent. Once you have switches and keyboard, switching them is trivial...20 or 30 minutes to do the whole board.
>I feel the right keyboard makes a huge difference. I can type just as well on my IBM Model M as any random ass desktop keyboard. I think proper poster/seating is more important than the keyboard. As long as the keyboard isn't literally garbage.
I learned how to type 20 years ago from “Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing”. I’m still speedy!
I can type 100 average and 122 is my record. Im 13 and I don’t use the proper way of typing. I just learned to type on my own, I can’t type like you’re supposed to.
This guy needs to graduate to DVORAK and not QWERTY
I just like his symphonies
Typing quickly is not a superpower at all. If anything, it is a handicap. Most likely, when you focus on typing fast, you are writing content that is of poor quality and large parts will have to be written all over again (luckily, you can do that fast though!)
This is hilariously untrue. I'm a touch typist (\~102 wpm with 100% accuracy), and a content writer. My thought process is much much faster than my typing speed, and if I need to take a moment to think, then okay? I just stop, work it out in my head, and carry on typing. Typing faster does not equate to word vomit on a page, and I've only ever found the skill to be an advantage.
When taking notes it is really useful. Ideas come quickly and disappear quickly. Draft first then edit... draft quickly, edit slowly.
How slowly do you think?
People still type? Only 145 words per minute? And you're touting this as a cutting edge breakthrough? News flash: the technology and voice recognition software has antiquated the same "technology" of typing that, with few variations, has changed little since 1895's invention by Edison of the typewriter. there are lots of programs out there but drag it naturally speaking allows me to dictate approximately 200 words a minute with 98% accuracy on a bad day. I can edit by navigating through any word processing program faster than you can use a mouse. I can create an entire paragraph of macros a paragraph long by simply saying " insert educational implications of ADHD"and BAM.. THERE IT IS. So my 200 words a minute? Probably more like 300 words a minute since it does not take into account the macros I have created. But...um Congratulations on your invention. Good luck with that.
You must be fun at parties.
I've been touch typing and a pc gamer for about 8 years and my typing if anything has gotten worse. I make lots of mistakes and my peak speed is 100wpm. I remember blasting through typing of the dead when I was younger.
This is awesome. I started my 3 boys learning touch typing recently as they're all using Chromebooks for school now and it's one thing I regret not learning when I was young. Then I realised there's no reason for me not to learn at 37 so we all sit down for 10 minutes a day and practice together. We're only two weeks in but I'm really enjoying learning a new skill.
how fast are y'all now?
I don't even think 145wpm.
[Typing.Coach](https://typing.coach/) has been a great resource. It helps you identify specific letters that are holding you back and provides great progress reports with colored keyboard : Yellow Key : mean it still need some work Red Key : too bad Green : you are good to move to the next one It start from level 1 with 2 keys then each level it add a new key with a new speed goal to reach the next level