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How to Type: 5 Tips for Faster Typing

Learn to touch type..

If you don’t know how to touch type, this is where you need to start. Having the ability to type without looking at the keyboard is the most important factor in achieving a fast typing speed. Even if you have memorized many of the keys, unfamiliar keys will slow you down just like speed bumps on the freeway. Taking your eyes off the screen to peek at the keyboard disrupts your focus and costs you time. You want to be able to keep your eyes on the screen and your fingers moving to the correct keys without thinking. Achieving this kind of flow takes practice. The better you can do it, the faster you will be. Read on to learn how.

Aim for accuracy rather than speed.

It does not matter how fast you type if you have to go back and fix all your mistakes. Fixing mistakes takes more time than it does to just slow down and take the time you need to type accurately. Fast typing depends on developing precision muscle memory. Allowing yourself to type incorrectly will actually reinforce your bad habits and common mistakes! Slow your typing pace until you can attain 100% accuracy. If you come across a difficult word, slow down further to type it properly. Develop good habits and speed will be your reward.

Practice typing exercises regularly.

Mastering typing skills takes training and practice. Practice typing on a regular schedule, 10 minutes to an hour per session, depending on your energy and focus level. Practice won’t make perfect if it is half-hearted and full of mistakes, so is important that you practice your typing exercises at a time and place where you can maintain focus and accuracy. Eliminate any potential distractions. If you find yourself making lots of errors, slow down and find a way to regain your focus or call it a day. The goal of practicing is to build muscle memory. Be consistent and mindful in your practice and you will avoid bad habits and mistakes.

Minimize your physical effort.

The less work your fingers do to press the keys the faster you will be able to move them. Most keyboards require only a light touch to register a key stroke, so there is no need to mash the keys down. Type with the minimum force necessary. You will type faster, longer and with greater ease. Typing involves muscles not only in your fingers, but in your hands, arms, back, shoulders, neck and head.

Learn the entire keyboard.

You may have enough experience typing to know most of the common keys - the letters, the space bar, enter, and I’ll bet you know that backspace! But you might be uncomfortable with some of the keys you don’t use as frequently. Do you have to slow down and look at the keyboard to type a number or symbol? If you program or work with spreadsheets you will use the symbol keys frequently. If you are a gamer there are probably CTRL, ALT and function keys that you fumble for in the heat of the battle. In fact, most all programs can be used more productively with effectively use of key combo shortcuts. Hitting these awkward keys and combos accurately allows you to maintain focus on what you are doing, so make sure you include them in your typing practice.

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With a little practice, consistency, and some accessible tools, you can teach yourself to use the home row, type without looking, and improve your speed..

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As a kid, I started typing by tapping in cheat codes on ’90s PC games like Doom and Rise of the Triad , but it wasn’t until the covid pandemic that I finally ditched my awkward hunt-and-peck technique and learned touch typing. 

If you don’t know how to touch type, there are very approachable ways you can learn on your own. You may think you do just fine ham-fisting your way through the keys, but with a little effort, you can learn to type faster, use your fingers more ergonomically, and rarely have to take your eyes off your screen as you clackity-clack-clack-clack along.

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If you’ve been relying on only a few fingers to type, it’s going to take some time to adjust and get those idle digits cracking along. At first, you may type as slow as molasses while you learn what fingers are responsible for what keys, but that’s okay. Even if you start off at 20 words per minute, it’s key to focus on accuracy and building that new muscle memory from the ground up. Just like playing a musical instrument, hit the right notes first — then do it faster.

The home row resting position and the corresponding keys for each finger.

Touch typing begins with anchoring your fingers on the home row. On a QWERTY layout keyboard, that involves resting your left fingers on A, S, D, and F while your right digits are on J, K, L, and semicolon. Both thumbs should hover over / rest on the space bar. Do you feel a little raised bump, nub, or other signifier on the F and J keys? Most keycaps have some tactile accent making these two keys feel different. That’s how you find these important keys to anchor your index fingers and let the rest fall into place, even without looking.

It’s easy to get started with different kinds of training apps (the majority of which are free) that simplify the typing experience and even make it fun. In this article, I’ll first walk you through a variety of options for you to try and then add some dos and don’ts that should get you learning new finger muscle memory to make you much, much faster.

My favorite typing apps

Keybr starts you off with limited keys and slowly lights more up as it introduces them into your routine.

When it comes to free resources for learning how to touch-type, I highly recommend using Keybr on a desktop browser. This site automatically builds typing lessons for you by measuring your initial skill (accuracy and speed) and generates practice lessons that focus first on the most frequently used letters. It then slowly ramps up with more letters to type and fingers to use. You’ll be typing a mix of real words and fake words that follow familiar-looking phonetic structures, so it works your fingers without abstracting away all semblance of language.

By making an account with Keybr (via email, Google, or Facebook sign-ins), you can save your progress and pick up where you left off. Keybr also offers a premium account for a one-time $10 purchase that removes ads and disables ad trackers, though the on-page ads are not very invasive.

The key to using Keybr, just like any typing tool, is consistency. Keep practicing daily and the program will work you through all the keys before you know it. Once you’ve “unlocked” all the keys, keep forging ahead and focusing on accuracy. Your speed will slowly go up over time.

You can see from my practice calendar that my prime learning time was about six weeks of fairly consistent practicing. Keybr also saves other nifty data about your progress in your profile, like your best and worst letters.

And then, just when you start to get some confidence, try turning on capital letters and punctuation in Keybr’s settings. I assure you, it will suck at first, but you gotta learn those shift keys eventually. Best practice dictates that you should use the pinky finger of the opposite hand that’s typing the capital letter, but in reality, I’m sure many of us slip on that fine detail. 

I don’t love that Keybr adds capitalization and punctuation to every single word when you enable those settings, but you can always switch it off when you want to pivot back to focusing on character speed. Plus, once you start feeling generally comfortable touch typing without looking, you can always switch from Keybr to another program that incorporates more real-world use of caps and symbols.

Monkeytype offers myriad controls for custom-tailoring your typing lessons. For example, I’ve themed mine with Verge colors (which you can use, too), while that user-submitted text prompt is from the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Once you start getting the hang of touch typing, the site that I continuously return to is Monkeytype. Monkeytype is the sleekest, most customizable type tester I’ve come across. Its clean interface allows you to load it up and hammer out some phrases in a matter of seconds, or you can dive into the options and custom-tailor something unique. The site has all kinds of cool templates and styles for you to customize. You can test based on time or phrase length, and you can also choose to incorporate punctuation, capitalization, longer or shorter passages, or extra-hard parameters — like failing if you make a single mistake or dip below a words-per-minute threshold. You can even load up randomly generated tests that pull from movie, book, and TV quotes.

Really, there’s a lot of fun stuff to tinker with on Monkeytype, ranging from the color layout to weird graphical effects that may test your threshold for motion sickness as much as your typing.

Little Women isn’t just a timeless American coming-of-age novel — it makes for a fun typing exercise.

Want to practice typing while reading classics by George Orwell, Dante Alighieri, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and more? TypeLit.io has dozens of books for you to practice typing with, like The War of the Worlds or Sense and Sensibility . There’s even William Strunk Jr.’s The Elements of Style , so you can learn 1920s-era American-English writing style while you type.

This may be a bit of a novelty, but it’s a charming take on typing practice. It offers thousands of pages of actual literary text, which makes for some good exercises.

Typing Trainer

It’s basic looking, but Typing Trainer gets the job done and has some handy lessons if you want to practice specific trouble spots in your typing.

Brace yourself for some antiquated design and graphics. Typing Trainer may look like the cheesy programs we used as kids, but it’s still an effective learning tool. You can work your way through a series of courses from the very beginning or jump into some timed tests.

Typing Trainer also has some browser games you can play, where you can race a car or blast alien spaceships by, you guessed it, typing. They’re pretty basic, with an early-2000s flash game aesthetic, but they’re a fun distraction to practice with.

Mario Teaches Typing

Mamma mia! What the hell is going on with Toad’s face in this title screen?

Many of us olds might remember the 1992 DOS classic Mario Teaches Typing , made for Nintendo by Interplay. You can now play the whole game free in your browser courtesy of the Internet Archive. It’s very dated and probably not the best way to learn today since it’s stuck in the old ways of grueling and unrelenting repetition using lots of individual letters and repeated sequences, but it’s worth it for a laugh and the nostalgia trip. Fun fact: this was the first game where Mario spoke, and the voice lines are hilariously bad, sounding like they’re trying the Italian-American accent thing way too hard.

Plus, there’s a writing prompt about the American Civil War that seems to downplay the significance of slavery in the cause of the war. So, yeah, be prepared for some problematic stuff buried in there.

Epistory - Typing Chronicles

Not only do you type your way through battles in Epistory, but the movement keys are situated on the home row to keep your hands in the right position. It takes a little getting used to, but in this case, it’s better than using traditional WASD controls.

Epistory - Typing Chronicles is a charming Steam-based action-adventure game with a papercraft aesthetic that uses typing to activate the powers of your fox-riding protagonist and fight monsters while exploring a fantasy world. I find Epistory to be a little dry at times, but it’s a pretty game, and I admire its fun twist on the typing genre. It’s a novel way to practice once you’ve started getting the hang of touch typing, and if you enjoy it, there’s even a sequel due out soon.

The Typing of the Dead: Overkill

Putting down zombies with a rat-a-tat-tat as you feverishly tap away on your keys just somehow feels right.

This is an on-rails shooter spinoff of the House of the Dead games, where typing words fires bullets at zombies. The Typing of the Dead: Overkill is a visceral experience that’s good for a cheap thrill while typing, though it shows some of its 2010s-era cringe with campy jokes and characters that lean on tired stereotypes. It’s like a C-movie video game with B-level typing, but I can’t help myself from enjoying it and recommending it.

More tips for learning touch-typing skills

Having gone through this learning process myself and being a bit of a nerd for mechanical keyboards (the two often go hand-in-hand), here’s some further advice and best practices on developing your touch-typing expertise.

  • Practice regularly. Ideally, once a day.
  • Turn practicing into a regular routine or habit, like starting your day with it while drinking your morning coffee.
  • Test yourself with capital letters, punctuation, and even numbers. Real-world typing isn’t just lowercase letters!
  • Look ahead to the next word on a typing prompt. You type faster when you know what’s coming next. Think of it like Tetris .
  • Use the same methods for learning alternate keyboard layouts like Dvorak and Colemak. Sites like Keybr and Monkeytype offer training in all of them, though QWERTY is the default. 
  • Use your newfound love of typing as an excuse to get into mechanical keyboards. Sure, they won’t help you type faster, but they sound and look cool, and it’s a fun rabbit hole to dive into.
  • Don’t get impatient about getting faster.
  • Don’t ignore your typos. If a type trainer allows you to backspace and fix mistakes, you should do that to build the habit.
  • Don’t overdo the training. Your fingers can get overworked, and practicing too much in one sitting yields diminishing returns. Just like when you exercise, recovery and rest are important, too. You’ll probably be slightly faster when you pick it up the next day.
  • Don’t be elitist about typing. Just because you know how to touch-type doesn’t mean you get to judge others for not knowing or for typing slowly. Sometimes people online use Words Per Minute (WPM) as a measure of people’s worth or as a way of gatekeeping, and that’s just not cool. Instead, be welcoming and encourage others to get into it if they’re interested.

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Typing Techniques – 5 Skills to Master

By Mark Ways Last Updated: March 23, 2022

A Beginners Guide to Touch Typing Techniques

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Some people type as if they were born with a keyboard under their fingers, while others struggle with even the simplest of words. If you’re part of the second category, or even if you’re somewhere between categories, don’t worry several effective typing techniques can help you achieve an excellent typing speed.

Daily practice is certainly required to achieve higher speeds and greater accuracy. In the end, the results are guaranteed to be worth it, though. This post will introduce you to the best typing techniques and includes tips on how to practice them.

1. Touch Typing Techniques

A color coded keyboard to learn touch typing techniques

The most important technique to learn to type faster is touch typing. This is a technique based on developing muscle memory for your fingers, and this is done by combining several other typing techniques into it.

Muscle memory – By practicing regularly your fingers will be able to remember where the letters are on the keyboard, and you’ll be able to type not only without looking at the keyboard but also without consciously thinking about it.

Looking at the keys? – At first, you will need to look at the keyboard, but in time, the need to look at the keys as you type will diminish. Some will say that looking at the keyboard should be avoided even at the beginning, but in my experience, you should only start doing that after you learn all the keys of the home row.

3 Stages – Learning touch typing is done in three steps: first you learn the home row of your keyboard, practice it until you know exactly where each letter is and can easily place your fingers in the correct position without looking at the keyboard.

After this, you will learn to master the rows above and below the home row, the numbers row, and start practicing with special characters and upper case letters. Finally, the fun part: practicing on real texts!

Tip – To practice typing techniques you may need a suitable tutor. There are many available on the market. Here is a review of popular typing software to get you started.

2. Typing Techniques: The Home Row

Finger position to learn home row typing technique

You may be wondering what the “home row” is , or you’re probably thinking that I’m referring to the keys near the “home” key, but I’m not, and the actual home row is the most important part of your keyboard and the one you (or rather your fingers) will know by heart after a couple of training sessions!

The home for fingers – It’s called the home row because this is the home position for your fingers. This is the position that your fingers will return to after you finish typing something, and this is the position from which you will learn how to find all letters and characters on the keyboard.

Structure – The home row is the row starting with the Caps Lock key, and if you look at your keyboard you will notice two small bumps or lines (depending on your keyboard) on the “ F ” and “ J ” key.

Positioning – This is where your index fingers should reside. Your other fingers should rest on the keys to the left of the “ F ” key, for your left hand, and on the keys to the right of the “ J ” key, for your right hand.

Movements – By doing this, your pinky fingers should be resting on the “ A ” key and on the “ ; ” key. Your thumbs will hover above the space key, and you can use either one to press it. Don’t try to use both at the same time, because it quickly gets confusing, trust me!

How to practice – Spend some time getting your fingers familiar with this position, and learning the keys on the home row. Practice this typing technique each day, for several hours, until you can hit each key on the home row without looking at the keyboard.

Useful tools – To make this easier, I encourage you to look for one of the numerous typing tools available online that allow you to practice the home row. Once you are comfortable with the position of the keys and you see that fingers automatically move to the key you want to hit, you are ready to move on to the next step!

Training tip – Congratulations, you are now the master of the home row! However, if you try to type anything you will see that the home row is not enough, and you’re not able to type anything other than “ SAF “, “ FDS “, “ KFS ” and so on. However, here is a brief list of words using the home row only.

Not exactly impressive, after several weeks of exercise, is it? Well, don’t get disappointed now, because what you’ve done is solidify the basic part of your training!

3. Typing Techniques: The Top Row

Keyboard: Typing Rows

Now being familiar with the home row it’s time to move on to the top row . Did you know the longest words you can type on the Top Row are Typewriter and Quietwriter?

Position – Place your fingers in their default position on the home row, and look at the key above each of your fingers. For “ F ” this will be the “ R ” key, for “ J ” it will be the “ U ” key, and so on. Each of your fingers should reach to the key directly above it, and start memorizing it.

The only exception to this is your index fingers. They should be able to not only reach the “ F ” and “ J ” keys, but also the keys “ G “, “ H “, and the keys directly above those as well. This is because your index finger is the most mobile and it’s easier to cover a larger number of keys with it.

Practicing – Practice this typing technique until you know the top row just as well as the home row. Now try practicing with a larger text, and you’ll discover that suddenly you’re able to type a large number of words, without looking at the keyboard.

This is an impressive feat, but you’re still not done! You have a whole new row to learn, plus the numpad!

4. Typing Techniques: The Bottom Row

The bottom row is possibly the easiest row to master, because by now, due to all the practice you’ve had, your fingers are much more used to the motions of typing, and your muscle memory is starting to develop.

Technique – All you have to do is learn the new letters of the bottom row using the same principles as the ones used for the top row. Now each of your fingers needs to learn the keys directly below it. Practice, practice, and then practice some more, because this is the final phase of your training!

After you’re satisfied with your progress and you’re able to type most regular words without looking at the keyboard, it’s time to move on to the real deal: texts!

Training tip – Exercising with words is fun, and it’s a perfect way of developing your finger memory, but the real test is typing a large paragraph from a book. You can find online tools for this as well, with some really diverse texts, perfect for getting you used to chain words together.

5. The Numpad Typing Technique

The numpad on a full-sized keyboard requires a typing technique in its own right. If you look at the 5 key you will see the same raised bar as on the “F” and “J” key. Unlike the home row, that is not the position for your index finger; it’s your middle finger that needs to be. Your index finger will rest on the “ 4 ” key, while your ring finger will be on the “ 6 ” key.

The keys directly above and below each finger are also part of their motion range, and the “ + ” or “ Enter ” key can be hit with either your pinky finger or your ring finger. Your thumb is reserved for the “ 0 ” key, and I strongly encourage you not to try to hit any other keys with it!

For laptops with a horizontal numeric bar, the positions are slightly different. In general, the left-hand serves the numbers from 1 to 5, the right hand the numbers and symbols from 6 to 0. In detail, you use the left pinky for 1, left ring finger for 2., left middle finger for 3, and the index fingers for 4 and 5. Mirror the position for the right hand. I give credit to my reader Andy Harrison.

Keyboard Techniques – Summary and Tips

applying touch typing techniques on a classic typewriter

If you want to learn how to type quickly and effectively, there’s no other method worth looking into other than touch typing!

Any other method that involves you looking at the keys as you type will be too slow to be worth it. It may not be the easiest typing technique available, and it may not be the fastest to learn, but the results are certainly worth the hard work.

Once you see a true master at work, typing complex phrases without looking at the screen or keyboard while also having a conversation with someone is bound to impress you so much that you won’t want to learn anything else!

Keyboarding Techniques – Rules, Position, Advice

  • Mastering the A, S, D, F, J, K, L, ; keys is the most important technique.
  • Use a color-coded keyboard to know which keys to press during exercise.
  • Trust yourself and locate the key with your finger to build muscle memory.
  • Each row and key is reserved to be hit by certain fingers. Stick to it!
  • Keep fingers to their designated area to lower distance, improve speed and reduce strain.
  • Use the other hand when switching to upper cases to allow simultaneous typing.
  • Focus on accuracy first, speed builds up with practice and progress.
  • Maintain a typing rhythm with similar time intervals for each keystroke.
  • Apply gentle pressure and force when hitting keys to improve efficacy.
  • Always maintain good posture while typing.
  • Keep a distance of at least 50 cm between eyes & screen to avoid health issues.
  • Ensure a minimum height of 70 cm for tabletops to allow a healthy posture
  • Practice touch typing techniques regularly to improve accuracy ad speed.

Avoiding RSI syndromes by using correct typing techniques

A well-performed and accurate typing technique will also help reduce the risk of RSI repetitive stress injury , which is also known as the carpal tunnel. This will require correct hand positioning and smooth eye-finger muscle communication. Below are some points to remember.

  • Keep your feet on the floor to maintain balance.
  • Position your body to the “H” key. Hold your elbows at sides.
  • Keep your overall posture in a straight position.
  • The chair should be 10-15 cm away from the keyboard.
  • Have your fingers curved over the home row keys.
  • Remember to keep wrists off the keyboard. You will do this quite often 🙂
  • Eyes should be on the content while fingers locate the keys.

Other tips to build proper keyboarding technique

  • Rule of thumb: 80% is technique, 10% is accuracy, 10% is speed.
  • Warm-up hands and fingers before long typing sessions
  • Stretch and relax fingers afterward
  • Tutors can help improve speed & accuracy by teaching the right technique.
  • Don’t rush through exercises to learn techniques. Practicing is key.
  • Reward yourself for reaching goals or regular exercising

What are the best typing techniques in your opinion? Have you tried a tutor such as Typesy , KAZ Typing or Ultrakey?

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Reader Interactions

Yeah it’s easier to type using the number pad keys.

I agree with the muscle memory is key, because I have always worried about the time and I seem to struggle when I do so.

Ramashankar Yadav

some tutors say that for bottom row typing left hand pinky finger be used for strike of shift key only and not for word -z, pl.clear the confusion.

Yes, that’s right. Key ‘Z’ for left pinky finger is still possible, though.

Andy Harrison

Number key layout is very wrong.

Left pinky is for [1]. Left ring finger is for [2]. Left middle finger is for [3]. Left index finger is for [4] and [5]. Right index finger is for [6] and [7]. The remaining keys are correct.

Where did you get this wrong layout? Do a google image search for typing tutorial keyboard basics and 99% of the results depict the correct layout.

oh so that’s why pressing 2 felt weird, thx for mentioning!

They must have the alphabetical keyboard because its so wrong

Typing requires the use of a lot of your senses, most especially your sense of sight and your sense of touch. For you to spike up your productivity when you are typing, you should learn how to make better use of your sense of touch.

I feel like it’s more muscle memory, sure you use your sense of touch to look for ‘f’ and ‘j’, but as a touch typist, once I find them, my fingers just GO. I don’t need to actively look at or sense where my fingers are. Maybe I use proprioception or however you spell it, but there’s so little of the mental strain that is required from actively thinking about every movement, which I personally think is the main benefit of touch typing, rather than speed. It makes typing more similar to speaking, rather than pressing buttons.

Ruval Olongapo

The faster you can type, the faster you can complete all of these tasks—and the more productive you can be. Typing remains a fundamental skill, and it is still one of the most important computer skills you can learn. Learning to type fast and accurately will help you in many ways in life, and it should be considered an essential skill for anyone who sees themselves working with a computer in some capacity.

Raquel Salazar

This makes it much easier to learn how to type, especially using the number pad keys. Thank You So Much for this information.

Yeah it’s easier to type using the number pad keys.

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5 Sites to Learn or Practice Faster Touch Typing on Computers

Typing speed matters when you are working online. It's time to learn touch typing to increase your speed and boost your productivity.

If you're still looking at your keyboard when you type, you're doing it wrong. It's time to learn touch typing to increase your speed as you look at the screen to write faster.

Most jobs in the modern world will need you to type at a computer screen for hours; it's not just writers who need to know how to type fast. And you'll want to chat online at speed too. If you're already pretty quick, you can test your speed with online multiplayer typing games . And once you realize you could do better, these websites will teach you how to touch-type faster.

1. Typelit (Web): Read Classic Literature and Practice Typing Simultaneously

Practice typing by reading and writing on classic literature for free online

As you probably know, many books of classic literature are in the public domain today, and anyone can download these free books . Typelit uses these free classics to help you learn how to type at a fast speed, while also reading great books.

The library shows the chosen classics and how many pages each book is. Click the one you want to read, and type along. You need to get all the capital letters, punctuation, and spaces right. The test calculates your speed and accuracy per page, displayed after you finish a page.

Everything you type correctly gets a green cursor highlight, while everything you type wrong is marked in red. You can go back and fix all your mistakes. As a pro tip, use Ctrl + Backspace to delete a full word, which is often useful when you're dealing with a mistake in small words like typing "adn" instead of "and."

Typelit is one of the few websites that also features non-English typing tutorials. You can filter the books by other languages such as Finnish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

2. Ratatype (Web): Free Online Typing Course With Certificate

Ratatype is a step-by-step course that will teach you touch-typing online for free, and give you a certificate

Ratatype is a free, step-by-step online typing course to improve various aspects of your typing game. At the end of it, you can also earn digital certificates from Ratatype. It's just a glorified way of showing your results, but hey, it might look good on a resume.

Even if you're a sufficiently fast typist right now, you can get better. Ratatype breaks down speed typing into mini-lessons over its long course. You'll learn to use different fingers, far-away keys, and punctuations more efficiently. For example, do you use your little fingers while typing? If not, this course will get you there with a separate lesson all about using your pinkies.

At any point, you can take one of the Ratatype typing tests, where you'll be graded with a certificate of silver (40 words per minute), gold (50 wpm), or platinum (70 wpm). Each also requires increasing accuracy levels.

3. Keybr (Web): Learn How to Touch Type

The redesigned Keybr is one of the best apps to learn touch typing on the internet

Keybr is one of the best ways to learn how to touch type, i.e. type without looking at your keyboard. It teaches you how to align your fingers, and generates lessons based on an algorithm that adjusts to your skill level.

The lessons make you type random subsets of letters, which aren't always even real words. It's more about getting your fingers accustomed to certain patterns. There's an on-screen virtual keyboard (customizable to different layouts) right under the lesson. While you can look at that, the idea is to not look at your physical keyboard at all.

As you type, Keybr will assess your learning level and give you challenges suited to your skills. It counts words-per-minute speed and errors in real time and calculates a score based on that.

In the app's settings, you can choose to stop the cursor or play a sound when you make an error, change from words per minute to characters per minute, and even provide custom text to practice. Keep going to learn touch-typing, and see if you can break into the high scores.

4. Coderacer (Web): For Faster and More Accurate Programming

Refine and speed up your programming typing skills by competing with others at Coderacer

There's a difference between typing the regular English language and typing when you're programming. The syntax is different, the punctuation is different, you're reaching for keys that you wouldn't normally like Tab or curly brackets. Coderacer wants to train you to be a faster and more accurate programmer.

The game is a race between you and other online players. Choose the programming language you want to practice: Python, Java, or JavaScript. On one side of the screen, you'll see the intended code, while the other side is a blank terminal window. Once the other players join and the countdown hits zero, start typing to recreate the code.

Mistakes aren't allowed in Coderacer, and that's where it can get difficult. Each space and character need to be perfect; it will highlight mistakes that you have to fix before submitting. You can share a link with friends too, challenging them to a speed-coding round. Once you submit, you'll find the time taken, characters per minute, and error count, with a comparison to others.

5. A Guide to Shortcuts (Web): How to Incorporate Shortcuts in Everyday Typing

Vasili Shynkarenka teaches you how to use shortcuts to type 3x faster

A common piece of advice to increase one's typing speed is to use shortcuts and text expansion while writing . But what most people won't tell you is which text you should include in these expanders. Productivity enthusiast Vasili Shynkarenka has a guide as part of his write-up on how he learned to type 3x faster.

Shynkarenka breaks down how shortcuts help you think faster and type faster if you set them up correctly. His recommendation isn't to simply use the 200 most common words of the English language but to really think about your usage.

His main principles of shortcuts revolve around large words, words that require special symbols (like apostrophes), and words that aren't ergonomic. It makes sense and is well explained with examples, in an article worth reading.

How to Type Faster on Phones

The type of keyboard you use also affects speed, whether it's full-size or compact, and mechanical or scissor-switch. But generally, you get accustomed to the keyboard you use daily, and your speed increases on that. So whichever keyboard you do your most typing at, practice with these websites on that.

Of course, it's a whole different ball game when it comes to smartphones. How do you type fast on touchscreens, without a physical keyboard? According to a study , the answer is to type with two thumbs and rely on autocorrect, not on predictive text. Pausing for a word prediction and choosing it is slower than autocorrect, and two thumbs are faster than swiping or using the index finger, the study found.

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How to Type Without Looking

Last Updated: September 17, 2023

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This article was co-authored by Luigi Oppido and by wikiHow staff writer, Sophia Latorre . Luigi Oppido is the Owner and Operator of Pleasure Point Computers in Santa Cruz, California. Luigi has over 25 years of experience in general computer repair, data recovery, virus removal, and upgrades. He is also the host of the Computer Man Show! broadcasted on KSQD covering central California for over two years. This article has been viewed 98,315 times.

If you want to learn to type without looking at the keys, also called touch typing, you’ll need to dedicate a fair amount to time to the task. Though it can take up to a few weeks to become familiar enough with the keyboard not to look at it while typing, it is certainly a worthwhile endeavor. If it seems difficult at first, don’t get discouraged. Keep practicing, and soon you’ll be an expert!

Step 1 Imagine the location of the key and keep your eyes on the screen.

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To type without looking, try taking free typing lessons online, which will teach you how to type faster and without looking down at your keyboard. You can also play online typing games and take typing tests to improve your skills. When you're practicing typing, avoid looking down at your keyboard, even if you mess up a little bit, since you need to train yourself to keep your eyes on the screen. To learn how to properly type using 2 hands, scroll down! Did this summary help you? Yes No

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Take a Typing Test, learn blind typing and improve your Typing Skills

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Touch typing , or blind typing , is a typing method in which a person does not look at the keyboard and uses all 10 fingers. At the same time, people develop their muscle memory to remember the location of needed keys.

Actually, that is one of the important skills that increase human's productivity while he's working. The method of blind typing is without a doubt is better than 2-finger typing, because it doesn't require looking on keyboard, what increases human's efficiency and reduces some typist's efforts.

Why should you learn blind typing

It dramatically increases the speed and quality of your workflow. That is important for every writer, software engineer, copyrighter and even for social media person.

The advantages

Typing speed.

Your typing typing speed will be increasing. Depending on your training, you will be able to type from 200 to 400 cpm (characters per minute), which significantly reduces the complexity of any task and reduces the time expenses.

You will make fewer mistakes and typos in texts using touch typing . Focusing on the words rather than on the keys increases concentration and accuracy.

Convenience and Health

Take online typing test wherever you are. Notebook and a bit of free time are all you need for practice.You will be able to use blind typing even in a poorly lighted room and will be less tired from working at the computer. No need to look from the keyboard to the display and back. This protects vision, supports the muscle tone of the neck and posture, and the use of all 10 fingers has a beneficial effect on the joints. This type of training will dramatically improve and strengthen your typing skills.

Typing Test

If you want to learn blind typing and increase your typing speed, you should regularly practice writing words, phrases and texts. To do this, you can use online typing test in blindtyping.com where you'll be able to evaluate your wpm and cpm .

It requires to spent maximum 30 minutes in a day during certain period of time to have necessary typing skills . Blindtyping.com has several dictionaries to train words of different language and complexity. If you are able to type main 1000 language words, you will type other words with acquired skills at the same level.

You can also take a wpm test in different modes such the words , time and quote . Also, after every test you can check your wpm, cpm, accuracy stats, misspelled keys and word history with all misspelled and corrected letters. Nevertheless, you are allowed to do a typing test based on the words which you've made a mistake in.

Besides, test is imitating a real process of typing with fixing mistakes option and cursor that indicates current letter.

It also has such features as smooth caret, scale timer, comfort design, language, punctuation choice and keyboard with different keymaps and hands with fingers pointing on needed key for different layouts.

Keyboard has different optional layout that are synchronize with hand's fingers.

Typing Lessons

If you want to have a consistent and stable process of learning of the blind typing method , you can use lessons. This lesson's list has a beginner, intermediate and advanced level groups and every lesson from beginner group is directing student/typist to train specific keys. For example, during E and I lesson the student will train E and I keys that will be used in generated words and after that the keys will be typed together with other learned keys for training of different symbol combinations.

This is one of the most effective ways of getting typing skills . After completing all of the lessons, its common practice to use the received knowledge in typing tests.

Typing Practice

Typing practice is another method of increasing people's speed and strengthen blind typing skills . It's presented by different interesting test modes and one of them works on the principle "No mistakes" what means user will end up the test only if he made no mistakes. If a letter is misspelled the whole word will be added to the end of word collection. Thus, the amount of words will increase in such extent as your mistakes grow.

The typing mode ensure great way of developing and improving your typing skills and increasing your speed.

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7 Ways to Improve Your Writing Skills

Writing, like any other skill, is something you can get better with time and practice. Let’s learn how.

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Writing is often a day-to-day task in many professions spanning diverse industries, from sending emails to preparing presentations. Writing skills go beyond grammar and spelling. Accuracy, clarity, persuasiveness, and several other elements ensure your writing conveys the right message. 

What are writing skills?

Writing is a technical skill that allows you to communicate effectively through the written word. Though these may vary depending on your writing, several transcend categories. Writing skills can more specifically include:

Sentence construction

Research and accuracy

Persuasiveness

Each of these components can influence the quality of writing.

How to improve your writing skills

Here are some strategies for developing your own written communication:

1. Review grammar and spelling basics.

Grammar and spelling form the foundation of good writing. Writing with proper grammar and spelling communicates your professionalism and attention to detail to your reader. It also makes your writing easier to understand.  

Knowing when and how to use less common punctuation, like colons, semicolons, and em-dashes, can unlock new ways to structure sentences and elevate your writing. 

If you want to strengthen your grammar and spelling, use a writing manual. The Cambridge Guide to English Usage by Pam Peters provides information on effective writing. You can find similar resources at your local library, bookstore, or online.

2. Read what you want to write.

Knowing what finished writing can look like can guide your own. Read humorous short stories if you’re trying to write a short story. If you want to write a book review, find a few and take note of how they’re structured. Pay attention to what makes them good and what you want to emulate (without plagiarising). If you’re working on a school assignment, you can ask your instructor for examples of successful pieces from past students.

Make reading a part of your everyday life to improve your writing. Try reading the news in the morning or picking up a book before bed. If you haven’t been a big reader in the past, start with topics you’re interested in or ask friends and family for recommendations. You’ll gradually understand what subjects, genres, and authors you enjoy.

3. Proofread.

While it’s tempting to submit work as soon as you’re done with it, build in some time to revisit what you’ve written to catch errors big and small. Here are a few proofreading tips to keep in mind:

Set your work aside before you edit. Try to step away from your writing for a day or more so you can return to it with fresh, more objective eyes. Crunched for time? Allotting 20 minutes between writing and proofreading can allow you to approach your work with renewed energy.

Start with easy fixes, then progress to bigger changes. Starting with easier changes can get you in the rhythm of proofreading, allow you to read through your work once more, and clear distractions so you can focus on bigger edits. Read through your work to catch misspellings, inconsistencies, and grammar errors. Then, address the larger problems with the structure or awkward transitions. 

If you could say something in fewer words, do so. Being unnecessarily wordy can cloud your message and confuse the reader. Avoid phrases that are redundant, repetitive, or obvious.

Read out loud. Reading aloud can help you find awkward phrases and areas where your writing doesn’t flow well. 

Should you use computer spelling and grammar tools?

Many computer-based tools—like spell check on your word processor or Grammarly — can help you find and fix simple spelling and grammar errors. These tools are imperfect but can help even the most seasoned writers avoid mistakes. Take note of any frequently highlighted words or phrases to avoid the same mistakes in the future.

4. Get feedback.

Whether you’re writing emails or essays, asking for feedback is a great way to see how someone else will interpret your text. Have an idea of what you’d like your proofreader to focus on—the structure, conclusion, persuasiveness of an argument, or otherwise. 

Approach a trusted friend, family member, co-worker, or instructor. If you’re a student, your school might also have a writing resource centre you can contact. 

Consider forming a writing group or joining a writing class. Find writing courses online, at your local community college, or independent writing workshops in your area.

5. Think about structure.

Grammar and spelling keep your writing consistent and legible, but the structure ensures the big ideas get across to the reader.

In many cases, forming an outline will help solidify the structure. An outline can clarify what you hope to convey in each section, allowing you to visualise the flow of your piece and surface parts that require more research or thought. 

The structure might look different depending on what you’re writing. An essay typically has an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. A fiction piece might follow the six-stage plot structure: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, and denouement. Choose what’s best for your purposes.

Keep writing to become a good writer. Here are a few ways you can get started:

Start a journal or a blog.

Join a class or writing workshop.

Practise free writing.

Write letters to friends or family.

Put together an opinion piece for your local newspaper or publication you like.

7. Know some common fixes.

Even if a text is grammatically correct, you can make it more dynamic and interesting with some polish. Here are some common ways you can sharpen your writing:

Choose strong verbs (for example, “sprinted,” “dashed,” or “bolted” instead of “ran”).

Avoid passive voice.

Vary sentence length.

Cut unnecessary words.

Replace cliches with original phrasing.

Getting started

Whether you’re a scientist, product manager, journalist, or entrepreneur, writing effectively will allow you to communicate your ideas to the world. You can use your writing to say exactly what you want through practice, exposure, and familiarising yourself with basic rules.

If you’re looking for a structured way to expand your writing skills, explore writing courses on Coursera . The first week is free.

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Writing by hand may increase brain connectivity more than typing on a keyboard

In an ever more digital world, pen and paper are increasingly getting replaced with screens and keyboards in classrooms. Now, a new study has investigated neural networks in the brain during hand- and typewriting. The researchers showed that connectivity between different brain regions is more elaborate when letters are formed by hand. This improved brain connectivity, which is crucial to memory building and information encoding, may indicate that writing by hand supports learning.

As digital devices progressively replace pen and paper, taking notes by hand is becoming increasingly uncommon in schools and universities. Using a keyboard is recommended because it’s often faster than writing by hand. However, the latter has been found to improve spelling accuracy and  memory recall .

To find out if the process of forming letters by hand resulted in greater brain connectivity, researchers in Norway now investigated the underlying neural networks involved in both modes of writing.

“We show that when writing by hand, brain connectivity patterns are far more elaborate than when typewriting on a keyboard,” said Prof Audrey van der Meer, a brain researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and co-author of the study published in  Frontiers in Psychology . “Such widespread brain connectivity is known to be crucial for memory formation and for encoding new information and, therefore, is beneficial for learning.”

The pen is mightier than the (key)board

The researchers collected EEG data from 36 university students who were repeatedly prompted to either write or type a word that appeared on a screen. When writing, they used a digital pen to write in cursive directly on a  touchscreen . When typing they used a single finger to press keys on a keyboard. High-density EEGs, which measure electrical activity in the brain using 256 small sensors sewn in a net and placed over the head, were recorded for five seconds for every prompt.

Connectivity of different brain regions increased when participants wrote by hand, but not when they typed. “Our findings suggest that visual and movement information obtained through precisely controlled  hand movements  when using a pen contribute extensively to the brain’s connectivity patterns that promote learning,” van der Meer said.

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Movement for memory

Although the participants used digital pens for  handwriting , the researchers said that the results are expected to be the same when using a real pen on paper. “We have shown that the differences in brain activity are related to the careful forming of the letters when writing by hand while making more use of the senses,” van der Meer explained. Since it is the movement of the fingers carried out when forming letters that promotes brain connectivity, writing in print is also expected to have similar benefits for learning as cursive writing.

On the contrary, the simple movement of hitting a key with the same finger repeatedly is less stimulating for the brain. “This also explains why children who have learned to write and read on a tablet, can have difficulty differentiating between letters that are mirror images of each other, such as ‘b’ and ‘d’. They literally haven’t felt with their bodies what it feels like to produce those letters,” van der Meer said.

A balancing act

Their findings demonstrate the need to give students the opportunity to use pens, rather than having them type during class, the researchers said. Guidelines to ensure that students receive at least a minimum of handwriting instruction could be an adequate step. For example, cursive writing training has been re-implemented in many US states at the beginning of the year.

At the same time, it is also important to keep up with continuously developing technological advances, they cautioned. This includes awareness of what way of writing offers more advantages under which circumstances. “There is some evidence that students learn more and remember better when taking handwritten lecture notes, while using a computer with a keyboard may be more practical when writing a long text or essay,” van der Meer concluded.

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Typing with 10 fingers quickly explained

Learn the basics of the 10 finger method in only a couple of minutes – for a first glimpse or in order to start your typing practice immediately.

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Typing practice fundamentals

The 10 finger method is a very established technique to efficiently use your computer keyboard. With some practice and the correct finger positions you can type „blindly“ on the keyboard. If you have it down, you can significantly lower your error rate and increase your typing speed at the same time.

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1 Hunt and peck

Although the advantages of the 10 finger-method are perfectly obvious, still many people are hunting and pecking away. Here you are staring at your keyboard until you spot the right key and then hit it with your index finger.

After some years you start using more fingers and you might know the positions of the keys better – however, without a distinct finger-key-combination only a few people can manage „blindly“ and equally fast.

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2 Basic position for typewriting

The basic concept of fast typing is quickly explained: Your fingers take up a fixed starting position, from where you can reach any key you need. Your left fingers are placed on the keys A, S, D and F. Your right fingers are on the keys J, K, L and semicolon. Your thumbs are on the space bar.

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You can find the basic position without looking at your keyboard. The keys F and J, where your index fingers are placed, have a little bump. This is how you can feel where to put your index fingers, the rest of your fingers are placed accordingly then.

3 Fingers and keys

Each finger has to hit several different keys. On the chart you can see the coloured marks: they show you which finger and which key correlate.

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* This is just a sample illustration. You can find the correct finger positions in our typing tutor after you have selected your keyboard layout and started an exercise.

You want to hit the E. Here’s your left middle finger in charge, which is in the basic position placed on the key D. Reach with your left middle finger to the E and return afterwards to the basic position on the D.

4 Objective of the 10 finger method

The objective is to anchor the handling of the keyboard in your subconscious. Our subconscious helps us dealing with more or less complex actions within seconds, almost automatically.

Hunting and pecking on the downside consumes unnecessary energy (where’s the next key?). However, the distinct finger-key-combinations help you to focus on the most important thing: the content.

If you have adapted your own writing system and have been using it for a long time, you will probably be slower than before after switching to the 10 finger-method. Do not be discouraged. After a short time you will notice a significant progress and write faster and more comfortably than with your old system.

5 Advantages of learning to type

Using the 10 finger-method has several advantages which improve your daily work on your computer.

By using the 10 finger-method subconsciously you can increase your typing speed significantly, in other words you will be saving precious time.

Since you don’t have to focus on hitting single keys any longer, you can concentrate on the texts you’re writing. You don’t have to switch back and forth anymore, your brain gets some relief and can work more efficiently.

The permanent eye on the keyboard supports an unhealthy posture at work. Using the 10 finger-method you don’t need to glimpse at your keyboard all the time. This helps you to sit upright and in a good position.

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6 Do I have to type with all 10 fingers?

Many users ask themselves whether they really have to use all 10 fingers or whether 6 or just 4 fingers are enough? The use of all fingers is of course the optimal condition and who really masters typing with 10 fingers, types faster and more relaxed.

However, if you find it very difficult to retrain your self-taught typing technique or if you have anatomical difficulties using all fingers, you can of course use fewer fingers or type keys with other fingers than we recommend.

The key to efficient operation of the computer keyboard is that you know the positions of the keys and the necessary movements of your fingers and that you can utilize them without lengthy thought or looking at the keyboard. The technique we recommend only offers you a method that has proven itself. However, you can of course - if you think it is necessary - adapt it to your needs.

7 Why is it worth it?

Who is our offer actually intended for? And is it worthwhile for you to invest the time and learn to type "the right way"?

Nowadays, 2/3 of all professional activities require work on the computer. And also privately we spend more and more time in the digital world. The time we spend every day entering texts on the computer may vary according to our profession and private usage patterns and may not seem so much to us - but the long-term approach is decisive here.

Let's assume you spend an average of 1 hour a day entering texts. Projected to one year, that is already 365 hours. If you double your typing speed, you will save about 180 hours per year. For a working week of 40 hours, this means 4 1/2 weeks of free time per year, which you can use for other tasks or which at least allows you to go to work on time much more often.

Of course, this is only an example calculation. Depending on how fit you are on the keyboard at the moment, even a 3- to 4-fold increase in typing speed is possible - with correspondingly higher time savings.

* based on a 40-hour working week

The time needed, which probably prevented you from learning to type with 10 fingers, can therefore be completely neglected in comparison to the possible long-term time saving.

If you can't type very quickly with your own typing technique right now, the learning effort is definitely worthwhile.

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The future of professional & productive writing is here. AIType helps you write faster and better on your iPhone or iPad by integrating Chatgpt API within an intuitive UI. Whether it's crafting the perfect email, composing creative stories, or just casual texting, AIType elevates your writing at every turn. It suggests better word choices, checks your grammar, translates, completes your sentences based on context, writes the perfect replies, and even helps you find the right words when you're stuck. Write smarter instantly by trying AIType for FREE. GRAMMAR & SPELL CHECKER Write correctly every time with the built-in AI grammar, punctuation, and spell check. Currently, we support 7 world languages with more to be added soon. Make typos and grammar mistakes a thing of the past. AI TRANSLATOR Translate words live with the live AI translator and never let foreign languages be a communication barrier. Communicate in multiple languages seamlessly from one AI keyboard, without the hassle of copy-pasting or switching between translator and chatbot apps. PARAPHRASER Change the tone of your text/email with a few taps and communicate adequately no matter who you are addressing. Whenever you are not satisfied with your writing, use AIType to express the same idea in different ways, ensuring your writing is fresh, unique, and engaging. OTHER WRITING HELP Summarize long texts by getting help from AI. Check the grammar and spelling of your tweets before sharing. Or simply generate text based on your needs. Analyze and write eloquent replies with the help of AI. Whether it is a reply to a text or email, or writing help, AIType has your back. AIType is a game-changer app for anyone who frequently uses their iPhone or iPad for writing. Try it now free and see how it can elevate your writing forever. The best part? You can use the AI keyboard in any app on your device. Download AIType – the AI Keyboard and Chatbot helper powered by Chatgpt. ______ AIType is powered by the Chatgpt API. Terms of Use: https://aitype.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://aitype.app/privacy_policy.html

Version 2.3

- bug fixes and stability improvements. - added dutch language. - added option to stop typing sound.

Ratings and Reviews

Looks good, it’s good.

It has a nice ui and works as advertised no complaints

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your support! If you ever have suggestions or need assistance, don't hesitate to reach out.

I really love this app

Its very helpfull and easy to use
We are glad that you like our app! If you ever encounter any issues or have some suggestions, please reach out to support. Thank you!

App Privacy

The developer, Prodigy AI , indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • User Content
  • Identifiers

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Information

English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian

  • AIType Premium 1 Weekly  $5.99
  • AIType Premium 1 Week $2.99
  • Lifetime $29.99
  • AIType Premium 1 Year  $49.99
  • Lifetime access $24.99
  • Lifetime premium $24.99
  • Lifetime $49.99
  • AIType Premium 1 Year $69.99
  • AIType Premium 1 Week $5.99
  • AIType Premium 1 Year $49.99
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COMMENTS

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