r/learntyping on getting over my hump

I’m a little stuck with my “learn to type fluidly“. My speed doesn’t seem to be improving, but is stable at around 59 to 60 wpm.

So, I went to the subreddit r/learntyping, and searched for “plateau” to see what advise came up.

Here are some of the answers / suggestions offered to folks who are stuck at various speeds:

Since your accuracy is pretty high, try focusing more on speed for the next few days. Then try and maintain your new speed while improving accuracy (slow a little and improve accuracy then increase it a little and repeat).

wizardpaninis, here

The brain needs time for what you learn to sink in. You can brute force it to an extent to begin with but a plateau is pretty common. You’ll probably notice after a month or two that a boost will seemingly come out of nowhere. In the mean time you don’t really need to spend an hour a day. I would cut it back to maybe 10-15mins and if you must, do several short sessions instead of one long one.

nemoj_da_me_peglas, here

if you have problems, go to 10fastfingers, sellect custom and put a lot of words that make you use that pinky until you eventually get better

FranBer10, here

Push yourself, try to go fast no matter how many mistakes you make. Then after a while go slow a bit and focus on accuracy. And then go for speed again.

danknissan, here

Honestly bro… just keep doing sites like 10ff and typeracer. Practice builds slowly. I was typing at 53 wpm last year. I now type at like 100. Keep it up.

piggo1228, here

If there’s any theme here, it seems to be alternation between speed and accuracy practice. So one thing that I could try is to do both speed and accuracy practice each day, and see if that causes improvement.

Another thing that I could do is back up, and focus on spelling / accurately typing words that I regularly mess up.

I could practice “pivoting” my right hand to hit keys like 9, 0, -, and ; (p on QWERTY) with my pinky finger, as is proper instead of using my ring finger.

I could Figure out what keys I’m weakest on, and do exercises that focus on those keys.