How to type faster [closed]

Answer 1

Chat. A lot.

I never received any touch-typing training. Infact, when i first started, i had to search the keyboard for the key... Now after 7 years of IMing, its all muscle memory. I have never tried to speed my typing, but a lot of times it just flows without me even realizing that i am typing as i think. Also i have noticed i can type in my usernames and phrases i often use a LOT faster than the other things.

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Answer 2

Make it so that you cannot see the keyboard, this will force your mind to remember where the keys are. I used this when starting on the Colemak keyboard layout and it worked really well.

Answer 3

Practice!

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GNU Typist is a great, free, multi-platform program for practicing. They have different sets of exercises for practicing touch-typing as well as general Speed Drills.

Answer 4

Disable your mouse. (This is more for overall computer productivity than WPM.)

And I know you can't do it on your own, so get someone to enforce it.

It'll force you to learn keyboard shortcuts and consider keyboard-friendly options.

Answer 5

A nice, tactile keyboard helps. Especially if it's blank. You'll be speeding along in no time.

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Answer 6

One of the things that helped me was something I learned from pianist... when doing a touch typing program, deliberately slow down and speed up your rate of typing from disgustingly slow to really fast in slow waves. This helps train yourself to figure out how to get your fingers to work together faster and reinforces the key locations.

Another one is perhaps a speed reading course might help? Generally your fingers are the last line of slow down in typing.