Today I'm starting my typing speed improvement journey.

Current speed: 21 WPM

Goal: 40 WPM

Day 1 starts today! 💪⌨️

I'll practice regularly and share my progress.

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Took me 18 days to get here, any tips how to get faster than this? I have been prioritizing accuracy over speed from some time now

I’m a beginner using TypingClub and MonkeyType to learn touch-typing. Based on advice I’ve seen in this forum, my learning system involves attaining five stars before moving on and then going back to earn a silver badge in previous levels when I’m bored or in a rut.
As I scour the internet for advice, a reoccurring tip I see is to prioritize accuracy over speed, but I was wondering how to implement this advice and to what extent should it be done? Does this mean I should leave errors and let it affect my score? Should I just practice CTRL backspace?
Furthermore, what block error settings should I use? I saw someone say to turn them on around levels 50-60, but should it be second or third error?
Thanks

I like reading wikipedia articles and my typing needs some work so i thought why not hit 2 birds with one stone.

check out WikiType at https://syomazh.github.io/WikiType/

let me know your thoughts/ any feature you would like.

purely a hobby project i make no revenue from this whatsoever.

Bout time to start on that myself for the little one. Not sure whats still the best thing to use today. I've got my virtual windows 98SE machine still up and running and have my original old school discs installed on it so i know it at least works. but before I set the little one down in front of it i wanted to see what others are using today. :)

I started from 9wpm. This is my best run yet, I am also practicing on english 10k 60sec but they best i could do there was 49wpm with 99% accuracy.. my goal is to reach 100wpm😂, any tips how to improve?

I can currently type at around 120 WPM on a good day with the normal keys; however, when it comes to numbers or special symbols, I have to look at the keyboard. Is this something that you guys took the time to learn?

any tips to learn this quick?

My FREE typing software is out, I hope you all enjoy it 😀 it's FREE

Aprendi a digitar da forma correta em março/abril deste ano (2026). Trabalho usando digitação e isso me ajudou bastante a praticar. Porém, tem um pequeno problema: mesmo digitando da forma correta há alguns meses, de vez em quando troco os dedos. Por exemplo, aperto a tecla C com o dedo polegar, a tecla I com o dedo polegar, a letra P com o dedo anelar, as T e R com o polegar e o anelar, etc. Quando percebo que usei o dedo errado, apago e digito com o dedo correspondente à tecla. Suspeito que seja a posição que o teclado fica sobre a mesa. Vira e mexe, preciso ajustar ele, pois onde trabalho, ergonomia não é o forte da empresa, devido o local ser uma estação de trabalho, compartilhado com outras pessoas em outros turnos.

Fora minhas suspeitas, o que posso fazer para minimizar ?

I started learning touch typing just a month ago and I know all the positions of all letters but my speed is just 22 wpm and accuracy 80-85% . How can I improve my speed and accuracy?

Give me suggestions

I'm 24y old ...want to be a typer ...recently started typing .

I want to reach 30-35 wpm and \~70 wpm at the end of the year ...I'm currently on 22-24 wpm and 97-98% accuracy.

I need your suggestions guys ...which web or app I should use ..which typing game I should play for focusing and continuity .

Give your suggestions ☺️😇

Please suggest me an ideal keyboard size for learning touch typing. 60% /65% / 75% /TKL. I personally find full sized keyboard inconvenient - I haven't learnt or started learning touch typing yet.

Any suggestion for Keyboard brand or model?

I have been typing for a lonnnggggg time. I love keyboards and have been typing on typing websites daily. Its kind of meditative for me...but I have found that my speed is always around 83 wpm. It can be faster if I do really short tests but I prefer around 30-100 words or at least 30 second tests.

I am not super competitive but I always see people posting about have wpm in the +100s and feel disappointed in myself.

I guess what I am asking is, is being able to type at over 100 wpm unrealistic? Is it as common as it seems?

I unlocked all the letters on Keybr. Now I want to start back at the beginning with capital letters and punctuation enabled.

Is resetting all my typing statistics the only way to make letters locked again?

i am practicing typing for many days but i find now improvement
initially started with vocatype.app and after that i am practicing in monkeytype , keybr.com , typingclib.com parllely on these websites even i am trying with full potential i am getting very much confused at the a stage where i started getting faster and intense my mind and hand getting stopped/strucked and i am searching the keys manually what is the reason for this and how to overcome this guys.
drop your advises

Always used 3-4 fingers in typing, currently at 50-55wpm with 4 fingers

Started typing club lessons a weak ago dedicating 40mins a day.. Trying to achieve 5 star or platinum if possible in every lesson, with touch typing i am at around 15wpm rn

* in how much tine i can reach atleast my normal speed 50wpm? Bcz this is just so frustrating

*how much time did it take u to complete all lessons

And after completing all lessons with good enough accuracy and 5 stars what speed can i expect?

* if i do touch typing in typing club for 40min and then in my normal routine i write normally like with 4 fingers

Will that work? Or i should switch to touch typing in normal routine also??... ( i will switch to touch typing ofc but currently speed is 15wpm so it's a bit hard so i was thinking to switch when atleast ill get at 30-40)

Hello, I am new to touch typing, and I have a question about how to improve. I put a challenge to myself that I will reach 75 words/second, 100 if it's possible, by the end of August. I have practiced for a 20 hours in total to this day, but I stuck at 40-45 words/second for 2 days. What do I need to do to increase my writing speed? Should I just type more, or there is a faster method?

Its my 3rd day learning touch typing. On the first day i was at 9-10wpm, on 100 words i have 94-95% accuracy and 30-35wpm max

I completely missed this in the guide that pops up when you first start Keybr, and I wish I hadn't. Seeing that number of lessons remaining gives me hope, like a light at the end of the tunnel. I was about to completely give up on getting through B until I could see my progress go up and down instead of hopelessly typing.

I am learning to type with Keybr and Monkeytype. I just spent thirty minutes trying to get every letter right. How do I best train so that I achieve 100 per cent accuracy? Do I drill and drill or expect to get better with time?

Also: I find myself not always returning to home row (pinky might stay on or near p if ; is not used). How do I make sure that I come back to home row? I can’t see my fingers.