As I wrote a week ago, I trained touch-typing this week. My objective was to attain 85 wpm. Here’s a recap of my week:
Monday : I decided to use Typeracer as my baseline. It’s an online game that allows you to race others. The fastest typist wins. I had not played in 6 months or so – and it showed. My score for the last ten races dropped a bit. This was not a good start. Result after the day : 74 wpm
Tuestday : I did some drills on goodtyping.com to get back to speed. It must have helped because I raised my speed to 78 wpm.
Wednesday : mostly played Typeracer. I managed to cut down on typing errors and I’m up to 81 wpm.
Thursday : I tried to practice at night instead of during lunch time. Without much success – 80 wpm. My fingers were not obeying me. I did a few drills on goodtyping.com to increase accuracy.
Friday : Success! I managed to consistently type over 80 wpm today by concentrating on typing slower but with less mistakes. I managed an average of 87 wpm on my last 10 races.
The week is over and I achieved my objective of 85 wpm. I did this mostly by reducing mistakes – they can get really slow you down.
Thanks to my colleagues who followed in my track and helped me focus on this challenge.
