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Chipdermonk t1_izjsgbk wrote

Reply to comment by AitchyB in A website where you can practice typing by typing out classic literature instead of random words or passages - You improve your typing speed and read a great book at the same time ! by MagicalEloquence

It seems to me that typing by letter instead of word would be a great hindrance. I type around 130 wpm in English, but when the language changes, that goes down significantly. Mentally, my fingers type words like a pianist plays an arpeggio. You don’t think of every letter, you think of groups of letters, just as the pianist doesn’t think of the individual notes, they think of the entire chord.

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Chipdermonk t1_izl2ey3 wrote

Every once in awhile I use the fast fingers website, but I think my speed is influenced by my piano studies. I don’t regularly practice typing, but I do it often as I write a lot. In my experience, I type full words, not the letters of those words (mentally, I mean). There are some words that I type very fast because they are ingrained in my finger memory, but if the word is new or less common, I type it slower.

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