{"id":7392,"date":"2021-09-09T10:03:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T10:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/?p=7392"},"modified":"2021-09-09T10:05:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T10:05:21","slug":"how-can-i-learn-to-type-faster-in-typing-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blogs\/how-can-i-learn-to-type-faster-in-typing-games.html","title":{"rendered":"How Can I Learn To Type Faster In Typing Games?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Learning to type can be the key to later educational success for most students in this 21st century world.\u00a0 Acquiring key typing skills will not only set them up for computing and composing digitally in their future work, but it will also help their minds be able to translate quicker into words.\u00a0 Typing is a necessary skill that can be mastered in a very short amount of time with regular practice with quality online typing games<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

What Will Help Me Type Faster?<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Posture & Home Row<\/span><\/h3>\n

Knowing the basics can get you far, and also keep your wrists from cramping.\u00a0 Students over age 7 should have large enough hands and solid enough hand-eye coordination to begin typing lessons<\/a>.\u00a0 Sitting up tall with feet flat on the floor and shoulders back is the best body position for learning.\u00a0 Your fingers should always begin and rest at the home row keys – ASDF JKL; – so always begin from this position so your fingers will be trained to reach and move from this base.\u00a0 The QWERTY keyboard is designed for perfect access to the most frequently used letters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Scan Ahead<\/span><\/h3>\n

Training your eyes to scan 2-3 letters ahead should be your goal.\u00a0 Eventually you will be able to scan 2-3 words ahead as your fingers do the work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Slow & Steady<\/span><\/h3>\n

Don\u2019t try to win any races.\u00a0 Accuracy needs to come first, even if you are very slow to start.\u00a0 Try not to look at the keys while you type to gain the muscle memory.\u00a0 The more familiar your fingers are with the location of the keys, the faster you will be able to type.<\/span><\/p>\n

What Games Should I Play to Type Faster?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Touch-Typing Games<\/span><\/h3>\n

Games that involve repeating the same letter or a few letters at a time in different combinations will train your hands and eyes to their exact location on the keyboard.\u00a0 After you become adept at locating the letters on the home row, you can move to the upper and then lower rows.\u00a0 Nonsense patterns can be more helpful at first when training the positions, as your brain isn\u2019t interfering with word processing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pattern Games<\/span><\/h3>\n

Games that utilize common letter patterns or chucks of phonemes can be extremely helpful, as your fingers will learn the feel of the letter combinations.\u00a0 This is the next building block in the process after touch-typing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speed Games<\/span><\/h3>\n

Once you\u2019ve achieved accuracy with the letters, it\u2019s time to work on increasing speed.\u00a0 Look for speed typing games<\/a> that keep you to a time limit, include added pressure to type the keys at an increasing pace, and\/or ones that show your fluency rate – words per minute.\u00a0 Always aim to type faster than you did the last time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Real-World Content Games<\/span><\/h3>\n

Finally, you can move on to typing sentences and including punctuation in real-world sentences.\u00a0 This will train your mind to think in terms of words and prepare you for typing from memory.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are loads of free typing games for kids on the internet, and you just have to know which ones to look for.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t only the game, though – it\u2019s the time that you put into learning.\u00a0 Try for 15-20 minutes a day for two weeks and see how much you\u2019ve improved!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Learning to type can be the key to later educational success for most students in this 21st century world.\u00a0 Acquiring key typing skills will not only set them up for computing and composing digitally in their future work, but it will also help their minds be able to translate quicker into words.\u00a0 Typing is a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[143,153,149,276],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp.turtlediary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/typing-game-faster.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlediary.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlediary.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlediary.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlediary.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlediary.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlediary.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7397,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlediary.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392\/revisions\/7397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlediary.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlediary.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlediary.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlediary.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}