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by toast0 1708 days ago
Learning to touch type takes time and practice. You weren't birthed being able to type 60-70 wpm with unorthodox form.

It'll take time to build up proper form; you'll probably start 30ish wpm, and if you spend time with proper form, you'll get back up to your old speed, and probably a little bit more. The second time you learn something, you usually do better.

I relearned touch typing in a high school keyboarding class, which was 5 days a week for not quite an hour. On some old school black and white macs, using ancient software etc. Put a file folder with one side under the keyboard, and the other side over your hands so you don't peak (fold at the back of the keyboard, in case that wasn't obvious :).

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+1 on not looking at the keyboard. It was hard for me so I went a bit further and learned to touch type Dvorak instead. I practiced on https://learn.dvorak.nl for a few months, and tried using Dvorak for low stakes/low speed typing. After 6 months I went to using Dvorak full time. My typing speed is actually the same/slightly better, but it's so much better for writing/coding as I don't interrupt my train of thought by looking at the keyboard.