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The Complete Guide to Learning Touch Typing in 2026
The guides on this site exist to explain things: how words per minute is calculated, where your hands belong, what a switch specification means. This section is for the other half — the questions where explaining is not enough because there is an argument to be had. Whether a speed figure is worth chasing. Whether a WPM number in a job advert means anything. Whether the thing your keyboard inherited from a mechanical typewriter is still earning its place.
Two rules keep the two sections from becoming each other. Where a post and a guide cover the same ground, the guide keeps the full explanation and the post links to it rather than repeating it — so if you came here for the method and found an opinion, the link back to the method is always in the piece. And nothing here invents evidence. Where the honest answer is that the research is thin, or that sources disagree, or that a widely repeated story is disputed, the post says so instead of picking whichever version reads better.
If you are new to the site and want the whole picture rather than one argument, start with the long piece below and come back to these afterwards. If you already type and want to know whether to keep pushing, the first group is the one to read.
What the numbers are worth
Speed figures, where they come from, and how much they deserve to matter.
How people learn, and why they stop
Practice that works, practice that does not, and who was taught what.
The keyboard itself
What the hardware inherited, what it costs you, and who it was built for.
Typing among the alternatives
Dictation, phones, chording, generated text — and what each leaves for the keyboard.
Voice-to-Text vs. Typing: Which Wins in 2026?
Thumb Typing Is Not Slow Typing
Stenography and the Real Speed Ceiling
Do AI Writing Tools Make Typing Obsolete?
Autocorrect Changed What Accuracy Means
Typing in a Second Language
Typing Speed for Programmers: What's Actually Different
Typing Practices That Actually Help Remote Workers
Shortcuts Are the Other Half of Speed
Where an argument here should send you next
Most of these posts end somewhere practical, and the practical thing is usually on another part of the site. A piece about the cost of correcting sends you to the no-backspace test, which turns the argument into a number about your own typing. A piece about the number row sends you to the number row drill or the keypad drill, which are different skills despite involving the same ten digits. A piece about what competitive typists practise sends you to the drills, because short repeated sequences are what that answer turns out to be.
That is the intended shape of this section: read the argument, then go and check it against your own hands. An opinion about typing that never touches a keyboard is not worth much, and the site was built so that it never has to stay one.