Daily practice

Twenty minutes a day, four or five days a week, will move you from 40 wpm to 70 wpm in about six months. Less time per session works -- it just takes longer.

A session that works

Open the practice surface. Type for one minute. That is your warm-up. The number does not matter.

Open the stats page. Look at the per-key heatmap. Note the worst three keys. Click Practice these.

Drill those keys for five to ten minutes. The drill pulls weighted toward your slow keys, so each session targets a slightly different blend.

Switch to a lesson you have not cleared yet. Run it once. If you pass, move to the next. If you fail, run it again -- failure usually means you were rushing.

Close the tab. You are done.

That is twenty minutes. The structure matters more than the timing: warm up, drill weak spots, push something new. Skip any step and the session still helps. Do all three and it compounds.

When you do not feel like it

Most days you will not feel like practicing. The trick is to commit to one minute.

Open Zen mode. Type whatever for sixty seconds. If you stop after one minute, the streak counter still gets the day. If you keep going -- and you usually will, once you have started -- you have a session.

The streak is more valuable than any single-session metric. Three months of one-minute sessions builds more typing skill than two months of perfect twenty-minute sessions broken by gaps.

When to take a break

If your accuracy drops more than four points below your average for two sessions in a row, you are tired. Stop. Come back tomorrow.

If your accuracy drops for a week, take three days off. The body learns motor skills during sleep, not during practice. Over-practicing degrades performance the same way under-practicing does.

A rule that works

The simplest rule that works for most people:

• One minute every day.
• Twenty minutes when you have time.
• Two days off when you need them.

That is enough. The only practice schedule that fails is the one you do not follow.