I write using all my fingers, but I’ve never managed to attain full mastery, for example I never use the correct fingers to type numbers in the top row, or I struggle with special characters. Sure, the letters row I am comfortable (although I could be a bit better, I’m at 76wmp 96% accuracy) but the rest I’d love to be able to master them.
I searched a bit and found about Keybr, which seems really cool and it’s open source. Of course MonkeyType, although that looks a better tool once you’ve already feel more comfortable and not to actually learn, and it’s also open source. And then TypingClub, which has a nice tree that teaches you everything in order. What do you think it’s the best approach? Maybe first do the TypingClub lessons, then practice every once in a while with either Keybr or MonkeyType?
I used this when I was a kid; I loved the penguin game!
Give me a keyboard that shocks me if I use the wrong finger to type a letter.
I used to use typing.com, but for the last two layouts I learned, just keybr. It adds keys slowly, and makes sure you “level up” to more keys in a uniform way.
Personally, I like to gamify learning new skills.
Typing of the Dead is a great game to help you with accuracy. Typing games are a genre as well, and I believe theres a free Warhammer 40K typing game you can get on steam. Really improves the dopamine of getting good typing skills
Check out typecelerate.com. It will help identify letters, bigrams, and trigrams that you mess up or slow you down, then focuses your practice on them. Lots of settings to tweak, so adding symbols and numbers is easy to do.
Trying to keep up on AOL instant messenger back in 1999 is what worked best for me.
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StarCraft: Brood War.
Not even kidding. Gotta get that APM up somehow.
And you gotta be even quicker if you wanna throw in some BM.
Get really into an MMO
