In general, gamers use the PC keyboard primarily to play games, and therefore do not worry too much about its typing speed . However, even for a gamer, writing faster can greatly benefit him to be able to communicate with his team at key moments and get back to the game in no time. In any case, in this article we are going to give you some tips on how you should position your hands, fingers and wrists to improve your typing speed.
The primary function of a keyboard is to type. If you notice that you type too slowly, it may be useful to do a typing course or simply practice writing texts without having to look at the keys, but in any case you should start at the beginning, since if you want to improve the first thing is to know how you should place your hands on the keyboard. This, in addition to helping you improve your typing speed, will help you feel less tired and even avoid pain when you do long sessions of use.
How to place your hands, fingers and wrists on the keyboard
Most of the users, and more than anyone the gamers, we tend to place our hands on the keyboard badly. We have the left hand permanently on the WASD zone because it is the one that games use to move the character, so if you are one of those people you already have almost halfway done because, more or less, it is the correct position of the left hand for better typing performance.
And, according to the experts, in order to write faster we must have our hands positioned so that we reach most of the keyboard keys without having to move the position of the wrists, thus avoiding unnecessary efforts. If gamers place their left hand on WASD, to write faster you should place it a little lower and to the right, in the ASDF area. As for the right hand, the ideal is to place the fingers on JKLÑ .
In this way, you will achieve that, without having to move your wrists from their position, you can reach the vast majority of the keyboard keys with your fingers, avoiding unnecessary efforts and thus reducing fatigue while improving your speed.
How to position the wrists
We have already seen how to place the fingers, and as we have mentioned, the intention is that the wrists do not have to move position, so the position where we place them will also be quite important, especially in terms of reducing fatigue. Although it may cost you at first because it is likely that you have been using keyboards for years and have the “mania” caught, you have to make an effort if you want to write faster and place them properly.
It is important that the wrists are placed straight with respect to the keyboard, since if you have them rotated the fatigue will increase, also reducing your typing speed. You can see it clearly in the following diagram.
In addition to that, if the keyboard has a wrist rest, you will also notice some improvement in your speed, since they raise the position of the wrists a bit and that helps the hands to be more straight.
Does placing your hands correctly make you type faster?
Simply by having the largest number of keys “at hand” (worth the redundancy) it will save you time when writing, since you will not have to reposition your hand to reach them. So, the answer to the question is yes, a correct placement of your hands and fingers on the keyboard will help you type faster.
But that is not all. The posture is studied to avoid unnecessary efforts, and that means that fatigue when writing is reduced, especially for long periods of time. Fatigue causes slowness, and when you have been writing for a long time, fatigue slows down; Therefore, if you reduce fatigue, it takes longer to reduce your writing speed, so we can also consider it as a way to increase your writing speed, right?