9 Tips For Increasing Your Typing Speed
Written by Pradeep Kumar in Tips and tricks - Print This Post
Increasing your typing speed is one of the best practices for Time Management. It will help you to become more productive and you can save hell lot of time. I picked up 9 simple tips to increase and improve your typing speed.
Recently I can to know about this report from a blog, “If a computer user double his typing speed, he is saving 300 hours in one year!” Amazing! Isn’t it?
#1 Position : Choose a comfortable chair and sit straight. Place your fingers correctly on the keyboard. Type using the pads of your fingers, don’t use finger tips or nails. The Keyboard should be at waist level approximately.
#2 Placement : Use both your hands for typing. You can check this visual tutorial for understanding placement of your fingers on the appropriate keys easily. Use the thumb for Space Bar. It is better to memorize the location of the keys.
#3 Avoid Seeing : Yes, you should not see the keyboard while you type. You should have military level of discipline. Look at the screen or the source paper. After you are familiar with the finger placements you can try this. While riding bicycle, what will you see? The road or the pedals? 
#4 Use Emoticons : Emoticons are nothing but textual expressions representing the face of a writer’s mood or facial expression. You can find them in many portals including social networks, forums, IM, blog comments and so on. Emoticons usually have symbols. By using them often you can be familiar with symbols location in keyboard and you can type it without seeing soon.
#5 Type Along : Try to type what you hear, like news reports, songs, two people talking around, so on. It will help you to become more familiar with various words.
#6 Avoid Typos : While practicing don’t spend time on fixing your typos. Instead carry on typing. Because you are just training your hands and concentrating on typing faster.
#7 Get Addicted : I improved my typing speed by using TypeRacer. It is a multiplayer typing game where you race others by typing quotes from popular books, movies, and songs. You can also find TypeRacer applications in Orkut and Facebook.
#8 Softwares : You can purchase a typing lesson software or try the free ones available online. But make sure that program is capable of measuring your typing speed. You can also try free Flash typing games.
#9 Practice : Last but not least, nothing can be done without practicing. Practice as much as possible. Do it regularly with extreme patience. But don’t practice if your fingers become tired. Leave some gap.
Why don’t you practice right now by commenting here? 
My typing speed is good but i can’t avoid seeing the keyboard.
And I make typos again and again if I star my eyes away other than monitor.
me too same buddy
LoL same here. I just type with a good speed but not looking at the monitor but the keyboard…
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Number 5 is much more important than all of those. When you’re familiar with a word, you can type it without even knowing what letters you’re typing. For example, how speedy you type your name or email address or other login credentials that you type everyday?
Nice post. Thanks for the other points too.
Glad you liked these tips Sajib..
Yeah.. right now.. I’m trying the tip 5.. helping me a lot!
Most of the time I am able to type without looking at the keyboard but still I can’t say that my typing speed is good… its ‘ok’
I am not at all comfortable with the numpad..
btw, nice tips Pradeep.
PS: What about ur exams ? r they already on ?
I’ve been typing without looking at the key board now, and even though I have speed, a lot of mistakes are coming in it.
I just get stuck up when I have to use a backspace or some special keys…
Then I have to set my hands again on ‘asdf’ and ‘jkl;’
Yup.. my hands are glued to those keys!
Hmm.. yeah.. we have to avoid it .. spelling errors, grammatical errors.. so on.. but takes time to be comfortable with English..
Hmm… practice without seeing the keyboard when you are free bro..
Examz!
Still going on.. Monday is the last exams.. 
Thanks Pradeep
Well usually for a blogger you need to just type and type whatever you feel and obviously without looking at the keyboard
A Blogger usually improves his typing speed when he/she writes more and more posts of different topics
For eg: I have just started writing posts and also i have signed into my wp dashboard several times , so now whenever i try to login i type my user name and password without looking the keyboard.
Nice Sunny Bhasin..
Agree with your tips and suggestions.. kudos..
Nice one Pradeep
Thanks Qasim.. glad you liked it!
Good points there.
Typing improves with practice. During my 10 years of affair with computers I learned this simple fact:
Don`t look at the keyboard while you type, and try to be accurate without “backspace”.
Hope all those beginners find it useful.
And my Dad can type faster than most bloggers coz he had been following this since last 4 years
Cool Taranfix… I also try my best not to use “Backspace” try.. but my bad luck !
Hmm..nice.. kudos to your Dad.. experience really rocks!
I can type fast only at home, only on my own keyboard
Yeah.. buddy.. many people feel comfortable with their own keyboards…
But.. you can manage yourself to type better after some time in new keyboards..
i suggest to blog blog n blog to increase typing speed..
Exactly Rajesh.. blog to the core.. and you will see the magic.. your hands will type without your brain’s control!
Typeracer is pretty interesting man! But I am quite fast at typing..But I tend to do small errors every time.
Yup.. I’m a typeracer addict.. in Orkut.. but now.. no time for it..
I can understand Pradeep!
Best of luck for your Exams. Even my Viva’s are going on, so even I need to study.
All the best for you too..
even in my case i look at keyboard and type . my is good enough for me . i wrote more than 900 posts in that way. may be it depends on the way we pratice.
Hmmm.. Vishnu.. next time..try writing articles without seeing the keyboard.. then you may see the magic ..
You have covered some really nice point over here. I think consistency is the key. Practice daily and always keep in mind that you have to increase your typing sped, will definitely help in doing that. Spend more n more time on computer, you will see the change.
So one should also focus on avoiding typos.
But it is always better to type correct rather than fast.
Glad you liked these tips Sanjeev.. yeah.. consistent practice is the key!
My little above average typing speed helped me a lot during my exmaz!
typing content and commenting on other blogs daily will increase the speed of the typer
Exactly mate.. for bloggers and programmers .. it is quite easy to increase their speed!
hey pradeeep you covered good point here,My typing speed is not so good i am trying to improve it and it work also.
Cool buddy… typing speed increases with practice.. and for bloggers.. blog to the core… then speed automatically increases!
good one, #5.6,7 is important , i tried typad software(offline), and by chair decrease the height due to my weight
, i have to but a new one 
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i think i missed many post here, sorry, so busy with works in center
Ha ha..
Fine mate.. you are always welcome
Hmm.. I’ll try typad.. and see how it helps ..thanks for sharing that..
You covered all points, great article. But frankly speaking , I improved my typing speed just by chatting .
Ha ha.. same here Ruchi.. IMs .. Orkut.. they triggered me to increase my typing speed..
very much needed
thanx for sharing
Glad it helped you Qasim!
Position is important. I’ll get a better position before typing =)
Yeah..exactly.. my hands will be glued to those keys..
I can type fast and without looking on the keyboard when what I am typing in a hurry. But I don’t think I can use those emoticons, I’m not that fast. Though hubby was impressed how fast I typed when we used to chat before.
I’m really addicted to emoticons..
You can see my comments..
me to
, 
, 
, i like emotions in blog comments.
Nice Thumbnail Ganesh
Emoticons is the best way to express yourself in the least possible words…
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Those are great tips, I remember the first set of typing I was asked to practice was, QWERT POIUY
Ha ha.. nice Amar..
I like the tips, but I have a hard time unlearning a mistake, even with practice. I had the same problem with piano lessons as a kid. Once I learned a wrong note it was like it got hard-wired in my mind. Oh well. The hunt and peck method gets me where I want to go.
Exactly Jeff.. it is quite hard to correct the mistakes.. but by consistent practice and efforts.. you can do that asap!
my typing speed is already great, and i have done a typing course too in the past, a long time back. but my computer typing is different from the regular type writer but a little slower, i used to type fast on the type writer. so, sometimes when am in a hurry the type writer skills over shadow my feather touch computer typing skills and i kind of put the hands over the keyboard like the type writer and start typing even faster…
loads of good points in the article, and the best one is ofcouse practice, nothing can improve without practice, i had typed for hours in the past on a consistent basis, good typing speed helps a lot really,
That’s great Uttoran..
Yes, typing in keyboard is quite different from Typewriters…
And like you said, practice is the golden key..cheers!
Some great tips thanks – for those who work on their computers a lot, a better typing speed is definitely in order to help not get behind in work – makes a big difference. I was looking for some free online games for my sons recently, and came across two fun typing speed test games – and tried them out – it’s obviously been a long time since I did old-fashioned typing on a typewriter at school, and I didn’t do too well, but after just the third or fourth try, there was already an improvement!
Welcome to HB, Teresa!
I was also searching for some online games.. for improving my typing speed further more… and I stumbled upon TypeRacer.. I was an extreme addict.. but now quited it.. because of blogging..
I learned how to type in High School on a typewriter, I can type 95 WPM on QWERTY keyboard and over 130 WPM on a DVORAK style keyboard (used to anyway). I recommend getting kids into touch typing early, using games like “TyperShark” can be really helpful, there are so many free typing websites out there with typing games for kids that are completely free, just google “free typing games” and you can pick the lot of them.
Typing saves you time which = money.
Yes, I also recommend.. practicing and being familiar with keyboard in young age..will help a lot.. we can remember the keys placement till kicking the bucket!
hi,
thanks for this wonderful and useful tips of increasing the typing speed.
my typing speed is also not so fast so i will definitely follow your tips and see how it will help me.
i will follow all the tips and also want the quick result.
hello,
thanks for tips.
i will follow all the tips to increase my typing speed.
Cool. TO say exactly I don't know type writing even before a year but I simply used to learn the basic things from the software. Then with my job and after I have started blogging, I have started to spend whole day with computers. That made me to learn it and I can now type with atleast 75 p.c correctness.
That’s great mate… I have to check ma typing speed again!
You said don’t see the keyboard but I don’t see the screen while typing
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
great tip thanks. I have some skill you give above:)
I never type emoticons i always click them by mouse so i get problem in typing symbols. i will try to type emoticons rather than to click them as u suggested. good idea.
its easy to say but hard to do!
You covered all points, great articl
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Well i keep on praticing!
wow! nice article buddy
I like the virtual tutor very much…
and also i like the last twist from you ..ha ha
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It was pretty neat that for my first job, I was a transcriptionist. It made me type faster, and it allowed me to practice typing without having the need to look into my keyboard. It definitely makes typing easier and faster!
helpful in improving my speed of typing &adding skill in my hand.
hi..just i tried a trick5,its really helpull trick !
Great typing tips to improve typing speed. Thanks and keep updating good posts
Awesome tips bro
After Participating in so many forums, blogs and other websites I have increased my typing speed. Now, after 1 year of continuous practice I can type without looking to the keyboard
wow…nice info…
my friends would surely like this…..
From my personal experience the best way to increase typing speed is practice. The more you type the more speed you will get. The placement of fingers should also be take be taken care of. And soon your fingers will learn to remember the keys and you will be able to type faster.
Wow. I can type faster now!
Great tips, Pradeep. I tried typeraces, my speed is not above 40 wpm. But I won all the 3 races I had
Learning to type is actually an easy process. I dont think it is actually something complicated. I learned within 2 days time. I then practiced it using the games provided.
Hi
i can type fast but sometimes getting wrong words in typing. do you have any suggestion to correct this problem.
You can also use TypingMaster software to increase your typing speed, it have many great features and also have some games which going to help in typing speed + enjoyment
.. Best software I ever found.. And Thanks for the tips..
Nice article hope i too could improve my typing speed soon.. I especially love the type faster site..its quite interesting
Nice tips…I cannot type without seeing the keyboard, and I make a lot of mistakes too.
And I read somewhere that gaming helps improve typing speed. It has’nt helped me till now.
what do you think?
effective tips.
Another classical tip is to look at the words that you are making the most spelling mistakes with.
sounds stupid,.
But with me it's words like, Impossible, goodbye, And all long complicated words that just had awkward finger placement.
here's a simple tip that will take you a little further, i find that most of my mistakes lie in correcting long words, but the small simple words are just fly by.
everytime i get stuck with a word i get up notepad and type that word over and over and over until i can type it with my eyes closed.
then eventually just like your login password (which you type everyday) you can type it in without making a single mistake. ever.
Imagine every single word being like your password
Being able to type it in just as fast and efficiently,. Another method is to of course pace yourself.
Never type at the speed you can.
Always try and go a step slower. By doing this your accuracy will increase with the keys,
And you will be hitting them dead on more often rather than accidently hitting two keys at then same time.
(Don't you just hate that) :')
And of course the third and most important one.
Don't type what you know that you're going to type.
When you type what you're thinking.
it's so so so much easier. Thats why you can type so much faster on MSN rather than typing up a letter. It throws you and you think that something is wrong. The real reason is that your mind is processing more than one concious thought. So effectively you're doing two things at once.
You need to make typing so easy that you don't even need to think about it. So the best practise is to type up letters and memo's. And make sure that you're copying them
Of course this might not be effective to you, we all have different methods.
I am just sharing some of my own methods that have helped me alot with my typing speed.
point number 1,2,3 is more important, i think this can improve my typing speed, thanks for sharing the tips.
Hello…..Difficult to Type Wthot Seeing Keyboard……;-) But Still trying….