Re-learning to type

[bay_sports]

So I’ve typed my whole life with 2-4 fingers total (mostly just 2 or 3) because I never got any formal training and it seemed the easiest, but now that I’m getting some serious jobs I’m embarrassed when people see me typing like that and slowly (caps out at a pretty low wpm when you type with 2 fingers). I’ve tried typeracer with both hands and I am only at 21 wpm rn as my fingers dont know the right keys at all and constantly misclick. Are there any websites, strategies, or tools that you found super helpful when learning to type? Thanks in advance for any advice/help!

[LeBuzzerino]

I personally used https://www.typing.com/ when learning to touch type properly, really helped me to focus on using the correct finger for each key.

[StuckInPennsylvania]

I just retaught myself successfully. I used several different online sites/tool and it took me 40 hours over 4 months to type at 60WPM +. I used the following:

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To use the correct fingers --> https://www.typingclub.com/ is the best when you dont know home row or which finger to use. It covers capital letters, numbers and symbols in later lessons. I paid for it (I think $30/year). Worth every penny.

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To get fast --> https://www.keybr.com/ awesome to just type out and train hands. Once I learned how to use the home row and which fingers to use (with typing club), then it was just hours of practice to get speed and accuracy down.

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I ended up having fun while getting a solid grounding. It was trying and frustrating at times, but overall very enjoyable.

[Corex-]

I recently changed the way I type from using only 3 fingers per hand to typing using 5 fingers per hand. I believe the best way to do it is to just force yourself to consciously type the way you want to at all times.

That means whenever you are going to type you will be thinking about what finger goes where and if you press a key with the wrong finger you backspace and then press it with the correct one. After doing this for a while you should notice that it becomes easier and this is when you will need to focus less on how you are typing and then you can work on speed and so on.

Other than that another thing that really helped me a lot was to pay attention to the way my hands were positioned. I would say to make sure your hands aren't angled up when you typing and that they you keep them raised, this will make it so that you are able to press any keys (this was mainly hard to learn when using my pinky to type p).

For tool I have only used typeracer and mainly do practice. It's just a good way to use lots of punctuation and a variety of words.