Faster Typing Through A Browser And Search
Or… How I increased my typing skills with 10 minutes a day.
TL;DR¹
Using a browser with the in-built search functionality and just tapping away at a random article helps you to gain real-world typing experience to up your words per minute (WPM) count.
1. Open your favourite browser
2. Start the search functionality (⌘-f on a Mac, or ctrl-f on Windows/*NIX machines)
3. Start tapping away, the highlight follows you
Background
I learned to code at the age of 6, and had my own computer by the age of 8 or so. So I have had a keyboard for quite some time now. As time progressed, and I moved on from the one finger ‘hunt and peck’ method to the more full fingers on the keyboard, I never quite progressed to be a touch typist. On the odd occasion, I would download a typing tutor for the computer and would tap away at it and get very bored by it, and give up, once again to go back to my usual way of typing.
The typing tutors never really gave me a good introduction to typing, and every time that I would start up again, I would then start at the horrific beginning with:
aaaa ssss dddd fff jjjj kkkk llll ;;;;
This got boring very quickly, no wonder I gave up.
