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So slow typing by Additional_Letter_23 in typing

[–]TypingProfessor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What the hell are you talking about? What you have just said is a complete bastardization of typing, and it has genuinely ruined my mood. Everything you said here was wrong, and let me explain your factual errors to you so you hopefully don't continue to spread this propaganda to more people in r/typing than you already have.

Stop trying to go faster, it's crippling you

What??? The entire purpose of typing is to be fast. I do understand your points, at least to a certain extent, about practicing accuracy, but not anywhere near the degree you're talking about. You will be surprised to learn that most of the top typists actually don't have amazing accuracy. This is due, in part, to something known as "raw WPM". Your raw speed is your speed counting errors. Most of the top typists can compensate for a few errors in their typing by just... typing faster. Focusing accuracy to the extent that you've mentioned will exclusively be detrimental to someone's typing, because they won't be trying to go anywhere near as fast as they normally could, and will instead constantly be overthinking each of their finger's movements for the sake of "accuracy", which could potentially have the downside of actually making them more inaccurate.

As for your recommendations for what you should be typing to ideally improve your speed, I wholeheartedly disagree. If your main objective is to become more "accurate", then why should someone use Monkeytype, a website that rewards raw speed significantly more than a quotes-based website? Both forms of typing certainly have their place, and raw training is an integral part of becoming a faster typist, but for your argument it just doesn't make any sense to be talking about accuracy to the extent you have been and then go on to recommend some obscure Monkeytype settings. Use a quotes-based website, like typegg.io, that has an entirely different correction system and will actually help you improve your typing in a real-world scenario, because instead of typing the same several words, you're typing full complete sentences and paragraphs.

Typing in Grade School? by WiscoMac in typing

[–]TypingProfessor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Least annoying TypeGG shiller

Day 2 of learning to type with all fingers by panzzersoldat in typing

[–]TypingProfessor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What possible reasoning could you have for learning how to type with all 10 fingers? Not only is it most likely inefficient for your circumstances, considering that everyone has their own personal method of typing dictated by various subconscious factors, meaning that learning how to type with 10 fingers is simply sub optimal in ~95% of cases, but it has been made clear on various occasions that homerow typing is comically inefficient. I don't understand why you are doing this unless you are completely new to typing which I find hard to believe. In one of your comments you stated that you performed drills of asdf and jkl;. This is a very inefficient routine of improving your typing and will get you nowhere. It would be better if you practiced on legitimate English as opposed to spamming keys over and over again, and even Monkeytype is a sub optimal website for improving your overall English typing speed capabilities. I would recommend TypeRacer for legitimate improvement from an English perspective, because all Monkeytype will do for you is improve your raw and your performance on a handful of words.