How To Make Typing Speed Fast

[Kristy Suzuki]

Mostif not all, careers involve some computer-based work and require strong typing skills. Information technology professionals, for example, must be efficient typists in order to write code for computer and software programs. Accuracy is equally as important as speed, as a simple typo could result in a system-wide error.

However, without proper training and practice, many individuals resort to hunt-and-peck typing, or looking down at the keyboard to select the right keys one-by-one. Mobile technology, such as tablets and smartphones, have also increased reliance on hunt-and-peck strategies.

The preferred typing method is known as touch-type, or typing without looking at the screen. This is much more efficient than hunt-and-peck; the average person types at an average of 40 words per minute, but a person who relies on the touch-type method can exceed 75 words per minute, allowing them to complete their work much more quickly and with minimal errors.

These conventions are meant to help you familiarize yourself with the keyboard. As you become more experienced, you can experiment with different variations of this starting position to find the placement that is most comfortable and natural for you.

Sitting in an upright position is going to make it easier to type faster. If you are used to slouching in your chair or working from the couch, try moving to a straight-backed chair or working at your desk.

The wrong hand placement can make it uncomfortable to type for extended periods of time. The space bar of your keyboard should be centered with your body, so that you are not reading your screen or typing from an angle. As you type, rest your elbows on the table and keep your wrists slightly elevated. You should never bend or angle your wrists dramatically.

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Curve your fingers a little and put them on the ASDF and JKL; keys which are located in the middle row of the letter keys. This row is called HOME ROW because you always start from these keys and always return to them.

This method may seem inconvenient at first, but do not stop, eventually, you'll find out that you are typing quickly, easily, and conveniently. To achieve the maximum result, choose a touch typing course for your keyboard layout and in the desired language.

Limit your hand and finger movement only to what is necessary to press a specific key. Keep your hands and fingers close to the base position. This improves typing speed and reduces stress on the hands.

Hello... I've never posted here and I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, but I'm wondering if it's possible to speed up the typing speed of the typed trigger string option? I had emailed Peter about it a while back and he said there wasn't a way to make it faster. Is there any chance this has changed since 2017? Lol

Insert text by pasting isn't always ideal, and although I do use it in some cases, I can't use it by default, unfortunately. I also incorporate spacing into my snippets to try to avert the issue, but I still end up with a lot of snippets expanded in the middle of the next word I'm trying to type or spaces in the middle of words bec ause I hit space too fast

From my preliminary testing, it looks as though it works as quickly as KM's insert by pasting option, but it doesn't use the clipboard (unless the expanded text contains an apostrophe?). But I reckon I'll have a bit of a harder time out-typing these haha, thanks!

(Heh, I hope mentioning other products on here isn't taboo, but I work for a transcription company so text expanders and shortcuts are ... life. Still not giving up KM though, nobody panic haha. I don't remember how to use my computer without it)

I believe Typinator, being a text expansion-only focussed app has some applications where it applies either AppleScript or Accessibility APIs to handle the expansion. In my testing, I have yet to find any way to use these across a wide range of applications, to either the Typinator folks are cleverer at this that me (definitely possible) or they special case certain apps (also possible).

Thanks for the replies! So, update, but after testing Typinator for a few days, turns out... it doesn't work so well in any internet browser, which is where I do a large portion of my typing. It resorts to using the paste-from-clipboard style of expansion... and it's bad. Notably slower than KM, and it, like... inserts a "1" when erasing your typed string before replacing it with the expansion... and then there's a lag between the expansion and your next typed character, which, obviously, is counterproductive to what I'm trying to accomplish haha. So, all that to say, I've decided to stick with KM's insert by pasting (I have an awesome clipboard app so I can just periodically clear anything there that I don't want).

BUT now I'm trying to figure out how to configure all my text expansions so that I don't need a separate macro for each word to include a space, comma, period, question mark after the typed string so that I don't wind up with words in the middle of words. I'm trying to figure out how to use the TriggerValue thing but... I don't get it. Suggestions so that I can have just one macro per word instead of this?

after testing Typinator for a few days, turns out... it doesn't work so well in any internet browser, which is where I do a large portion of my typing. It resorts to using the paste-from-clipboard style of expansion... and it's bad. Notably slower than KM

Thank you! I don't know about "easy" lololol I would have NEVER figured that out by myself. The only con to this approach is that I no longer have the option of only expanding after a word break, but I counteract that by just putting a space in front of the trigger and result text, which works out ok.

As for Typinator, I'm trying very hard to reduce the amount of apps I use (hoping this 2010 Macbook might not crash so often if I have less running hehe), and although it does mean a bit more set-up time, I do like how much more customisable KM is as far as controlling when and how my snippets work, etc. Plus I love the ability to turn folders on and off via hotkey or the global palette. I have multiple folders I go back and forth between (same trigger, different actions) so the ability to switch on and off quickly and easily is a big plus.

The only con to this approach is that I no longer have the option of only expanding after a word break, but I counteract that by just putting a space in front of the trigger and result text, which works out ok.

Yes, you have the trigger string in the TriggerValue token so you can look at it and see if it starts with f or F and deal with it appropriately. Whether that is easier that doing two macros or not is up to you.

Thanks for the tip! Yeah, I do use the pasting method, but it isn't always ideal and sometimes it just flat-out will not work (I'm a transcriptionist, and on our online platform, any pasted text will be pasted in 'highlighted', so if I'm typing, I'll just overwrite everything. Not the desired effect haha.)

I was never a great typist. My parents taught me to touch type pretty early on, and by 3rd grade I identified as a bit of a computer guy. Still, I never took that next step in keyboard mastery and eventually fell behind my other nerdy friends. My typing speed was slow, my confidence typing the number row was poor, and every time I tried to push my speed I just ended up making more mistakes. Even after being hired as a professional touch typist (software engineer), my typing skills stayed about where I had left them in 6th grade. I was a 60 word-per-minute kind of guy, and I was perfectly fine with that life.

Fast forward a few years. I went out and bought my first mechanical keyboard to help with my hand health in 2017, and soon enough my YouTube recommended section was full of custom mechanical keyboard videos. Sometime in late 2019 I gave in and watched one: TaehaTypes building Tfue's multi-thousand dollar keyboard. The keyboard was beautiful and even sounded like a custom device, but it was the typing test at the end that I kept coming back to: as Nathan made mistakes and yelled "redo! redo!", I marveled at how casually he threw away 120wpm typing tests.

I always knew that people typed faster than I did, but I'd never thought to look at how big the gap was. My typing speeds had been 50 to 60 words per minute for the last decade or more, and I had just witnessed someone casually churn out typing speeds twice my own. What was I missing out on? Surely I could get more done if I could type faster. Should I be embarrassed at my typing speed? I decided to hop on TypeRacer to see where I stood.

This has to be true, right? The faster you can type, the more you can get on the page in a given amount of time. The more you get down, the more work you've done, and the more productive you were. Repeat day after day and you become a person who gets more done in less time.

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