How to improve your typing speed
Improving typing speed comes down to three habits: consistent daily practice, correct finger placement, and prioritizing accuracy over raw speed. Ten focused minutes a day will move you further in a month than one long weekend session.
Start with the home-row lessons to anchor your fingers on asdf jkl;. Every other key is reached from that base. Once the home row feels natural, add the top row, then the bottom row, then capitalization and punctuation. Only after those are comfortable should you push for speed with the timed speed test.
What is a good WPM?
The average adult types around 40 words per minute. Above 60 WPM is faster than most office workers. Above 80 WPM puts you in the top tier — professional transcribers, developers, and writers usually sit between 70 and 100 WPM at 95%+ accuracy. There is no ceiling that matters for real work above roughly 90 WPM; from there, accuracy and stamina are what pay off.
Touch typing basics
Touch typing means typing without looking at the keyboard. Both index fingers rest on the small bumps on F and J, which are the anchor keys. Every other finger has an assigned column. When you stop glancing down, your eyes stay on the screen — that alone can double your effective speed because you catch and fix mistakes as you make them, not after.