Typing Tips & Guides

Typing speed drops under pressure for most people. Here's how to close the gap between practice and performance.

Screen work cuts your blink rate by more than half. Exact monitor distances, screen heights, lighting ratios, and the 20-20-20 rule done properly.

Technique, structured drills, and free browser tools that move your WPM and accuracy in the right direction. A practical guide with no fluff.

Eight specific stretches — with hold times, rep counts, and form cues — that target the forearm muscles actually doing the work when you type.

Salthouse's classic studies found 60-year-old typists keeping pace with 20-year-olds despite slower reaction times. Here's what actually declines, and what compensates.

Actuation force, pre-travel, reset point — switch spec sheets are full of numbers, but only some of them affect how fast you type. Here's which specs matter, with real measurements for the most common switches.

You type the same sentences dozens of times a week. Concrete math on what snippets, expansions, and shortcuts actually save — measured in characters, seconds, and recovered hours.

Which employers still test typing in 2026, the WPM and accuracy thresholds they actually enforce, and how remote proctored assessments work now that nobody sits you at an office PC.

The numpad typing test explained — what it measures, who uses it, and how to train for it.

The most common employer typing assessment platforms — and how to make sure you're practicing in the right format.

Government typing assessments are stricter than most. Here's exactly what to expect and how to prepare.

How AI-proctored and platform-embedded typing assessments work — and how to prepare for them.