I gained a lot of speed and accuracy after I fixed my "form" not just fingers. Proper form isn't just about using the right fingers for the keys, it's everything from how you sit, how you place and move your palms, elbows, shoulders, etc. I believe the most useful advice I can give is to video yourself typing. Since I'm one of those who has transformed bad typing habits into proper typing form and increased both my typing speed and accuracy in the process (from ~60wpm to ~90wpm, +95% accuracy), I can share what I gained from my experience. I'm pretty sure that in a couple of weeks I will match or even surpass my previous results, but with better accuracy. ![]() ![]() Overall, I'd say I make less typos than previously because typing just feels more consistent. Today I got 39 wpm which is close to 2/3 of my former speed, but - and this is a huge but - I haven't made a single typo. Yesterday I measured my typing speed with and got 29 wpm (abysmal). My fingers (especially the ring fingers and pinkies) are more tired than usual, but my hands and wrists feel better than usual. The most amazing thing is that my hands are barely moving while typing. At the moment I really have to be conscious about what fingers I use to press certain keys, but I'm able to type at passable speed. Well, so far so good! Today I was able to complete my tasks at work without resorting to my previous (fast but misguided) way of typing. ![]() Right now I'm working on advanced drills and after this I plan to start speed drills. During the last 3 days or so, I completed the basic course and basic drills (the application has several collections of lessons and drills of varying difficulty). I suspect it's mostly no better or worse than other apps of the same nature, I selected this one simply because it was free (and also one of the first search results in Google). I used an app called "Typist" which is available in the Mac App Store free of charge. Recently I decided to change this and finally start to touch-type properly: always using the same fingers to hit the same keys and typing without looking at the keyboard. I have never been a proper "touch-typist" meaning that I was able to type rather quickly (about 60 wpm on average) but I would use different fingers to hit the same keys and occasionally steal glances on the keyboard.
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