Typing: One Of The Most Important Thing For Coding

Any information on typing always comes down to the same question: What are your average typing speed and your accuracy? Why is it so important, and why does everyone want to know? Below are a few facts about typing and hopefully, a few hints as to why average typing speed is so important.

Good typing speed will help you get your work (coding, shooting emails, report writing, chatting etc.) done in lesser time. You will end up saving some time each day because of your good typing skills.
But note that the best way to become better typing is to learn touch-typing.

What is Touch-Typing?

When you touch-type, you don't look at your keyboard but just the monitor. and that's clearly a big advantage as you can focus only on your work and not which keys to press. Also, you would be making fewer mistakes.

Also touch-typing typically involves putting all your 10 fingers to use. But some use 9 fingers. After you learn touch-typing, you would notice the fingers automatically move to and hit the desired keys. So, there is muscle memory involved here. And for that reason, you would know immediately when you hit a wrong key.

How to develop best typing skills?

To give this a bit of context, writing things by hand is usually around 31 words per minute for memorized material or 22 words per minute for copied material. This is a good speed for someone who only types out the occasional email to family, or for someone whose livelihood doesn't depend on their speed at a keyboard. For anyone else, a regiment of practice should be employed to improve speed and accuracy.

I'll say it again, just for retention: Practice. You wouldn't sit down at a piano and expect to be a concert level pianist, and you shouldn't sit down at a keyboard and expect to be a competition level typist either. Spend 30 minutes or so each day practicing. If you're just beginning or working on switching over from hunt and peck style typing, then start from the beginning and work your way up. If you've already got some decent touch typing skills, then work on accuracy and speed drills. Keep track of your efforts over the course of a few weeks and you will see marked improvement.

Best Online Site to Learn Typing

Typing: https://www.typing.com/

Good Typing:www.goodtyping.com

Type Racer:www.typeracer.com

TypingWeb:www.typingweb.com

The fastest typist in the world was a woman named Barbara Blackburn. In 2005, using a Simplified Dvorak keyboard, she was able to sustain 150 words per minute for 50 minutes, and 170 words per minute for shorter amounts of time. She was even clocked at a peak speed of 212 words per minute. This is well above what a professional typist, using a QWERTY keyboard, will usually manage. 50 to 80 words per minute is around the average for professional typists, and should be what most people strive for if they type for a living.