Improve your Typing Skills to Increase Productivity at Work

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In your work place, you might have seen guys who type without even looking at the keyboard. This typing art is known as Touch-Typing, where person uses his sense of touch to type instead of using his sight to look for keys. Typing is usually an everyday part of our lives, we spend lots of time at home & office in front of PC and if we can become touch typists we can surely be more productive.

Typing skills require two skill sets. First, you need to improve typing skills by learning to type faster. Second, you have to improve typing accuracy. Typing tests measure your typing speed and mistakes.

Words per Minute is a measure of typing speed. A word is standardized to five characters. So, “spark” counts as one word, but “sparkmylife” counts as two.

So how can you improve your typing skills? Simply follow these 4 steps and you will be a Touch Typist in few months.

Step 1. Generally, whenever we take any course, we take pre-course and post-course to evaluate ourselves. We should take a typing test to know where we stand at present. You can get plenty of test online just search on Google. Let me Google that for you. These tests will let you know how many words per minute you are able to type and level of typing accuracy.

Step 2. Teach yourself how to remember the placement of the keys in your mind instead of with your vision. Learn keyboard keys layout by heart, this will help you in typing.
QWERTYUIOP
ASDFGHJKL;
ZXCVBNM

Step 3. Next, improve typing skills and speeds by learning to touch type.
TypeFaster is a free utility which will help you master the of skill touch-typing.

TypeFaster has 15 different typing lessons for you complete. You can view your progress and statistics at end of each lesson. By the time you complete all the 15 lessons, you be able to type without looking at the keyboard.

You can even play the typing game where you will be flying a fighter plane and you’ll have to type word which appears in front of the plane before to go crash into it if you type it correctly else plane dips below the words. Its a fun filled learning experience.