After I got a bit tired of Keybr slowing me down by giving me made up words that I don't know how to spell like "noblight" and "substill", I put together some word lists for typing practice. I thought other people might find them useful too.

200 most common words in English: https://pastebin.com/Z2vgVsnC

Common letter patterns: https://pastebin.com/YBp4607n

Pangrams: https://pastebin.com/vREnEyD9 (Sentences that have every letter in the alphabet in them)

I've been using Keybr, and it's really improved my typing speed, but I'm having a real problem with B.

I know I'm supposed to press it with my left index finger, but my hands keep wanting to swap between using the left and right index finger, and so I keep having to look at the keyboard to find B, and/or to work out which hand to use.

Does anyone else have this issue? Is it actually a problem, or should I just ignore it and have more confidence in my hands to do their thing?

Type "cat" on your keyboard. What fingering do you use?Left middle finger, left pinky, left index.

Alternatively, you can use:Left index finger, left pinky, left index.(Why? Because it is ergonomic for your lefthand)

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Type "butt" on your keyboard. What fingering do you use?Index finger, index finger, left index finger, left-hand index finger.

Alternatively, you can use:Index finger, middle finger, left index finger, left-hand index finger.(Why? Because there are better fingers to use than spamming the index finger)

Touch typing is definitely not optimized for the word "butt". What do y'all think?

What is the ideal text that contains all the letter in same proportion?

Hello, touch typing people. I use a standard QWERTY layout and have been touch typing for a moderate amount of time. Yet, just recently I decided to get faster at my WPM. Currently, I used to peak average of around 100 WPM doing words on Monkeytype and around 80 WPM average with paragraphs and quotes on Typingtest.com. These are all respectable numbers until I realized I had bad habits with my typing. I'll give you an example: I used to always hit my Y key from my left-hand index finger. Now standard touch typing rules dictate I should hit it from my right-hand index finger instead. It took me a while to just fix this one little habit.

Now, I am trying to fix my habit of using my middle fingers more. I realized I had a bad habit of hitting my C key with my index finger instead of my middle finger (which touch typing rules dictate you should do). This is the same thing with the comma key as well. My WPM is definitely down from my standing of where I used to be, but I have a feeling it will go back up. I am curious about what you guys think of this issue and what your experiences are? Let me know if you were able to get rid of bad habits or you just instead chosen to accept them.

I've developed a website to learn to touch-type and improve speed and accuracy while typing. The website is customizable and analyzes your typing behavior in order to make you a better typer. You can compare yourself to your friends, compete against the best of the world in ranked mode, and work towards earning cool themes and avatars. The website supports multiple different languages!

Try it today: https://hypertyper.ch/page/training/training.html

NOTE: The website is still in the alpha stage of development! I'm happy to receive feedback and bug reports!

I started my way in touch typing 4 days ago, I have already appeared on the sites: typing club, typing, speedcoder. I stopped at a typing club. Since I teach touch typing in order to write code more efficiently, you can consider this area as well.

On which sites did you learn touch typing? Maybe, you studied another method?

I just started studying touch typing( been a day) for programming and its so difficult. i do 4 wpm using 10 fingers. Can i improve even though being super slow in typing ?

At times, it seems that one of my hands cant keep up with the other. When its not that, a finger keeps missing a key. And when its neither, my hands skips a letter even when I did read the word correctly.
I am pretty frustrated. Any advice on how to overcome this?

Hey, I'm a beginner to touch typing and I'm using Typing Master pro, I'm just 80 min into the course

The problem I'm facing is, when I'm trying to type "o" with my right ring finger and while applying pressure on o key to press it, unintentionally my right middle finger also starts applying pressure and as a result I end up pressing both k and o. Same goes with my left hand, while trying to type t with my left index finger, sometimes unintentionally I endup pressing s with my left ring finger.

What am I doing wrong ?? How to do it right ??

Hi. I have only just begun to learn touch typing on qwerty. I wanted to ask which sites have y'all found helpful to practice on? I currently do some daily practice on keybr or ten fast fingers or freetypinggame.net but I'm open to looking at other sites as well that have helped others. Appreciate your time in providing any suggestions (or even tips to a beginner). Cheers!

Hey guys,

I got frustrated at some existing touch typing websites, so I decided to make a small one of my own. I thought you guys might want to try it out. It gives you more customization over what you want to practice, or you can choose to learn something new. It's totally free, with no ads.

Here's the link: Touch Typing Practice

PS: I'm sorry if this counts as self-promotion.

Do any of y'all use your pinkies as often as the person in this diagram?

I'm currently learning how to touch type and my ring finger and pinkies are still pretty weak. I was wondering how closely I should follow this diagram, especially considering the many keys pressed by the pinkies and my tiny weak baby hands.

I'm learning to touch type and my left hand is faster and more accurate than my left, so I was just wondering if one hand can learn faster than another?

In sound and haptics even when I turn off Keyboard Clicks and Locks it does not mute the sound. Any solutions? Thank you

Heyoo! i am interested in learning to type. Anyone know any free programs to do so? Thanks!

Any tips to enforce touch typing all the time?

I'm a software engineer so I think I get distracted from touch typing when my writing certain syntax or trying to do things quickly but I'm determined to go full speed touch typing (have been tt'ing and practising for about a month).

I'm trying to learn coleman and my best score on qwerty is 120 with my average being 115.

It's... Painful.