The 10 techniques
1. Learn true touch typing. All ten fingers, eyes on the screen — never the keyboard. Index fingers rest on F and J (feel the bumps); each finger owns its column. This single change is worth more than everything else combined, even though speed drops for the first week.
2. Accuracy first, speed second. Speed is a by-product of accuracy. Type at a pace where you make almost no mistakes (aim 97%+), and speed rises on its own. Chasing speed with 90% accuracy trains your fingers to make errors faster.
3. Stop looking at the keyboard. If you must, cover your hands with a cloth or use a blank-keycap mindset. Every glance down breaks rhythm and caps you near 45 WPM forever.
4. Use proper posture. Feet flat, back straight, elbows at ~90°, wrists floating (not resting on the desk), screen at eye level. Tension in shoulders and wrists is the most common invisible speed limit.
5. Type in rhythm, not bursts. A steady 50 WPM beats bursts of 70 with pauses. Metronome-like evenness also reduces errors — this is what the WPM graph on our test is for: aim for a flat line, not a mountain range.
6. Read ahead. Your eyes should be one or two words ahead of your fingers. This is the biggest difference between 50 and 80 WPM typists — the fingers never wait for the eyes.
7. Drill your weak keys. Watch which characters turn red in the test. Numbers, punctuation and rare letters (q, z, x) usually lag years behind common keys. Two minutes of deliberate drilling beats twenty minutes of general typing.
8. Practise with word streams. Passage typing tests comprehension; the "Words" mode on our test gives an endless stream of the most common words — the ones that make up half of everything you will ever type. Automating them is pure speed.
9. Short daily sessions beat long weekly ones. 10–15 minutes daily builds muscle memory; a two-hour Sunday session mostly builds fatigue. Consistency is the entire game.
10. Test yourself on a schedule. Benchmark once or twice a week with a fixed duration (the 3 minute test is ideal), save your history, and watch the trend rather than any single result.
A simple 30-day plan
Week 1 — technique reset: touch typing only, speed does not matter. Words mode, 10 minutes daily. Expect your WPM to drop; that is normal.
Week 2 — accuracy: passage mode at a pace with 97%+ accuracy. One 1 minute test at the end of each session.
Week 3 — rhythm: alternate 2 and 3 minute tests; aim for a flat WPM graph.
Week 4 — endurance: two sessions with the 5 minute and one 10 minute test. Compare your history against day one and download your certificate.
Typing faster in Bangla
Everything above applies to Bangla, plus one decision: pick one input system and stick to it. Avro Phonetic is fastest to learn (type the sound: amader → আমাদের) — most people reach useful speed in days. বিজয়/UniJoy has a steeper curve but is what government exam centres use. Our Bangla Typing Test has both built in, and you can practise composing freely on the Avro Keyboard Online. Check your spelling afterwards with the Bangla Spell Checker.
Curious where you stand overall? See what counts as a good typing speed.