How to Improve Typing Speed

How to Improve Typing Speed?

In today’s tech-Savvy world, computer become our part of life. Most jobs demand strong typing abilities and entail some computer work. Having a good typing speed (60-70 wpm) is advantage for your career. Everything in life is based on a computer these days if you can increase the speed at which you interact with the computer and the computer respond to you as close as you are thinking then you just like so much more productive in front of the computer. It’s not just for typing heavy things like typing essays and whatever you do for work. It’s also just in general in terms of interacting with web browser and going on websites and sending messages to friends all that stuff becomes quicker and therefore we become more productive.

So, here are some tips to improve your typing speed.

1. Build up your mind to learn

Improving your typing speed is not a one-day task. It needs consistent practice and motivation. So, set a strong goal for yourself to improve your typing speed.

2. Start with proper typing position

  • Sit up straight on the chair with a keyboard or laptop in front of you and keep your back straight.
  • Keep your elbows at 90°
  • Maintain a gap of 45 to 70 cm between your eyes and the screen.
proper sitting position
Proper position for typing by ratatype

3. Hand Position - Home row position

Place your fingers on the keyboard so that your left index finger is on the F key and your right index finger is on the J key. your finger should fall naturally along the middle roll of the keyboard also known as the home row keys.

finger position on keyboard
Finger Position - ratatype

once you have been keys outside of the home row move your nearest finger either up or down to limit finger gymnastic. Your pinkie should be in charge of pressing the shift key and your thumbs are responsible for the spacebar. Picture blow shows the colour coded keys for each finger you going to use on them.

colour keyboard keys

4. Practice!!!

Next let’s work on building your muscle memory. The best way to do this is to train yourself to touch type which means to type without looking down at the keyboard. Open up a blank Word document and start typing any words that come to your mind don’t worry too much about the speed. If it’s too difficult not to look at your hands you can purchase a blank keyboard or keyboard cover. Another option is to activate an onscreen keyboard as a guide super not tempted to peek to do this go to the search bar and type in keyboard to open your keyboard preferences on PC click on on-screen keyboard.

Virtual Screen keyboard

For Mac users make sure show keyboard Animoji’s viewer and menu bar is checked you should now see the keyboard menu on the upper right which will give you the option of show keyboard viewer once you feel comfortable touch typing, you’re ready to hit.

Some of the best platform to practice on the internet.

  1. TypingClub.com – https://www.typingclub.com
  3. Typing Academy.com – https://www.typing.academy/typing-tutor/lessons