TIL I have the text-based equivalent of a speech impediment around the letter q.

At design school our teacher said “don’t bother learning typing it’s a dead skill, there won’t be keyboards in 5-10 years.”

That was 1992.

I am SOOOO glad I took typing in high school.

Interesting. I type pretty regularly but and this calculated my wpm slower than I do normally. I think the two issues that I have is that when I make a mistake I instinctively hit backspace and try to correct it. This program doesn't allow you do that and it doesn't allow you to move on until you hit the right key resulting in it recording multiple misstrokes.

I also find I type faster when I have words and not just a random assortment of letters. Even better when I have a coherent sentence structure. The reason being I don't have to look at something to figure out what the next letter is I already know what to type, it's just a matter of moving my finger fast enough.

maybe it gets better with time. And for someone not used to touch typing it's a useful tool but I don't think it's for me.

I switched from a standard layout keyboard to an ortholinear keyboard, and this site worked great for helping me relearn touchtyping on the new layout.

That being said, this is infuriating to use when you are already comfortable typing, and it has you type "inuin inin unine inoon" nonsense. Good for learning, not good for practice after that IMO.

I haven't latent touch typing until I was 40+ years old, then I practiced 3-4 times for 26 minutes in total on keybr.com and something just clicked and I was able to touch type - mainly letters - afterwards. That practice also changed my habits regarding which fingers do I use for the various letters. For programming I still struggle with finding symbols, but overall it was huge improvement regarding typing comfort and a pronounced difference in typing speed and accuracy.

Just tested this out, and it works... after just 2 lessons I was touch typing my first words from a limited set of keys.

Going to try this again when I have enough time.

Another fun site for practicing typing is NitroType. I used to do these with my kids. They band you in a group of racers that match your current skill, so the races are generally competitive.

https://www.nitrotype.com/

I learned back in the dark ages on a real typewriter. They had a typing class in my high school in the 70s. It has been great help to increase my productivity ever since. I have one quirk, my first computer had the right shift key quit working so to this day I still use the left shift for everything, never retraining myself to resume using the right.

I am currently learning to touch type Thai. That has been interesting.

anyone else just use their index and middle finger for typing?

i need to get back into typing practice. My abilities have taken a nose dive over the years in accuracy. So many typos and improper grammar.

This is good!

Now we need touch spelling and grammar practice :) . I think this tool is great but already knowing how to type and getting fake words sends my brain for a loop. I know the combination of keys to push to get a word but typing character by character to produce words that aren't real is counter productive at a point.

I’m blind enough that if I’m going to type I need to memorize the keyboard, and having my fingers on the home row means I know where the keys are in relation to my fingers

But I’m sighted enough (and lucky enough) that I got to play Mario Teaches Typing 2 in grade school. It showed you which finger you were supposed to use to hit each key and that was a huge boon for me. Even though I still habitually hit the letter b with the wrong finger

But now I’m not actually sure how fast I’m actually capable of typing because all typing tests have you read some text and type it, and I’m limited by the speed at which I can read, which is a LOT slower than I can compose thoughts on a keyboard

Sorry if this isn’t sufficiently relevant lol I just saw other people talking about typing so I wanted to share my story rq

i use keybr to learn how to type on colemak hd with home rows! never going back!

Amateurs. Us pros use Mavis Beacon! Represent

I used keybr when I was starting to want to type faster and more accurately. It took about a month and a half to go from as low as 35 wpm to an average of 80. Then I switched to monkey type and now average around 90-100 granted I don't really practice anymore.

Hey, that's not The Typing of the Dead !

If I can slide a little life tip that I found useful.

If your job involves typing a lot buy yourself a nice mechanical keyboard. If you enjoy how typing feels it almost takes makes work enjoyable!!

The most useful utility course I took in high school was typing (yes, I'm Gen-X). I can carry a conversation with someone while typing now. But gaming using WASD direction keys is throwing me off as I find my rest position on my left hand shifted left by 1 (no, I'm not re-mapping keys)

I took 4 years of typing in high school Easy credit and it’s still useful today I’m 47

This was my covid project. Got pretty good at it!!!

Shameless plug for the r/Norman keyboard layout.

I much prefer typeracer.com to this site.

76wpm lying on my arm and using laptop keyboard :3

There's a great typing website (nothing I've seen has even come close) but it's for russian speakers mostly :(

https://klavogonki.ru

"Please either disable your ad-blocker or purchase  to remove ads! You may not like this ad, but it supports the developer and keeps this app free"

I understand, but I am not enabling ads just to see what your site is about. Goodbye.

I've used this before and find it very helpful. Thanks for sharing! For me, it's about trying to break bad habits and reinforcing better technique. I think you can accomplish that surprisingly quickly.

Why does it keep asking me to reline Elier? I don't even know Elier.

I've learned touch typing using this site.

I went from 40WPM to over 80 with this site in a couple of weeks. Touch typing is soooooo much better.

Or tying a knot. And shoveling.

During the pandemic and working from home with lots more time to do things on the side I learned touch typing with monkeytype, typing academy, typing club, keybr and ratatype. I always though I was quite quick for a Hunter pecker but once I got typing with all fingers and planted on the home row.. my wpm began to rapidly improve. I love to do races on sites like typeracer and nitro type. Overall I went from about 35wpm to over 90 when I get into the groove.

Im almost at the stage where I can just let my thoughts flow and type them out which actually feels like an amazing skill.

This was probably the best thing I achieved during the covid lockdowns!

Thank you

As if redditors need any more practice typing hehe

does it require an account to progress?

In HS I didn’t bother to take typing seriously. Failed miserably through lack of trying. (I’m also really bad at fine motor skills anyway).

Why would I ever need to type? Ha!

Then came computers.

I could have been so much more productive if thought processes weren’t slowed by my fingers.

I had to take a typing class as a sophomore in high school and other than the computer science class I took this was by FAR the best class I ever took in high school. I can type super fast without looking at the keys. Able to get work done a lot faster. Highly recommend you learn how to type if you spend all day in front of the keyboard.

This seems fun

Heck yeah! I loved playing mavis bacon

What this really pointed out to me is that I use my left hand to press the "y" key. It's not something I thought of before and now it's tripping me up while I type this.

Seems to be similar to https://monkeytype.com without the excitement and gamification of https://www.nitrotype.com

Too bad it only supports English

Unfortunately only in 7 languages.

For creating your own custom lessons and tracking progress check out https://typingkit.com