I was right there, watching how his fingers skillfully flew across the keyboard with top-notch accuracy. I see you as cool when I find you can touch-type and are really fast.
Since I was a child, I found touch typing to be cool. When I see people touch-typing that fast, I'm like, this is definitely going to be me soon, but I didn't have a PC, so I didn't learn it yet at the time.
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Even when I got a PC for the first time, I didn't think to learn touch typing; the only thing on my mind was to be playing PES with my PC, so again, I didn't learn it. Then my PC got spoiled. And I left it for when I had money to fix it.
Then I started needing my PC more seriously because I was resuming my final session and, therefore, would be needing to work on my final year project. So, I gathered some money to get it fixed.
Now that it was fixed, I was all about productivity and how I could use my PC to best achieve that. Then the topic of touch typing came up because I was going to be writing my project, and therefore, I would need to type a lot.
When I wanted to start my touch-typing journey, I told my brother, and then he sent me a link to typingtest.com to learn touch typing and also practice.
My first typing score was about 30 wpm, and with this, I was typing the local man way. I was using only two fingers to type, and I was needing to look at the keyboard at almost every letter of the way.
I initially just told myself that I was going to practice my typing so I would increase my speed with the local man's way of typing. After practicing for a while, I was making no significant progress with the local man's way. I think I had basically reached my climax with that.
So, then I decided to actually learn by taking courses on how to position your fingers, which finger is for which letter and function, and then practice, practice, practice.
After I started using the appropriate finger for each letter, my typing speed drastically dropped. With a drastic drop to about 15 wpm. I was like, "Whatttt?" I cannot be learning how to type, and my speed will be decreasing instead of increasing.
But with learning a new concept to apply in practice, it might distort how good you are for a while before pushing you beyond that point, which is the essence of upskilling oneself.
So anytime I needed to type, I would just default to the local man way of going about it since it was my fastest way of typing at the time. I will only do it the proper way when I am learning which finger goes with a new key. And then practice a few times after that.
I found that by not practicing what I learned from the courses when I am typing regularly, I won't get the kind of progress I wanted. So, I decided to type the way I had learned so as to improve my typing speed.
Since I started touch-typing, I gradually increased in speed as time went by; I got to 20 wpm, then 25, then I broke my ATH of about 30 wpm using the local man way. I was so excited about that. I am no longer restricted to how fast I type because I have learned touch-typing the right way.
Now I am typing with an all-time high of about 45 wpm 😁. I am hoping to take this number to as high as 90 wpm, and then I will be bragadoing (feeling proud) that I can type that fast 😎
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