Typing Faster

I now type relatively fast, around 70-80 words per minute, with good accuracy.

For someone who spends their time writing, it's quite handy: I can almost "dump my thoughts" onto the screen without looking at my fingers or falling behind.

The best site I've found for practice: keybr.com. It introduces letters one by one and allows you to practice with punctuation, capitals, etc.

My advice:

• Set it to French with capitals and punctuation.
• Don't try to go fast. The goal is accuracy. Stay above 95% accuracy with the right fingers.
• Don't look at your fingers. When in doubt, slow down.
• Ten to fifteen minutes a day.
• For variety, you also have 10fastfingers and Monkeytype.

It's quite a zen activity that clears the mind when you need to step back (from a text, from work...). I recommend it.

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Related:

• Why Go Fast (archive)