Chapter 1 - How do I practice my accuracy and consistency? ⏎ Functional Practice ⏎ Practice is often in the world the building block of skill, but in typing the method in which to practice isn't very clear, and most guides I find are oblique about techniques. MonkeyType, for all its good, is fundamentally not useful for practicing accuracy nor consistency, because MonkeyType words lack purpose. ⏎ For example, try treating all of your discord messages as if they're 15s tests. You'll find your accuracy naturally improving because your message is functionally worse if your accuracy is bad. This forms a far stronger feedback loop than what MonkeyType and even quotes can give you - I dub this, functional practice. ⏎ This can also help to remove negative associations with typing quickly. If your only practice typing at near PB pace is on MonkeyType when you're hitting a PB, of course you're going to feel stressed when you can sense you're typing quickly, leading to frustration and anger. Typing at near-PB speeds for functional purposes like discord can remove these negative associations and by far improve your accuracy. ⏎ Typing quickly in discord is nowhere near the only way to functionally practice. Personally I took all of my high school notes online, with me personally reminding myself every time to try to type as quickly as possible. Of course if I made a mistake I'd have to go back and fix it, therefore potentially missing content that my lecturer could be covering - a much more tangible cost than just seeing a lower accuracy percentage on a screen. This formed a super strong feedback loop where I had to type functionally at PB paces without making mistakes. ⏎ No matter which way you decide to utilize functional practice, whether it be by note taking, or sending discord messages, or any other way you come up with, it's important that you use punctuation. This will probably decrease your speed at first but there is no reason to not be functionally practicing punctuation - it'll lead to you being a more rounded typist that can type not only MonkeyType, but also branch out to quotes-based websites like TypeRacer and TypeGG. ⏎ At first this will take some active thinking, since you're probably not conditioned to be writing at PB-pace whenever you're trying to text your friend. I assure you however, it will not take long at all for it to come naturally to you, and before you know it you'll be wondering how you even tolerated mistakes at all on MonkeyType. ⏎ This might also help with your motivation to type in the first place. By giving typing a purpose you implicitly make connections within your mind about the importance of the skill and you might physically be able to execute better because of it. This is a far healthier relationship with typing than what most typists I see have. Through making typing linked to a functional purpose, MonkeyType is merely& a calculator for your average speed, rather than a challenge for you to push out words quicker than you ever have. ⏎ And hey, the worst case scenario is you spend a few days being more mindful about your typing accuracy in everyday situations. The best case is you develop a much more natural, less stressful relationship with fast, accurate typing.🏁

Chapter 1 - How do I practice my accuracy and consistency? ⏎ Functional Practice ⏎ Practice is often in the world the building block of skill, but in typing the method in which to practice isn't very clear, and most guides I find are oblique about techniques. MonkeyType, for all its good, is fundamentally not useful for practicing accuracy nor consistency, because MonkeyType words lack purpose. ⏎ For example, try treating all of your discord messages as if they're 15s tests. You'll find your accuracy naturally improving because your message is functionally worse if your accuracy is bad. This forms a far stronger feedback loop than what MonkeyType and even quotes can give you - I dub this, functional practice. ⏎ This can also help to remove negative associations with typing quickly. If your only practice typing at near PB pace is on MonkeyType when you're hitting a PB, of course you're going to feel stressed when you can sense you're typing quickly, leading to frustration and anger. Typing at near-PB speeds for functional purposes like discord can remove these negative associations and by far improve your accuracy. ⏎ Typing quickly in discord is nowhere near the only way to functionally practice. Personally I took all of my high school notes online, with me personally reminding myself every time to try to type as quickly as possible. Of course if I made a mistake I'd have to go back and fix it, therefore potentially missing content that my lecturer could be covering - a much more tangible cost than just seeing a lower accuracy percentage on a screen. This formed a super strong feedback loop where I had to type functionally at PB paces without making mistakes. ⏎ No matter which way you decide to utilize functional practice, whether it be by note taking, or sending discord messages, or any other way you come up with, it's important that you use punctuation. This will probably decrease your speed at first but there is no reason to not be functionally practicing punctuation - it'll lead to you being a more rounded typist that can type not only MonkeyType, but also branch out to quotes-based websites like TypeRacer and TypeGG. ⏎ At first this will take some active thinking, since you're probably not conditioned to be writing at PB-pace whenever you're trying to text your friend. I assure you however, it will not take long at all for it to come naturally to you, and before you know it you'll be wondering how you even tolerated mistakes at all on MonkeyType. ⏎ This might also help with your motivation to type in the first place. By giving typing a purpose you implicitly make connections within your mind about the importance of the skill and you might physically be able to execute better because of it. This is a far healthier relationship with typing than what most typists I see have. Through making typing linked to a functional purpose, MonkeyType is merely& a calculator for your average speed, rather than a challenge for you to push out words quicker than you ever have. ⏎ And hey, the worst case scenario is you spend a few days being more mindful about your typing accuracy in everyday situations. The best case is you develop a much more natural, less stressful relationship with fast, accurate typing.🏁