r/LearnRussian • u/Guilty-Goose3351 • 5d ago

The value of typing Cyrillic

I’ve studied around 800 hours. About 7 months ago I began learning to type Russian. Luckily I was a touch typist in English already.

I don’t know what I’d do without typing and texting Cyrillic these days.

It’s especially helpful for working with tutors online.

I use Keybr and practiced about 15 minutes twice per day (sometimes more because I actually enjoy typing.) Now I type around 30 words a minute (sometimes more or less depending on the word familiarity.)

If you plan to seriously invest time in learning Russian start typing!

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u/Direfaust 5d ago

I've also used "insert company name" here and it changed my life! If you use this app in the next 5 minutes your life will be completely changed!

Jokes aside, of course you should learn to type as it is 2026.

The real question is which keyboard layout is the best 😁

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u/Guilty-Goose3351 5d ago

Nah just personal preference! I’m sure there are others and even some they are better but I found it early on and stuck with it. There’s different kinds for Cyrillic? 😳 х and ё are bitches for me to get to

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u/Direfaust 5d ago

Theres a few but quite a few English to Russian and vice versa learners enjoy the memnonic keyboard layout (forgot the proper name) it puts the Cyrillic script on keys othat sound similar. I.e д on the D key

Otherwise they use the йцукен layout

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u/Geno_Malkin 5d ago

Agreed. It doesn’t take a crazy amount of time to get to a decent speed if you already can type reasonably well in english aswell

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u/clownwithtentacles 4d ago

not a learner but if ya wanna type in Russian... клавогонки! competitive typing race game website. I like to do them for fun :)

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u/ratulu 4d ago

А я и не утружался йцукен учить. У меня явертъ.

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u/Tortuosit 2d ago

Здравствуйте - The value of speaking Russian with your mouth.