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Note: These are tips for a beginning learner. (under 50 wpm)

Throughout my journey toward a faster typing speed has allowed me to stumble upon the few tips to increase typing speed by more than just practice. (however practice is still the premier way to increase your wpm)

I’ve been improving my typing at freetypinggame.net. The site has typing lessons, typing tests, as well as typing games. I’ve looked around a few other typing sites and found this one to be the best.

1. Increase your vocabulary/spelling ability.

If you’re using a static paragraph to type from, you’ve probably noticed that over time your speed typing that document increases consistantly as you type it more and more. You’ll also notice that when changing to a paragraph that you haven’t typed often that your wpm drops by 5-10 words. One reason is that your muscles are slowly memorizing the movements for the common document and increaing your wpm. Another reason for this is that you’re slowly memorizing the vocabulary in that paragraph and you don’t have slow down on the words you don’t know.

2. Read ahead of what you’re typing.

Around 50 wpm, I found it was extremely difficult to continue gaining speed at the rate I was improving before. This was because I was not reading ahead to see what I was going to type next. I typed one word then when I finished, I would continue to the next. This meant I would type in bursts. one word… pause… one word… pause… Once you get to a certain speed, in order to get faster, you have to read ahead. The more you can read ahead of your typing, the faster you can get. This brings me back to my first point of increasing your vocabulary and spelling. If you’re typing along and you come to a word that you cannot spell, there is no chance you can read ahead because you’re going to have to type out the word you don’t know how to spell letter by letter.

That’s all so far. I’m sure I will find more as I continue.

P.S. If taking a typing test purely to test your typing speed and nothing else, I would advise you to use a paragraph that has all words that you know how spell to get a true wpm.

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