You should spend most of your time thinking about a given problem/solution, as opposed to actually typing.
Now, I’ve heard the argument made that, as a programmer, typing speed isn’t so important. You’ll always be bottlenecked by your typing speed. Therefore, if you are a slow typer, it won’t matter how great your IDE is, or how great your text editor is, or how productive you think your workflow is. I recently read an article that said, in it’s simplest form, that programming is just pressing keys on a keyboard.įundamentally, programmers are typists! We just happen to press the keys in a specific order that allows compilers to read the combinations of characters, and convert them into machine code. It has an option to save your text and to track the best time for the specific text.By Matthew Burfield I learned to touch type at the ripe old age of 29. Type in any text, click a button to repeat the text few times, and then type it. The purpose of this typing practice is to speed up hands by repeating keys combinations several times. To accommodate two schools of typing, specifically, 1 or 2 spaces after period, all tests have two versions: one version, named "s", single space, has 1 space after a period, the other, named "d", double space, has 2 spaces after a period.Īll tests return wpm, words per minute, and number of errors. Several typing tests are available where anyone can post typing speed result and there is a link to the best typing speeds in the past for those who like to know what the top typing speeds are.Īt the bottom of the page are links to various stories to practice or to test typing. Music, various typing speed rhythms, can be played to encourage rhythmical typing. Lessons and goal are saved on user's computer as a cookie. One can set a typing speed goal and, also, save lessons to track progress.
Lessons should be taken in sequence as they build upon each other. Each lesson has review practice reflecting characters learned.
Simplified Dvorak typing lessons - alternative.
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