How I went from 53 words per minute to 170 + words per minute typing speed?

It was surprisingly easy to achieve this with minimal errors using Google’s tech!

Photo by Daniel Romero on Unsplash.

I’ve been actively writing on medium for a while now and ideally I use my multi-monitor set up with a mechanical keyboard + gaming mouse for writing, editing and publishing and related purposes.

This is not me or my setup — but mine is something of a less fancy version of this, without guitars and such large living space. Photo by Roberto Nickson on Unsplash.

But I had to travel recently and I could only carry a couple of mobile equipment with me. I got a magic keyboard for my iPad (not much magic) and was trying to get up to speed with it. But I have been only able to get to 53 words per minute with ~95% accuracy as per typing.com.

I also have a 16-inch Macbook Pro with me. But I haven’t been using the keyboard of the mac directly either for a long time. So there too, I got something like 63 words per minute with 94% accuracy.

If you think I am a typing loser 💁 — this is better than the average typing speed as per typingpal.com.

I needed something faster to convert my thoughts to digital words and I think I have found the solution.

My Android Phone

Sounds counter…