Why your WPM differs between sites, what a same-finger digraph costs you, the arithmetic behind accuracy-before-speed, and how to tell a plateau from a bad week.
Typing speed costs you marks in one situation and almost nothing in another. Which is which, what to aim for, and a four-week routine that fits around a term.
The speed evidence is thinner than either side admits. What is not in dispute is how much of your typing lands on the home row, and that is the number to decide on.
The largest study of modern typing put the gap at about five words per minute. What separates fast typists from slow ones is not the number of fingers.
What employers' typing tests measure, how their scoring differs from practice sites, and a realistic prep plan for one week, one day, and one hour before.
Where your wrists, elbows, screen and feet should sit, why resting your wrists on the desk caps your speed, and how to fix a setup in under ten minutes.
Data entry, transcription, admin and customer service: the WPM and accuracy each role asks for, where those numbers come from, and how to check where you stand.
Looking down puts a ceiling over your speed. The method for breaking the habit, what to expect during the week it feels worse, and how to know it worked.
Which finger types which key, row by row, with a full QWERTY chart. The standard touch typing finger map, and the three assignments that people get wrong.
Typepace counts the characters you got right. Most sites count the characters you typed. The gap between those two numbers is the useful part.
Some letter pairs are slow because of anatomy, not carelessness. Knowing which is which changes what you should practise.
The advice is old and usually delivered as a moral. It is actually a calculation, and you can run it on your own numbers.
Progress is noisy enough that most 'plateaus' are nothing at all. Here is where we draw the line, and why we refuse to answer sometimes.