Learning to Type properly with Touch Typing (aged 40)

an update one year on: I am now fully touch typing without thinking about it, and my speed has increased and continues to increase. I don't need to look at the keyboard as much and I am really pleased I took the time to learn how to type properly. It was a frustrating few weeks but now I have the skill for life - speed increased, efficiency increased, wrist pain decreased. Winner!

Nice vid subscribed and also this video really helped me

My wpm is 50 wpm

I've been using multiple apps and watching lots of videos with tips and antidotes for almost 4 months, with several hours of practice and I've gone from around 20 wpm, with 5-finger looking at the keyboard typing, to around 23 wpm 10-finger touch typing.

Never hit the subscribe button so fast. I love the vibes of this channel. Its never too late to learn

Meanwhile I'm over here with a split keyboard that I've separated and have my dinner and mug in the middle between the halves, try crossing my dinner plate with your index finger lol

Thank you for the video. I am exactly in the same situation, and I am experiencing what you went through. I have practised 75 hours in two and a half months. My speed is around 30, which is slow for how much practice I have done. This is quite addictive. Thanks for a realistic video.

45 yo and my typing speed is 32 wpm, unlimited backspace key, keeps on looking on the keyboard because I couldn't memorize the proper placement of fingers.😅

My typing speed is SHYTE!

My typing speed is 70 wpm. I love the channel. Keep making great videos. 😘

My typing speed is my average is 50 wpm and my highest was 62 wpm.

It’s win Laura!

I took it to the next level. First I learned just Qwerty touch typing on almost regular keyboard. Then... I got my split mechanical keyboard. And decided to ditch my Qwerty typing in favor of Colemak-DH in the same time learning to use that new 50% split keyboard. And I would say... it's not that difficult at all. It takes patience, but it's not difficult. Currently at 60+ WPM. Feeling quite comfortable. The goal would be to get into 80+. Also... when I was first time learning Qwerty, I sanded off letters from the key caps so that I have no reason to look at keyboard.

This takes me back! I had to practice touch typing on Dance Mat Typing nearly every day during online learning in primary school. It’s such a goofy website, all these different animals teach you different progressions and give you games and then they sing a song for you when you’ve learned their thing. Nowadays I don’t actually touch type properly, I don’t use my last two fingers as much as I should and I jump around the keyboard a bit, but I do use a lot of the skills I learned in touch typing. I’ll have to test myself and see what my typing speed is! :)

I love that I learned touch typing shortly after school. I use it for over 20 years now and I can mostly type as fast as I think (well, almost)

You look 50+ you are 50+

Laura, I'm late to your channel and late to this video. What a brilliant channel and well done on your progress. I learned to touch type during the pandemic in 2020 just after my 38th birthday when I started a new job in a new industry and realised how poor my typing skills were. I've become something of a typing nerd and even moderate on a forum about typing. I just wanted to say that I hope you are still touch typing. Just know that you only need about 10 to 15 minutes of formal practice per day in order to keep making progress. Possibly less than that if you also do a lot of typing each day as part of your job. They key thing to continually focus on is accuracy, i.e. typing each word correctly rather than incorrectly. Typing speed is nothing more than accurate repetitions of each word over time. Generally the people that can type at over 100 wpm or even over 150 wpm are simply the people who have spent the most time typing of the course of about a decade, but they'll typically try and tell you to use this site or that site or this method or that method. The short version is, once you've learned to touch type, just keep doing it. Keep typing as best you can and never look at the keyboard.

50 wpm with hunt and peck. 15- 20 wpm right now learning. G and H are driving me nutz.

Old typing style was 30 wpm started touch typing today went fron 4wpm to 13wpm😢😢😢

i average around 105-110, if i push myself i can hit 120 rather easily

Amazing keyboarding tips

Update?

I’m still typing really slow because I’m also trying to unlearn the bad habits I’ve made but I find it helpful to sound out the word rather than think of each letter individually

Hi ❤

You are an Inspiration.

Thanks for sharing your experience!

I really enjoyed this video. Something completely different from what I am used to watching. I am usually watching videos of keyboards and desk set ups and I stumbled upon your video. I learned to type faster than my friends due to gaming and msn messenger when it was very popular in Mexico. It wasn't until I started watching typing videos that I realized that my style of typing was not ideal. It helped me a lot to mimic the people from the videos and just let my mind flow with my fingers. I think that it is absolutely awesome the progress that you made and I will be sharing this video with my wife since she likes a little more explanation in videos. Keep up the great work!
As for my typing speed.
94 wpm at 100% for 15 seconds
82 wpm at 98% for 30 seconds
75 wpm at 98% for 60 seconds. and I hope I can continue to improve :)

i need 6 month to get 80wpm, i practice 20-40 minutes a day. It's a journey and it's fun.

Type the way u find it most comfortable unless you want to reach 200 WPM or higher. I type with 5 fingers only and can still get around 120 WPM

I feel like my typing is faster than most but after doing some tests I am am disappointed to know that my typing speed is only 55wpm.. with 98% accuracy.

Average typing speed is 120 I call this my average because this is me trying just a bit harder above casual as if typing to friends I average 95-100 when typing casual to friends but I have hit a personal record of mine to 243 wpm yesterday I honestly dont understand how

I was never taught typing of any sort in school. I tried to learn it too but I have lived in 4 different countries with three different keyboards/ languages and it makes it so challenging to teach my brain to memorize all the keyboards! I am relatively quick but I definitely need to look at the keyboard! Our generation was caught in between technology and lack thereof. A young co-worker asked me why I hadn’t googled something when I went to another country! I had to explain that before cells and before cells had internet, researching something was a whole ordeal and most libraries were not equipped with the information. Like how does salt look in one country opposed to the other. What time do grocery stores close? What religious holidays shut down a country… and then the same person did not know about the existence of my favorite painter and I said nothing but had to think to myself how anyone could not know with information so easily available… I had to watch documentaries on 4 tv channels! Ok vent session over… 😅

So thankful my mom made me learn touch typing as a kid

36wpm

I can't pass 60 even though It's been months since I learned touch typing

I practiced writing my name for ages but my surname is Kowalczyk lol and that isn't easy for a noob lol, I touch typed this and it took blooming ages hahahaha

i usually type 130 wpm 150 if I'm going insane mode (but 150 is a lot of errors and a lot of backspacing)

Just started a few days ago at age 50 started at 6 words per minute now after a few days I am 28 feeling pretty good then my brain and fingers go in different ways 😂, you are right when I don't think about it I do great the moment I think about it my speed goes down I decided to focus on accuracy to see if that will eventually help with my speed.

I’ve literally just decided I need to learn how to type properly & I’m coming on 43. I type exactly the same way & it’s the unlearning the bad habits that I know is going to be the hardest 🤦🏻‍♀️ I’m setting myself a 30 day goal to see how much I can improve. It’s going to take longer to reach any speed but the 30 days should be enough to learn finger mapping & retrain my brain to not look at the keyboard.

Where are you at now, anymore improvement?

I know I'm four months late, but it's really important that you don't look at the keyboard while typing. Remember to practise typing atleast 15 minutes daily. Don't forget to learn the puncuation keys aswell. You should reach 80 wpm in no time. You did really well, great job!

Funny when my penny drops & surrender to the fact that 'this lady' with her video content is becoming addictive as I sit here mustering up my energy to get to the gym knowing that I too need to at least type in my future too 😂 thanks again for another well planned together interesting video. Very inspiring with an every day consideration about what many would love to do. 💪👍

Charlie! Great vid!

39 yo. My typing speed is about 65 ~75 wpm. But I'm no longer trying to speed it up. 65 wpm is quite enough for what I need.

My typing speed is around 120-140!

This is the only accurate video I've seem!
Others are like reaching from 30wpm to 90 in like 3-4 days which is off fake!

When I have to do a Document, i put myself on NZT mode and finish the document within 2 hours 🤣🤣 that NZT soundtrack is the real NZT pill!!

I learner typing in the 90s.whem I was in College on a typewriter( brother brand ) I still have that typewriter, it was very tough. I can do 80-100 wpm.

I am looking forward to see the unicycle video. I learned unicycling during lockdown in South Africa as a fun way to keep fit while the gym's were all closed. It is a super fun but incredibly frustrating thing to learn (Well at least for me)