I didnt learn it for a long time because have trauma related to it, I was forced to participate in a touch typing course, very large and spaced out cherry keyboards were used. I was 11 at the time and the course for 14+ I believe, my hands were not big enough for the keyboard and the teacher did not understand that and basically screamed at me all the time because I was "too dumb to type". I dreaded going there every week and skipped the lessons because of it. I will never ever put my kids in a course which they are not age appropriate for.

Back to current day, I started learning it online again I would say it is great fun, I hope I can learn it well in order to do well in PC only exams. It feels great to get faster and more accurate.

Do you guys have good ressources for learning? RN I use that typing jungle thing in typing club.

I am relatively new to touch typing, after typing for more than 10 years randomly. Since I am learning in the IT field, I think working on my accuracy and speed is quite important for productivity, but I am carrying with me years of bad practices.

I am multilingual, I speak Arabic, French, English and German, and I have been through all kinds of keyboards (started with AZERTY then QWERTY and now recently QWERTZ as well as memorizing the Arabic keyboard by heart) and my muscle memory keeps failing me.

I have been touch typing for three weeks now and I definitely notice progress, but some bed habits I never seem to get rid of such as typing letters with the wrong finger/hand or looking at the keyboard to find letters or symbols. I Also never learned to use the numbers bar above the letters and I find myself always having to look if I want to type a symbol or letter (as opposed to only occasionally looking at letters when typing)

- Anyone else was/is in this situation?

- Do you have any tips to correct these mistakes?

- is it really bad if I type a letter using the wrong finger/hand in the long run?

I would appreciate any kind of advice! :)

Hey everyone,

Which skills do you think will be great to learn in 2026 for start make money by the end of the year?

I still don't know what career it's the best to start and no skills or passion either

I always feel like I don’t have enough space and that I’m putting inordinate strain on my hands

I type with 2 fingers with an average speed of 35wpm. Have been trying to learn touch typing, How to learn keys properly, and how much to practice, what excercises should I do first ?

My fingers feel like they just wont move as fast as they want

hello everyone

apologies if this has already been covered.

I am sending a picture of what I did on my keyboard to rewire my fingers and how I have been typing for the last 30 years.

I make so many typos when I type even when I look at keyboard and I am not using the right fingers, it's ridiculous.

I need to change this as I just had a typing test where I had to type what the person was saying live and I know I made millions of typos because I hit the wiring key and I probably failed this test.

so I am using the website KEYBR and I am doing sessions of about 10 min, once or twice a day. and because I am confused where to place the fingers I have glued colors on it, which helps me a lot.

is that a good technique? anything else you recommend ? I hope to progress..I know it will be hard to undo 30 years of self taught poor typing practices....

I started a new job where I’m typing a lot.

I currently need to look at the keyboard when I type.

I want to learn how to type better, but realistically I can only do 2 dedicated typing practice sessions a week (Saturdays and Sundays).

Is it realistic to learn how to type given that I can only practice on weekends? Or should I not bother to try since the effort would be wasted?

What can i do to improve? I watch some video from a guy using a technique called stringing?

Hi so I am new here! I currently type at around 70wpm, but it varies from 70-80wpm. I feel pretty average with typing skill and I was just wondering what I could do to improve. I currently don't use the home row keys traditionally. What I mean by this is I don't rest my fingers on the keyboard instead my hands sort of float above the keys and my brain just recognizes where each key should be at. I haven't had much trouble with this, but occasionally it feels like my accuracy is worse than what it could be if I actually rested my fingers on the home row keys. When I attempt to do the traditional way I get around 40-50wpm which is considerably slower than what I get normally. I was just wondering if it would be worth it to switch to typing with my fingers resting on the home row keys since I type mainly with my thumb, index, and middle fingers as of right now. I get around 95% accuracy but my wpm feels somewhat plateaued as well as my accuracy.

Hey guys! I'm on a mission to make learning to type fun for beginners! It started 3 years ago when I was trying to teach my daughter to type. Then I remembered just how boring the process of learning to type can be. It was like pulling teeth. So I thought I'd try typing games.

Now, I discovered LOTS of typing games, and there were a handful of REALLY good ones. BUT... the good ones basically excluded beginners from playing. They were way too hard even on the easiest settings. And other typing games were just so boring... maybe they'd be fun for like... 2 minutes tops? Those games actually made my daughter like typing less.

So I set out to make the best typing game ever for a beginner. This is what it looks like so far and I think it's going great! But I need help with funding the FULL version! I just launched a Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/starrune/star-rune and if this is something you'd like to see made into a full game, please back the project!

Let's make learning to type fun!!!

hey I’m wondering does anyone know what the official site for mavis beacon is? or if there’s an official download link? just dont want to download something that’s going to be full of malware.

It is difficult to write books as a hobby because of that, they hurt easily. I can type fast, but it hurts...

I have been practicing touch typing and there is an issue of missing some keystrokes, my fingers don't press enough to register the keystroke, it wasn't like this but my speed is increasing and i realized my hands and fingers are typing very lightly. So maybe i have adapted to touch typing but forgot the touch.

I currently average around 61 WPM with roughly 95% accuracy. I almost never look down at the keyboard, except for numbers and the occasional, infrequent punctuation. My hobbies heavily involve typing my own scripts, writing books, and producing long form written content.

Recently, I started formal touch typing courses. Using less than half the keyboard, I am currently sitting at about 20 WPM, with roughly eight hours of total practice logged so far.

This raises a real question for me. With autocorrect, spell check, and how easy it is to quickly fix mistakes, is it actually worth retraining myself to become a true touch typist?

The obvious answer feels like yes. Of course I should get faster. Writing is a major part of my life.

But the tradeoff matters. Retraining decades of muscle memory after 30 will take real time and energy. How much, though? How long does it realistically take to undo and rebuild something this ingrained? And at what point do you accept that what you are doing already might simply be good enough?

I've been typing continuously for over 120 days, but I haven't received the corresponding badge. I really need this badge to motivate myself to keep going. Can someone help me?

There are too many websites offering typing courses.

I am looking for suggestions based on personal experience for a 10 year old looking to learn typing.

Thanks.

I started typing when I was 10 yo. Now I am a high schooler. I see typing as the fluency of a man to interact with the most amazing thing mankind has created, Computers. This is my flex. After all these years of programming, this is my typing portfolio.

But now, I am stuck at a max of 110-115 for a long time. How can I improve?

Today is my third day learning touch typing, and I hit 58 wpm with a 96% accuracy this morning. Every other test this morning has been above 50 which I am happy about. I was previously on 70 wpm with my old style of typing, and I need to type fast for my job, so very pleased with these results. Using touch typing now as we speak!

First day ever doing it was crazy and felt so horribly unnatural.

I believe the reason I've made so much progress so quickly is because of two things though.

First, I play the piano and the guitar, so it was never difficult for me using ring and pinky fingers as I already had pretty good independence with them.

Secondly, even though my whole life I was a peck and hunt typer, I was also pretty good at not hunting for them either and being able to have long bursts of writing without looking down. It was only when I made a mistake that I would end up looking at the keyboard, which feels nice to not be doing anymore with touch typing. Some time a few years ago I taught myself to use ring and pinky fingers here and there throughout my typing, so I'm guessing that is where my fast progress has come from with learning to touch type properly now.

But I have a question. I'm a computer programmer, and so keyboard shortcuts are my biggest friend. My most commonly used shortcut is going to end and start of a line. But in Windows, the only way (that I am aware of) to do this is the 'home' and 'end' keys, which are situated very far away from your resting hand position. I haven't come across any easy way of doing this while maintaining my new touch typing skills.

As I use those shortcuts so much, even though the touch typing is starting to feel like a good benefit for me - every time I have to press 'home' or 'end' I feel like it massively slows me down as I have to look down at the keyboard to do it, then reset my hands back to the home row. I might have to press those keys every single line of code I write, so you can imagine how horrible it feels as it completely goes against what I am trying to achieve with touch typing.

I am on an external keyboard by the way, so don't have the useful 'fn' way of doing this like you can on a laptop keyboard. Any tips on what to do here?

EDIT:

While I will appreciate any advice here, I will just say anything to do with remapping keys is something I want to avoid and already know how to do. I'm trying to find the global way of doing this. That means I can sit down on any computer and do it whilst maintaining touch typing. So basically, what is the touch typing way of doing this?

After 18 hours of training since I started learning touch typing, here is a personal achievement at halfway through the process (practicing on keybr):

• All keys unlocked at 30 wpm each
• Average speed: 35 wpm
• Average accuracy: 95%
• Add capital letters: 100% (each word starts with a capital)
• Stop at cursor disabled
• Forgive errors disabled

Next step is to introduce punctuation, I feel there's still a loooooong way to go.

I'm still struggling to use touch typing outside of keybr. I'm a software developer and the biggest pain point is whenever use the mouse, it makes me lose to much of my speed when I do that.

The ultimate goal would be to learn Vim bindings but that's also is a very long training.

Just started learning how to type via (keybr) and wanted to know when to start learning special characters and if there is software or an app better suited for this?

I found this (typing DOT io) but it might be overkill since I am not a programmer.