How to Improve Your Typing Skills

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Laura Turner, and today, I'm going to talk with you about how to improve your typing skills. Of course, the first thing that you can do is you can actually take a typing class. And in that class, you can do typing exercises. But if you don't want to take a class, something you can do on your own is you can make up your own typing exercises. And what you'll do then is you'll try to type using a book to look off of, and type without looking at your fingers, but by looking at the book. And then you can sort of access yourself as far as how many errors you had while you were typing this way, and how you're getting to all the different keys. Figuring out how to use your four fingers as opposed to just your two fingers like some people do, you can really type pretty fast if you're doing your two-finger deal. But you can type infinitely more error-free when you have your four fingers because you'll...your fingers actually know where to go on the keyboard. So either take a class or start typing without looking at your fingers yourself. That will just really help you. You can also enlist one of your friends to help you, you know, sort of look over your typing and figure out what you're doing wrong. And finally, what you can do is you can go through every day and sort of give yourself your own exercises as far as, you know, where are the letters on the keyboard. And you can do your asdfjkl; kind of deal on your own, and give your own exercises and work out your fingers to create a faster typing for yourself. And those are just some ideas for improving your typing."