The author types at 120 wpm, so that’s probably what he recommends. He doesn’t say how much work it took him to get there from 60, but it was a conscious decision and special effort. On later occasion, he learned numbers.
Although he clearly advocates such speed, he doesn’t really argue for it. What motivated him to speed up was text chat. What struck me as a good argument is that lots of people say that they are limited by what they have to say, not typing speed, but being able to type more gives the option of writing different things, such as more back-and-forth on message boards. If that’s actually useful. But I didn’t take his advice and still only type at 60wpm.
I tried this test with results:
115 WPM, 606 keystrokes, 573 correct 33 mistakes,
119 WPM, 650 keystrokes, 593 correct 57 mistakes,
102 WPM, 566 keystrokes, 511 correct 55 mistakes,
Lots of mistakes :D Could probably get somewhat better results if I attempted this all day.
I never type as fast as in that test I just did, is it the same for you too?
I feel there’s no reason to do that, to get stressed out and concentrate on typing.
I do if I’ve got some text in my head and I’m getting it down, i.e. writing. It’s times like that I realise how much most keyboards I use suck, and wish I had a Model M here.
If you already know how to touch type, how do you know if you should train some more so you can type faster?
The author types at 120 wpm, so that’s probably what he recommends. He doesn’t say how much work it took him to get there from 60, but it was a conscious decision and special effort. On later occasion, he learned numbers.
Although he clearly advocates such speed, he doesn’t really argue for it. What motivated him to speed up was text chat. What struck me as a good argument is that lots of people say that they are limited by what they have to say, not typing speed, but being able to type more gives the option of writing different things, such as more back-and-forth on message boards. If that’s actually useful. But I didn’t take his advice and still only type at 60wpm.
Typing on IRC in full sentences got me from 60wpm to 90wpm.
On this test, I got 74wpm (0 errors) on my crappy laptop keyboard, 72wpm (0 errors) on my work PC Microsoft Natural just now.
I tried this test with results: 115 WPM, 606 keystrokes, 573 correct 33 mistakes, 119 WPM, 650 keystrokes, 593 correct 57 mistakes, 102 WPM, 566 keystrokes, 511 correct 55 mistakes,
Lots of mistakes :D
Could probably get somewhat better results if I attempted this all day. I never type as fast as in that test I just did, is it the same for you too? I feel there’s no reason to do that, to get stressed out and concentrate on typing.
I do if I’ve got some text in my head and I’m getting it down, i.e. writing. It’s times like that I realise how much most keyboards I use suck, and wish I had a Model M here.
They do suck, but you can buy an actual buckling-spring keyboard here.
Highly recommended.