What do you do when you reach your peak speed?
By afbwelter - updated: 9 years, 3 months ago - 5 messages
I have worked up from 70 WPM to 90 WPM on
typeracer.com in the span of a few months and I moved over to this site after I realized that I was almost completely typing from memory as there is limited number of quotes on the site and that if I ever really wanted to improve I needed to begin typing new material. So here I am now and I'm beginning to get this feeling that I may reach a point when I will not be able to improve very soon. I have already reached the point where mindless practice had to be replaced with careful work on my accuracy and I have overpassed that hurdle, but:
I am just wondering if anyone else has reached this point where they no longer improve. Also if anyone has reached a point where they only believed they had reached this point only to continue improving and what they did then. Does anyone feel like some people simply cannot reach speeds of 150+ WPM and that you have to a freak of nature to be able to type this quickly? If so what is a reasonable speed for someone who consistently practices diligently? What do you think is your peak speed? What speed do you wish to reach? What motivates you to type? Talk to me my fellow heroes!
By bdeonovic - posted: 11 years, 4 months ago
You can do some non-quote type practice at
http://type-fu.com/ that can increase your speed a bit ( i find it much more challenging than doing quotes)
By pk552 - posted: 11 years, 4 months ago
Hi, I have the same feeling. I reached to 90 WPM and now I found it really hard to increase the speed anymore...
By adam_fort - posted: 10 years, 5 months ago
By vmlm - posted: 9 years, 3 months ago
I seem to enjoy typing on this site, and so I come back often. For a while I was stuck at a max speed of about 120 wpm, give or take... Oh I could reach up to 140+ with some of the simpler quotes (and there's a lot of those now), but that's mostly because I already know those by heart. Up until that point I'd found that practicing on this site and another one which uses a lot of drills to help you internalize correct typing motions was enough for a continuous, if gradual, improvement. But when I reached 120 I stopped improving for a very long time.
To be honest I didn't try very hard to get better from that point on, since I use this site as a form of distraction while thinking of other things and had long ago stopped actively training to get faster at typing. However, about two weeks ago something rather curious happened, I broke the 150 barrier almost effortlessly... Thinking back to what I did differently I realized I'd started to do some wrist and forearm exercises for entirely unrelated reasons about a week before that (I've just started boxing and my trainer says I need to strengthen my wrists to avoid injury).
I've never put much stock in actual physical exercise as a form of improving typing speed... because I've always thought it was mostly a question of good technique and continuous practice... but it makes sense if you think about it. The exercise strengthens your fingers, making them more limber, more relaxed and quicker.. it also helps make your fingers more independent of each other.
Frankly, I still think most people are better off practicing their technique. But definitely try some wrist and forearms exercises on the side. It'll relax your muscles, strengthen them and maaaybe give you a speed bump under the right conditions. It'll also reduce the possibility of injury if you're like me and you spend a lot of time in front of a keyboard.
Updated 9 years, 3 months ago
