How Long Does It Take to Improve Typing Speed? A Realistic Timeline
When you start typing, there is an urge to get better and better everyday, but its not a few days journey where you can see a very major imporvements. You need to be focused and consisitent with typing practice in order to improve a little day by day. In this post we will discuss about how much time you can expect to see a major improvements or reach you target typing speed.
Realistic Goal
Setting up a realistic goal is important when you are a begginer, if your actual typing speed is below 30 WPM or you type with random fingers or not leaned to type properly then you should set a realistic typing speed target like reaching 30 or 40 WPM with proper fingers and technique.
Or if you have learned typing properly with proper fingers and technique then you can set the target speed slightly higher like 70-90 WPM. Or even in better stage you can set even higher at 120-150 WPM or more based on your practice and experience.
So, in short you need to set your expectation accordingly so that seeing a less WPM speed on the test result won't hurt or demotivate you from being getting better, because its slighly boring than you think.
Improvement Timeline
If you had just started to typing with proper finger placements and techniques, then you may need to practice enough for a week or 2, to achive 30-40 WPM speed. A month of practice can get you at 50-60 WPM and note this is not with the punctuations or hard level. So, think accordingly because punctutation and capital letters may reduce typing speed significantely if you have not practiced them yet.
If you have practiced some medium or hard level of words and sentences, then it may take a month more to achieve 50-60 WPM, and with proper and consistent practice of even 10 minutes a day can get you to 80-90 wpm even at hard mode. And If you are at intermidate or experienced, then a month time can get smaller to weeks or even days.
How to Improve Properly
Note that a proper hand and finger postion and placements is important to achieve the speed you want and to leave the space even for future improvements. WIthout proper learning and techniques you cannot achieve a good speed or find your typing rhythm even you go so hard on your practice, due to the reach of your fingers and keys. So, adapt to proper typing technique first and then practice consistant to get your target speed.