Most of us spend a good deal of time by the keyboard, so your typing speed very much affects your working speed.
Most of us underestimate the impact this has on our productivity, so I made an rough calculation of how much time you could save by increasing your typing speed. It’s based on 45 full 5-day workweeks per year and and hour of pure typing per day.
| Over time | 1 year | 2 years | 5 years | 10 years | 25 years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Speed increase |
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| 1% | 2,5 hrs | 5 hrs | 1 day | 2 days | 5 days |
| 5% | 1 day | 2 days | 5 days | 10 days | 25 days |
| 10% | 3 days | 5 days | 15 days | 30 days | 73 days |
| 25% | 7 days | 15 days | 37 days | 73 days | 184 days |
| 50% | 15 days | 29 days | 73 days | 147 days | 367 days |
There’s plenty of software to help you learn to type faster. I use aTypeTrainer4Mac myself, and I would definitely recommend it to all Mac users. A great app which amazingly is freeware.
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