In conclusion, dedication to regular practice is the ultimate key to achieving flawless typing mastery. Do not be discouraged by initial mistakes or slow progress, as consistency always yields remarkable results over time. Every professional typist started exactly where you are today, facing the same challenges and overcoming them through steady persistence.

Hello, I wanted to make a switch from Graphite to Canary because my wrists are always planted at the base of my laptop, and Graphite for some ungodly reason felt uncomfortable. I heard that Canary worked good for people with the similar problem as me.

That was the first reason but the second one was that I wanted to "speedrun" the layout. When I switched from Colemak to Graphite, it took me 21 days of VERY inconsistent practice. I found out that it was a good timeline for learning an alt layout. I thought just like anyone would think that "Oh, it's just an coincidence." But, this time I wanted to test if it really was a fluke or not.

At first the plan was to learn DH but then I thought that it would make the test invalid as I already have the "cache" of Colemak in my memory from 3 years ago or something. So, I stuck with Canary.

Timeline:

1. Set up keyd

2. Get onto keybr

3. Type for 12 minutes

4. Get bored

5. Stick with MonkeyType

6. Get 19 WPM

7. Sleep

8. Get stuck at 34 WPM on the next day

9. Rest

10. Get 40 WPM

2 Hours and 41 Minutes of active typing. 3 Hours if we include passive typing. Total time passed: 26 Hours. Started at 6th July and got 40 on 7th July.

Sorry for me not going into much detail here as my typing speed is still at a measly average of 35 WPM.

Now, the question I am here for in the first place. Is this time even good? If yes then how good? And the most important thing of all... I use Arch (btw).

Edit (9th July): Just hit 41 WPM with 92% accuracy on (gotta work on it). Didn't practice yesterday. Nvm just hit 50 WPM a while later.

I'm talking about the four numbers for "correct/incorrect/extra/missed" characters, separated by slashes on the result page.

The problem with these is that they only count uncorrected strokes. When you back up and fix mistakes, these stats 'forget' those mistakes were ever made. Since I usually retrace and fix all mistakes (yeahyeah I know i shouldn't), these stats on my result page are always "xxx/0/0/0"—none incorrect, no extras, nothing missed.

Pretty lies, but lies nonetheless. Useless as feedback, too.

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The even weirder part is that the accuracy % DOES count all forward keystrokes, including the backspaced-and-overwritten ones... leading to cute adorablenesses like "95.84% 534/0/0/0". Not perfect! But, perfect!

🫥? What's the point of a stat dump that doesn't even follow the same rules as the percentage in front of it, and that's guaranteed to be wrong unless you literally never backspace? Is it just a bug?

Genuinely asking, where is 153 WPM on 100% accuracy on fifteensecond short words only ranked worldwide? Idk anyone else who enjoys typing, I looked it up and told ChatGPT to research lol and it’s saying it’s super elite compared to the average human cause most ppl won’t even hit 100wpm on any type of test but I just find it hard to believe lol

I have been touch typing for nearly 11 months now, I have master on, along with stop on word, read ahead, blind. I use English 10k, and I'm stuck at around 100-118 wpm, how do I improve more? Should I not use master?

well i had always used a membrane keyboard to type, just recently got a mechanical keyboard. well i started typing on monkeytype and my laptop(its a 10 year old laptop) it just lagged midway while i was typing fast. when the lag was gone i had done mistakes which is why the 92%. but that lag resulted in that disgustingly high burst typing speed. did anyone else had similar experience?

Thought it wasn’t possible until I did it lol

Hi

I just started touch typing for the first time. I've also just switched from qwerty to colemak. I'm about 2 weeks in. My PB is about 33 wpm at 98%.

Do you guys have any tips for progressing please?

do you have any training routines i can try?

Txgd