How To Type Fast on a Keyboard

Tired of you or your father taking a word a minute on the keyboard (where a snail could probably do faster)? Here’s some tips and tricks to help you type a mile a minute, of course we can’t guarantee it to be like that in reality.

Step 1: Learning the keyboard

Take a moment to observe where each letter is placed on a keyboard, you should not worry about numbers or punctuation characters, they can be incorporated later after you know how to type words, phrases and so on. Once you feel you’ve had a good stare at the keys, Place your index to pinky fingers from a – f for the left hand, and j – ; (semi-colon) for the right. Both your thumbs should rest on the space bar.
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Step 2: Practising your memory of letters

A good way to get the ball rolling is by familiarising yourself with each letter on the keyboard, like the last step. Except this time you will type out the letters. Going to URL will let you practise your letter placements on the screen. Choose from lessons 1 – 14 to get started. The higher the number in the lesson, the greater the difficulty, but these exercises mainly focus on up to 6 different characters. The screen that appears will help you to be reminded of where you will need to press on the keyboard if you type a letter incorrectly. If you are not using the standard learning method, ignore the instruction of the hand but still look at the keyboard to see which key needs to be pressed.

Step 3: Moving on

Once you feel happy with your knowledge of the keyboard, start lesson 15. This lesson is a very long text that will test you on your use of touch-typing to type out words and sentences, as well a some punctuation.

Step 4: Using software

If you wish to look at a fun or more challenging way to learn touch-typing, buy and install software dedicated to teaching people how to touch-type. You can find these in some computer stores or websites like Amazon.