How to Increase Typing Speed

Typing is usually an everyday part of our lives. Whether for work or play, we consistently spend a lot of time in front of a keyboard. If you want to increase your speed and your number of words per minute, here are some methods to help improve your typing speed.

Instructions

1. Take a typing test. These tests are available online at websites like TypingTest.com and will let you know how many words per minute you are able to type. You will also find out your level of typing accuracy. Keep taking these tests to improve.

2. Practice good typing posture. Your fingers should remain on the home row, placed on top of the A, S, D, F, J, K, L and semicolon keys.

3. Look at the screen and not your hands. This will greatly increase your speed since you will teach yourself how to remember the placement of the keys in your mind instead of with your vision.

4. Go back and make corrections later. Ignore typos at first until you build up your typing speed.

5. Purchase typing software. There are many typing tutors available to purchase and download to your computer. Touch Typing and MaxPro are two companies that have typing tutor programs.

Resources

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