Typing speed test
Speedtest - how fast are you?.
Steve Yegge had a post the other day about learning how to type faster, a skill most programmers probably ignore. I know I did. I’ve never really properly touch-typed. I don’t use the home row or any of that stuff but I don’t look at the keyboard either and I type fairly quickly. I knew I could get better though so I was happy when I found this test. It doesn’t take too long and it seems like just doing this a few times a day will help. For the record right now I’m hovering right around 52 words per minute. I’m hoping to get up to 60 average in a month and see how hard that is to achieve.
Steve Yegge had a post the other day about learning how to type faster, a skill most programmers probably ignore. I know I did. I’ve never really properly touch-typed. I don’t use the home row or any of that stuff but I don’t look at the keyboard either and I type fairly quickly. I knew I could get better though so I was happy when I found this test. It doesn’t take too long and it seems like just doing this a few times a day will help. For the record right now I’m hovering right around 52 words per minute. I’m hoping to get up to 60 average in a month and see how hard that is to achieve.