Improving Typing Skills

[inperspective]

As much as I hate to admit it, but chatrooms improved my typing speed big time.

[Jackie G]

Inperspective, how appropriate - as long as you keep things in perspective, there's nothing at all wrong with chat rooms!  LOL

Jackie
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[cemurred1]

I need to learn to type at 70-75wpm

has anyone done real training in london, like  pitman training

how many  hours does it really take to learn to type really fast.


i still have to look down when i hint the letters b, y, p and the numbers and symbols. also get mixup with the letter io and as.

i ahve just started to the learn this is my second week, just at 40-45wpm at the moment.

also i would like to a find a really good proofreading course. i like to do all these course  within  a month.

[itsme_calista]

A month??? Wow that's some target.  Speed comes with time and it's just practice, practice, practice in that case!  Just make sure you don't compromise accuracy for speed though!

Never took a pitman course, I learned on the old fashioned typewriter and it took me months to get speed and accuracy.

[jodith]

Here's some of the sites I found for a post I did on my blog about Keyboarding Skills.  Some of these go from beginner to advanced.  The most important thing is to get a lot of practice.  That's the best way to improve your skill.

    Peter’s On-line Typing Course - this is the best one, in my opinion. The text is a bit pedantic, but then, so am I. Overall, though, this seems to be a very complete keyboarding tutorial.
    Keyboarding Practice  - a number of typing drills for practice
    Typing Tutorial  - this site has a good general tutorial as well as games and tests to help you reach your goal.
    Keyboard Lessons  - 10 lessons for keyboarding. Gives good feedback, but the interface is a bit annoying.