It's fair to say that what we are going to tell you next has nothing to do with what they will tell you in the professional world, but rather some advice from years of practice. And you can't expect to read this article and in a short time write 180 words per minute – the speed of professional staff – but yes greatly improve writing speed, especially for those users who write very little.
How to quickly type on the keyboard
What can you expect to find after these tips? The goal is to write fast, no matter how much. A person who writes very slowly (20-30 words per minute) can increase that speed to 80 PPM, and someone who is already writing fast (80 PPM) can improve to easily exceed 100 PPM.
That said, let's go there.
Keyboard type is important to type quickly
We have often put this to you. keyboard type has a huge impact on speed during typing. A mechanical keyboard with a Cherry MX Red switch works precisely by moving to a larger key than, for example, a keyboard with a scissor or butterfly switch. This means that each production machine will cost us a lot (which accumulates when we make thousands of presses) and the buttons take a long time to go up and down so we can replicate them.
If you want to have good typing speed, keyboards with a scarf, butterfly, or Cherry MX Speed Low light switch are the best. This doesn't mean you can type right away on a standard machine keyboard, but it wouldn't be too high.
Carefully place your hands and wrists
In any type of typing they will tell you they should place your hands so that each finger of each hand presses only certain buttons directly
This is great, but without thinking of doing so it's hard to accomplish; Finally, we keep typing on the index and middle fingers of both hands, with the thumb of the space line, the pinky right of ENTER and the pinky of the left SHIFT, ALT and CTRL of the left keyboard area, not using the finger ring at all. This type of typing is incorrect but not bad.
What we want to highlight in this section is hands-off. Having our hands straight on our position, and ultimately keeping it in touch. Look at the next picture.
The picture on the left top is good, but not impossible since the shoulders, from where the arms start, are not 10 cm apart, so we will eventually have our hands in contact. And that's okay, all you have to do is avoid the change of your wrists as this will cause fatigue and even pain. For this, it is very important to be rests with dolls, which will help us to not turn the stitches (pictured directly below), and in terms of this position we move into the next section.
Position in the chair is important
For proper positioning, the chair is very important. It's good to have resting arms to be able to have its handles, on it and on the table, so that the arms are straight. Combined with the above will reduce fatigue and pain when typing, and reduce fatigue will improve our speed by typing at the same time. It is also good to have the right position for the same reason.
At this point, we find that we reduce fatigue when typing, which will allow us to not only type faster but to keep longer, as well as to avoid pain and problems such as carpal tunnel syndrome.
This practice makes the teacher … do it
Practice, practice, and practice. As we mentioned earlier, you can't pretend to type quickly without practice, but the important thing is that your hands are always in the same place, that you're comfortable, and that you have access to all the buttons without moving your hands, only fingers. type without looking at the keyboard, and apparently this is only achieved by practice.
A great way to do it with a 10FastFinger online test, this is free and you can do as many tests as you want to measure your speed in writing.
If you reach 100 words per minute, it is a very good mark and means that you write faster than most PC users (the above test is 122 PPM which we have done right now, without having to do a study but with many years of experience). Over 140 PPM is possible, but usually only after years of practice and typing lessons. In any case, do it!
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