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5 Ways to Drastically Improve your typing speed

Luis Pereira
3 min readJun 5, 2020

Improving your typing speed is incredibly beneficial if your daily activities involve typing on the computer/laptop.

Learning to type faster than most people can put you in a unique position of having a large advantage, in comparison to people who type at an average speed.

Currently, I have an average typing speed of 93 WPM. What’s WPM you ask? It stands for Words Per Minute. Yes, That is incredibly fast than most people.

How did I get to this speed?

Practice… and lots of it!

I previously had an average speed of 75 WPM, but when I practised consistently I was able to improve it significantly with a few of these tips I will be sharing with you.

Learn to Touch Type

This is by far the most important skill you need to learn and the hardest.

What is Touch-type you ask? It is simply typing without looking at the keys on your keyboard.

As an example, at this moment I know exactly where the letter Q or Z is without even needing to look at the keyboard. This will drastically improve your typing speed.

But how can you get to this point…?

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Luis Pereira
Luis Pereira

Written by Luis Pereira

Freelance writer on Medium. Experienced In Cyber Security and SEO — For business inquiries please contact pereira.luis1@outlook.com

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