Emails, notes, documents, messages, prompts… we type all day long. And yet, many people waste time on a very concrete point: they search for keys, look at the keyboard, constantly correct themselves and break their rhythm.
What is often surprising is that a large proportion of users don't type "on a keyboard" in the strict sense: they type with a few fingers, while looking at the keyboard. The result: a fairly low average speedand especially a lot of interruptions. Learning to type with all 10 fingers (without looking) is often the real "gap" that changes everything.
The good news: it's a skill that improves quickly. provided you have a simple method and a place to train regularly. In this article, I present to you Let's tap, a French platform for learning to type faster on the keyboard (and above all cleaner), and a 10-minute-a-day routine that gives visible results.
Why typing faster really changes your daily life
Gain is not just a matter of speed. What saves time is fluidity. : fewer interruptions, fewer corrections, less fatigue.
And this is even more true today with AI: between prompts, iterations, reformulations, and adjustments, we quickly spend a lot of time writing. The more fluid your typing, the more you keep your attention on the idea (and not on the keyboard).
In practical terms, a more confident typing style helps with very common tasks:
- write an email from start to finish without losing your idea along the way;
- taking notes in meetings/classes without looking at the keyboard;
- produce text (documents, briefs, reports) with less proofreading;
- stay focused on the background (and not on your fingers).
And the key point: the precisionIf you go fast but constantly correct, you lose all the gains. A "clean" progression (accuracy first, speed second) is often what works best.
Tapotons: a French platform for frictionless training
Tapotons is a typing training website designed to get straight to the point: practice, measure, correct, repeat. Here's what you'll find (and what makes all the difference when you want to progress quickly):
- key-by-key lessons to anchor the correct fingers on the correct keys;
- exercises (texts, categories) to quickly move into real-life situations;
- clear statistics: average speed, accuracy, progress;
- your common mistakes in knowing exactly what to work on;
- a "target your errors" mode that offers personalized exercises : based on your recent mistakes (letters or words), texts are generated to make you practice exactly what is blocking you.
The simple method: 10 minutes a day (step-by-step guide)
Here's a short routine, inspired by what works best in Learning: repetition, progression Gentle, and targeted work on weaknesses. The idea is not to "force it," but to be consistent.
1) Back to basics: finger position
If you learned on the job, you often developed shortcuts… which can become limiting factors. Start by reviewing your finger placement with a key-by-key tutorial. The goal: look at the screen, not the keyboard.
2) Transitioning to real-world conditions: a short exercise
Next, move on to a text exercise. Here, focus on one rule: don't speed up to the point of losing precision. If things start to go wrong, slow down. Your speed will naturally return once the transitions become automatic.
3) Measure only two things: accuracy and then speed
Many tools display a deluge of numbers. To progress quickly, keep two indicators in mind: your accuracy (to stabilize) and your speed (to monitor comfort). Once accuracy is solid, speed becomes a logical outcome.
4) Some typing tips that make all the difference
The fastest progress often comes from small adjustments: keep your hands relaxed, avoid "planting" your wrists on the desk, and always return to your starting position between sentences. Another simple rule: if you feel your accuracy slipping, slow down slightly; speed will come with time. Finally, force yourself to look at the screen: it's uncomfortable at first, but it's precisely what makes your speed increase over time.
Our opinion: a good starting point for progress and measurement
Tapotons ticks all the boxes for what we expect from a good training tool: quick setup, graded content, and above all, tracking (accuracy, speed, errors) that tells you what to do next.
If you follow the routine for 10 minutes a day for two weeks, you'll see a very clear before and after. And if you want to try it out without any commitment, the free access is enough to start developing good habits.
To discover the tool: Let's tap (learn to type faster on the keyboard).
