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Improve your typing

GNU T YPIST

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OUR EXPERT

Shashank Sharma is a trial lawyer in New Delhi and an avid Arch user. He’s quite happy with his typing speed, errors and all.

Touch-typing is the ability to type without looking at the keyboard. At the very least, this requires you to be familiar with key placements, but more importantly, it takes a lot of practice to be able to type without too many mistakes. Another coveted typing skill is the number of words you can type in a minute, referred to as words per minute (wpm). Apart from various graphical tools and websites designed to help you improve your typing skills, you’ll also find various games aimed at children to help familiarise them with the keyboard.

However, if you want to get better at touch-typing and even improve your wpm standing from the comfort

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