5 Tips For Boosting Up Your Typing Speed.

Anurag — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:30:26 +0000

These days everybody is using computer in their offices for productivity. Typing speed is considered as major factor in productivity. User interface features such as spell checker, auto complete and auto replace serve to facilitate and speed up typing and to prevent or correct errors the typist may make. Typing Speed is measured in Words per minute (WPM), commonly used in recruitment. For the purposes of WPM measurement a word is standardized to five characters or keystrokes. Therefore, “fifth” counts as one word, but “fifteenth” counts as two. Coming to the main point, in this post I had given 5 “easy to implement” tips for increasing your typing speed

1) Position of your body:

This is the basic of learning the typing skills. You have to sit straight with a comfortable height of the chair from where you can see to your monitor. Your end of the palm must be grounded to the end of the keyboard or surface where your keyboard is placed. Place your fingers correctly on the keyboard. Never try to type with your fingertips or nails.

2) Placement of hands:

Always try to type with both hands. Many people try to type maximum letters on the keyboard with single hand. This will slow down your typing speed terrifically. Divide groups in the keyboard for both hands. Always use thumb of any hand you prefer for the space bar.

3) Memorize the Keys:

Try to memorize the position of the keys and keep it in mind. It will help you typing without seeing to the keyboard. You can type with much more speed without seeing to the keyboard. It is very easy if you practice daily for it. In Initial few days let there be mistakes in typing but don’t look towards keyboard, instead try to remember the keys. If you get use to it, you can see much more progress in your typing speed.

4) Maximize Use of Shortcut Keys:

Shortcut keys are very handy for computer users. Shortcuts keys help provide an easier and usually quicker method of navigating and using computer applications. While writing content you can easily format the text if you make use of shortcut keys, which will save your further time of formatting the document.

5) Practice makes man perfect:

Without practice no one can be a good typist. Try to give an hour daily as practice session for Typing. You can use any of these online tools like TypingMaster, PowerTyping, TypingTest, and Learn2Type for practice.These above websites will show you graph and detailed report of your typing speed improvement,there is also facility of printing a Certificate on completion of the typing course.