How to Type Faster - From 114 to 131 WPM in 2 months. Deliberate Practice Experiment 

damn great work! I'm 80wpm at the minute. Need to remember to practice each day. (Also nail down correct typing fingers)

Bei mir ist bei 70 einfach Schluss. Ich werde da nicht mehr schneller, obwohl ich jeden Tag mehrere tausend Wörter tippe.

Inspirational kiddo! Keep at it. Make it 115!

@M de Boer Why are you so salty? Plus, his second post wasn't bragging in the slightest you illiterate moron

@M de Boer It appears you don't know how to form coherent sentences either

Wow, nice result Jose - what does your practice schedule look like?

So it takes 9 months to reach 120wpm???

@@AmanAman-ht8uc Yes, In my case, maybe you can do it faster or slower it depends on the person.

@Dupa Pupa bro how i cam type more than 80 wpm ......my current speed is 50 wpm and i tried alot but i cannot increase my speed.....plz suggest i have to increasemy speed....my exam is coming

@@arjunjamwal3490 You are closer than you think. Keep up practicing. One day, it will just "click". The deliberate practice is key though.

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Yeah I noticed the same thing - my scores are always better when I'm not consciously trying to type fast, rather I'm focusing on accuracy and a consistent pace.

you should have an effort to practise it . More repetition every minute/hour/day/month/year are different . start at good habit . and then your effortless typing will increased it depends on your repetition program . Your effortless typing will follow to your effort on exercising or practising techniques. you should have and effort to your accuracy but if you want to relax let your effortless typing do. but typing with effort is much more faster than your effortless typing.

@@melmugas6590 XD

why is this so relatable?! I did the same 10 minutes ago, my normal speed is around 50, i focused only on accuracy and went as comfortable as I can, I think i got 60 or something then.

@@WarriorHabits helo can you give me my answer please🙏 i will practice 4 hours daily and my goal is to reach 170 wpm(big dream) from 51 wpm(average) can you guess how much time it will take to reach there cause i am not going to stop training until i reach 170 wpm but i have absolutely no idea how much time it will take

I can't even go for 2wps 😂😂😂😂😂

I could do 60, but I couldn’t get any better, so I completely changed my way of typing, I can now do 40 but I have to look at the keyboard, if I learn to be able to not it could go to 70!

@@gwahx2116 oh cool

TiGeR TuSks yeah I did it as a joke because I couldn’t think of anything else lmao

I started typing on my membrane keyboard from 3 july 2020 and today I am at 38-40 wpm.

love the solo leveling pfp

legit man

Rob doesn’t increase speed that’s just a implied joke.

i found full sized keyboards to be easier to type on compared to laptops

"rbg"

Update: I just upgraded my keyboard to the Keychron K2 with Gateron brown switch V2. With just minimal practice over a few days my 10-minute marathon score is 5 WPM faster than before. I predict good things in the future as I practice more. 100 WPM, here I come! For those curious this is the model I got: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07YB32H52/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Glad to hear that. My challenge to you is to do 30 minutes of practice for 30 days. I think you'll double your typing speed, at least. Good luck!

@RoyalPizzaKing dam son give tips

@@CristianHDiaz don't stop, keep a good pace, and type words right after you hit space

@@bruhman4509 typing with my pinky finger slows downs my speed a lot and irritates me . How should I improve?

sourabh jambale Keep on typing with it, you’ll get more comfortable with practice.

may i ask how many minutes a day have you practiced ?

@@Marie-Sunny in the first week it was about an hour or so but in the second week it was only about 15-20 minutes

Alkade screw it, I’ll start today too

U didn’t even comment how far U have gone

@@soydulhasan80 It hasn't been two months yet

thats nice, when i was 14 i was practising and now at 16 im typing at 80-112 word per minute

Something funny, i have an average of 130 wpm. I didnt type for about 2 weeks. Then i got 150 wpm average

Consistent daily practice for two months and you'll be double or triple that number

I started at 8. I am now stuck at 51 for over 32 days.

i not using the mechial keyboard ,but now i have 60 wpm without looking keyboard before, but now i can get 100 wpm now without using the mechinal keybaord, and i want to buy cherry mx blue keyboard.

he said 18 words per SECOND lol

Tobias Samsøe Sørensen lol do you see second

Don't forget to update us, I am at 30 Avg and 35 Top. I score 30 with Capital letter and Punctuations. I will also update later my progress

I will follow this. I'm at 72 average. If Wondering how you will be doing after 2 months.

Update July 29, 2020: My current average is increased to 80 to 85 WPM with accuracy of 98%. It really helped me a lot! Will update again after a month for final results.

www.typing.com/student/lessons This site is great for relearning

@@lukacspolgar5988 yup even I learned from typing.com

Thanks Maria! In case you're interested, the best book I've found for practicing any skill is one called Peak by Anders Ericsson - I highly recommend it because it goes into great detail about deliberate practice, a method that you can apply to accelerate skill acquisition.

@@WarriorHabits Thank you! I'll check it out

In two weeks, you may need to double your practice time. Also check out the book "The First 20 Hours" by Joshua Kaufman - he's got a chapter in there about typing to 60WPM with a completely new keyboard layout (moving from QWERTY to Colemak) - there are some golden nuggets in there that might help you!

Have you started typing yesterday ? Mine is 35 wpm(100% accuracy) ...I am starting today? Wanna be my accountability partner?

@@aishwaryapravatnalini9301 Yes. Today is my 3rd day of practice. I'm about to star my practice. Let's motivate each other!

@@aishwaryapravatnalini9301 How's your progress going ?

Nice work Hoang, what does your practice regimen look like?

it's been two months so how have you gone?

How are you now?

Wow, I'm glad I commented on this. I'm currently 60WPM my highest is 67WPM. I need to work on my accuracy. I'm finding it hard to advance past 60Wpm comfortably. :) I really should be higher? But wow, I can't believe I've advanced from 14wpm.

Consistent daily practice for two months and you'll push that number up

Nice one Connor - you're already in the top few percent of typists worldwide, which means you're probably reaching the point of diminishing returns. That said, I'm sure you can push forward up to the 130 to 140 range within a few months. As you say, accuracy is certainly key - unless you're consistently typing at around 97% accuracy, then that's your key point of leverage. I recommend doing longer tests - the 10 minute tests on 10FF are great. After doing 10 minute tests with high accuracy for a while, you'll find the one minute test a breeze and will probably set new records. Good luck and keep me updated with your progress!

Hi, I haven't found many people that comment on the position of your body while typing. Position of the wrists and your height compared to the keyboard seem to dramatically change how the fingers reach across the keyboard. What advices would you give about this? How do you make sure you can alway go back to exactly the same position down to millimetrical precision? What are the differences between keeping your wrists down or up? Do you keep any part of your arms, like the elbows for example, in contact with the table? What's the angle you bend your elbows? How about the rotation that the wrists have to do when typing for example a 7 and then going to the shift key with the same right hand, or when you made a mistake and press delete. Don't they make you lose your reference position when you type very fast? How do you keep holding that mental map of where the keys are even when you have to move your hand around? What keeps you anchored to a reference if the hand moves around? Finally, do you always hit any key with its own finger or do you do exceptions? In online courses they say to always go with the same finger but take the word "treble" for example, if you type t r e with index - middle - ring, your index is ready to go to the b key without any hand movement, if you do as advised in my course (ratatype.com) you should use index - index - middle, which then obliges me to move my wrist a bit to reach the b. There are plenty of other words like this, what do you do? Thanks, I would really really appreciate to hear your thoughts on this, I type at 60wpm average but I'm aiming very high because I would like to be able to write down my thoughts as they arise and sometimes they just go really really fast (definitely over 200wpm, so I'd love to get there at some point before I die). Cheers

@@EnvelopeOfficial After 5 months I went from 115 wpm to 135 wpm xd dont rush your self too much here is my 10fastfingers profile: 10fastfingers.com/user/1319326/ Feel free to look at it LOL

​@@iminh_x1705 wow that's pretty good! Do you use a fixed-finger-to-key method? (meaning that you always reach each key with the same finger) I have created a few challenging texts to train on using my left thumb on X and C and my ring on E in the TRE sequence. If you wanna try here they are: 10fastfingers.com/text/154464-EXC-challenge 10fastfingers.com/text/154373-exercise-and-stretch 10fastfingers.com/text/154217-Fixed-Finger-To-Key-typing-method-challenge-1

@@iminh_x1705 They are pretty much the only exceptions I use to the fixed-finger-to-key method, even though there are other letter sequences that result in inefficient finger jumping, like combinations of NUM for example. So maybe I'll introduce new variations.

Great job for being consistent with the practice - what does your practice schedule look like?

Ayy, I'm around the same level

@@WarriorHabits Pretty much every day I do some typing but how much I do is inconsistent. I have done between 10 minutes a day to 2 hours sometimes. I just type texts on typeracer.

nice dude u can definetly get it im gonna start on improving my average is 98wpm but i have been taught how to blind type in school

Dupa Pupa bro how i cam type more than 80 wpm ......my current speed is 50 wpm and i tried alot but i cannot increase my speed.....plz suggest i have to increasemy speed....my exam is coming

Two months After: 10fastfingers my 1 minute test speed is 78 WPM. I'll be here before the end of the year to confirm I hit 100 WPM.

and?

Certainly. I'm going to do a video shortly that shows real world results of 6 people who did deliberate practice for a number of months. Results vary by person, but all of them made really great improvement over time and are all now at least at 60WPM+ with some approaching 90 and 100WPM.

Nice! For me would also be very interesting to watch a video about typing characters like {}[]()-_=+\|!*%1234567890. Because I'm a programmer and this is what's the most uncomfartable for me to type. My speed of typing a normal text is approximately 40 WPM, but for typing this kind of characters I'm usually looking at the keyboard. I'm using 10 key less layout.

I'm not convinced about the utility of learning to touch type as a programmer. I actually co-founded a software company and so I have first hand experience of developing myself, but also working with a team of developers, and it seems to me that (most of the time) the limiting factor for developers is not the speed at which they can type, rather thinking through complex stuff like the logic, algorithms, architecture and doing debugging. Sometimes, for example, a developer may work a full 8 hour shift, but only push 10 lines of code. As a developer, I think you'd get far more benefit from deliberately practicing your coding skills. Maybe you can take on coding challenges, or do some courses at treehouse. Most importantly, though, would be to keep on building things so you can beat on your craft.

Warrior Habits I know, many programs can't type without looking at the keyboard and it's not a problem. Also I'm already working as a programmer for 14-15 years, but thanks for the tip any way :P Also 8 lines of code per day might mean shitty code in the project :)

With 14-15 years experience as a programmer then you definitely know better than me about the role. Another commented mentioned an app for programmers to practice their touch typing:- www.speedcoder.net Give it a shot, would be interested to hear what you think about it.

Stephanie is this because of an existing condition that you have?

@@WarriorHabits Not sure. When i curve my hands over the keyboard, i find it really uncomfortable. Sometimes i find that if i lay my wrist on the table, my hands don't shake as much but then my wrists start to hurt. How do i keep that from happening? Also, how do i keep from looking down at the keyboard?

You're definitely right - the law of diminishing returns is absolutely true with typing, as it is with most things. Olympic weightlifters sometimes train four years just to add 5-10kg to their total. I've noticed a similar thing with typing. At some point, when you reach the point of diminishing returns, you've got to ask yourself whether the ever increasing investment is worth the small increase in efficiency. Noticed the same thing about focus, by the way. My best typing sessions are often when my mind is wondering and my subconscious brain takes over and automatically types what's on screen. If I apply conscious thought to how my fingers are moving, or to not making mistakes, then it always makes me mess up. Strange how our brains work!

Wish I had your habit. I was instead obsessed with speed and now I can type 40 wpm but with like 15 mistakes😞😞 (in keybr)

And I’m the complete opposite lmao. I can type around 100-115 wpm, but I make so many mistakes and always have but i always know as soon as I do and spam backspace. I probably press backspace more than any other button and if I could get myself to finally stop making mistakes my wpm would go up like crazy

@@UpbeatTempo same wtf i can literally feel the mistakes in my fingers just waiting to culminate

@@nomegusta3942 lmao its not me typing without mistakes. I've always made them but have always typed fast enough compared to everyone else I knew that it didnt matter but now that im tryna stop making mistakes its so hard lmfao

@@UpbeatTempo well try the blind challenge from a textbook which contains all kind of words containing all letters. I type from a chemistry textbook which contains a lot of words like "probability", "nucleus", "affinity", "electrostatic", "Zeff", "electronegativity" and elements like carbon, nitrogen, silicon. Even though these words are barely used but they help in increasing speed and accuracy while typing critical letters like z,x,q,p etc a lot!!

Yeah the irony of making a typo on a typing video is not lost on me :) I agree with your tips about the breathing and focus

Thanks Osman, got another video to come shortly about going from a beginner to 70wpm

Totally agree Stephanie, good points.

Thanks Ahmed, I noticed the same thing. Focusing on typing at consistent speed with high accuracy yields higher WPM scores than consciously trying to slam out the words as fast as possible.

Ahmed, glad to hear that my tips helped you. 115 is already really fast - nice work!

@@WarriorHabits After following your tips for 2 months, I have increased my typing speed from 115 to 151, those tips are very useful, thank you very much.

@@user3623 That's an awesome result. You're faster than me now :) What does your daily practice routine look like?

@@WarriorHabits I haven't been practicing alot recently because I had school exams, but my daily practice routine is I start off with typeracer to warm up my fingers because typeracer has many quotes and they are very good for warming up your fingers. After I'm warmed up I go to 10ff and play multiplayer to make sure I'm warmed up enough to type fast. After I get a good score on multiplayer I go to the normal typing test and try typing in two ways. The first way is slowly with good accuracy so my accuracy for the rest of the day is good, and really quickly and trying to keep a relatively decent accuracy. The second technique has worked really good for me so I use it after I take the first two tests. I try to minimize pauses and maintain my speed even if my fingers get tired. I try not to type too hard because that would make my fingers bounce back off the key slower. If I want to type fast then I have to hit the keys lightly and try to type more with my fingers than with my whole arm. If I'm typing well at 145+ wpm then I try to sprint through the test as fast as I can while keeping the accuracy decent. I usually get 147-149 when I try that but sometimes it does increase my typing speed by alot. I do this sprint three times with a 15 second break so my fingers dont get tired then I take a break that's a bit longer then I start practicing with that sprint again. That has been increasing my typing speed greatly as I went from 140 to 150 in around 2-3 weeks. I think this way of practice helps me increase my speed because it makes my fingers more used to the words in 10fastfingers and my fingers type the words really fast because of muscle memory. Personally, I'm a text sprinter but I can type for a decent amount of time at a speed of more than 130 but less than 140. Some people work on typing for a long time and run typing marathons. One of the fastest typists in the world, Sean Wrona. can type 170 words per minute in 50 minutes and 220 words per minute in a one minute test. He is one of the people that works on being a marathon typist and a sprinter which is really good because if you work on typing for a really good time then maintaining your speed in a one minute test would not be a problem because you will eventually get used to maintaining your speed for over ten minutes. If you can do both marathon and sprints then It will be easy for you to hit your top speed and maintain it over a long period of time which will help you increase your typing speed if you keep working on sprinting more you will easily go from speeds of 140-160 in the course of two months or if you're very good at maintaining speed and sprinting then you can get it in a month and a few weeks. If you really want to improve then you can take tips from anyone that's 160+ words per minute. They usually have really good tips for typing. If you can practice with someone that's faster than you then maybe the competition and the practice will make you faster in a shorter amount of time than if you just practice. You can also try practicing in a variety of sites to increase your typing speed. You can try TyperA for hard long words and other sites so you can have a wide variety of words that your fingers will memorize and type them fast from muscle memory. I was originally speaking about how I practice but I got off topic for a bit. Sorry for that, have a nice day.