Accuracy before speed

Type slowly. Type without errors. Speed will come.

This is the oldest piece of typing advice and it is correct. It is also the easiest advice to ignore, because typing fast feels good and typing carefully feels slow. Most people slip back into typing-then-correcting within a week.

The trade

Every keystroke either reinforces a correct motion or reinforces a wrong one. There is no neutral keystroke. If you type at 70 wpm with 88% accuracy, you are practicing the wrong fingering on roughly one in eight keys. Over a thousand sessions, that becomes a habit your fingers will not forget.

The fix is to slow down until your error rate drops, then let speed return on its own.

A target

A reasonable working target is 96% accuracy. Below that, your sessions are practicing mistakes faster than they are practicing correct typing.

The stats page shows your accuracy on every session and your lifetime average. If the average sits below 96%, the next session should be slower than the last.

Stop on Error

There is a setting called Stop on Error. When it is on, the cursor will not move past a wrong key. The session refuses to continue until the error is fixed. It is uncomfortable.

That is the point. With the toggle on, you cannot fall into the type-then-correct rhythm. Every miss costs visible time, and the cost is paid in the moment instead of stored up for the backspace key.

Run a Stop on Error session for fifteen minutes a day for a week. Most typists see their unprompted accuracy rise by two or three points and stay there.

Speed comes back

The fear is that slowing down will lock in slow typing. It does not. Speed is built on top of correct fingering, and correct fingering is built first. Within a few weeks of disciplined accuracy work, the speed you used to have at 88% accuracy returns at 96%, and then climbs past it.

Type slow until you stop missing. Then keep typing. The pace will look after itself.