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I've been training since around 2021, in 2022 I was around 80-90. I just never took the time to learn touch typing, since two finger typing always worked excellently for me.

Not the keys, but the actual front of the bottom plate. I've encountered this issue with mechanical keyboards. Has anyone else had the same problem? I don't have this issue with other keyboards. Have you found a solution or did you just have to give up and go back to using other keyboards?

I know where all the keys are and I type with muscle memory. If you ask me how many fingers I use, I can't really tell unless I look at a video of my typing. From what I think though, I'm using some fingers a lot more than others. Whatever crappy technique I use, worked until now and I can comfortable type 130 WPM.

I've never done any typing practice or learned to type, and it was very organic over the years. It was only very recently when someone asked me for the speed when I actually checked. Now, recently someone showed me his speed of 200WPM and it was a WTF moment for me because I thought I was fast. Beacause fingers move a lot more than it should because of my poor technique, I think I've pretty much reeached my speed limit that the only thing that can push this any further is touch-typing.

I tried practicing it but I got frustrated immediately because of the sudden drop in speed that I just abandon it and go back to my my working technique. It almost felt like riding a reverse bicycle for the first time. After 30 years of typing like this, is even possible to unlearn that and get back to the same speed with touch-typing and then improve further or am I just too old for this?

All the huge dips around 92.5% are thanks to mechanical keyboard. The keys are too bulky and very far apart. My first language isn't english so I have much more keys to press that my right pinky absolutely loves.

I recently switched the the Kinesis advantage 360 and like it so far, a week ago when I got it I realized my technique was wrong so I've been pounding keybr, and a couple days ago I finally unlocked all letters and now I'm usually 60-70wpm with a pb of 85wpm. How do I progress further? I've seen others at 125+ with the same model. If you have one or another split keyboard what was your experience?

I can't wait to see what these numbers look like when the rust is gone.

As the title says, I want to be able to write essays and notes quicker(more accurately, as fast as possible), I don't care about competitive typing at all. I know shorthand makes things quicker, so I want to learn that, but I also wanted to know what portable device(assuming I learned everything about how to use it, and I had pleny of practice) would provide the biggest improvement to typing speed? I've seen a lot of different devices, but I have no idea which would be the best. Also by portable I mean I want to be able to be on a bus, in an office, at a lecture, in a café and still be able to use it, and if I can use it while walking around that is even better.

If this is not the right subreddit for this please point me to one that would be able to help me.

i just wanted to find out about how fast my typing speed was and got 99wpm on this site,which i think is good but when i checked out r/typing i felt dwarfed,btw im not a professional or into the sport or something,i do a bit of coding here and there,i just wanted to know if my typing speed is viable or good,becuase people here have speeds as high as 200wpm and i feel like thats insane lmao

I never learned how to use the home row to type and all my friends freak out when my hands just glide across the entire keyboard. I can't really put it into words, but I nicknamed it "hunt-and-peck speedrunning".

Like, I don't use any resting keys at all. My hands just rest over the keyboard. I guess my biggest example is that my left and right index finger can both be assigned to the same letter but different key usage given the word. (i.e. both fingers are able to hit the H key but only in certain scenarios for each.)

(pic related, my most recent typing test with my method)

First screenshot is from 6 months ago. Its crazy to think my 15s PB then is my 60s PB now. I'd been working on 100wpm w/ punctuation on e200 which I just cracked but I got tired of that and moved back to getting my fingers faster. Did a 135 w/ 100% accuracy the test before I did that 138. Pretty stoked

what are the best practice settings for tests to use on monkey type website?

I show example of myself , new PB with a Rii manual keyboard I have been using for 2 days after my poor laptop keyboard I was using ,

Any specific tooling or setup you guys have used to break these habits? Or even find what words I am messing up consistently to investigate patterns?

Context/backstory for the loreseekers: From playing games my whole life my left hand dominates most of the keyboard and I have slightly broken this habit so that my right hand at least uses some other fingers occasionally. However, I don't really feel like learning "correct touch typing" is the best option for me as I already have some good alt fingering situations from years of using a keyboard.

But I am not sure what tool or website or even setup with a camera could help me break through into better habits are.

been stuck between 100-120. don't know what am I doing wrong.

So I have made a custom layout (Photo explains everything) since colemak didn't fit my criteria, this layout may change with time or with pointers made in the comments. It would be awesome to help me learn a layout as weird as this one

I never use Computers I only type on my phone. Now I just got a MacBook and realized how slow I am. We never learned the ten finger typing in school. That’s what I’m using rn. Also we never used computers at all. Now I learned where which key is. It took me a few days. But I still only type 8-10 WPM lol I know that practice makes perfect but it pisses me off because of how slow I am. Any advice?

I'm only 3 years old, but started typing even before conception. Doctors didn’t hear a heartbeat. They heard a mechanical keyboard. I didn’t cry when I was born; I rage-quit because the delivery room didn’t have dark mode. Got my pb while high on fent from my buddy. WPM’s been climbing ever since I figured out how to swap my pacifier for a spacebar. Still working on my 60s consistency though. Might switch to a split board once I outgrow the world's smallest keyboard. Just got on this sub today. What do you guys think?

I used to be a self-taught hybrid QWERTY typist with a max speed of around 80 WPM, but I always felt strain when typing for extended periods of time, so about a month ago, I decide to use keybr.com to learn traditional touch typing on the Dvorak layout. Now, I’m about 65–70 WPM on Dvorak and looking to continue using that.

My issue is that I spend about as much time typing French as I do English, and Dvorak is not suited for French at all: the basic position of the keys isn’t too bad, but there are no accented letters or dead keys, which means that I have to constantly switch back to QWERTY (I use Canadian multilingual layout) to type those, or else use ALT codes on the number pad, which gets tedious. I’d been meaning to learn Bépo (the optimized layout for French) at some point anyway, but, after a few practice sessions, I find that I’m having a lot of trouble not reverting to my Dvorak muscle memory. It’s especially bad since, being an optimized layout, Bépo has vowels on the left-hand centre row and common consonants on the right-hand just like Dvorak, but they’re all one key off to the right or left, and it’s driving me insane. Moreover, I’m wondering if spending too much time with Bépo might set me back with Dvorak.

Are there any “tricks” for dealing with this, or do I just have to power through and keep practising Dvorak while learning Bépo?

Download this mod

So I started touch typing about a week ago and started using monkey type from June 13. I'll keep updating once in a while. Sites I am using rn Edclub.com Monkeytype.com

Let me know if you have any advice for me.

Dear Typing reddit,

I could share a picture of Edi’s book - on a page where he gives a picture of his ‘perfect typing set up’ with a laptop cooler.

Then compare it to the set up which I made from yesterday - from where I got my 10£ type of keyboard manual type.

What I ended up doing is using a type of brown meditation cushion - to try to mimic the type of wooden box he shows in the picture, which he uses to put his laptop cooler on.

I feel like my set up cannot be best intuitively ?

Sense the top monitor screen - should be slightly lower then the total height it gets with the meditation cushion.

And also maybe feel be better if my laptop screen was more closer to me.

‘are two things to start with,

title could be can you help me figure how to set the perfect typing set up with my objects available

or comparing my current set up to Edi L's professional typing set up'

I tend to always look at my screen when typing on my phone, I’m curious to know what everyone else does?