Just a bit of a correction with the way you may be interpreting the way consistency is measured. Its not actually the same speed for "it" vs "program", rather its considers five keystrokes as a single word. So it would actually be comparing five keystrokes within "program" to the next 5 keystrokes that contain "it"
It's funny how I discovered a lot of these concepts by typing a whole bunch on monkeytype without knowing the technical vocabulary. If you practice enough, you'll learn to develop your technique. Of course, videos like these help condense all of those hours of trial and error so that others can reach their goals faster. Awesome work.
This is an extremely well made video damn. I recently got a new split keyboard and I have a lot of really bad typing habits. This video gave structure to how I should go about learning to type again
I used to type at 40 wpm without employing the touch typing technique. My progress wasn't linear. When I began using touch typing, my speed dropped to around 10 wpm. After practicing for 4 months, I managed to reach 40-50 wpm. Another 5 months later, I'm currently typing at 65-75 wpm. My goal is to achieve 120 wpm by 2025. Do you think I can make it to 120wpm in 7 month?
If you practice properly, perhaps faster than 7 months :) Typing above 100 WPM for people who haven't done it before is a matter of building up muscle memory. Unless you've experienced an injury, 140 WPM is possible for anyone. Past 140 WPM is where you have to start building finger strength/muscles. Just focus on accuracy and learn a bit of chording, see you at 120 WPM c:
@@va1orance Can you elaborate more on "practicing properly"? I mean I have already set a goal of 15 mins per day, but I tend to be more addicted to typing these days. So I end up typing for at least 50 mins a day. What do you think?
Sure, what I mean is targeted practice. A lot of people say to simply work on accuracy, but if you are already around 98% there isn't a really clear pathway. What I recommend is this: Look at your consistency when you do a typing test (the statistic, it should be in a % form). If you are going above 83%, you should work on burst speed through chording as I mentioned in the video. I recommend setting goals in intervals of 10-20 WPM. Then, I would set a burst WPM goal 10-20 WPM above that. For example, at your 75 WPM, set a goal of 90 WPM over 60s. Your burst WPM goal should then be 100-110 WPM. At these low speeds it probably is difficult to work on burst, so I recommend going to 25 or 50 words and trying to get that WPM. Once you get to 120 WPM (which you certainly will :D), things will get much harder. 120 WPM is getting close to the "no practice/muscle training" speed. To clarify, what I mean is practically anyone can get to 120 WPM without working on any sort of endurance or finger strength. Once you get to 140 WPM, you will have to start training your fingers physically as weird as that sounds. Hopefully I'll have a video out about that by then :)
@@va1orance So you're saying my nerve damage might actually be a limiting factor for me? Haven't really been able to get faster than the 60-80 range even when looking at the keyboard, though I was lucky enough to have had touch typing hounded into me at a very early age, so I was able to pick up a split keyboard no problem. I actually got faster from about 50 wpm to the now ~68 wpm average when I switched over to the split keyboard, and its a dream to type on without any pain in my wrists and shoulders :)
@@TheRealYeller I'm not a qualified by any means, but you probably shouldn't be chasing speed typing if you have nerve damage 😓. It's great that using an ergo is helping! But that aside, I would analyze a bit and see what is particularly limiting you. Whether that be finger independence, or other bits of dexterity. There is a typist who is 170 WPM (60s) and over 200 WPM using just two fingers, so unless it causes you physical pain to go faster (in which case find out what is causing the pain; pressing too hard, a specific motion, etc.) or again dexterity; I wouldn't think it should limit you to that degree. Wrist pains in general should be avoided when typing, so maybe consider tenting, floating your wrists instead of resting, or ensure you are actually pressing with your fingers instead of your wrist (seems obvious but it happens often if you tense up). In any case, it's best for heath > speed, but you should be able to get to 100 WPM (please don't hurt yourself though c:).
Watched this shortly after it came out. had been thinkimg about learning an alt layout with how much i type. Your video gave me yhe plan to make it happen. Thinking i will go with colemak dh
Great video! It’s eye opening to learn about things I’ve noticed myself doing already (chords and bursts) without knowing their names, and while only doing them on certain words. I think practicing these consciously will help. Thanks! For me the main reason i’m hitting a wall seems to be my keyboard - currently a staggered QWERTY. Keeping my hands in the home position means I get wrist pain fairly quickly, or I can move my hands around and lose efficiency. I’ve got my first full split keyboard coming in the mail, and I’m very excited to break through this wall (and inevitably start modding my keyboard 😂)
Followup: it’s here, I’ve got it tented like a MF, and my wrist pain is practically GONE. Still retraining my touch typing muscle memory, but working on this thing feels so much better. Thanks again for the great video.
I'll definitely try once I get back to my old speed of 176 WPM. The thing is, past 120 WPM, what you can learn really dwindles. Just as a minor list here: 1) Multi-chording/Spacegrams: Learning to type multiple words in one "chord". 89% practically is just this. 2) Read ahead: Read at least 1-2 words ahead, some people can do more, some people find more than 3 to be worse. 3) Burst vs Accuracy practice: Covered briefly in this video, in higher speeds, these two will diverge further. For example, for burst practice, you would want to ignore accuracy and purely focus on speed. This is usually about 40 WPM higher than what your PB is. Then, to "fix" your bad habits, you will work on long duration (5 min+, 98%+) typing tests. It's rather grueling, but it comes in time.
I actually switched to a split board right after this challenge ended 😅. The main reason I was using an othro board for this was to see if I could maintain multiple keyboard layouts through just having two different keyboards (I had just gotten 208 WPM on 15s, and I didn't really want to lose that progress). It kinda half worked, but I decided it wasn't worth the effort after I could type reasonably well on the new layout.
Quick Update: It's been two months since I started this challenge. I have now reached 164 WPM over 60s. Good luck to all :D On a side note: I may be doing this one more time on another keyboard layout. For those who are in the knowhow of alt layouts, Stern was a layout designed to have high alternation, extremely low SFBs, and low redirects. It certainly works well and accomplishes all of those goals. It actually has 0% SFBs on Monkeytype English-200. That being said, the LHM middle column this layout uses in my view simply has too much movement. I have begun work on a custom catered layout that is designed to minimize these top bottom row interactions. I do not fully recommend this layout. If you are fine with LHM, it is still quite solid. However, I would encourage you to take a look at dusk (altlayouts.com/dusk/index.html) which I believe is better suited for the majority of people.
It would depend on what you are using them for. I use one for a letter + the rest for shift/ctrl, and it kinda just comes down to "well I have no other keys so it must be one of these". Since clusters are usually quite small, I would just say learn it as you go.
It is likely due to posture. Are you: - Tensing up one hand - Typing with your wrist instead of your fingers - Angling your hands up (relative to the keys). A slight amount is ok, not too much.
Here's a burst/chording typing practice website: www.burst-type.pro/ It was made after this video; would've been pretty helpful when I was doing the challenge :D
@@va1orance mainly using this as my reference, thank you so much! keep having doubts on best vs standard approach for some combinations that use consecutive letters mapping to same finger, ex: CE, DE, are there any tips? the standard same finger option doesnt feel right thx!
@@rquintino4313 Yes! This is something I will be covering in my updated guide. There is a technique called "alt fingering" done to avoid these awkward sequences. For "DE" specifically, you have three options: - You can use your ring finger to press E and your middle to press D. This avoids the same-finger bigram (using the same finger twice) - This is known as alt fingering. - You can do a technique called "Sliding" where your middle finger from E to D for words ending with the suffix -ed. - You can do something called "Oat Sliding" where instead of actually sliding, you put your finger's first joint between the two keys. Then, by pressing really hard on the first key, your finger bends and causes you to press the second key. Only really the first option allows you to do "DE" as the other options are not as comfortable going upwards - however it also has some problems such as when your ring finger has to do something else. Pick whichever one feels the most comfortable and natural. However, it's important to note "alt fingering" doesn't mean you do it all the time. For "DE" it's okay to use the ring finger for D, but you shouldn't do this all the time otherwise "SE" or "WE" becomes a problem. For "CE", the best way is to use the index to press C and middle to press E. This is a technique known as "angle cheat" and you can actually use index like this all the time. On keyboard layouts that are not QWERTY (like Dvorak or Colemak) though, this is not recommended.
This is for getting fast on english-200 (the default monkeytype corpus) in the least amount of time possible. Keybr doesn't benefit as much in this regard as pattern and chord learning are more important for speed. On the other hand, for actual learning, yes, Keybr is going to be better.
Hi, I've been using your method for awhile to learn colemak, and I made it to 32-35 wpm pretty fast. However, I'm stuck at this level for nearly 2 weeks now. The reason is that I still mistyped some of the letters a lot, I think I got too used to qwerty after a very long time using it. Do you think I should start learning chording now, or keep practicing until I build new muscle memory and then chording?
It would be smarter to try and get the accuracy higher, however, that can get a little repetitive and dare I say boring. You can start by adding few chords featuring the letters you commonly mistype and that might help you build familiarity with them. Another way is turning on monkeytype's weakspot feature (esc > funbox > weakspot) which will show you the words you struggle with most. It's very common to get stuck absent mindedly practicing, so shifting things around might help :D
I allotted a total of about 9.5 hours while doing this. I spent close to an hour each day, but realistically, just 15-30 minutes each day with targeted/focused practice will let you get there in around 3 ish-weeks. Most of that time spent was learning the arrangement of letters, so if you are not doing that, purely memorizing chords will take very little time once you get used to it.
I'm not too familiar with the learning process with Steno, I've tried, but didn't find it interesting enough. I would recommend using the openstenoproject guide, or qwerty steno if you don't have a specific steno keyboard set up. Again, not my expertise though :)
