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For students and those that write a lot for their jobs

This place will get you extra comfortable with your keyboard

Since society is becoming more and more technologically savy It's great to increase your speed and accuracy of typing. Plus its great to throw on a resume. ( if its above 60wpm, imo) Those who are in classes that require essays, summaries, bibliographies, dissertations, thesis papers, etc. Being able to type fast, without constantly looking down at the keyboard, and without error makes the pain of writing papers almost go away. There are other websites that might be better i just dont recall them atm.

I actually got to know Vim only after, and due to learning touch typing. The road of looking for ways to improve my productivity led me there. Thinking of it now, Vim seems awfully hard without touch typing.

Try out keybr, it's quit helpful (got me to 80 WPM over time).

I used to have this "problem". I (re) learnt how to touch type properly mainly using these two sites:

http://keybr.com http://play.typeracer.com

I had to practice for about 1 hour per day for 6 months before getting used to touch type in the "proper" way. I increased from 90 WPM to ~110 WPM, but most importantly was that I start typing in a relaxed way.

So, I recommend to give it a try. My motivation was to look great typist, like Gary Bernhardt, for instance watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdNnN5yTIeM

lol, it really doesn't take too long, maybe a couple hours and you can probably get around 25 - 30 wpm ish. if you actually want to learn just look up where to put your fingers and which ones to use for each key, then just start typing. (typeracer is a good site to just keep on typing, but if you want to get fast, use keybr as well)

I am currently learning Dvorak. I use the website https://learn.dvorak.nl and absolutely recommend it. It is much better than having artificial uhuhuh training. There is also http://keybr.com but I found the simplicity of the first one more to my taste.

Currently, I still use QWERTY for my daily stuff since I have to get work done, however, I also developed a system:

1. I attached a cheatsheet to my screen
2. Whenever I accidentally switch to Dvorak, I keep on Dvorak until I need to enter a password.

This gives me a good balance between practicing, and getting things done. After two weeks, now I started switching to Dvorak more and more often because it feels more natural.

If you have some time flexibility, I recommend that you just make the switch, however if you are constrained by the real life responsibilities like me, then I recommend that you build a similar system.

Good luck!

I'm actually using quite a few: Monkeytype, mainly as the more versatile and aesthetically pleasing alternative to 10fastfingers.com. Also, I can track my progress really precisely and can practise different weak spots. KeyBR because you can focus on your weak fingers instead of just practising what you can and rarely but consistently stumbling over the less common letters. TypeRacer, so I can also practise typing actual 'real-life' texts.

This! Touch typing is a must. I got my SB2 when I was on a trip to Belgium. The Belgian keyboard is a mess. But I don't care - I touch type with Dvorak anyway. Good luck with touch typing. I found http://keybr.com to be very useful.

It actually doesn't take that long to learn. Hit up http://keybr.com and tell it to emulate Dvorak (US).

You just have to commit to it. Type in it as much as you can, as often as you can. Sucks at first, but then you get used to it and can't imagine going back.

I'd advise anyone who feels like backlighting is a must for visibility at night to train touch-typing (http://keybr.com is my personal favorite tool). Leds can absolutely look nice on keyboards, and I don't think any less of peeking typists, but if you feel like you need to see your keys there is just so much to gain in terms of speed and comfort.

Fast in what kind of sense? If you mean typing skills, yeap, he's pretty good, ~120 WPM

If this is your case, I find the following sites really handy:

• http://play.typeracer.com/
• http://keybr.com/

Have a great day! For my breaks I usually like to read a bit or practice typing on keybr while listening to some podcasts. I like doing those because I feel like I'm being productive, but it's also quite relaxing.

http://keybr.com

This is one of the best sites I've found. After doing it for a day or two my left hand started to hurt a little because I was actually using it more than my right. Then I started to work on using shift with my right hand properly.

As for methods make sure you're not looking at the keyboard at all, I sort of assume you're at this stage, but if you're not then put a towel or a box over your fingers so you don't look down. Growing up at school they forced us to learn using this method and it helped a lot.

I recommend spending some weeks in Keybr and become a 10 finger touch-typist once your ferris arrives. You have nothing to lose since moving to a column staggered keyboard, and away from qwerty, will temporarily slow you down anyway.

I realized I had to rehabilitate my typing this year. To get started I used typing.com for longer exercises/incrementally building proper technique, and keybr for quick practice. typing.com was only neccessary to correct my technique, while still to this day use keybr.com for quick practice. Anytime I find myself waiting on something I use the time for a quick keybr minute. Went from 40wpm with sloppy technique, down to 20wpm with proper technique, now up to 90wpm proper when I'm warmed up.

I started it by switching completely to Dvorak everywhere. Even on the phone 😂 it took me one month to get up to a reasonable speed.

I learned almost every evening about one hour on keybr.com and applied it on my daily job as a programmer. Guess my productivity dropped for that month a bit ☺️

That was about 4 years ago and I didn't ever regret it too.

keybr is a great resource for typing practice. It introduces letters in order of most common to least, so you can gain proficiency in manageable chunks. It's what I used to learn Dvorak!

I practiced with these sites:

keybr.com

10fastfingers.com

You should also follow these rules:

• Use the correct fingers
• Never look at the keyboard
• Sit with a good posture
• Practice daily
• Keep track of your progress

I'd be interested in a link if it's online. Workman is designed around the reduction of 'strain' through minimizing finger travel with a prejudice for lateral (side to side) movement. As a guitar player who wears a snug Medium glove size, that kind of 'fanning of the fingers' is a normal thing and doesn't cause me discomfort. Moreover, based on http://keybr.com/ high score charts and my own experience, Workman is just not as fast as the big 3.

I'm using http://keybr.com and http://nitrotype.com/ for 30 minutes a day and jumped +10 wpm in my touch typing abilities within a week.

Shout out to /r/mechanicalkeyboards, their touch typing threads held resources that were valuable to me.

Good luck in your journey, it gets easier, believe me. I was at 20wpm on qwerty about three months ago and now I am at about 45 wpm on dvorak. Learning to touch type was a huge benefit.

Try http://keybr.com for this. It helps with key combos and it learns from what you need to practice the most. Like my problem keys are the o, i, and e keys.

That's ridiculous to me. I'm getting like 35-40 with around 95% accuracy.

Do you actually touch type with home row or anything? You just have your own method?

And got that fast by doing keybr?

Touch typing websites that will teach your students to type faster and save time in future, increase productivity.

Here are these sites:

• http://typingclub.com/
• http://www.ratatype.com/
• http://keybr.com/

(Slightly trolly, slightly serious)

Learn Colemak (or Dvorak if you're crazy) rather than Qwerty. It will make typing faster easier and more comfortable on your own computer.

This page has several resources (which can also be used for Qwerty); I'm particularly a fan of keybr.com.

To improve your accuracy on m/kb try some shooters where you have to shoot over great distances, perhaps ARMA2 or Op. Flashpoint. If you're not into simulation games and prefer faster action try the Ghost Recon series.

And to improve your coordination and reaction time, maybe play some horror games like Dead Space or FEAR.

If your problem is remembering the positions of the keys (ie: you have a low keystroke-per-minute rate when typing) you may want to check out some tools like this: http://keybr.com/