How many typing tests have you completed since your progress stopped? How many days have passed? I found that when starting out, sometimes I would not improve for one or two days, then make a leap after a good night's sleep.

Also, having had a look at your profile and seeing your extreme accuracy, I think you might be holding yourself back by trying to type overly conscious. It's the same mechanic with learning to ride a bike, or walking: at first, you need to be conscious about what you are doing and make big, clumsy adjustments. The better you get, the more you develop an automatism so that you can perform a task without even having to think about it. You can walk and talk at the same time because walking is handled by a subconscious part of your brain. The same has to happen with typing.

Now, if you overly concentrate on what you are doing or try to avoid mistakes at all costs, you take the control from your automatism and load the program for walking or typing into your conscious brain, which is less fit to handle the task. Ever had that awkward feeling of not knowing what to do with your hands, or even stumbling when your crush was looking at you? Ever tried to breathe manually? It's the exact same thing.

I'm currently averaging 105 wpm, but if I try to type consciously, I'm no faster than you, because it doesn't work that way. Don't try to pay too much attention to what you are doing. I can listen to audiobooks and do typing tests at the same time now, because the visual impulse to type a word goes almost straight to my hands. (Unless it's unusual words like "infatigability" or "loquacious")

So, what you can do is strengthening that automatisms by practice, practice, practice. Oh, and practice. But you also have to embrace the feeling of having your fingers move by themselves.

I had the same problem a week before. I was stuck at 40 wpm and my best speed was at around 45 wpm. But then due to a faulty cable, I was not able to access the internet for 3 days and so I resorted to typing a newspaper article (of around 1000 words) daily on a word processor. And you know what, those three articles alone added 5 wpm to my typing speed. Now I average 45-47 and occasionally hit 50 wpm.

Like kaikaikai has said, maybe you're focusing too much on accuracy. Typing those long articles will make your conscious mind tired and will force your mind to make typing more automatic and natural.

Patience is the only key and remember not to take long breaks during those 1000+ words typing drills. Let's see who will hit 60 wpm first!

Thank you very much for your answer and advices. You are right, I try to type with 100% accuracy and I don't type with automatism, I think about my hands during the exercises. I understand your idea and I will be trying realize it. My motto will be "don't think about hands during typing". By the way I reached my best speed about 48 wpm when I typed a long text (I finished it with 95% accuracy).

Thank you for your answer. I type small texts (less 100 words) in general. And I am very very afraid of errors. I will try typing a long texts according to your advice. The most important thing that I realized that is I must do typing skills more automatic, more subconscious. Thank you once more

I can see how typing the newspaper article helped you. By typing something without being under the pressure of taking a typing test that has a timer and a system monitoring your errors, you were able to take your time and not worry about being perfect.

It's important to learn how to touch type with the keyboard layout you intend to use frequently. Making a conscious effort to input the correct keys is important in the initial stages in order to develop good muscle memory. If you focus on speed over accuracy, you'll inevitably develop bad habits, and you'll find your fingers jumping to certain keys before your brain realises it's incorrect. It is easier to prevent bad habits from forming, as opposed to correcting those that exist (something I am personally doing to breach my plateau). Your speed will increase naturally with good practice.

Passages with unfamiliar key combinations will almost always lower your speed no matter how well acquainted you may be with a particular keyboard layout, and that can be almost entirely attributed to the speed at which your brain is able to process the input required. Examples of this would be a heavy presence of uncommon punctuation, or copy typing a completely different language of which you have no knowledge.

If you are not copy typing, another factor that should be considered is how well you are able to mentally construct correctly spelt prose, without any visual assistance to guide you. Spelling requires conscious thought, and your fingers need to obey your thoughts, lest they type the closest match to which your muscles are accustomed (in my case, letters are sometimes out of order).

You can boost your patience by telling yourself to wait. For example, if you have to type a long or complicated word, you can avoid becoming so antsy that you hit the space bar before you finish typing the word by saying, "wait" or "hold" until you finish typing the word. Finger control is also vital. When typing "never" and "because", you can avoid typing e-n or e-b in the beginning by raising the third finger on your left hand before going for the "N" key or "B" key with the second finger on your right hand.

I really appreciate the advice that is being given here. I used to be really slow (10 wpm) when I first started typing. This site and its practicing has made me get to 53 wpm. I have also reached 63 wpm one time. It's amazing !I am aiming for 70 wpm. Although I would not mind getting 100 wpm as a consistent speed rate, I'm happy for what I can get.

I want to go from typing around 50 wpm to 70 wpm. Typing at such a high level could help you get a job as a court recorder or legal secretary.

I do enjoy how automatism helps. Ever since about 7 years ago, I honestly cannot remember where any of the keys on the keyboard are anymore. No point in knowing when I can just type it, right?

Memorize the keyboard anyway. There may come a crucial time when automatism isn't available to you.

Are you referring to when I say... Lose a hand or something? Because, I can't imagine how someone can just forget how to place their fingers, and where they should be. Or at least forget how to do that in a situation where memorizing a keyboard would actually help, as that information would probably be lost.