I remember watching this video 2 years ago, barely managing 30wpm with touch typing. And now I'm able to type at 160wpm. This video single handedly got me there so I'd like to say thanks 👍
Rookie tips: - use your thumb on the spacebar - use AT LEAST 6 fingers - DO NOT use caps lock for single or few capitalizations - start using CTRL+backspace - get used to DEL - practice the arrow keys - use CTRL+arrow for faster navigation And remember, 80-100WPM is plenty for almost every job. Typing fast is a fun skill though. Don't hurt your hands:)
I just wanted to express my gratitude to you and your advice. I went from barely being able to reach 70 WPM to being able to comfortably do between 70-90 WPM in just a few weeks of practice. I already knew touch typing (and even already customized my typing) but the advice on having separate accuracy and speed practice sessions, treating the typing as typing one word at a time rather than one letter, and acknowledging that you are not typing in one pace the whole way through has really helped me. I am aiming to be able to do 100 WPM, or at the very least have a range of 80-100 WPM. Once I am able to do that, I'm satisfied. I am not a competitive typist by any stretch of the imagination, but it feels good to just say that I have that skill. Thank you for helping me get there!
This was fantastically straightforward and had NO FLUFF in it. No goofy intro sequence, no outro, no BS, just straight facts and suggestions. Thank you so much for this fantastic content.
Hey my guy, i just wanted to let you know that this video helped me quite a lot with typing fast, 3 months ago I used to type 20 to 30 words per minute and now i type at an average of 55 wpm and i still improving on my touch typing, thanks a lot
That's how it works for a lot of us. This is the most important function of the League of Shadows. Where were the other drugs going? It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.
Unfortunately, you have also to think of what to write, it's not a dictation and you just type everything fast like someone already told you all the ideas
Hey John, me again. I've been typing for 15 years and I use Dvorak layout for the past 5 years, however I don't currently have a computer so I can only type on my phone. When people see my keyboard, they often accuse me of being a witch and attempt to burn me at the stake so thank you for bringing attention to our disease.
@@Un1234l yes sir. I just started using esdf and now I can type like a madman without having to leave wasd. It's also slightly closer to the mouse for better ergonomics but actually probably not that much better for ergonomics :v
@@vinnyn10 I read faster than he types but he types faster than I can talk. I talk faster than he can type when I know what I'm going to say, but when I'm given something to talk about, he types faster than me talking
Hey John, thanks for the tips. Exactly 1 year ago I used to type at 20WPM but now I type at around 100WPM average and 126wpm(highest). All the tips really work. I'm a student and can say typing fast really helps in various parts of academics, also it impresses people a lot.
I like this vid not only because of necessarily typing advice it provides but rather just the general self-improvement techniques that serve as a reminder that progress is not linear. Currently, I'm at the point where I feel like my skills are worse than they used to be in the past. Sometimes it's so hard to get over it and keep going. Thank you, it was inspirational for sure.
Master mode in monkeytype helped me a lot. It basically fails your test when you make any single key error instantly. Great for developing good habits. I am not a fast typist, but I'm improving.
thanks, i think i was looking for something like master mode. actually, when i started on nitro type, i focused on speed and sacrificed my accuracy for it. this time i am going for accuracy rather than just raw speed
I'm honestly not sure that autofail is a good thing. Part of typing is learning how to handle mistakes. You should be able to recognize and correct errors fluidly as you type without losing too much time, but if you have to start over everytime you make a mistake then you have no practice doing that. In fact, it teaches your brain to just stop every time you mess up. The other issue is that I think the fear of losing your progress and having to start over also hinders you. It causes you to stress and when you are stressed you tend to make more mistakes, and you will also start typing slower and more deliberately in an effort to avoid all mistakes. This is just in my experience. When I don't have to worry about errors, typing just becomes a passive thing and I don't really have to focus on it, but when I'm worried about accuracy I tend to focus actively on every key stroke and that slows me down a lot without really improving my accuracy.
@@rodangaming4889 on monkey type improved from 45 to 90, and on 10fastfingers from 40 to 80. Also I used master mode just for developing habit in the beginning. Once I was confident on all the keys, I used normal mode.
I have been practicing typing for the past year now, and I've went from averaging 70wpm in 2021 to 100wpm in 2022 with my record being 128wpm. It took so long but its nice to see results. I use the msi bravo/gf66 keyboard because its short travel is nice
its crazy cause when i first started learning to type fast id get 30-40 words per min. 4 years later, i now type roughly 80-90 wpm on fast fingers but 60-70 on typing racer. i think after 2 years thats when i hit 60 wpm. its weird how progress goes, i just spent a few mins everyday practicing. little by little. eventually i learned the keyboard layout and i read ahead and things just came to me. i still wanna get to +120 wpm but i have some bad habits thats bottlenecking me. great vid none the less!
That “type words, not letters” advice is pretty interesting! I’ve been stuck at around 80wpm for a while now and I’ve been frustrated that I can’t go past 100 comfortably. I’ll start using this, thanks!
If you take a sentence and practice each word until you can blast thru it the problem is still reducing the time between each word. So I think the solution might be to practice the single sentence to learn how to reduce the time between words. If you cannot go fast in the easiest situation it won't make sense to try to go faster when there are more variables.
@@fizzgaming8346 it's more than double the national average my fellow human. It's not slow, its just slow compared to someone who is typing at more than 150 wpm
@@Casercaser the only reason the average is 40wpm is because people who have never typed, or barely type, bring the average down. For people who practice typing even a little bit, 80 is incredibly easy. I have over 110 WPM with less than a month of practice
This video actually really helped, thinking about typing words rather than letters added like 15-20 wpm to my typing, almost at 100 now just from like an hour of practice!
me with a 28 wpm : 👁👄👁 update: its 41 now🥺 update: its 68 now🥺 update: its 82 now😎 update (3 years later) : i forgot to update but its around 190 now hehe
Useful shortcuts for everyday use: - Ctrl+A selects All text in the page/document (Useful for Ctrl+A - Ctr+C) - Ctrl+Backspace was in the video, deletes previous word - Ctrl+Del deletes next word (normal Del deletes next character) - Ctrl+Left or Right arrow you move your cursor word by word. - Shift+Left or Right arrow keys lets you select text without touching the mouse. - Shift+Up or Down select a row of text up or down. - Shift+Page Up or Page down also work to select text quicker. - Ctrl+Shift+Left or Right arrow keys you select text word by word. - Tab allows you to jump to another input, e.g. when you're filling in an online form. - End and Home keys allow you to reach the end or the beginning of a line of text. - Shift+End or Home allow you to select to the end or beginning of a line. - Home, Shift+End selects the entire line (or End, Shift+Home) - Ctrl+Home or End: reach the beginning or end of the entire document. Works with shift to select. - Alt+Shift+Arrow Keys: Rectangular selection of characters (works in only the editors that support multiple cursors) - F3 or Ctrl+F search, (sometimes Ctrl+H search&substitute) - F2 rename file, folder... - I'm sure I forgot other things... - Windows+Down minimizes a window - Windows+Up maximizes a window - Windows+Left or Right to dock windows left or right - Windows+Ctrl+Left or right moves you between desktop environments - Windows+D when your door suddenly opens
@@acfry plus that's so little I could've read like 500 wpm at that age wdym 300, now I can read at 700 , I'm 11 in case you think I'm an adult and can't read normally
@@danieledwards8730 3 things 1. i realized it was a joke afterward 2. im saying the minimum, ofc people can read faster than that at, at grade 5. 3. nobody cares about your age
I think that for starting out with no experience with touch typing, a great website to start on is keybr, because you only start out with a few keys and slowly expand out to the whole alphabet. Its not great for experieced touch typists in my opinion, but i started with it and can say that it is awesome just for that.
also i always was focusing on speed when typing and my accuracy is terrible, if i could start over i would only focus on that, because now its really hard to improve it.
@@lunchbox1341 kinda of like me, i type around 120-130 rn, however, my accuracy is all over the place, sometimes I'll go and get 99 and sometimes I'll get 80, what I have been trying to do is slow down, to maybe somewhere around 100 wpm and just try to focus more on getting the words right and not getting the highest speed.
Agreed. I currently learn touch typing with this website and I like it. The teaching algorithm seems to do a good job. However you should be patient. But I guess that goes for every website
I started touch typing 10 days ago on keybr, and now i can type with 35 wpm with 93% acc. It helped me to build my muscle memory for my individual finger. I want to increase my accuracy because, when i try to type faster i would get 80% or so acc. I invested 17hrs in 10 days. But now i am stuck . So i now decided to reach 100 per acc.
My WPM is around 70 when I look at my keyboard, I mainly use 3 fingers and sometimes 4, now that I'm trying to learn touch typing it dropped to 20 WPM but I believe it'll go back up
It's been 3weeks have you improved?, Ive never had a computer b4 so now that I have one I've been practicing without looking and is 18wpm on my 2nd day of practicing
@@AlexInF1 I used to be an index finger typer which was a hassle as I had to look at my hands all the time. After about 8 months of using the home row method, i average around 120wpm, and sometimes break into 140-150. I highly recommend committing and practicing. Edit: also a quick note that reaching 100 wpm took about 2-3 months for me, but it isn't the same for everyone. after those months I've been slowly been raising my speed but its been much slower growth
It happened to me too, my wpm was 80 but I couldn't improve anymore, even with around 10 years of computer, then I decided to learn touch typing and my wpm dropped to 15wpm on the first days, 30 on the first weeks, but now I am getting 100 WPM and I feel like with this method I can improve more and more!
Back in the 1960's, my typing practice text was: the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs. that's every letter in the alphabet and is how they taught us in a high school typing class from a home position and without looking at the keyboard. I don't even think about the location of letters on the keyboard with this direct link from thoughts to print with seldom thinking even about correct spelling. During the years of the VietNam war with my MOS as a clerk typist, it was astonishing how many officers had never learned how to type and had to rely on someone else doing all the typing for them. It would have been even better if we had laptop computers and word processors back then because there had been a zero tolerance for any typos.
Finally! Most videos and articles about fast typing are like "don't look at the keyboard, and parctice". It's the first video that gives some actual useful tips for improving above the 60 - 80 range. Thanks a lot!
I type around 30 WPM but I only use 4 fingers which isn't really practical so I set a goal to learn how to type properly and maximize the use of all fingers 18th May : 11 WPM 23rd May : 16 WPM (I'd like to update this monthly to see where I can get by the end of the year, wish me luck!)
@Mystic Clover Thank you! I did well from 0 to 20 Wpm Lets see what happens my goal is now 50 wpm for now. How much time did you spend on typing daily!?
This video is an eye opener for me. Despite reaching ~140 WPM, I'd never thought to eliminate consecutive finger use like with D and E. When I think about it, there's probably a number of these inefficiencies in the conventional QWERTY layout.
Great video! In the past few months I've been consistently working on and putting a substantial amount of time toward improving my typing. Started at around 80wpm average on typeracer, and after constant practice over the course of about 2 months I'm starting to get alot of quotes in the 120's. Feels amazing to improve at something while having real numbers to document your progress day by day. Something I learned from this video that I can't say I've ever heard before is the "type word by word, not letter by letter" That's something that I kinda did intuitively but I couldn't think of a way to describe it and that fits perfect. I use qwerty and my end goal for typing is to average 140 on typeracer and I think that's an achievable goal given enough time. I wish everyone luck on their one individual journeys! Thanks again for the motivation.
Thanks for uploading this video. It is very informational. I feel like I'm peaked at the 120 range. I can get spikes of higher rates but and not consistent. Not sure why this video was in my recommended, but it was worth the watch. Switched to an ergo keyboard for work a year ago, and that changed a lot of my habits. Currently making an attempt to get fluent with Dvorak and Colemak, and it was very interesting to see how many of the point you made in the video aligned with things that I'm doing. Started by focusing building memory of the layout, got a decent rate, then started to focus words with the pauses to think about how my hand needs to move to form that word. Awesome typing rate.
The thing is "reading ahead" isn't exactly a good habit to form when you're someone that wants to type fast regardless of what's in front of you. The point is not to just type fast for the sake of typing fast. It's to improve productivity. Unless you're a scribber, focus more on writing each word at a time. Try creative writing as well.
@@starmorpheus you type faster if you know exactly what to type because you don’t have to process what is given to you, and that is simulated with reading ahead.
I switched layout 2 years ago from typing with 4-5 fingers on AZERTY (~89wpm, ~85% accuracy) to Dvorak, specifically to learn 10-fingered typing. It took me roughly a year to get back to ~89wpm, but this time with about 95% accuracy. At the moment I'm still around the same speed, but I don't practice nearly as often.
For beginners, I think typingclub could really help them slowly adapt with touch typing. It has a cool interface, lessons about the different keys and videos that provides information. This is just based on my opinion though.
Johns Fingers - In Pain Johns Keyboard - Bouta Give Up Johns Camera - *Casual Earthquake* John - "Hey guys and today im going to be teaching you how to be a fast typer!"
Hi John, I came here to say a big thank you for making this video. I'm a slow learner, started off with 50wpm-60wpm and I've been practicing touch typing for a few months now. Today, I finally hit 102wpm as my fastest record in typeracer, and was so taken aback when I had to do the verification. Although I'm still within the 80wpm-90wpm range (70wpm if slow), once in a while I get close to 100wpm and that is a magnificent breakthrough thanks to your video. This is a really honest video without sugar coating people with useless shortcuts; It's really all about practice. I hope you are doing well in your college John.
It's funny because this is in the middle of the mechanical keyboard craze, when everyone wants to make their own silky smooth 60% with holy pandas and a brass backplate, and this legend typist prefers.... a laptop keyboard.
I get 105-106 wpm now, but I have a problem when it comes to unfamiliar words, it really slows me down and makes me think when I get a word wrong instead of actually continuing. (105-106 in 10ff test)
i just bought my first mechanical keyboard and it's a cherry mx brown. i don't like my keyboards to sound like typewriters, so i'm hoping for the best.
beginner tips (from a 100-160 WPM typist) : use your left / right thumb to click on the space bar use AT LEAST 6 fingers (more is better) use your left pinky to press on shift (for capitalization) dont use caps lock for 1-5 capitals, use shift instead if a key for example is closer to your left hand dont go out of your way to press on it with your right hand (left hand occupies left half of the keyboard and so on) learn the keyboard layout (touch typing is much easier than occasionally checking on the keyboard to type something)
7:40 Assassin's Creed Revelations ending when Ezio communicates with Desmond. EDIT: Just noticed at the end the website says you typed a quote from Assassin's Creed 2. How can this website get it wrong, I am pretty sure it's from Assassin's Creed Revelations.
It doesn’t matter whether or not there is a magic trick that instantly give you 200 wpm speed. People always strive for things that are difficult, and people who have done difficult things stand out. If any average people can do 200 rpm than nobody would care if you get 200rpm, not even you. Everyone would care about people who get 300 rpm.
I can already type up to about 130 wpm on monkeytype but the most useful advice that I haven't yet realized that I got from this is the reading ahead of your typing... this is mainly because I noticed that I got really really slow, perhaps painfully slow after long typing sessions like 3 or 2 hours and I haven't known the cause. Now I know that it might be eye fatigue as I have mild blurry vision and astigmatism so maybe my eyes need more effort to stay focused, thus slowing reading after a long while. Thank you for this. But some days are generally shitty... The fun thing about typiung is you can feel it when you're doing good on a particular day, like you're almost floating off the ground lol. The "wait, I haven't made a mistake in 40 seconds and my typing is really consistent..." moments before making an error that would cause you to fail that particular test lol
@@Eyes0penNoFear update tho, I just got back to typeracer from MonkeyType. I can do 150 wpm on MonkeyType easy but I do 70-80 wpm on TypeRacer cause of bad habits learned lol. Don't be like me, practice with real quotes instead of timed, randomized words. I got about 8k games on MonkeyType lol, on 94% average accuracy. can't type words other than the top 200 words tho lol, let alone punctuations. I am a worse typist than when I started.
The problem with typing tests is that you're not exactly typing what's on your mind which can greatly slow you down to a point where it's very frustrating. It's even worse when you're not familiar with the test at all since you basically start out with a crappy score.
Finally, I can win every online argument with ease.
No you can't
@@pijonbaby4958 Yes I can :)
@@blomgus prime example right here
@@Coneness 😂
@@blomgus No you can't
Holy shit, I never knew the power of the fastest typists in the world, they can drop their hands on a keyboard and summon a mountain.
Underrated as fuck. Nice one
LOL
This is underrated
Summoning jutsu!!!
Some lower powered typists can only summon “moun” and “tain”
For those who don't know, I have 600 wpm , with 2% accuracy 😎
Hey same
what a flex!
you dropped this king 👑
And I have only 6. With 2% accuracy.
Wow that’s pretty bad you should be able to spam space and get like15%+ accuracy...
I remember watching this video 2 years ago, barely managing 30wpm with touch typing. And now I'm able to type at 160wpm. This video single handedly got me there so I'd like to say thanks 👍
I'm glad to hear it 😁👍
Huhh? 160 ??
Hey, do you perhaps use another keyboard layout than QWERTY ?
nah i just use qwerty, its easier to grind out what your used to than to switch@@Mahashiii
Is that with or without punctuation?
Rookie tips:
- use your thumb on the spacebar
- use AT LEAST 6 fingers
- DO NOT use caps lock for single or few capitalizations
- start using CTRL+backspace
- get used to DEL
- practice the arrow keys
- use CTRL+arrow for faster navigation
And remember, 80-100WPM is plenty for almost every job. Typing fast is a fun skill though.
Don't hurt your hands:)
@Little Sim Master That's good!
lmao i have 8 wpm
@@blitzen6315 wait what 😂
@@sagargawle4417 it's super fast
What can we do with DEL
You know he is over 210WPM when everything starts shaking
XD
It's his mana/nen/chakra surrounding him because he raised his power to type faster
He must use _THE FORCE_ :P
@@sazokuotsutsuki8848 haha yeah
EARTHQUAKE RUNNNN
Now that's what I want to record forever in my brain: think about words, not letters. Just a completely different mindset.
That's the most useful tip I found in this video.
@@greyman2623 Same.
@ya skirt. I think of word
I have qwerty keyboard
I realised I unconsciously do the same. I do common words like lightning, but fumble on uncommon ones
I just wanted to express my gratitude to you and your advice. I went from barely being able to reach 70 WPM to being able to comfortably do between 70-90 WPM in just a few weeks of practice. I already knew touch typing (and even already customized my typing) but the advice on having separate accuracy and speed practice sessions, treating the typing as typing one word at a time rather than one letter, and acknowledging that you are not typing in one pace the whole way through has really helped me.
I am aiming to be able to do 100 WPM, or at the very least have a range of 80-100 WPM. Once I am able to do that, I'm satisfied. I am not a competitive typist by any stretch of the imagination, but it feels good to just say that I have that skill. Thank you for helping me get there!
Hey, you got this!
Hey do you use mechanical keyboard
How fast do you type now
6:32 when my essay is due next hour...
Oh no I hope you finish your essay in time
@@NoThisIsJohn he is joking lol
@@blixity4 yeah so was John 😂
@Helder Señoron how was he? He was only pointing a comment out.
@Helder Señoron but he wasn't joking
I swear you're typing so fast that this looks exactly as the fake typing scenes in movies lmao
😂😂😂😂
it's even faster than that!
he's hacking nasa don't mind him
@@maxdobeinabox HAHHAA
Please try
avoid making swears
This was fantastically straightforward and had NO FLUFF in it. No goofy intro sequence, no outro, no BS, just straight facts and suggestions. Thank you so much for this fantastic content.
Hey my guy, i just wanted to let you know that this video helped me quite a lot with typing fast, 3 months ago I used to type 20 to 30 words per minute and now i type at an average of 55 wpm and i still improving on my touch typing, thanks a lot
woah, thats amazing
Me: This is easy
* Tries it out *
*30 words per minute*
Shameful but true😭😂
That's how it works for a lot of us. This is the most important function of the League of Shadows. Where were the other drugs going? It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.
Gotham or batman rises?
@@ElPollitoFrito That was Batman Begins... All except the first and probably some paraphrasing. Just practicing my Dvorak.
I got 70
Teacher: your eassay needs to be done by friday
This guy 5 minutes later: yeah im done
For me it's more like:
>11:40, Friday - "Not Started"
>11:59, Friday - "Submitted"
@t a s y o t omg look at me I go around correcting typos because that makes me cool haha look at me
@t a s y o t It's eassay, an easy essay. (according to the teacher)
@@mariuspetersen6907 but what about your 1hp brain?
Unfortunately, you have also to think of what to write, it's not a dictation and you just type everything fast like someone already told you all the ideas
Hey John, me again.
I've been typing for 15 years and I use Dvorak layout for the past 5 years, however I don't currently have a computer so I can only type on my phone.
When people see my keyboard, they often accuse me of being a witch and attempt to burn me at the stake so thank you for bringing attention to our disease.
Epic gamer moment
lol love it
same but people haven't notice me
lmao what kinda society you like in bro
How do you not have a computer?
Thanks. The "chord" example made a very big difference. I'm starting to type like that now and I'm seeing great results after a couple of hours.
You know the feeling when your hands is stuck at W A S D
gamer moment
Ikr. Like damn ok-
ESDF master race. Home row
@@Un1234l yes sir. I just started using esdf and now I can type like a madman without having to leave wasd. It's also slightly closer to the mouse for better ergonomics but actually probably not that much better for ergonomics :v
Gamer
He types faster than me reading 👀
Thanks for telling the obvious, because my eyes can't see Mt. Tai.
Don't you mean he types faster than you reading?
imagine reading a book as he writes it
Your reading comprehension is actually below average if this is true.
@@vinnyn10 I read faster than he types but he types faster than I can talk. I talk faster than he can type when I know what I'm going to say, but when I'm given something to talk about, he types faster than me talking
I can't get higher than 0 wpm.
(This whole comment took me 16 minutes to make)
POV: you just got a pc
@@02zx Haha, the layout on phone keyboards and physical keyboards is the same!
..unless he changed it; e.g. from QWERTY to DVORAK.
@@Brahvim this is like a kid with a pc kinda thing
if this took 16 min to write ur speed is 1.7wpm
@@julianzmalaj6432 :thumbs_up:
Hey John, thanks for the tips. Exactly 1 year ago I used to type at 20WPM but now I type at around 100WPM average and 126wpm(highest). All the tips really work. I'm a student and can say typing fast really helps in various parts of academics, also it impresses people a lot.
What's your typing speed now?
im stuck on 120 for 3 fuckin years
You got to actively train ig. What did you test your 120 on?@@rubyciide5542
2:21 - Practice websites
3:27 - to 80
wpm
4:58 - to 120 wpm
6:32 - to 200 wpm
"Success isn’t Linear"
Thanks!
"Success isn’t Linear"
Me using linear switches in my keyboard (._. )
0:02 hey it's me ❤️
Haha yes
Ur famous now
I swear I saw you in this video somewhere, are you related to this youtuber by chance.
Lololol
Qwerty
"Average of 80 words per minute"
German: laughs in "Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän"
What does that mean
It's literally just five words put together.
@@hao_cuii Danube steamship company captain
That is both cruel and unusual.
That's why i don't like it when thungs are measured in WPM
I like this vid not only because of necessarily typing advice it provides but rather just the general self-improvement techniques that serve as a reminder that progress is not linear. Currently, I'm at the point where I feel like my skills are worse than they used to be in the past. Sometimes it's so hard to get over it and keep going. Thank you, it was inspirational for sure.
Master mode in monkeytype helped me a lot. It basically fails your test when you make any single key error instantly. Great for developing good habits. I am not a fast typist, but I'm improving.
thanks, i think i was looking for something like master mode. actually, when i started on nitro type, i focused on speed and sacrificed my accuracy for it. this time i am going for accuracy rather than just raw speed
I'm honestly not sure that autofail is a good thing. Part of typing is learning how to handle mistakes. You should be able to recognize and correct errors fluidly as you type without losing too much time, but if you have to start over everytime you make a mistake then you have no practice doing that. In fact, it teaches your brain to just stop every time you mess up. The other issue is that I think the fear of losing your progress and having to start over also hinders you. It causes you to stress and when you are stressed you tend to make more mistakes, and you will also start typing slower and more deliberately in an effort to avoid all mistakes. This is just in my experience. When I don't have to worry about errors, typing just becomes a passive thing and I don't really have to focus on it, but when I'm worried about accuracy I tend to focus actively on every key stroke and that slows me down a lot without really improving my accuracy.
@@FalconFlurry Agreed, the mode where the test fails after mistyping a whole word instead of a letter is probably a better option.
how much was your typing speed before, and now
@@rodangaming4889 on monkey type improved from 45 to 90, and on 10fastfingers from 40 to 80. Also I used master mode just for developing habit in the beginning. Once I was confident on all the keys, I used normal mode.
3:28 "Beginner typists-or people aiming to reach an average speed of 80 words per minute"
*B R U H*
true tho
Same feeling 😂
I was like, hey what about 30wpm😄
80 wpm is average???
im at 50
You have to write a 1000 word essay.
This guy: give me 5 minutes.
Imagine the bottleneck on writing a 1000 word essay is your typing speed.
@@alxjones I would love that
you have to actually think about what you want to type in an original essay but I get the joke
@@mega_1st Summary for 55 minutes writing for 5 minutes
This guy: "10000 word essay in under an hour" 😎
I have been practicing typing for the past year now, and I've went from averaging 70wpm in 2021 to 100wpm in 2022 with my record being 128wpm. It took so long but its nice to see results. I use the msi bravo/gf66 keyboard because its short travel is nice
Her: What them fingers do?
Me:
(; type
funniest comment ive ever seen
her: aand what can you do with your right hand?
me with 7 cps: :(
Aaah, Naughty
people who play osu: are you challenging me?
its crazy cause when i first started learning to type fast id get 30-40 words per min.
4 years later, i now type roughly 80-90 wpm on fast fingers but 60-70 on typing racer. i think after 2 years thats when i hit 60 wpm.
its weird how progress goes, i just spent a few mins everyday practicing. little by little. eventually i learned the keyboard layout and i read ahead and things just came to me. i still wanna get to +120 wpm but i have some bad habits thats bottlenecking me.
great vid none the less!
*_Indian Ads_* -You gottta type 1000 words per day to earn 19$
*_This Guy_* -Becomes Billionare
Aww man the RSI! Yikes!
But does the idian person have billions?
@@UNKNOWN-jg6yq which person ?
@@saksham6819 idian
@@UNKNOWN-jg6yq Well just search up 'Mukesh Ambani's Networth, you might be shocked ;)
PS : 11th richest man in the world
That “type words, not letters” advice is pretty interesting! I’ve been stuck at around 80wpm for a while now and I’ve been frustrated that I can’t go past 100 comfortably. I’ll start using this, thanks!
If you take a sentence and practice each word until you can blast thru it the problem is still reducing the time between each word. So I think the solution might be to practice the single sentence to learn how to reduce the time between words. If you cannot go fast in the easiest situation it won't make sense to try to go faster when there are more variables.
He made 80 wpm seem so slow sheesh
it is incredibly slow
@@fizzgaming8346 it's more than double the national average my fellow human. It's not slow, its just slow compared to someone who is typing at more than 150 wpm
@@Casercaser the only reason the average is 40wpm is because people who have never typed, or barely type, bring the average down. For people who practice typing even a little bit, 80 is incredibly easy. I have over 110 WPM with less than a month of practice
@@fizzgaming8346 A month of practice...? Do you mean from never having used a keyboard or from 80wpm?
@@fizzgaming8346 don’t police dispatchers have like ~80-95 wpm?
This video actually really helped, thinking about typing words rather than letters added like 15-20 wpm to my typing, almost at 100 now just from like an hour of practice!
me with a 28 wpm : 👁👄👁
update: its 41 now🥺
update: its 68 now🥺
update: its 82 now😎
update (3 years later) : i forgot to update but its around 190 now hehe
Merabhi😓😓
@@nevrachrwe dont have to memorize it just practice touch typing I guess
@@kiwie777 i jumped from 61 wpm on nitrotype to 74 in a week touch typing
Here i am crying with 65 :/
@@yacquubfarah6038 30 secs ago lmao
The best crisp video on improving the typing skills without any nonsense! Good Work!
When he said "I wish i knew about ctrl + backspace" i was confused at first but then i tested it out and my mind was blown
wait wtf.
Useful shortcuts for everyday use:
- Ctrl+A selects All text in the page/document (Useful for Ctrl+A - Ctr+C)
- Ctrl+Backspace was in the video, deletes previous word
- Ctrl+Del deletes next word (normal Del deletes next character)
- Ctrl+Left or Right arrow you move your cursor word by word.
- Shift+Left or Right arrow keys lets you select text without touching the mouse.
- Shift+Up or Down select a row of text up or down.
- Shift+Page Up or Page down also work to select text quicker.
- Ctrl+Shift+Left or Right arrow keys you select text word by word.
- Tab allows you to jump to another input, e.g. when you're filling in an online form.
- End and Home keys allow you to reach the end or the beginning of a line of text.
- Shift+End or Home allow you to select to the end or beginning of a line.
- Home, Shift+End selects the entire line (or End, Shift+Home)
- Ctrl+Home or End: reach the beginning or end of the entire document. Works with shift to select.
- Alt+Shift+Arrow Keys: Rectangular selection of characters (works in only the editors that support multiple cursors)
- F3 or Ctrl+F search, (sometimes Ctrl+H search&substitute)
- F2 rename file, folder...
- I'm sure I forgot other things...
- Windows+Down minimizes a window
- Windows+Up maximizes a window
- Windows+Left or Right to dock windows left or right
- Windows+Ctrl+Left or right moves you between desktop environments
- Windows+D when your door suddenly opens
@@LRTOTAL Now list every VIM shortcut
He could type faster than i could read...
Ngl that's actually sad
seems fake because you can read at over 300 wpm at around 5th grade
@@acfry r/woooosh
@@acfry plus that's so little I could've read like 500 wpm at that age wdym 300, now I can read at 700 , I'm 11 in case you think I'm an adult and can't read normally
@@danieledwards8730 3 things
1. i realized it was a joke afterward
2. im saying the minimum, ofc people can read faster than that at, at grade 5.
3. nobody cares about your age
4:58 : “Indian think white”
nice one fastfingers.
Watched this video in 2X speed. Experienced what anxiety feels like all over again.
I think that for starting out with no experience with touch typing, a great website to start on is keybr, because you only start out with a few keys and slowly expand out to the whole alphabet. Its not great for experieced touch typists in my opinion, but i started with it and can say that it is awesome just for that.
also i always was focusing on speed when typing and my accuracy is terrible, if i could start over i would only focus on that, because now its really hard to improve it.
@@lunchbox1341 kinda of like me, i type around 120-130 rn, however, my accuracy is all over the place, sometimes I'll go and get 99 and sometimes I'll get 80, what I have been trying to do is slow down, to maybe somewhere around 100 wpm and just try to focus more on getting the words right and not getting the highest speed.
Agreed. I currently learn touch typing with this website and I like it.
The teaching algorithm seems to do a good job.
However you should be patient. But I guess that goes for every website
I started touch typing 10 days ago on keybr, and now i can type with 35 wpm with 93% acc. It helped me to build my muscle memory for my individual finger. I want to increase my accuracy because, when i try to type faster i would get 80% or so acc. I invested 17hrs in 10 days. But now i am stuck . So i now decided to reach 100 per acc.
on keybr i’m stuck on a letter j can’t go past b so i stopped don’t use it i get 100 wpm average tho
My WPM is around 70 when I look at my keyboard, I mainly use 3 fingers and sometimes 4, now that I'm trying to learn touch typing it dropped to 20 WPM but I believe it'll go back up
It's been 3weeks have you improved?, Ive never had a computer b4 so now that I have one I've been practicing without looking and is 18wpm on my 2nd day of practicing
@@AlexInF1 I used to be an index finger typer which was a hassle as I had to look at my hands all the time. After about 8 months of using the home row method, i average around 120wpm, and sometimes break into 140-150. I highly recommend committing and practicing.
Edit: also a quick note that reaching 100 wpm took about 2-3 months for me, but it isn't the same for everyone. after those months I've been slowly been raising my speed but its been much slower growth
It happened to me too, my wpm was 80 but I couldn't improve anymore, even with around 10 years of computer, then I decided to learn touch typing and my wpm dropped to 15wpm on the first days, 30 on the first weeks, but now I am getting 100 WPM and I feel like with this method I can improve more and more!
@Neil Warren Yes, the correct and ergonomic wrist position is that one. Your wrists should be aligned to your forearms, so they must be in the air
I'm currently at the 15 WPM from 80 and man, does it suck! I'm committed to it starting today, though.
“Progress isn’t linear”
So you’re saying that progress is tactile?
clicky
exactly :)
good one
Couldn't quite get a feel for what you were getting at, but then it clicked.
@@almightyprotagonist5364 one click at a time
wow, i'm a programmer and did not know about ctrl+backspace. You just saved hours of my life, thank you.
also me after watching this video: types 2 wpm slower.....
"... with a brief... [brief pause] ...pause in between."
unironically 10/10 voiceover
Back in the 1960's, my typing practice text was: the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs. that's every letter in the alphabet and is how they taught us in a high school typing class from a home position and without looking at the keyboard. I don't even think about the location of letters on the keyboard with this direct link from thoughts to print with seldom thinking even about correct spelling. During the years of the VietNam war with my MOS as a clerk typist, it was astonishing how many officers had never learned how to type and had to rely on someone else doing all the typing for them. It would have been even better if we had laptop computers and word processors back then because there had been a zero tolerance for any typos.
You sayin if I type this sentence out over and over it'll set me up for success due to the required fingers per each letter will have muscle memory?
ur old! :p
Finally! Most videos and articles about fast typing are like "don't look at the keyboard, and parctice". It's the first video that gives some actual useful tips for improving above the 60 - 80 range. Thanks a lot!
I type around 30 WPM but I only use 4 fingers which isn't really practical so I set a goal to learn how to type properly and maximize the use of all fingers
18th May : 11 WPM
23rd May : 16 WPM
(I'd like to update this monthly to see where I can get by the end of the year, wish me luck!)
i started from 16th may
when i started my speed was 6-7 wpm and now its 20 wpm
its day 12.
@Mystic Clover which site you practice!?
@Mystic Clover
Thank You
How many days it take you from 20-25 to 65 wpm!?
@Mystic Clover
Thank you!
I did well from 0 to 20 Wpm
Lets see what happens my goal is now 50 wpm for now.
How much time did you spend on typing daily!?
used to type 60 now types100 wpm ;-;
This video is an eye opener for me. Despite reaching ~140 WPM, I'd never thought to eliminate consecutive finger use like with D and E. When I think about it, there's probably a number of these inefficiencies in the conventional QWERTY layout.
Great video! In the past few months I've been consistently working on and putting a substantial amount of time toward improving my typing. Started at around 80wpm average on typeracer, and after constant practice over the course of about 2 months I'm starting to get alot of quotes in the 120's. Feels amazing to improve at something while having real numbers to document your progress day by day. Something I learned from this video that I can't say I've ever heard before is the "type word by word, not letter by letter" That's something that I kinda did intuitively but I couldn't think of a way to describe it and that fits perfect. I use qwerty and my end goal for typing is to average 140 on typeracer and I think that's an achievable goal given enough time. I wish everyone luck on their one individual journeys! Thanks again for the motivation.
That is incredible progress, congratulations! Good luck going forward - 140 is some serious speed!
holy shit cactus from arsenal? i miss you bro 🥹
This is actually extremely useful as someone who is trying to get my average wpm past 50 and struggling.
It’s insane how accurate and fast you are
idk why youtube would recomend this to me but im happy it did i really enjoyed this video :)
UA-cam algorithm is godly :')
Same
Same
How to improve from 0wpm to 200wpm:
Step 1: Get a keyboard
@@mrteco4236 120mpw
@@priyamkalra lol
and get a computer
Thanks for uploading this video. It is very informational.
I feel like I'm peaked at the 120 range. I can get spikes of higher rates but and not consistent.
Not sure why this video was in my recommended, but it was worth the watch.
Switched to an ergo keyboard for work a year ago, and that changed a lot of my habits. Currently making an attempt to get fluent with Dvorak and Colemak, and it was very interesting to see how many of the point you made in the video aligned with things that I'm doing. Started by focusing building memory of the layout, got a decent rate, then started to focus words with the pauses to think about how my hand needs to move to form that word.
Awesome typing rate.
Her : Show me what you can do with ThOsE fingers
Him :
lucky girl
This advice is insane, reading ahead was the best tip I found in here. I went from around 80-90 up to 110-120
The thing is "reading ahead" isn't exactly a good habit to form when you're someone that wants to type fast regardless of what's in front of you. The point is not to just type fast for the sake of typing fast. It's to improve productivity. Unless you're a scribber, focus more on writing each word at a time. Try creative writing as well.
@@starmorpheus in my experience reading ahead never effected my writing speed but it can be different for everyone
@@starmorpheus you type faster if you know exactly what to type because you don’t have to process what is given to you, and that is simulated with reading ahead.
You know he’s typing superfast as his laptop’s fans kick in
I switched layout 2 years ago from typing with 4-5 fingers on AZERTY (~89wpm, ~85% accuracy) to Dvorak, specifically to learn 10-fingered typing. It took me roughly a year to get back to ~89wpm, but this time with about 95% accuracy. At the moment I'm still around the same speed, but I don't practice nearly as often.
"Progress is not Linear"
Got it!
For beginners, I think typingclub could really help them slowly adapt with touch typing. It has a cool interface, lessons about the different keys and videos that provides information. This is just based on my opinion though.
Agreed. I learnt touch typing there. Now i can type with 100wpm after 4 months
i bet ur a 10 wpm typer
@@warpromo6636 look at my chanel for proof i got 100wpm and i learnt touch typing on typing club
yep, I've been at it with that website for about 1&1/2 months and I've learned how to touch type and I am around 40 wpm!
@@temanbradley8505 great
The only reason I tapped on this video was to ask, *how tf does someone type and end up with 0 wpm?* LOL
Afk
Long words
Taking over a minute to type a word
This is good. You gave some good pointers, things to think about, and possible goals with reasonings behind them. Much appreciated :)
Johns Fingers - In Pain
Johns Keyboard - Bouta Give Up
Johns Camera - *Casual Earthquake*
John - "Hey guys and today im going to be teaching you how to be a fast typer!"
John Cena:
I got 79 WPM and i don't even hold my fingers right when typing lol
Edit: Got 86 WPM
Edit: 87 WPM
Edit: 97 WPM
Same here
@@subscribeplease7131 wtf you got from 79 to 97 in less than 7 days
@@tusharkhatri4862 everyone gets 1 lucky test. getting a 100 is easier than getting consistent 100
I'm waiting until you get 200wpm and edit your comment
@@tusharkhatri4862 you can do that in minutes if you keep practicing.
this dude took the word "keyboard warrior" to the next level
Best video on fast typing I've seen. While a lot of people just quote "practice," you actually cite good intentions and habits. Awesome vid
Takes me 23 minutes to write my 500 word essays, yet with Geico you could use 15 minutes to save 15 percent or more on car insurance.
Hi John, I came here to say a big thank you for making this video.
I'm a slow learner, started off with 50wpm-60wpm and I've been practicing touch typing for a few months now. Today, I finally hit 102wpm as my fastest record in typeracer, and was so taken aback when I had to do the verification. Although I'm still within the 80wpm-90wpm range (70wpm if slow), once in a while I get close to 100wpm and that is a magnificent breakthrough thanks to your video. This is a really honest video without sugar coating people with useless shortcuts; It's really all about practice. I hope you are doing well in your college John.
Do you use all your fingers?
Ah yes, 0 wpm, just staring at your keyboard
This is probably the 5th or 6th video I’ve seen on this subject and it’s the one that actually has unique advice to get you to the next level.
7:35
It makes me unconfortable to see that he was 1 away from 1000 strokes
John , This is superb.
My current speed is 80wpm with 90+ accuracy.
Working hard for further improvements.
that is amazing, good luck
Have you improved your typing speed and may I know what is that speed now
Imagine this guy arguing with his girlfriend on text...
Girlfriend be like At least give me time to think...🤣
😂😂😂😂GF Reply : WHT THE BLOODY HELL
Nah his gf won't even start arguing with on text ( if she has brain that is )
I finally found the man who types the terms and condition.
0:50 me when i explain that i am not the imposter
UA-camrs: Cameras don't matter.
This guy: Keyboards don't matter.
It's funny because this is in the middle of the mechanical keyboard craze, when everyone wants to make their own silky smooth 60% with holy pandas and a brass backplate, and this legend typist prefers.... a laptop keyboard.
What about black lives?
I get 105-106 wpm now, but I have a problem when it comes to unfamiliar words, it really slows me down and makes me think when I get a word wrong instead of actually continuing. (105-106 in 10ff test)
Yeah I get that problem as well
Maybe try to practice spelling patterns of words, especially complex prefixes/suffixes
Keybr is best in that case because most of words are randomly generated.
@@greyman2623 yes but thats literally the point, it’s better to practice with actual sentences which is more realistic
same bro 🙏 Minecraft got me typin like usain bolt (120wpm)
I didn't know about the control+backspace shortcut until today. My mind has been blown and my productivity increased 👍
John: I like cherry MX Browns
Keyboard Enthusiasts: Wait, Thats Illegal
smh so many pretentious mechanical keyboard users
Me who doesn’t know anything about keyboards: Ah yes keys
i use brown
Browns aren't bad for typing though
i just bought my first mechanical keyboard and it's a cherry mx brown. i don't like my keyboards to sound like typewriters, so i'm hoping for the best.
7:47 Ezio's dialogue with Desmond at the end scenes in AC Revelations.
My record on monkeytype 15 second test is 155 WPM. Happy with it considering I never thought I could break the 100 WPM mark ever.
Really nice video. I appreciated the pace, your examples, and the structure of the content.
"N" and "I" are one of the most common letters together
uh oh
barely, "th, he, in, at, of" is more common
XD
Gg
for those who want to start from scratch i recommend you start with "typing club"
That one guy (not me) typing 112 wpm with 2 fingers be like: I have defied everything and everyone! Fear me!
beginner tips (from a 100-160 WPM typist) :
use your left / right thumb to click on the space bar
use AT LEAST 6 fingers (more is better)
use your left pinky to press on shift (for capitalization)
dont use caps lock for 1-5 capitals, use shift instead
if a key for example is closer to your left hand dont go out of your way to press on it with your right hand (left hand occupies left half of the keyboard and so on)
learn the keyboard layout (touch typing is much easier than occasionally checking on the keyboard to type something)
7:40 Assassin's Creed Revelations ending when Ezio communicates with Desmond.
EDIT: Just noticed at the end the website says you typed a quote from Assassin's Creed 2. How can this website get it wrong, I am pretty sure it's from Assassin's Creed Revelations.
toughest guy in the world: David Goggins
John's laptop: *heavily panting , bruh , that's nothing for me
My typing went from 50 to 75 because of John. Thank you
That's awesome!
i was there to know that he's not going to make a bad day, glad
It doesn’t matter whether or not there is a magic trick that instantly give you 200 wpm speed. People always strive for things that are difficult, and people who have done difficult things stand out. If any average people can do 200 rpm than nobody would care if you get 200rpm, not even you. Everyone would care about people who get 300 rpm.
i love rotating 300 times per minute.
7:39 Assassin's Creed reference
Ezio said these words in Revelations.
I can already type up to about 130 wpm on monkeytype but the most useful advice that I haven't yet realized that I got from this is the reading ahead of your typing... this is mainly because I noticed that I got really really slow, perhaps painfully slow after long typing sessions like 3 or 2 hours and I haven't known the cause. Now I know that it might be eye fatigue as I have mild blurry vision and astigmatism so maybe my eyes need more effort to stay focused, thus slowing reading after a long while. Thank you for this. But some days are generally shitty... The fun thing about typiung is you can feel it when you're doing good on a particular day, like you're almost floating off the ground lol. The "wait, I haven't made a mistake in 40 seconds and my typing is really consistent..." moments before making an error that would cause you to fail that particular test lol
Flow state for the win!
@@Eyes0penNoFear update tho, I just got back to typeracer from MonkeyType. I can do 150 wpm on MonkeyType easy but I do 70-80 wpm on TypeRacer cause of bad habits learned lol. Don't be like me, practice with real quotes instead of timed, randomized words. I got about 8k games on MonkeyType lol, on 94% average accuracy. can't type words other than the top 200 words tho lol, let alone punctuations. I am a worse typist than when I started.
Definitely didn’t know about ctrl backspace, thanks for that c:
The problem with typing tests is that you're not exactly typing what's on your mind which can greatly slow you down to a point where it's very frustrating. It's even worse when you're not familiar with the test at all since you basically start out with a crappy score.
This dude must be replacing his keyboard every month
When you need to say your joke before the group changes the topic: