Ask HN: Best way to increase typing speed? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Best way to increase typing speed?

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Post by rockzom » Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 8:33 PM UTC

tuxracer wrote: post #70

Play a game where typing is required to communicate. Never took any formal typing courses just started playing a lot of EverQuest back in the day. There wasn't voice chat at the time and the gameplay requires a lot of quick communication with your team. Can easily touch type 100+ wpm (according to typeracer.com) now. It's very motivating to be able to type well when you must to communicate and you have something you…

This should be the top post.

IMO, voice chat ubiquity and smartphones has made zoomers crappy typists, compared to millennials.

Re: Ask HN: Best way to increase typing speed?

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Post by dimovich » Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 10:27 PM UTC

I learned using this program: https://solo.nabiraem.ru/en/

Re: Ask HN: Best way to increase typing speed?

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Post by harwareboot » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 1:14 AM UTC

For me this really helped my typing speed. Like more then doubled. https://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/

It's a cli but once you get into it it's really a great experience. It will take you all the way from where to put your fingers onto typing so fast your like someone out of Hackers

Re: Ask HN: Best way to increase typing speed?

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Post by decasteve » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 9:11 AM UTC

dasKrokodil wrote: post #83

mh-cx wrote: post #54

I can only tell how we were taught 10 finger typing, some 30 years ago: Don't aim for speed! Aim for typing without errors and - more importantly - a constant rhythm. Music helps. Start extremely slow and spell out each word letter by letter in your mind. You should find many exercises out there for how to get started with all fingers. But the key is really to slow things down. It's very much like learning an instrum…

I agree with the part about aiming for accuracy instead of speed. But I disagree with the constant rhythm thing. Maintaining a constant rhythm will slow you down, as there are always words or letter combinations which are slower to type. Thus, if you strive to maintain a constant rhythm, you have to adjust your rhythm to the slower parts, which means it will slow you down for the faster parts.

Being more rhythmic will help if you frequently interchagne letter combinations that are faster to type. Or if you type on a typewriter it helps prevent jamming the typebars together.

Re: Ask HN: Best way to increase typing speed?

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Post by cuddlybacon » Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 11:58 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #47

cuddlybacon wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eventually you do learn where they all are. That did take noticeably longer than anything else.

Did you get faster than before in the end?

Probably. I've never measured them specifically. But since I can 'just' type them without looking or frequent mistakes, I'm probably faster since I never have to stop and look.