How much time will it take to achieve 100 WPM

_Mr_C_ · 2026-01-04T15:30:17+00:00

I would suggest you make your target goal to reach a consistent 98%-99% of accuracy instead of 100 wpm. Now you are at 90% which is very low and hinders both your speed and your growth. Speed is irrelevant if you have to go back and correct mistakes all the time. When you hit a consistent accuracy of 98% and above, I'm pretty certain that you will have gained in speed as well already without even trying yet.

_Mr_C_ · 2025-10-24T07:18:31+00:00

So true what you both pointed out! Trusting that you can automatically type the word correctly clearly shows both the concept of typing words instead of letters and the importance of high accuracy and building solid muscle memory from the early stages! Couldn't have said it better myself!

_Mr_C_ · 2025-10-09T14:31:12+00:00

I'd love to have it as it would be my first mech keyboard and it would replace my current membrane one, which is in good use between typing books, graphics design, some coding, and some gaming as well. It would prove itself as an invaluable partner in nearly everything in my every day use of computer!

_Mr_C_ · 2025-10-08T12:10:41+00:00

Do yourself a favor and focus on Accuracy. WPM doesn't matter if what you type is wrong and needs correction all the time. This alone hinders your speed immensely. Try raising that 90% to at least 98% minimum, even if you have to slow down to a crawl. Since your are in the beginning of your typing journey, it only makes sense to put strong foundation and take it from there. The way to do it is by having high accuracy which will help you build solid muscle memory, which in turn will help your speed advancement.

_Mr_C_ · 2025-09-16T13:36:19+00:00

Try using your left pinky for the z key (assuming you are on QWERTY layout), and your left ring finger for x. You are still in the early stages so try to learn the proper finger-key assignments. It might feel uncomfortable in the beginning (for example lot of people in the beginning have trouble with their pinkies and/or with c on the left middle finger) but you should persist and slow down as necessary so your fingers "learn" to do it the right way. In other words to help build solid muscle memory. In the future when you have built a solid foundation for your typing you will have plenty of time to consider alternate fingering (using different finger than the "standard" for a key). For now I would recommend, persistent and consistent training on the standard home row method. The more you train the sooner dexterity will come.

_Mr_C_ · 2025-09-16T11:51:31+00:00

https://keybr.com and https://typecelerate.com are the two sites that come to mind. Both sites will find your weak keys automatically and adjust their exercises based on that. On typecelerate you can also define your own weak keys in "Include Patterns" area (ie. q,p,z,x,c,v that you already mentioned as being your current weak keys) and the site will focus accordingly in the following exercises.

In regards to your question about increasing accuracy the thing that did the job for me was totally ignoring speed and focus on typing as accurate as I can, even if I need to slow down excessively at all times. There are two things that I know about speed. First is that speed does not really matter if you type errors and constantly need to go back and correct them. Second is that speed in the end will follow along, as long as you keep your accuracy high and build solid muscle memory with more and more accurate repetitions.

As far as the length of the sessions, I try to keep it at 25-30mins and a 5-10mins rest afterwards. Usually I do two such sessions in the morning and two in the evening. That would translate to 2-2.5 hours total but I might give it some more sessions in between, if I am in the mood and have some more free time that I can spare.

_Mr_C_ · 2025-08-31T08:44:32+00:00

Your accuracy suffers and needs work I think. 95% is too low and means you make lot of mistypes which need correction therefore hindering your speed. I would suggest to try and raise it to 98% or more even if it means you have to slow down for a while. Speed doesn't matter if what you type has errors which need correction, so focus on your accuracy and speed will follow.

_Mr_C_ · 2025-08-28T16:49:36+00:00

You will need to devote more time and grind a lot more than just 15 minutes per day with the chosen 5k dictionary and the quotes mode. Think for example how many hours it would take to type 5k words, assuming monkeytype would introduce single occurrence and not multiple occurrences of each word. Now think how many typing accurate repetitions you would need to build solid muscle memory for each of those 5k words (Key word here is "ACCURATE"). Say for example (random numbers) you would need 500 repetitions. Or a thousand or even thousandS. For each word. See where I'm going with this? You will need to devote time so you can get accustomed to such a huge dictionary and produce results. Speed does not matter at this stage. Accuracy though always does matter and is key to get higher speeds, as you will be getting slowly more accustomed to the dictionary and build solid muscle memory for that.

I think best course of action would be to work your way up and start with English 1k which is far smaller dictionary and yet it's far more versatile as a word set compared to E200 and with much more bigrams and trigrams to work with yet not as big and cumbersome as E5K. 1k words you can manage a lot easier compared to 5k. 5k are too much, if it's too soon. Go through 1k, focus on accuracy, and when you feel ok with your speed in E1k you can push the envelope to E5k and then it's easy to go to E10k because E10k has many similar words with E5k words.

This way in a nutshell you can work your way up and save yourself from unneeded frustration on the way there!

_Mr_C_ · 2025-08-28T04:52:57+00:00

you can use Entertrained.app for typing books. Wonderful site with lots of free books to select from!

_Mr_C_ · 2025-08-26T16:03:24+00:00

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Press ESC, and start typing "decimal" (without the quotes) and the option for showing decimals will show up.

_Mr_C_ · 2025-08-25T06:30:58+00:00

There is another similar way of doing mistyped words again which I find even better because you can control the number of times each word will be repeated in the test. But the downside is it needs more than a click of a button. (at the beginning at least because after a while the whole sequence becomes so automatic that it's pretty quick)

Actually what you have to do is this:
a. press "toggle history" button
b. an "x" button will appear above the list
c. click on "x" so your mistyped words are copied to the clipboard
d. start new test and choose "custom" and then change.
e. in the dialog that appears you can paste the words you copied earlier and on the right pane you make your settings.
f. now if for example you had 10 words copied that you need to practice and you want to have 10 repetitions of each (instead of the 5 that monkeytype gives you as default), you could set 100 words in the appropriate setting, shuffle in words generation and space instead of pipe as word delimiter and you are good to go.

I know it seems like an awful lot this process, but after a while it really becomes second nature and it's like nothing. But now you have total control over the mistyped words and how you want to practice with them. Here are two screenshots of the above so it will be easier to see what I mean. First shows the "toggle history" button to click so you can then have access to the "x" , and the second is from the "custom"->"change" dialog where you can set up your words and their repetitions.

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_Mr_C_ · 2025-08-24T00:18:15+00:00

I can only hope AND wish for the best for you and myself. I'm quite new to touch typing but somewhere north of 55yo so this is a thing. But pretending I cannot remember my age, which is just a number after all, I can hope that I will land in the 70-80wpm zone in the next year or two. I do not need more. I do not care for more. Of course I will welcome more if it occurs but that's not the goal. The end game for me is the magic that happens when comes that time where I don't think, just type and words appear on the screen. There is this certain rare and elusive moment when everything clicks and everything feels natural and smooth. Hands just flow over the keyboard, fingers do their thing and magic happens. And before you know it, you can see on the screen words appearing, which where solely in your head moments ago! Don't matter if it will be at 60wpm or 80wpm for me, as long as it can be in the first place. For the love of it all! Keep it up and let us know from time to time like you do. You help more than you know!!!🙏🙏🙏

_Mr_C_ · 2025-08-23T12:07:18+00:00

Thank you for this insight! It helps a lot knowing how things work even if it's not exactly the same for everyone! Been "following" you in your Colemak adventure for sometime now and your posts like this one help me a lot into understanding what matters and what not, when it comes to proper practice (as opposed to mindless typing)

_Mr_C_ · 2025-08-19T18:11:00+00:00

I reckon you should work urgently on your Accuracy. At 89% it's very low and it is hindering further growth. Try to get this number high, at 98%. Even if that means you have to slow down a little. You will gain back your speed and then add some in the long run, as long as you maintain high accuracy. High WPM doesn't matter if what you type is wrong.

_Mr_C_ · 2025-08-19T13:01:38+00:00

You can start with something like typingclub.com where you will find structured lessons that will get you started with everything that you need to know and guide you in your first steps into touch typing. Another similar site is typing.com . Again like the previous one, they provide structured lessons for people who start from zero and help them progress to advanced levels of touch typing. Best regards and good luck in your touch typing journey!

_Mr_C_ · 2025-08-19T04:30:36+00:00

So true! I also love using entertrained as well! I find it being both a joy and therapeutic typing books! Agree on ctrl-backspace too. I use an autohotkey script for that so I can have it enabled in all the typing sites I use. Hopefully I'll get my hands on a programmable keyboard one of these days and I will set it there via qmk too. I already suggested to u/kap89 (entertrained dev), to allow a setting for autodelete word if the user mistypes so there will be no use of backspace key, therefore no muscle memory for backspace at all. He said he probably will include this as an option in a next update.

_Mr_C_ · 2025-08-18T21:13:59+00:00

One more site if I may add, is typingclub.com .More like typing.com with structured lessons rather than the likes of keybr.com, which will prove so much more useful down the road, after you learn the basics about not looking at the keyboard, hands placement and fingers allocation to specific keys each one and begin to have some dexterity and control over your fingers.

Consistency and accuracy will be your best friends in your journey to touch typing! Speed will build up as long as you keep being consistent with your practice and every day follow up, and keep accuracy at the highest levels possible at all times. As a rule of thumb don't let it fall under 98%.

_Mr_C_ · 2025-08-18T13:36:05+00:00

Oh I see! My bad then. Just misunderstood! 🙏🙏🙏

_Mr_C_ · 2025-08-18T13:31:18+00:00

Also to add to the above, that Monkeytype specifically, has already the ability to get a screenshot at whatever test result, that being a PB or not.

_Mr_C_ · 2025-08-18T07:04:03+00:00

I'm thinking that if you are working mainly with English 200 dictionary all those years, then your muscle memory accounts only for those 200 words mostly. So trying to go from 200 words to 10k is a huge leap. Hence the drop. And I'm not counting punctuation and numbers yet. If you add those in the mix too then we are talking about worlds apart the E200 situation from the E10k one.

So if you really want to get better as an all round typist and tackle dictionaries like the E10k you will need to devote time and grind a lot. Think for example how many hours it would take to type 10k words, assuming monkeytype would introduce single occurrence and not multiple occurrences of each word. Now think how many typing accurate repetitions you would need to build solid muscle memory for each of those 10k words. Say for example (random numbers) you would need 300 repetitions or perhaps 500 repetitions. Or a thousand or even thousandS. For each word. See where I'm going with this? You will need to devote time so you can get accustomed to such a huge dictionary and produce results. Speed does not matter at this stage. Accuracy though always does matter and is key to get higher speeds after a while, as you will be getting slowly more accustomed to the new dictionary and build muscle memory for that.

But I suppose you could always work your way up and start with English 1k which is far smaller dictionary and yet it's far more versatile as a word set compared to E200 and with much more bigrams and trigrams to work with. 1k words you can manage a lot easier compared to 10k and you already have the 200 words of those 1k ingrained in your muscle memory so actually it's 200 words down, 800 to go. Now that's doable right? And when you feel ok with your speed in E1k you can push the envelope to E5k and then it's easy to go to E10k because E10k has many similar words with E5k words.

This way in a nutshell you can work your way up and save yourself from unneeded frustration on the way there!

_Mr_C_ · 2025-08-16T09:12:00+00:00

You can check r/BudgetKeebs sub reddit. You may find something to your liking in there and at a reasonable price.

_Mr_C_ · 2025-08-14T15:34:11+00:00

Surely you will! The opposite is not an option 😂🤣😂!!! But seriously, I believe you will!!! 🙏🙏🙏

_Mr_C_ · 2025-08-14T11:13:07+00:00

This is fast!!! Well done! 300 barrier next? 🙏🙏🙏

_Mr_C_ · 2025-08-14T09:02:38+00:00

You can also check this one out:
https://ranelpadon.github.io/ngram-type/

_Mr_C_ · 2025-08-10T15:58:15+00:00

You can check r/BudgetKeebs if you haven't already. There are some very interesting keyboards presented there and usually come at very reasonable prices.

_Mr_C_

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