Typing Tips to increase Typing Speed - Best learning for ACCA students for improvement

Practice and consistency are the two key aspects that will eventually help you in increasing your typing speed. With concentration on technique, regular practice, and using the right tools, one is bound to improve their typing speed. Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you tighten your typing muscles and increase speed:

### **1. Proper Technique is Necessary** 

- **Employ all fingers**: Stop typing with two or three fingers and try to learn the usage of all your ten fingers. This is very important for speed and efficiency.

- In the keyboard layout, your fingers must remain on the lower row following the keys as shown. This is referred to the home position of your fingers.

  - For left hand: A, S, D, F
  - For right hand: J, K, L, ;

These keys must always be the return keys of your fingers after pressing some other keys.

- **Sitting Posture**: A good posture must be maintained otherwise the wrists, hands and back will be stress. Elbows must be placed at 90 degrees; sit up straight and keep the wrists in a position that they are higher than the keyboard.

- **Strength of Key Engagement**: Use a light force to press the keys. Do not hammer the keys as this may slow you down throughout your progress in typing.

### **2. Esquisse le placement des touches claviers**

- **Touch Typing**: It’s a term that describes the action of typing without looking at the keyboard. Once one knows the positioning of the key, the fingers are able to move with more ease, automatically increasing on speed and reducing on errors.

- **Practice through the Internet**: Typing skills can also be honed by availing oneself to specific sites such as *TypingClub*, *Keybr*, or *Ratatype* which consists of practices and evaluations designed to enhance one’s skill in touch typing.  

**3. Make it a Routine**

- **Regular for Sticking Out Tasks**: Regular intervals of say 15 – 30 minutes should be allocated for practicing typing on a daily basis for optimal results. It is all about habit.

- **Timer for Time Trials***: The most common way in which you should consider the use of a timer is at times through the use of gradual increment towards its limit as usually speed targets are key to the game. Begin simple, then complexity.

- **Time to Push Yourself*: Replace once a day with every few days with halfway there. The difference between these two deliberations is drastic, one may even say a continental divide. 

**4. Speed is not in any Conflict**

- **Speed or accuracy? Neither is essential**: Because accuracy comes at a cost, it is often emphasized that one must not concentrate on speed for the time being. Most times one should aim for around 96-99 percent, afterwards speed can become the primary goal.

- **Letting the situation Develop**: Most times especially if it holds a high status in the day today tasks only a few slowly and once spelt can be imagined to be wrong, often the case is that no one cares. With effective practices built all over it would go on to strengthen both speed and accuracy later in the future in time.

5. Broaden the Vocabulary and Familiarity

- Common Words: Try typing some simple frequently used words or phrases which are available during the test or while working. This will allow you to give more more speed and less time thinking the formation of a word.

- Dictation: Following simple text-to-speech or dictation exercises may enhance your typing speed with a better understanding of how a language unfolds, and its flow.

6. Use Premium typing Apps

- Typing Software: Apply accounts with typing programs designed to achieve both high-speed and high-precision in a course.

- Typing Master: Provides high-frequency interventions aimed at enhancing target variables (speed and accuracy).

- Klavaro: A free online typing teacher that grooms you based on the pace at which you progress.

- Typing.com: Also a web-based typing course where users are taken through exciting lessons and games.

**7. Play Typing Games

- Gamified Practice: Gamification is a great tool for enhancing keyboarding skills as it comes with a competitive factor or rewards. Websites such as Nitrotype, TypeRacer, Typing Attack and others enable users to compete against other users or the fastest time imaginable which enhances typing speed as well as being fun.

**8. Refrain from Fixing Eye on the Keyboard**

- **Practice `Blind' Typing**: While typing, avoid looking down at your keyboard. The more you repeat this practice of not fixing your eyes downwards, the faster you will be able to type since your fingers would have been oriented toward the keys with practice. 

- **Cover the Keys**: If you are the type who gets an urge to look anyway, try using a cloth to cover the keyboard or use blank key keyboards which will force you to memorize the keyboard positions. 

**9. Improvement of the Keyboard is Required**

- **Use A Comfortable Keyboard**: A comfortable keyboard and preferably an ergonomic keyboard can really help a lot. A mechanical keyboard is often a better choice for more people who want to be able to type faster because they can type a lot and are more comfortable. 

- **Keyboard Layout**: You may also wish to consider trying out an alternate keyboard layout like Dvorak or Colemak that is aimed at minimizing the movement of your fingers to type more effectively and efficiently. However, do bear in mind that it takes time to get used to different layouts so give yourself time in case you wish to go for this option.

**10. Consistency is Key, So Be Patient**

Keep in mind that speed will not increase in a short time but rather it is improved with persistence in practice. This means setting achievable targets for yourself, and not being disappointed with the speed of advancement. Look at the changes you make over time and soon enough, you will witness some remarkable improvements in your typing speed in addition to accuracy.

**Summary of Tips:**

- Concentrate on keeping your fingers in the right position and your back straight.

- Make an effort to touch type and refrain from glancing at the keyboard.

- Increase the time you practice in a stepwise manner.

- Relate changes with time by using one of the many websites available for online typing tests.

- Enhance your knowledge using typing software and games and where possible, have fun while at it.

- Avoid being in a hurry: First, focus on accuracy, then speed.

- Have patience – if you keep it then enhancements is bound to come.

Typing speed and efficiency can, however, be improved drastically by adhering to these guidelines and practicing regularly.