Some of you might not care about what I’m going to talk about today.  Some of you may have a pretty blistering typing speed already.  But I followed Mextena back to their advice blog and came back with a pretty good idea:a few resources to help you with your typing speed.

Because let’s face it–blogging runs on typing.  We pound keys every day for the sake of our readership, and if we can’t clock out the word count then we let our readers down.

So here are some resources to help you punch the keys.

Clockwords: Prelude.  This is a game I found on Kongregate, and basically requires you to type words to charge a gun which blasts robot spiders with words.  It’s pretty fun, though it can get kind of frantic pretty quickly.  The faster you type, the more iron you’ll put in the air and send those spiders packing.

Typing Test. com.  You can determine your max words per minute, error rate and get some help here.  See if you can beat my fifty eight words per minute with ninety-six percent accuracy rate.

EHow’s typing guide.  Here are some great tips, although I’m not sure how useful “take a class” really is.  I actually did take a class back in high school, and I tell you, touch typing really does make things go faster.

Depending on your typing skills you might think this a very odd question. After all you are probably writing your blog with a keyboard (unless you are using a tablet with handwriting recognition!). So how can you possibly be right or left handed when you write your blog?

Well don’t forget the other tool you use when you are at the computer - the mouse. For most of us it is placed by our dominant hand or the hand we write with. As it happens I am one of those oddities because I write with a pen in my left hand but use a mouse right handed, but enough about me.

Scientists have found that by forcing your brain to use a different set of connections it will enable you to think in a different way.  So by moving your mouse to the other hand you are forcing your brain to make different synaptic connections, which will help you with your writing.

Which hand are you writing with?