Do you want to type fast? 5 actionable practical tips
Become at least twice as productive by improve your typing speed.
You want to type fast??? Then I’m going to share u about the benefits of improving your typing speed. And then I’m going to go over 5 actionable practical tips on how you can personally improve your typing speed, so that you can boost your productivity in MEDIUM and anywhere else.
Now, having a fast typing speed is one of my superpowers in life. And I think anyone can become at least twice as productive if you just improve your typing speed. In case you’re wondering, I hit around 100 words per minute on a good day. For context, the average typing speed is around 45 words per minute.
Benefits of improving your typing speed.
- Everything in life is based on a computer these days.
If you can increase the speed at which you interact with a computer, if you can get the computer to respond to you kind of as close to you thinking that thing as possible, then you’re just like so much more productive in front of a computer. It’s not just for typing heavy things like typing essays and whatever you do for work. It’s also just in general in terms of interacting with the web browser and going on websites and sending messages to friends, all of that stuff becomes quicker and therefore we become more productive when we can type faster.
2. The faster your type, The more creative u get.
When you’re writing something, like whether it’s a first draft for a blog post or a project or an essay. The first draft should always be just kind of a brain dump.
3. The most important one is that it just really impresses people.
Like when people see me typing the single biggest compliment I’ve ever gotten is that, wow, you type really fast and everyone is always so impressed, like, oh my God, where did you learn to type? I think just being able to type super fast makes such a big difference to everything And hopefully one day will help me attract a mate.
Let’s now go over 5 ways, 5 practical, actionable ways that you can improve your typing speed.
- Discovering a website called tentfastfingers.com and semi regularly doing typing tests on here. Do one of these typing speed tests. And just over time, my typing speed is just improved exponentially or no exponentially.
- Move away from using the mouse to using the keyboard. So on Mac, the app that I like to use for this is Alfred, which is sort of a replacement to spotlight. I like never ever look at my doc to open up apps. Instead, if I want to open an app, I’ll use Alfred command spacebar and I’ll just type in the app. So if I want a Safari, if I want Spotify, I’ll just go command spacebar spot enter.
- As you’re improving your typing speed, you basically never ever want to look at the keyboard. I know it’s very tempting to look at the keyboard initially, but like even if you’re really slow, I think the way to train the muscle is by going slower but not looking at the keyboard unless, for example, you make a mistake.
- Always return Your fingers to the resting position of A S D F J K L semicolon. And this is very easy to do because on most keyboard, basically all keyboards, the F and the J keys are going to have these little bits on them. It’s kind of like when you’re playing a piano, you want to return to the rest position.
- Use your left pinky more often because with the ASTF method, what you’re supposed to do is you’re supposed to use your pinky to hit the A key, the Q key, the one, two and shift.
And so yeah, I would just encourage you to treat it like a game, treat it like a constant thingy of improvement, and then you too will type like a productivity grease monkey.
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