How do people type so fast?

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So many people tried to get me to type faster but i mostly type differently than everyone else does, specifically with just my left hand. I can type at about an average speed, but not nearly the crazy fast speed some people can do.

Musician, I would recommend that you learn to touch type the conventional way.

I learned to type in the Navy on typewriters with nothing on the keys, so we had to learn to type by touch. If you want to learn to type quickly, this is the best way.

I used to type fast.... Until I took an arrow to the knee.
Ok, I have that off of my chest.
Really, I used to.
But in 2009 I got this gaming keyboard.
And I used it as my primary.
It killed my typing skills completely, never been the same scince.

An alternative method to classical touch-typing is to teach yourself so-called 'finger macros' for common letter combinations. Stuff like 'in', 'wh', 'qu', 'to', and from there on go with longer sequences.

I learned to type on an actual typewriter back in high school. As a musician you will be familiar with the terms cadence and rhythm. Start with a slow and steady rhythm at first. As your skills increase add an extra beat to the usually paired up letters and also the short words like (it, is,and, the, but) also the prefix and suffix's that are common (ion, ary, ily, ess, ing)

our warm up "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country" I must of typed that a couple thousand times.

try to stay on your base but in a comfortabe position, (asdf,jkl;)
and for the life of me I still have difficulty with Q and Z, my pinkie fingers are numb.

and most importantly practice alot.

There's a reason why "everybody" types with two hands & does it a certain specific way -- it works. QWERTY has been around for more than 100 years, and nobody has yet found a method that's faster for typing on it. For me, the keyboard is just an extension of my mind. I type up to ~130wpm (conversationally; more like 80-100wpm for things like Java), and can honestly say that I give it no conscious thought. I start typing my thoughts, and it "just works".

A good keyboard makes a huge difference. I won't (voluntarily) use anything besides a buckling-spring IBM "model M", and can *barely* tolerate a Thinkpad keyboard on my laptop. I've owned exactly one non-Thinkpad laptop, and I was *miserable* with it. On a typical mushy laptop/netbook keyboard, I'm lucky to break 50-60wpm.

Try to find some software that teaches typing. I learned in grade 6 using some software called All The Right Type. It seemed to work pretty well. My problem now is that I type so fast that I tend to reverse letters a lot. It looks as though I'm dyslexic.

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I tried to learn to type in high school, but they used typewriters and the noise made it impossible for me to function.

My parents gave me a typewriter when I went off to college, and one year I became determined to learn to type. I typed the text of random books and never got that good at it.

Using a computer keyboard is so very much easier because it makes so little noise. I used various free typing tutor programs I found online and finally learned to touch type. I used free typing tests online to improve my speed and accuracy. I can type 55 words a minute--not incredibly fast, but pretty good for someone who made a D in typing class in High School.

Mostly through touch-typing and working out the different patterns on the keyboard. Otherwise, typing by looking at the keys takes forever and is to be avoided. Why touch-type when you can look at the screen instead to see if you get the right keys?

Typically, they type a lot, have done so for a long period of time, and feel they need to type what they are thinking quickly.

i peck the keys, and i have since forever. i couldn't memorize the whole keyboard, heck when one of my games my consoles tells me hit X i often forget which button is X on the ps2 controller. i refer to all my buttons by what action they perform.

so if a game tells me to block or crouch i can remember that more easily. how i play my games is nothing but amazing to me...

infamous 1 and 2 are a good example of how little i know my psx controller, i can go through a fight in that game jumping buildings and using random combos of abilities nearly effortlessly. as soon as the game tells me to press a certain key i get screwed because i can't remember where that key is. i kept getting screwed over by sasha in the first one for that reason.

if anything due to repetition i memorized the qte for her fight.

but i have a hard time remembering a controller with about 6 buttons, i'm screwed with the keyboard's 100+ or whatever.

but i'm happy with what i can do. i more or less care if i spell a word right then about speed. i wrote out a 44 chapter story pecking the keys, so i think i'm doing pretty good.

that's the only complete story though i have written way more then just that.

my mom doesn't get how i can type so much and do it all hitting one key at a time the whole time. and this was also written pecking, i have time to burn so i don't need nor desire to rush.

I tried lots of touchtyping course programs and stuff when I was little, but it was all useless. The best way to learn to touchtype, and do so quickly, is simply to practice.

I have been using KTouch, part of the Kdeedu learning package for linux, to learn touch-typing. After about three months of use, my typing speed is reaching 120 wpm.

I'm not impressed by speed with typing. Good well thought out wordings when you have something worth typing that i'm more so impressed by. Past about 45 words per min how well can you even write meanfuly text ?

I took a typing course in high school...it was just brutal... It was massively boring, and I don't learn stuff I find boring. I found that I learned to touch type by learning to type by looking at my fingers, then doing that enough to develop the muscle memory until I didn't have to look.

Learn the way you are comfortable... Ignore people who say its wrong just because its different. I once saw a guitarist who would play with his fingers over the top of the guitar (instead of underneath the "normal" way), and he was amazing.