And the faster and more accurately you type, the less time you’ll spend correcting typing errors. Put another way, improving your typing speed and accuracy will save you time every day forever. (words per minute), you’ll finish your writing tasks twelve times faster than hunting-and-pecking at five w.p.m. Macintosh (my first book) and have recommended it regularly ever since. ![]() I first recommended learning to type faster as a productivity booster in 1989 in Dr. I learned to type 60 or 70 words a minute without looking at the keyboard and have maintained that speed for three decades. So, before I bought my first Mac, I decided to learn to touch-type using a hardbound typing instruction manual and an old electric typewriter my wife had in college. When I was in middle school, boys couldn’t take typing (or home economics) classes, and girls weren’t welcome in shop-metal, wood, or auto-classes. It made me sad because I get so much more work done in so much less time by typing faster and more accurately. They couldn’t have been typing more than four words per minute. ![]() I recently saw someone young enough to know better hunt-and-peck typing on a MacBook Air.
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