Learn 10 Finger Touch-Typing in 5 Hours and Boost Your Productivity

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hi everyone and welcome back to my

channel so for the past one and a half

months i’ve been

learning touch typing or how to type

without looking

at the keyboard using all 10 fingers i

was used to

only using my two index finger index

fingers which made me

quite an average typer probably like

most of you watching

most things actually don’t require you

to go through hours

of online lessons which some websites

offer

for learning touch typing i took a

different approach that i’m going to

show you

in a minute which uses two websites

only five minutes per day of fun

practice and in a couple of weeks you

will type faster than

you are doing right now with all 10

fingers and without looking

at your keyboard there’s only one month

or a total of five hours of practice

between this guy right here

and this guy right here

so let me quickly tell you the three

reasons that motivated me and should

motivate you to

learn this skill first it’s less hard

than you think

only a couple of minutes each day are

enough to

learn this skill there wasn’t one day

that i missed because

i was looking forward to it each day i

think mostly because of the way how i

chose to

learn touch typing and one other thing i

did which i will also

show you in a minute reason number two

probably the biggest motivation

is the time you will save by learning

this technique

i love to improve my productivity and to

leverage my time

there’s no doubt that touch typing is a

high leverage activity you should take

up

if you type a lot if you spend 30

minutes a day typing over the course of

a year that adds up to

seven and a half days of typing non-stop

the average typing speed is about

40 words per minute and touch typing can

boost that to 60 to 80 words per minute

which is a 50 to 100

increase um if your typing speed

increases just by 50

through touch typing you will end up

saving about half a year of time

throughout your life which is kind of

amazing this is of course most relevant

if you’re doing a lot of typing which is

quite likely the case as you’re watching

this video

writing is quickly growing into a major

part of my day

to get your work outside into the public

you

need to somehow make yourself hurt

even if you’re using your voice as a

medium of transmission like here on

youtube

in general you need to write some kind

of script because you want to be concise

to only take

as much time of your listener as is

really necessary

and reason number three lastly it feels

and looks

just really cool and tyep test can actually spare

you quite some

some neck tension because you don’t have

to look at your keyboard right i also

bought a stand for my for my macbook and

revive the magic mouse

and keyboard that i have from my old

imac

to make it an even better experience

learning touch typing really reminded me

of learning how to play guitar

and piano what happens during the

process is you build muscle memory

muscle memory or procedural memory is a

type of motor learning

and happens in the brain through the act

of repetition your brain cements actions

into its neural pathways so that

the movement becomes kind of second

nature it’s the science behind

why you don’t forget how to ride a bike

or why after

if you’re a musician after years of not

practicing a particular song

you will still be able to play it on

your guitar without looking at your

fingers

your brain just knows which muscles to

fire next okay now let’s

move to how you can learn touch typing

the two websites

i used are kbr.com for my daily three

minutes

of practice followed by a speed check at

ten fastfingers.com i actually

took these from or learned about these

from

ala ali abdel from his youtube channel

you

should definitely check it out it’s a

great channel i really admire him

i’ve linked both websites in the

description apart from the practice

being a lot of fun

somehow maybe that’s only my weird

perception of what fun is

i tracked my my progress in a

spreadsheet and i found that this

definitely

helped me to be consistent each day i

was looking

forward to measure my speed and wanted

to have my my learning curve always

going up

which then the next day motivated me to

be

even better than the day before

just see how you’re getting better day

after day

that’s what i use 10 fast fingers force

let’s have a look um at this website

so yeah it’s pretty basic um you have

these words

uh that you are supposed to type in um

which actually

the 300 most common words in the english

language

as opposed to qbr where most of the

words are actually made up

the website then tracks your typing

speed over the course of one minute and

then gives you a number which is your

word per minute count and then you put

that

into your spreadsheet if you want to do

that um

yeah i i really enjoyed this it’s really

simple but

a lot of fun somehow so there’s two

things i would leave you with before

starting to

practice check which finger is delegated

to which key let’s have a look at

kbr.com so that’s how the website looks

like

the words are as i said mostly made up

so

you will start typing

qbr uses an algorithm that advances one

finger at

a time waiting for you to reach a

certain level of confidence and speed

for that key before moving to the next

before moving to a new key check which

finger to hit it with

i once mistakenly started using my right

index finger

for the letter b and it was really a lot

of effort to make it right if it does

happen

make the effort and correct it it’s

worth it it’s quite difficult though i

tell you

so better check beforehand your starting

position

is the always always the home row which

is basically the middle row on your

keyboard

and the little knobs on the f and j key

if you’ve ever wondered are for your

index fingers

um they just help you to orient yourself

your hands on the keyboard without

having to to look at the keyboard

so then let your fingers curve naturally

when placed on the home row

from here each finger has its keys that

are so depicted here if you want to take

a screenshot

while typing you should not rest your

palms

on your laptop or on the table it

enables you to

move more freely over the over your

keyboard

and also gives your hands a more natural

posture tip number two is that you

should never look at the keyboard just

don’t

it’s what we are trying to move away

from so just don’t build a bad habit

from

from the start right another thing that

i remembered

from learning how to play guitar

is that when you are practicing on kbr

mostly

type faster than you think you’re able

to

most people tend to be cautious and

really hit the right key

but thankfully there’s no punishment

for hitting the wrong keys it even has

advantages to prioritize speed

in this case because you will always

work

at the edge of your skill level and not

get too comfortable

at a certain stage it’s also more

efficient to build the necessary muscles

faster

now see what practice feels right for

you i found that

practicing touch typing a bit before

starting to work

on different things was a great

icebreaker for when

i’m sitting in front of my macbook

having an endless amount

of things i need to work on

most of them i don’t know how to do and

don’t know how where to start so hey

might just

as well get five minutes of touch typing

practice

from my to-do list right most of the

time

though already a couple of minutes into

practice i need to stop because

ideas start popping into my head somehow

the action of typing makes my brain run

wild

and i get really creative which then

makes it very easy to ease into my

daily tasks maybe you’ll have the same

experience

one last thing that i stumbled over

while going through my notes for this

video during

the first weeks i experienced some pain

in my lower arms

while practicing and i was wondering if

that was normal i made sure not to

overdo it

but still got in my couple of minutes of

practice each day

um so don’t worry it worked out well

probably it’s just a new set of muscles

that need

to get used to the new activity so

that’s it

i wish you good luck with your practice

feel free to put your comments

questions and your own experiences into

the comment section

thank you very much for watching and

talk to you next time

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