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Playing computer games in my teenage years made me a master typist. Geeky but true.

This. I was typing 90 wpm+ in middle school thanks to MMOs...

Now its like 110-120ish.

 

Get a typing tutorial. You'll see results VERY quickly. Practice.

Same with speed reading. There are numerous programs and while I haven't used one yet, it's on the docket for next year. Again, practice, practice, practice.

These are learnable skills, and if you can integrate them with something you enjoy doing (gaming, typing wordy WSO posts, reading stuff you actually enjoy, etc) then you'll progress faster. The more you practice, the better you'll get. That's really all there is to it.

....just to be super annoying, I'll say it again: practice practice practice

P.S. Practice

Get busy living
 

MMOs (Everquest) did it for me too. Having to type coherent sentences in between casting spells made me real fast. Nowadays I think they pretty much all use voicechat.

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