Currently type in the 46-49 WPM range (not terrible) but would really like to get more efficient and get to around the low 60s or 70s. Do you guys have any tips or any tutorials you used on how to get to this range? I would expect that analysts are pretty quick.
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The real key to increasing your WPM is to be extremely confident in your knowledge of the keyboard. I'm sure you have a generally good idea of where the keys are, but you should be comfortable typing without looking at the keyboard at all. A good way to practice this is to put a sheet of paper over your hands while you are typing and participate in some sort of online course. We used this method in school with the program "Type to Learn" and I found it to be extremely helpful.
Seriously, just do those fun little typing tests.
Just keep pushing as hard as you can, and keep going.
By doing that I was able to push over 90+ WPM.
It's honestly one of the most useful skills I have learned, seriously. That and 10-key speeds. If you can 10-key extremely fast you're going to have a good reduction in time it takes to do most anything.
That's extremely fast!
Play video games on your PC that involve chatting. Now that I look back, I guess mom was wrong when she said playing runescape was a waste of time :D
95 wpm thanks to Mario Teaches Typing. if you remember what that is sb's for you
Ran on MS-DOS? Lol
yup, i'm old
I learned to type on a manual typewriter. You're a baby. :)
It's all about visualizing where your keystrokes will be before you reach them. It's "seeing" a few letters ahead at once, if that makes any sense.
Practice: www.typeracer.com
Source: My average typing speed is 110 wpm. I know that is shameful lol.
hahahaha I wish my typing was that good. Nearly 2 words per second! Edit: just saw the link you posted and some people on there type 180+ WPM!
Yup. I use that as a reminder that there are in fact people who have less of a life than I do.
I don't even want to know what typing at 180 WPM looks like
http://play.typeracer.com/?rt=ry3chsi2t6jj
someone challenge me.
Byron Bernstein is on there and has a solid WPM
As many people have said already, just make sure you practice daily and you'll get better with time.
lol...
95wpm. I would like to thank my countless hours of chatting on Runescape for this amazing feat.
I suggest you pick up some chat-intensive online computer game.
Runescape, man. I could have a whole thread about that. Summer '05
Take notes from a book as fast as you can. Through doing this at school, I now average 105 with a high score of 108.
I started a finance blog, and typed everyday. It really helped as the more commentary I typed the more familiar I became with the keyboard. It took about a year, but I now type at around 80+ wpm consistently. Also, consider looking a shortcuts, sometimes the simple fact that I know how to add symbols using hot keys cuts my time by a third.
All else said and done, all you need to practice!
Good luck :)
I've played games since I was a kid (chat-intensive games like a couple of users have stated above) and have just been on the computer my whole life pretty much, and I type at ~150+ WPM now. I like to do the test on 10fastfingers.com a couple of times a day, so I encourage you to do that to help with your WPM.
If you can do that a couple of times a day (5-10) and just learn where the keys are on the keyboard to the point where you don't really have to think about it, your typing speed will increase significantly, probably to the 90-100 range.
PM me if you have any questions.
150+ WPM? That's kinda nuts.
Yeah, just like people said it's pretty much due to the heavy gaming I've done since I was a kid. Playing runescape and a bunch of other games that were typing intensive, always being on multiple forums for years and years just got me really used to typing. I average between 145-150 and peak at 158.
I don't know if I can give any tips but if anyone wants some help just drop me a PM and I can try to teach people. But honestly most of it just comes with practice.
I've played games as a little kid too, and I manage around 145 wpm. It's just practice to be honest, and you just have to be on the keyboard longer.
I do want to mention that some keyboards are really bad and some are good, such as mechanical keyboards (specific types of mechanical keyboards as some are harder to type on). Maybe try switching up your keyboard to get an advantage as well?
This site explains the different switches and benefits of a mechanical keyboard: http://lifehacker.com/how-to-choose-the-best-mechanical-keyboard-and-wh…
1) Get a keyboard that fits you. 2) make sure you move your fingers in the right way 3) practice
Coke?
Are you older? Almost all millenials grew up on computers and developed fast typing skills. Also, with all the papers I had to write in college this further developed my typing speed.
I mainly developed it as a teenager in hs when everybody was using AIM. Anybody else remember those days??
See that's the thing. I'm 18-21ish but didn't have my own computer until college.
http://play.typeracer.com/
115 wpm here. Keep grinding.
This is a question purely out of curiosity: outside of something you think is a cool skill, what's the professional goal of typing ultra fast? Fast and proficient I get, but spending time and effort to get over 80/90/100 WPM's? Back in the old days secretaries were highly valued for typing speed because they took dictation and needed to transcribe it or they needed to take one printed document and type it onto another printed document because it was all hard copies and there was no copy/paste like today. When I started professionally in the mid 90's there were a few old timers who still held onto them but basically anyone under 40-45 did that stuff themselves. My father in law who's in his mid to late 60's was an exec who needed an old school secretary and still hunt and pecks but he's about the youngest guy I know like that.
I'm what I would consider very proficient at typing and I can write well but I'm not held back by my typing skills, I'm slower to make sure I'm conveying the precise thought I want on paper (or really on screen). However, I also admit I haven't personally been writing long docs like CIM's or OM's in quite some time and if I write even one or two pages it has to be near legal caliber.
80+ wpm...see no need for anything faster in a IB job would never need anything past, would love to hear why I'm wrong though in all honestly
didnt know how to type at all about a year ago. then in a week of doing "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" for about 30 mins each night i was able to catch up to speed
I was going to say you should ask Sharon and her peers:
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/ask-dickfuld-november-2015?type=1…
However, I guess you kids have advanced beyond the capabilities of my secretarial candidates of yesteryear.
It took me 37 minutes just to type this message.
Typeracer is a decent practice site, but you can learn a lot by just typing more. It's like anything else; you're going to get better with experience. Coding/video games/writing essays for friends/etc
How did you learn to type? Any recommendations on learning the proper way to type? (Originally Posted: 09/19/2017)
"I'll take stuff you should've learned in 5th grade for 300, Alex"
A coworker jokingly mentioned how I kinda type like an idiot and it made me realize I never really learned how to type.
I don’t place my fingers over the default keys and I kind of just attack the keyboard, hunting and pecking so to speak. It doesn’t look that weird on my laptop (which is what I used previously) but it does look funny on a bigger keyboard and I’m guessing I’m not as efficient as I could be if I typed “normally”.
Not really sure how this slipped through the cracks, I’m in my mid-20s so computers were definitely a part of my childhood. I don’t think I cared that much because when I would take typing tests I would grade out at around 40-45 WPM which is apparently average. Looking to close the gap though as my current role has me writing more in addition to Excel.
Any resources you would recommend to learn the proper way to type? Free or small price is okay. Don't care if it's aimed at kids, just want to learn.
Thanks!
I think as long as you type fast no one really cares -- you might like look like an idiot but no one really cares that much as long as it's not a hindrance.
But there are online resources to learn to type - "Typing Club" is supposed to be pretty good.
Go to PornHub and practice one-handed typing. Watch a video, and after 30 seconds or so, use that hand to type something else in the search bar. Your dexterity with that hand will greatly improve, and you'll learn some muscle memory along the way. Switch hands to improve further.
Then you're gonna have to explain to your boss why you only type with one hand
Just go online and do any speed typing test enough times until you figure out that having your hands in the normal typing position is the best. This doesn't really work for Excel, but it's good for having your hands in the standard position, which is what you'll be doing for Excel later on.
I don't understand how a 1990s born person 'misses' how to type. I mean, how did you get through college? All the long papers to type?
OP means learning the proper way. Anybody with normal dexterity can figure out their own hackish way and do reasonably well, but plenty of people have said the way that is taught is better in the long run. I myself do a hackish sort of way where I still need to look a little as I type and and I heavily use a few fingers instead of spreading the use more evenly.
I dno what anyone else's experience with this was, but I actually took a keyboarding class in high school, it was impossibly frustrating bc it was basically graded based on speed and keystroke errors and you couldn't have your monitor turned on.
Before that I was on that Mavis Beacon Teaches typing for kids shit, but I was a kid and just doing it for the games, so I'm not sure I actually learned anything from a formal typing perspective.
Op can model a $4B LBO transaction in 3 hours, but can't type.
runescape
just did a test and im at 80 wpm
Nitro Type. A website used in elementary school for tying
Typing (Originally Posted: 01/22/2012)
This may be a stupid question, and I was just randomly thinking about it... but is typing an expected skill if you are trying to get into IB or consulting? Are you going to look like a retard in front of everybody if you're staring at your keyboard while making a model?
Yes to all.
problem solved:
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[quote=jaschen27]problem solved:
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lol I'd love to see a guy on the floor talking to his comp...
dude typing is like must need skill just to get through school.
I'm assuming you mean proper typing, where you use the proper finger for each key.
It's not required but i will say that proper typing skills will definitely make the hours a lot easier. Think about it, when you backspace, you spend just as much time backspacing the word as typing it. This can easily add up.
Learning all the keyboard shortcuts and all the of important functions in office will also boost your productivity by a bunch.
You should be able to finish models in 40 mins, spend 30 mins on one comp sheet, and spend no more than 10 mins on each ppt slide (depending on the content). Unfortunately, none of that takes brain power but rather it takes practice.
It's optional, just like reading is.
How do you exist in 2012 and not know how to type? Even people that work at Taco Bell know how to type they just type tings like dis
If you cant type you can just Git Outttt
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