About 289 days ago - November 17, 2009

9 Tips For Increasing Your Typing Speed

Increasing your typing speed is one of the best practices for Time Management. It will help you to become more productive and you can save hell lot of time. I picked up 9 simple tips to increase and improve your typing speed.

Recently I can to know about this report from a blog, “If a computer user double his typing speed, he is saving 300 hours in one year!” Amazing! Isn’t it?

Comfortable typing#1 Position : Choose a comfortable chair and sit straight. Place your fingers correctly on the keyboard. Type using the pads of your fingers, don’t use finger tips or nails. The Keyboard should be at waist level approximately.

#2 Placement : Use both your hands for typing. You can check this visual tutorial for understanding placement of your fingers on the appropriate keys easily. Use the thumb for Space Bar. It is better to memorize the location of the keys.

#3 Avoid Seeing : Yes, you should not see the keyboard while you type. You should have military level of discipline. Look at the screen or the source paper. After you are familiar with the finger placements you can try this. While riding bicycle, what will you see? The road or the pedals? :P

#4 Use Emoticons : Emoticons are nothing but textual expressions representing the face of a writer’s mood or facial expression. You can find them in many portals including social networks, forums, IM, blog comments and so on. Emoticons usually have symbols. By using them often you can be familiar with symbols location in keyboard and you can type it without seeing soon.

#5 Type Along : Try to type what you hear, like news reports, songs, two people talking around, so on. It will help you to become more familiar with various words.

#6 Avoid Typos : While practicing don’t spend time on fixing your typos. Instead carry on typing. Because you are just training your hands and concentrating on typing faster.

#7 Get Addicted : I improved my typing speed by using TypeRacer. It is a multiplayer typing game where you race others by typing quotes from popular books, movies, and songs. You can also find TypeRacer applications in Orkut and Facebook.

#8 Softwares : You can purchase a typing lesson software or try the free ones available online. But make sure that program is capable of measuring your typing speed. You can also try free Flash typing games.

#9 Practice : Last but not least, nothing can be done without practicing. Practice as much as possible. Do it regularly with extreme patience. But don’t practice if your fingers become tired. Leave some gap.

Why don’t you practice right now by commenting here? :P :lol:

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    76 Responses to “9 Tips For Increasing Your Typing Speed”

    1. Dinesh says:

      My typing speed is good but i can’t avoid seeing the keyboard.

    2. Sajib says:

      Number 5 is much more important than all of those. When you’re familiar with a word, you can type it without even knowing what letters you’re typing. For example, how speedy you type your name or email address or other login credentials that you type everyday?

      Nice post. Thanks for the other points too.

    3. Sapan says:

      Most of the time I am able to type without looking at the keyboard but still I can’t say that my typing speed is good… its ‘ok’ ;)

      I am not at all comfortable with the numpad.. :(

      btw, nice tips Pradeep.

      PS: What about ur exams ? r they already on ?

    4. Sunny Bhasin says:

      Thanks Pradeep :)
      Well usually for a blogger you need to just type and type whatever you feel and obviously without looking at the keyboard ;)
      A Blogger usually improves his typing speed when he/she writes more and more posts of different topics :)
      For eg: I have just started writing posts and also i have signed into my wp dashboard several times , so now whenever i try to login i type my user name and password without looking the keyboard.

    5. Taranfx says:

      Good points there.
      Typing improves with practice. During my 10 years of affair with computers I learned this simple fact:
      Don`t look at the keyboard while you type, and try to be accurate without “backspace”.
      Hope all those beginners find it useful.

      And my Dad can type faster than most bloggers coz he had been following this since last 4 years :D

    6. I can type fast only at home, only on my own keyboard

    7. i suggest to blog blog n blog to increase typing speed..

    8. Typeracer is pretty interesting man! But I am quite fast at typing..But I tend to do small errors every time.

    9. vishnu says:

      even in my case i look at keyboard and type . my is good enough for me . i wrote more than 900 posts in that way. may be it depends on the way we pratice.

    10. Sanjeev says:

      You have covered some really nice point over here. I think consistency is the key. Practice daily and always keep in mind that you have to increase your typing sped, will definitely help in doing that. Spend more n more time on computer, you will see the change.
      But it is always better to type correct rather than fast. :) So one should also focus on avoiding typos.

    11. typing content and commenting on other blogs daily will increase the speed of the typer

    12. MostlyBlog says:

      hey pradeeep you covered good point here,My typing speed is not so good i am trying to improve it and it work also.

    13. sriganesh says:

      good one, #5.6,7 is important , i tried typad software(offline), and by chair decrease the height due to my weight :D , i have to but a new one ;)
      -=-=-=-
      i think i missed many post here, sorry, so busy with works in center

    14. Ruchi says:

      You covered all points, great article. But frankly speaking , I improved my typing speed just by chatting . :)

    15. very much needed
      thanx for sharing

    16. blinkky says:

      Position is important. I’ll get a better position before typing =)

    17. Marlene says:

      I can type fast and without looking on the keyboard when what I am typing in a hurry. But I don’t think I can use those emoticons, I’m not that fast. Though hubby was impressed how fast I typed when we used to chat before. :-)

    18. Amar says:

      Those are great tips, I remember the first set of typing I was asked to practice was, QWERT POIUY :)

    19. I like the tips, but I have a hard time unlearning a mistake, even with practice. I had the same problem with piano lessons as a kid. Once I learned a wrong note it was like it got hard-wired in my mind. Oh well. The hunt and peck method gets me where I want to go.

    20. Uttoran Sen says:

      my typing speed is already great, and i have done a typing course too in the past, a long time back. but my computer typing is different from the regular type writer but a little slower, i used to type fast on the type writer. so, sometimes when am in a hurry the type writer skills over shadow my feather touch computer typing skills and i kind of put the hands over the keyboard like the type writer and start typing even faster…

      loads of good points in the article, and the best one is ofcouse practice, nothing can improve without practice, i had typed for hours in the past on a consistent basis, good typing speed helps a lot really,

    21. 9 Tips For Increasing Your Typing Speed…

      Increasing your typing speed is one of the best practices for Time Management. It will help you to become more productive and you can save hell lot of time. I picked up 9 simple tips to increase and improve your typing speed. Recently I can to know abo…

    22. Some great tips thanks – for those who work on their computers a lot, a better typing speed is definitely in order to help not get behind in work – makes a big difference. I was looking for some free online games for my sons recently, and came across two fun typing speed test games – and tried them out – it’s obviously been a long time since I did old-fashioned typing on a typewriter at school, and I didn’t do too well, but after just the third or fourth try, there was already an improvement! :)

      • Welcome to HB, Teresa! ;)

        I was also searching for some online games.. for improving my typing speed further more… and I stumbled upon TypeRacer.. I was an extreme addict.. but now quited it.. because of blogging.. :D

    23. I learned how to type in High School on a typewriter, I can type 95 WPM on QWERTY keyboard and over 130 WPM on a DVORAK style keyboard (used to anyway). I recommend getting kids into touch typing early, using games like “TyperShark” can be really helpful, there are so many free typing websites out there with typing games for kids that are completely free, just google “free typing games” and you can pick the lot of them.

      Typing saves you time which = money.

    24. hi,
      thanks for this wonderful and useful tips of increasing the typing speed.
      my typing speed is also not so fast so i will definitely follow your tips and see how it will help me.
      i will follow all the tips and also want the quick result.

    25. hello,
      thanks for tips.
      i will follow all the tips to increase my typing speed.

    26. Cool. TO say exactly I don’t know type writing even before a year but I simply used to learn the basic things from the software. Then with my job and after I have started blogging, I have started to spend whole day with computers. That made me to learn it and I can now type with atleast 75 p.c correctness.

    27. You said don’t see the keyboard but I don’t see the screen while typing :-)
      LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    28. Anup says:

      great tip thanks. I have some skill you give above:)

    29. I never type emoticons i always click them by mouse so i get problem in typing symbols. i will try to type emoticons rather than to click them as u suggested. good idea.

    30. Rohit says:

      its easy to say but hard to do!

    31. You covered all points, great articl
      Dev | Technshare’s last blog…8 Tips to Increase your Google Page Rank

    32. Samuel says:

      Well i keep on praticing!

    33. Ram kumar says:

      wow! nice article buddy

    34. I like the virtual tutor very much…
      and also i like the last twist from you ..ha ha :)
      sudharsan @ technoskillonline’s last blog…Win Dell Inspiron Laptop Free – Sizlopedia Contest

    35. Talking Ava says:

      It was pretty neat that for my first job, I was a transcriptionist. It made me type faster, and it allowed me to practice typing without having the need to look into my keyboard. It definitely makes typing easier and faster!

    36. BENAZIR says:

      helpful in improving my speed of typing &adding skill in my hand.

    37. ranganath says:

      hi..just i tried a trick5,its really helpull trick !

    38. Touch Typing says:

      Great typing tips to improve typing speed. Thanks and keep updating good posts

    39. Technolic says:

      Awesome tips bro :)

    40. PankajGupta says:

      After Participating in so many forums, blogs and other websites I have increased my typing speed. Now, after 1 year of continuous practice I can type without looking to the keyboard :)
      PankajGupta recently posted..How to change the password in Gmail

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