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Do you want to increase your typing speed? Whether you are pursuing a career in Medical Transcription or planning to get into the Virtual Assistant business, fast and accurate typing is a “must-have” skill.
Check out this list we gathered, bringing the best free online resources to you to increase your typing speed.
Typing
Most of us have a number of bad keyboarding habits that prevent us from typing fast. Breaking them is not easy, but this is necessary to improve your WPM speed. If you want to unlearn these destructive habits and replace them with proper typing techniques, Typing is a great resource to start with.
With Typing’s comprehensive online tutorials you will learn how to position your hands on the keyboard properly, how to use the keyboard schemes and how to type fast without looking at the keyboard. What Typing’s users also love about this resource is the News Headline Exercises. With these fun activities, you get to work on your typing skills while learning some top news from Google at the same time.
Sense-Lang
One more great resource to learn the touch typing with is Sense-Lang. Sense-Lang is a free online resource that helps you to learn and master the typing.
Learning how to type without removing your eyes from the screen will have you seeing a major increase in speed in no time! Another skill that you will master with Sense-Lang’s interactive tutorials is typing accuracy.
Very often experienced typists might find themselves continually misspelling certain letter combinations and words. With Sense-Lang’s custom text exercises, you can work specifically on these combinations. These exercises will help you to retrain your muscle memory and to improve your accuracy along with your speed.
Whether you are a typing master or a keyboard rookie, you can undoubtedly benefit from the Sense-Lang online tutorials and exercises.
TypeRacer
If you are a competitive keyboardist, Typeracer is the go-to online typing resource for you.
Typeracer lets you race against other players by typing quotes from books, songs and movies. To move your miniature racing car ahead, you have to type 20-100 words passages. It’s pretty straightforward: the first one to finish wins. At the end of the round, you will be able to see how fast and how accurate you were.
Since thousands of people around the globe use Typeracer daily, you will have no problem finding yourself some competition. If you want to have a one-on-one typing battle against your friends, Typeracer allows you to create a private game where you can type and race to your heart’s content.
We hope you enjoyed this list of the best free online resources to increase your typing speed. Are there any other fun typing games that we have missed? Follow CanScribe on social media and let us know if you tried any of these, and if you raced any of your friends!
