What is the best way to learn typing?

[Navin]

I learnt typing through the hard way (Sit and type for hours together) ... and im still not too good at it... I know there are loads of software to teach. Please post the one that are good and help people learn typing as fast as possible.

[megadarkwood]

Pick a topic, give yourself a time-limit, type as much as you can in that topic, slowly lower the time and pick harder topics.

[felixbearpig]

type to learn 

thats what i used in the mid 90s

[Navin]

Pick a topic, give yourself a time-limit, type as much as you can in that topic, slowly lower the time and pick harder topics.

So there is no faster way ? think everyone has to go through the hard way i guess.

[wtfxmitchell]

blind off all the letter on the keyboard for half a year, you can type blind like a bawz!

[kuzimins]

I started typing when i was 5, i still can't type with more than one finger on each hand  

[TheProfosist]

My recommendation is get a standard layout keyboard. Put on some keycaps that dont have lettering or have letter you can barely see and just start a typing. Youll slowly get used to touch typing.

The first big is for me really since I have no self control and cannot break habbit easily.

[mooommo]

A big help was getting a nicer keyboard. I just love typing on it so much because of the nice switches on it. I ended up enjoying typing and just started typing a bunch of messages and emails for practice.

[TheProfosist]

O when I say start typing. I do a lot of im, forum posts, irc, getting product support ansld getting rmas. All of those require alot of typing. Also I guess that coding and other stuff like that helps.

[Guest]

to get "faster" which is what i think your asking is to practice writeing loads of crap 

get a book newspaper what ever then copy stuff on to word practice more get "more" better =D

[sonarctica]

Aren't there games that help you type? like this http://phoboslab.org/ztype/

 

Sorry if I'm completely missing the point as I never at any point in my life thought to myself "I need to learn how to type"

[ologiic]

Well the left hand sits on ASDF, pinky on a etc.. the right hand sits on HJKL pointer finger on H. Your hands should be in these spots because its optimal, DO NOT LOOK AT THE KEYS. I can guarantee as soon as you try tying without looking at the keyboard your typing speed will be way more when you get good at it. 

[TheProfosist]

I started typing when i was 5, i still can't type with more than one finger on each hand

Really even when I peeked all the time I still used most if not all of my fingers. I consider peeking not looking pecause I used my perferial vision to track the keys and my fingers idk how to explain really all I do know is that I didnt stare at the keys. I do know though that I got rather quick for that method, i think? Thing is though that I hit a barrier and reading and typing something was kinda hard so I slowly made my self start learning to touch type. A heads up on that youll be using the backspace and delete key a bunch.

[TheProfosist]

Aren't there games that help you type? like this http://phoboslab.org/ztype/

Sorry if I'm completely missing the point as I never at any point in my life thought to myself "I need to learn how to type"

yea but I found any games or type racing stuff to not help me as I would learn phrases or words rather than just typing?

[linusforsell]

Open up notepad and watch a movie, type everything that you see and "write the movie" - all details; lightning, character dialog, scene flow. Don't allow yourself to get stuck on the errors you feel that you make, keep typing like that for the entire movie without looking at either the document or your keyboard. You'll be fast as lightning within a week!

[Samdb]

This is a brilliant tool and when I lost the ability to type this helped a tonne.

 

http://www.typinglessons-online.com/EN/

[Mineallmine]

My parents bought me a World Of Warcraft account 6 years ago as a way to learn typing.. I've become quite the proficient typist, yet also an addict to WoW..  So... My suggestion is to play WoW, but have more self control than I do..

[IronSoldier]

I just spent too many hours typing replies in the Battlefield Heroes Forum.

[FireFox]

'What is the best way to learn typing?'

 

Typing, the more you do the better you'll get, just like riding a bike though if you f**k up a sentence you don't get hurt lol

[IMA UNICORN]

get a das ulimate

[Lays]

push buttons..

 

na idk I think it's best to learn over-time, I don't think there's a "5 step program" to learning, everyone types different, I think it's best to just practice and type as much as possible, it'll stick with ya.

[chaozbandit]

I learned touch typing through just typing a lot. When it got to the point where I could type without looking at the keyboard, my speed increased quite noticeably. Typing in the dark helps as well. I tend to practice by writing long essays, long articles, long posts, having long and detailed IM chats (or lots of small ones at the same time).

Some typing games can be fun as well.

[mgsstar]

http://www.typingweb.com/ is not a bad website to learn typing or you can play some typing games.

[Magic8Ball]

1. Play an online video game.

2. www.typeracer.com

[Shikarikato]

1. Play an online video game.

2. www.typeracer.com

I'd probably second typeracer.com, though I'm not an affiliate or some paid endorsement, I just had to get premium for a graph I made for a statistics contest. ):

Typing without looking at the keyboard is most likely going to better you in the long run. Whether you go with blank keycaps, don't look at the keyboard, or if you really keep doing so, moving your keyboard under you desk (sucks if you have a glass desk) so you can't see it.