Why Improve Typing Speed
In the digital age, typing has become an essential skill in both our work and personal lives. Whether it’s a student drafting a paper, a professional writing emails and editing documents, or anyone simply browsing the web and communicating online, fast and accurate typing is a must.
In the workplace, typing speed often shapes the first impression colleagues have of your professionalism. For roles that require frequent, extensive text processing, such as editing, journalism, and secretarial work, typing speed directly impacts productivity.
Reasons for Slow Typing
Incorrect Finger Placement: Proper finger placement is key for speed and accuracy. If your fingers are not correctly positioned, your typing speed will suffer, and once bad habits form, they can be challenging to break.
Lack of Structured Practice: Many people can type basic text, but struggle with more complex input like special characters or lengthy sentences. This difficulty stems from a lack of structured practice, which leaves gaps, such as unfamiliarity with keys like @ or the backspace key, causing hands to drift from the home row.
In short, the main reason for slow typing is the lack of touch typing skills and targeted practice.
How TypingFirst Helps You Improve Typing Speed Quickly
Beginner Typing Lesson: TypingFirst's Beginner Typing Lesson starts with basic key position learning, mastering the home row, and gradually covering all letter keys. For each key, muscle memory is strengthened through incremental practice, review, and exercises, laying a strong foundation for touch typing.
Intermediate Typing Lesson: After mastering individual key touch typing, you can type any letter quickly. However, in real-life typing, words are made up of sequences of letters, and often these letters have fixed patterns. By practicing these patterns repeatedly, you can boost your speed for typing common letter combinations.
The Intermediate Typing Lesson is designed to achieve this goal. This course begins with common words starting with different letters, then covers common 2-4 letter combinations, helping you build and reinforce muscle memory for frequent letter combinations, which in turn increases word input speed.
Advanced Typing Lesson: After completing the letter combination courses, your word input speed should have significantly improved. You can then begin the Advanced Typing Lesson, where you’ll focus on special practices for case switching, numbers, and symbols commonly used in daily typing. This will help you become proficient in touch typing all types of content.
Benefits
After completing these courses and practice sessions, you'll notice significant improvements in your typing speed and accuracy—whether for work documents, academic papers, or everyday communication. With systematic training, TypingFirst helps make typing a natural, thought-free reaction, freeing up your attention to focus on content creation and critical thinking.