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
Touch Typing Practice: TypingFirst's Touch Typing Practice 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.
Ngram Typing Practice: After mastering individual key touch typing, you can type any letter quickly. However, in real life, words are made up of sequences of letters, which usually have fixed patterns. The better you are at typing these character sequences, the faster you can type.
The Ngram Typing Practice is designed to achieve this goal. This practice extracts common 2-4 letter sequences from natural language processing datasets to help you build and strengthen muscle memory of common letter sequences, thereby increasing word typing speed.
English Typing Practice: After completing the ngram typing practice, your typing speed for common letter sequences should be significantly improved. Then, you can start the English Typing Practice, which contains the top 10,000 high-frequency English words, giving you plenty of training materials to improve your English typing speed.
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.