When I wanted to break the 60wpm barrier I had to go back to the beginning and learn to type properly, using the "home" row and learning the position of all the letters. I used a free version of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, but if I want to put in some practice these days I go to
www.popcap.com and use their Typer Shark game - it's much more fun!
I'm self-taught and it took a long time for me to stop looking at the keyboard, which is why going back and learning the layout helped a lot. I'm still very undisciplined - I never use my thumbs for the space bar and my index fingers cross over quite a lot. I can do 90wpm with a following wind!
Copy typing requires you to look ahead and see what is coming or to be able to be very accurate and not look at the screen. I prefer to look ahead, get a sentence in my mind and watch the screen for mistakes.
Bethalize
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