One of the things that I always wanted to do was to learn how to touch type. My goal wasn’t getting super fast at typing, just capable.

By now, I don’t even remember how long it took nor the exact process I did, but now I can do it. Yeah, I’m not perfect at it; I make mistakes all the time. But I’m also decent at quickly correcting, either by the classic backspace or just Control + backspace to delete the whole word if I made the mistake too far back (more than three or four letters from where my cursor currently is).

One thing I had to overcome was the thinking that I could just type as if I was playing the piano by floating my hand over the keyboard. I can’t. Maybe some can, but I don’t really know anyone in real life that does. Using a wrist rest is the best thing for me to get consistency in my typing.

Right now, I’m supervising a group of up to 64 people at any given time if any of the other supervisors is not around or needs to leave to do something else. One thing I have noticed that really hampers any of my team’s performance is typing. People that can’t touch type are considerably slower at their actions per minute than the ones that can. If it was up to me, I would require a certain minimum of words per minute to be able to work with the team and some time in the least busy hours to get into Monkeytype or Typeracer to practice and train their typing so they can get better at it. If you still can’t touch type, I really recommend that you hop into any of these sites to force yourself to acquire the skill. Once you do, it feels like a super power. You become one with the computer.