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Notes on the parts of learning to type that the usual advice skips — what the first week actually feels like, why accuracy has to come before speed, and what changes when the thing you are typing is code rather than prose.
- How long does it take to learn touch typing?
Three to six weeks of fifteen minutes a day gets most adults typing without looking at around 30 WPM. Here is what each week actually feels like, and the two things that decide whether you get there.
- Why your typing speed drops before it improves
Switching to touch typing makes you slower for about a week. That dip is the method working, not failing — here is what causes it, how far it goes, and how to tell it apart from actually practising wrong.
- Why a normal typing test doesn't prepare you for code
Ordinary typing tests are built from common English words, so they train the letters you already type well and skip almost every character that actually slows a programmer down. Here is what code typing demands instead.
The full method is in the touch typing guide, and the lesson path starts on J and F.