A four week typing practice plan

Touch typing is learnt in short regular sessions. Fifteen minutes a day for a month does more than three hours every Sunday, because the fingers forget quickly between long gaps. This plan uses the lessons on this site. It is written for English and works the same way for the Hindi or Punjabi lessons.

The rules of the plan

Fifteen minutes, every day. Twenty if you enjoy it. Stop before you are tired.
Never look at the keys. From the first day. A slow correct key is worth more than a fast peek.
Accuracy before speed. Do not try to go fast in the first two weeks at all.
One test at the end of each session, and note the net speed and accuracy.

Week 1: the home row and the top row

Day	Practice
1 and 2	Lesson 1, the home row. Repeat until the last two drill lines are clean.
3	Lesson 2, adding G and H.
4 and 5	Lesson 3, the top row, in two halves.
6	Lessons 1 to 3 again, one pass through each drill.
7	Rest, or ten minutes of any drill you found hard.

By the end of the week you will type more slowly than you did with two fingers. This is the hardest point of the whole month, and the point where most people give up. Do not go back to the old way, even for real work, if you can avoid it. Every return to looking at the keys undoes some of the training.

Week 2: the bottom row and capitals

Day	Practice
1 and 2	Lesson 4, the bottom row.
3	The sentence with every letter, twenty times, slowly.
4 and 5	Lesson 5, capitals and Shift.
6	A one minute test, three times. Look at the wrong words.
7	Rest.

You now know all the letters. Typing begins to feel possible, though not yet quick.

Week 3: numbers, punctuation and common words

Day	Practice
1	Lesson 6, the number row.
2	Lesson 7, punctuation and symbols.
3 to 5	Lesson 8, common words. Five minutes of it becomes your daily warm-up from now on.
6	A two minute test, twice.
7	Rest.

Somewhere in this week most learners pass their old two finger speed. From here the gain is steady.

Week 4: speed and accuracy

Day	Practice
1 and 2	Lesson 9, rhythm and bursts.
3 and 4	Lesson 10, your weak keys. Use the wrong words from your tests.
5	A three minute test.
6	A five minute test.
7	Compare your results with week 2.

A record sheet

Keep a simple record. The test page stores your recent results on your device, but a line on paper each day is harder to lose and pleasant to look back on.

Date	Lesson	Test length	Net speed	Accuracy	Keys to work on

After the month

Use touch typing for all your real work. Real work is the best practice.
Keep the five minute warm-up with common words for a few more weeks.
Take one longer test a week and watch the trend, not any single result.
When accuracy is steady at 97 per cent or more, push the speed a little. When accuracy drops, hold the speed until it recovers.

If you miss days

Missing a day is not a failure. Missing a week means going back one lesson. Do not try to catch up with one long session, because tired hands learn mistakes. Simply start again with the usual fifteen minutes.

If you need a second language

Finish English first, or at least the first five lessons. The finger positions are the same, so the second layout is mostly a matter of learning what each key types. Then follow the same plan with the Hindi or Punjabi lessons: one row every two or three days, then the Shift lesson, then daily tests. Expect the second language to take two to three weeks of the same short sessions.

For a typing test with a date

Count back from the test date. Leave the last week for full length tests in the exact conditions of the notice: the same language, the same layout, the same length. Find those conditions in the official notice. Practise at that length, because a speed held for one minute is not a speed held for ten.

This is an independent practice site. It is not connected with any examination body, keyboard maker or software company. A typing speed measured here is for your own practice. It is not a certificate, and an examination may measure speed in its own way.