Typing faster

Typing of the Dead was pretty great too.

Basically House of the Dead, but the zombies have words above their heads that needs typing.

I'm sure you'll be able to find a version somewhere.
 
Thought Id give this a quick bump as Im still trying to improve my typing speed.
Just took a test on 10fastfingers and got this result;


I really cant seem to be able to type with my fingers in the home position on they keyboard, it's really hard :(
I think hopefully in a couple of years I can push this to 100 WPM, thatd be insane!
 
Learn how to touch type, this is the "proper" method to type with uses all of your fingers on their own area of the keyboard to maximise efficiency.

This picture shows how the keyboard is split up (Each colour is a different finger) http://www.filebuzz.com/software_screenshot/full/touch_typing_technology_course-54708.gif

I used this website to start out (I didn't go through all of the lessons, I think I did the first two then felt confident enough to exclusively touch type from then on, was really slow at first, then you just get used to it) : http://www.typeonline.co.uk/lesson1.html

You mentioned just that keeping fingers on the home keys was hard....well, unfortunately this is exactly the advice I'm giving haha :P Give it a try :)
 
steve9098 said:
Learn how to touch type, this is the "proper" method to type with uses all of your fingers on their own area of the keyboard to maximise efficiency.

This picture shows how the keyboard is split up (Each colour is a different finger) http://www.filebuzz.com/software_screenshot/full/touch_typing_technology_course-54708.gif

I used this website to start out (I didn't go through all of the lessons, I think I did the first two then felt confident enough to exclusively touch type from then on, was really slow at first, then you just get used to it) : http://www.typeonline.co.uk/lesson1.html

You mentioned just that keeping fingers on the home keys was hard....well, unfortunately this is exactly the advice I'm giving haha :P Give it a try :)
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Thanks for the advice. It's weird because I'm only using my index fingers to type, literally, and am managing 84 WPM. I feel like by doing this I'm losing so much potential.
 
Deehjay said:
Thanks for the advice. It's weird because I'm only using my index fingers to type, literally, and am managing 84 WPM. I feel like by doing this I'm losing so much potential.
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Well yes you will be slower to begin with but you should fix your bad habits if you want a solid way to improve. It will become natural in no time. Don't try and start too fast other wise the bad habits are going to creep in. Try not to make any mistakes (errors and using the wrong finger) otherwise you are just reinforcing old habits again. Think of it as a long term thing. :)
 
After seeing this thread I've decided to try Typing Tutor 5 using DOSBox. :p

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http://filesmelt.com/dl/Typing_Tutor.zip
 
Deehjay said:
Thought Id give this a quick bump as Im still trying to improve my typing speed.
Just took a test on 10fastfingers and got this result;

I really cant seem to be able to type with my fingers in the home position on they keyboard, it's really hard :(
I think hopefully in a couple of years I can push this to 100 WPM, thatd be insane!
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I found 10fastfingers quite difficult because a) the screen didn't keep up with my typing (hence a couple of those mistakes, and when I went back to correct words it had moved on :p) and b) just typing random words is far harder than typing real sentences where you can subconsciously think of what you need to type several words ahead.

I taught myself to touch-type and very much doubt I use the home keys, but it seems to work:

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84 really isn't bad! (I got around that on my first go on that game for the record).
 
They need a typing test all based around linux commands. Nothing faster at typing than an experienced *nix sys admin during an outage.
 
Tried some of the websites you guys have linked, I just can't do it using all the fingers man, so frustrating :@
 
The world record is faster on a smartphone than a keyboard due to predictive text.

So don't bother, people will be drawing rather than using keyboards in a few years.
 
70-80wpm with ~95%+ accuracy is not slow. As a rough guide I'd say under 40wpm is slow, 60wpm decent, 80wpm good, 100wpm fast, 120wpm+ very fast.

What I'd find interesting would be to see average wpm by age bandings (with outliers removed). You'd imagine that people in their teens and twenties probably fare better as they grew up with computers.
 
OhEsEcks said:
Change from Qwerty to Dvorak or Colemak for a start. That'll improve your typing speed more than switching to a mechanical keyboard.
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I don't think the best option for someone unable to type with any real ability on the worlds most common keyboard layout would benefit from abandoning any and all previous experience, in favor of a layout considerably less popular, that they would, effectively, be starting from scratch with.
 
oli356 said:
I couldn't imagine using a different layout.. That would be like wtf.. used a certain layout keyboard all of my life and now change :O NO WAY!

I type quickly anyway, how can a layout make THAT much difference though?
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Because the QWERTY format was designed to prevent mechanical typewriters from jamming, a side effect being that there is more finger movement between the keys which makes it slower to type on, and more of a load on your hands (although you'd think the difference would be negligible when you are doing 200 wpm + it adds up even if for that purpose 1 word is five keystrokes including space, return, punctuation marks etc)
 
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