Learning to Touch Type: 2 Week Update

#beginners #newbie

Over the last few weeks, I've been making an effort to actively learn to touch type. This should be a foundational skill which will help me in my other learning and allow me to type more with fewer mistakes. Here are my stats for the last week:

Time: 1 hour 6 seconds
Average WPM: 33
Average Accuracy: 93%
Level: 104

Here are a few things I learned this week:

It's good to focus on accuracy, but time spent typing is even better. I kept restarting a level as soon as I made a single error and this just got frustrating. Now I'm finishing the level even if I made a mistake.
Ideally I'd never look at the keyboard, but I can still improve without forcing myself not to. Similar to the first point, I was being very strict but this just slowed my progress and I wasn't improving. The more time spent using particulR keys, the less you'll naturally look down.
Progress will slow, but it's all muscle memory so keep at it and you'll get better.
It's important to practice touch typing in everyday computer use. Just very slow and frustrating!

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