How much should you practice typing per day ?

The per day practice time depends on several factors like what type of words are you practicing, does that includes punctuations, numbers, easy words or hard words, your target speeds, you are a beginner, and much more personal factors.

As human we not only have a brain memory but also muscle memory which decides your reflexes and helps you in repeating voluntery tasks.

This muscle memory is what you are going to be dependent on while typing. As a beginner since your muscles are not trained for typing, so you need to set a training time for them. This lets your muscles to be more active and ready to learn something new during those time.

Setting a practice time also lets your muscles and brain to build a great muscle memory as your muscles and brain both are fully focused and engaged in typing activity.

As we earlier talked this depends on several factors including are you a beginner or intermediate, what type of practice are you doing easy, medium or hard and other personal factors that we are going to discuss.

As a beginner you need to focus on pressing correct key while you practice. Practice time should be medium at this stage, because the more you practice the more your muscles will get tired which will need more time to recover.

So , in your early 10-15 days you should practice for 15-20 minutes a day. This lets you build a good brain memory first.

Now after you get about 30-40 WPM, you can gradually increase your practice time like 25-30 for the next 4-5 days and 35-45 minutes on next 5 days. This will develop a great brain memory and also helps your muscles to get used to typing activity as you go on.

As a intermediate you can even practice for 1-2 hrs a day if you want to improve speed, accuracy or typing flow.

As a beginner if you try to practice medium or hard level then you may need to give some more time per day as medium or hard level slows your typing speed as it contains punctuations and numbers.

Your current typing speed alao allows you to manage your practice time. If your typing speed is about 30-50 wpm, as a beginner this is good and in thia case to keep improving you can set a focused practice time of 20-30 minutes.

This let you improve an average of 5-7 wpm per week, and develop a good typing flow. Note this is not always gonna happen as your speed reach to 80 wpm or higher you may see a very little 2-3 wpm or no improvements. You need to increase your typing practice time to get better improvements.