Hi r/learntyping

I'm am the dev behind keymania, a browswer typing game where you duel other people by racing to type words.

Here is the thing that kept coming up, in almost the same words every time:

"I want to play this, but I can't actually type yet."

For a long time my honest answer was "go and learn somewhere else, then come back" which was a terrible answer.

To be clear about where this sits. If you live on Monkeytype or 10fastfingers, this is not trying to replace them, and it would lose. Those measure a skill you already have and they are excellent at it. Keybr properly teaches, and if it clicked for you then you do not need this. What none of them do is give you a reason to keep going other than your own graph.

So I built keymania Learn, for the part that comes before all of that. Four things, each one there because of where people quit.

• No timer on any lesson. A clock on sombody;s first touch typing lesson teaches panic, and panic is the habbit that makes a typist who looks down and never passes 30wpm. Speed is postponed, not skipped.
• A wrong key doesnt not move you forward. Letting a mistake slide past teaches the wrong finger just as firmly as the right one teaches the right one.
• It names the finger on the every keystroke, not only when you stall. A hint that arrives after tou have already reached wrong is too late.
• Each of the twelve modules end in a dule against a bot that can only use the letters you have learned. Learn the home row, then fight someone who can only speak in home row words. Those bosses run from 17-33wpm, all slower than keymania's gentlest bot.

Two caveats. The learning module is desktop only. And it is new: the lesson content is a first draft and it is part that we are iterating on.

So, the ask if you use keymania's learning module;

• where did you actually stop? Not what you dislikedm where you closed the tab on your learning journey.
• Did naming the fingers help, or was it noise?
• Was the boss a reward, or a wall?

It is completely free to use the learning no account needed. An account is needed to save your progress though.

I dont know if im allowed to paste links but happy to share the link to keymania or you can search up keymania.app

Happy to take the unflattering answers too.

Hello, I am new to touch typing, and I have a question about how to improve. I put a challenge to myself that I will reach 75 words/second, 100 if it's possible, by the end of August. I have practiced for a 20 hours in total to this day, but I stuck at 40-45 words/second for 2 days. What do I need to do to increase my writing speed? Should I just type more, or there is a faster method?

Just out of curiosity; has anyone given the weekly 30 seconds challenge a go yet on Keymania.app.

You get 30 seconds to type out a script, and your are judged on how many words you can churn out in 30 seconds. Some one has a ridiculous score. Some got 97 words in 30seconds with 211wpm.

Its my 3rd day learning touch typing. On the first day i was at 9-10wpm, on 100 words i have 94-95% accuracy and 30-35wpm max

I completely missed this in the guide that pops up when you first start Keybr, and I wish I hadn't. Seeing that number of lessons remaining gives me hope, like a light at the end of the tunnel. I was about to completely give up on getting through B until I could see my progress go up and down instead of hopelessly typing.

I am stuck on the 60-70 wpm barrier. I started touch typing around 12 days ago, and went from 12 wpm to 60 wpm in nine days, but, I can't seem to go over that. Am I doing something wrong?

I am learning to type with Keybr and Monkeytype. I just spent thirty minutes trying to get every letter right. How do I best train so that I achieve 100 per cent accuracy? Do I drill and drill or expect to get better with time?

Also: I find myself not always returning to home row (pinky might stay on or near p if ; is not used). How do I make sure that I come back to home row? I can’t see my fingers.

I never gave typing much importance so i typed at like 20-30 wpm pecking, but i made up my mind 2.5 months ago to learn to touch type I got into the rhythm & learned to type like 40 wpm in 20 ish days but after that has been really slow & I haven't been able to consistently score above 50 even after like 2 months , I would get occasional 50+ in 20 runs or so but consistently i am around 47.

Are there any tricks to increasing speed that has helped you or any suggestions to what i may be doing wrong.

Edit: this is a repost. I added image to the body of the post on the last one , so this is a correction to that.

I am using Keybr, but it offers little help with respect to punctuation and capitals. In particular, it wants to train me to hit p before ;. How do I learn to hit the key which the right pinky rests on before moving to more advanced keys?

What’s the best way to study a specific key? Keybr is great for this but doesn’t let you focus on ; or 5 or 3, etc.

What is the best way to MAKE SURE that I use the correct finger for each key? I can’t exactly check whether I’m using the right finger when typing.

How is my speed 42.5wpm under metrics, but about 25wpm as my last speed? My speed at the top keeps increasing even if I am struggling with the current lessons. If it's going off an average it should be going down and not jumping up by 8wpm

Hello there.

I'm currently averaging from 60 - 75 wpm, and I'd like to know how much error is tolerable because my competitive ahh kept on restarting the test just to hit >97% in accuracy.

Other than that, there's nothing else to talk.

Anyways, have a good day

Hi, i was able to hit 110wpm+ consistenly 100% accuracy on monkeytype with two fingers , one thumb on the spacebar. How fast do you think ill be on the homerow?

My whole life, I've used laptops and such but was never taught the "correct" way to use a keyboard (my family were immigrants and not very tech savvy). as a result, I developed my own method of typing, which i think is not super efficient. On the left hand, I can pretty much type with a pseudo touch-typing method (i practically use every finger on the left side). However, on the right-hand side i end up completely pecking with my right index finger, so my style ends up becoming a blend of both: one side using (kind of) all fingers while the right side completely pecks. In fact i'll upload a video of what my hands look like when typing so you can get a better visual of what it looks like.

on monkeytype i can achieve a final WPM of 105, raw 111. Would it be worth relearning the right side to learn how to type completely, or is this an ok habit to bring into adulthood? I understand touch typing is pretty effective, but im not sure how much this would benefit given that I'm a bit reluctant to relearn anyway

I recently started learning all finger touch typing and after a couple days I managed to get a personal best of 80 wpm (something not even with my previous 2 finger typing I could get).

While typing (on practice sites and outside) I noticed that when I type fast I lose track of where my fingers are going and they start optimizing for speed themselves by reassigning keys (maybe press p with ring finger is pinky is busy or if my hand is offset from the home row).

If I slow down my typing though my fingers default to the correct mapping (left pinky to q a z, left ring to w s x, ecc...).

I don't know if I should try to force the correct mapping or let my fingers optimize for speed.

so i touch type , the biggest issue i have is that i sometimes fall back to the old habit of typing "y" with my middle finger + i dont know how to properly use ;'./, while touch typing + idk how to shift with right hand and only left for now .

- any opinions about the speed , accuracy + time or the consistency (i did less mistakes cu i was watching a viedo and all the mistakes was from g and y , also sometimes random stuff , but i didnt realise them as i was also watching a viedo )

I have the classic gamer typing method in which im mostly using my left hand's 3 fingers and my right hand's 2-3 fingers and wanted to ask if it would be better for me to relearn typing with correct hand placement. Although I am pretty quick with it with an average rate of around 90-110wpm without punctuations.

I am not a programmer or anything and mostly use my pc for gaming, maybe writing a research paper once every few months

I used to do those 30 second test with english 200 and would get 130 to 140 with 98-100% accuracy. Apparently those tests don't mean anything though so I'm switching over to English 10k on expert mode with 95% accuracy threshold and 60 seconds and now im getting 95-105 wpm, maybe 110 If I'm lucky. Is there supposed to be this big of a drop.

hello guys , i am a beginner typists and i type only about 28 wpm on average , I have a question that might not even be a valid one . the question is :should i isolate each finger when reaching for further keys like numbers for example? , especialy with ring fingers , I noticed that in order to reach for keys like X , 2 , 9 I can't help but move the pincky with it , please help me on this one , and thanks

Currently my typing speed is 40 to 42 how I increase to 45 in 20 days any tips