Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my channelJennifer
Marie where I teach you different ways that you can
make money online working from home. So in today's video, I'm
going to talk about typing speed and transcription. I get
a lot of questions on my channel about how to become a
transcriptionist and what typing speed you need to
become a transcriptionist. So in today's video, I'm going to
talk to you about the different typing speeds that
certain transcription companies recommend you have
in order to work for them. I'm also going to show you where
you can go to take a free typing test and also to get a
little certificate to demonstrate your typing speed.
And I'm going to show you different websites that you
can use to practice your transcription skills before
you actually take a transcription test. So let's
get started. First of all, what is a good typing speed?
For most transcription companies, you don't need to
have a certain typing speed, however, you should aim to be
able to type at least 60 words per minute. Again, if you
don't type 60 words per minute, that's okay, you can
still become a transcriptionist, it will just
take you longer to transcribe the files. So if you do type
less than that, it will take you longer to transcribe,
which means you'll earn less. So basically, the faster you
type, the more money you will make. And that is why it's so
important to improve your typing speed. And I'm also
going to show you a website where you can learn to type
the correct way so that you can type even faster. So
remember that even if your typing speed is 80 words per
minute, it will still take you longer to transcribe. The
general rule is that for every hour of audio, it will take a
transcriptionist three to four hours to transcribe. So you
have to ignore all the youtubers who say you can earn
$50 An hour or something like that transcribing. Because the
truth is a lot of these transcription companies pay
around $20 or less per audio hour. And that file will take
you around three hours to transcribe so you're not
making $20 an hour. So this could take less time if the
file is easy. Let's say there's only one person
speaking and there's no background noise, or it can
take even longer if it is an especially difficult file. So
at the end of the day, having a really fast typing speed is
just going to help you make more money as a
transcriptionist. Okay, so I've gone through a few
different transcription companies, and I've made notes
of what their recommended typing speed is. Again, you
don't have to have this typing speed to apply, but it's
recommended. So Rev recommends you have a typing speed of
between 50 to 60 words per minute, Transcribeme says that
the average person has a typing speed of 40 words per
minute and expert would be 80. And above this website here,
again, 40 to 60. As the average 80 to 100 is an
expert, Bee Happy 60 words per minute is the standard. And
then Scribie says you should have a minimum recommended
typing speed of 40 to 50 words per minute. So you're aiming
to have around 60 that is ideal. More than that is even
better. So how can you test your typing speed. So before
considering becoming a transcriptionist, you really
should test your typing speed. If your speed is less than 40
words per minute, I think you should wait until you improve
your speed before considering this as a career, you still
can but it's going to take you a really long time to
transcribe these files. There are several websites that
offer free typing tests and also free typing lessons on
how to properly use all of your fingers to type on the
keyboard. So I'm going to show you some of these websites
now. So the first website I recommend you go to is
typingtest.com. Here, you can take a one minute test, two
minutes, three minutes, you can also choose if it's easy,
medium hard. And what's really great is you can click here on
certificate, and then click Start Test. And it's a five
minute certification test to prove your typing speed and
accuracy to others and you get to save a typing skill
certificate. So here, you can see I did one before yesterday
to test it out. I got 88 words per minute, with an accuracy
of 85%. I had 15 typos. So the net speed is 75 words per
minute, you can just click Start Test, and then you'll
have five minutes and then you begin to type out the test. So
just start going.
Okay, so I just did the test again. And you can see this
time I got 92 words per minute. The accuracy was 96.
There was only four typos this time so my net speed was 88
words per minute. So this is quite cool. You can click here
on print, save And then save it as a PDF. And that will
save the certificate in the event that you need to show
someone that you know proof of your typing speed, you can
also click here and put in your name as well. So typing
test.com has all sorts of different typings tests, I
like that it saves your results here. Again, you can
go through and choose all these different tests, or you
can click train. And that will take you to their trainer. And
here, there's all sorts of touch typing lessons, there's
lesson one, lesson two. And basically, they're going to
teach you exactly how to position your fingers on the
keyboard, so that it will help you know exactly where you're
supposed to move your fingers so you can type even faster.
Now I learned how to type basically from talking to
people on MSN Messenger when I was in high school. So my
finger placement isn't perfect. But this is something
that could even helped me improve my typing speed. And
it's really excellent, because they're showing you exactly
how you're supposed to position your fingers on the
keyboard. So also, if you click here on tricky keys, the
more tests you do on typing test.com, they're going to
show you which keys are tricky for me. So x and y are ones
that often make a mistake on. So you can click on practice
and practice these as well. You can also go to typing.com.
And here they have typing lessons. So you can start with
beginner, intermediate advanced. And at the end, you
can also get a certificate proving that you've done these
courses, just click on start on whichever lesson you want
to do. And I love this because it's literally showing you
exactly where your fingers should be on the keyboard to
help you practice. So I definitely recommend checking
out these websites to improve your typing skills. And then
here, this is kind of fun, typerush.com. There are
different races you can join in and race against other
people just click Start race. And it's sort of a fun little
online race that you can play with your friends or with
random people online. And you're basically just going
to, once the green light pops up, you enter this little race
against people. You can see it tells you where you placed.
And then it shows you your typing speed and your
accuracy. And then you can click race again. So this is
really fun as well. Okay, so where can you practice your
transcription skills. So let's say your typing speed is
already fairly good. It's already above 60 words per
minute, and you want to practice transcription. So
there are a few different companies that offer free
transcription practice to help you before you prepare for the
tests. Even if you don't want to apply to this specific
company, you can still take the company's practice
transcription tests to help you practice before you apply
to whatever transcription company it is that you do want
to work for. So you don't need to create an account, just
sign up. And after the test, you can check your mistakes.
And make sure to take notes of the mistakes you make. So you
can be sure to avoid these mistakes in future. So the two
different companies that offer these free transcription
practice tests are scrubby, so you can go to
scribie.com/transcription/practice. And they have all these
different practice files that you can use. So they give you
instructions here, and then you'll just you can press play
on the file to preview it, and then click Select. And it will
take you through their editor. And then you can press play
and start typing or whatever. And then you can click Submit,
and you can check your answers of how you transcribe the file
versus how it should have been transcribed. The other website
you can go to is go transcript.com/practice And
they have two different transcription tests, and then
some editing tests. So after finishing these tests, you
will see what mistakes you have made. So just click on
the transcription test and then go ahead listen to the
file and start transcribing. So let me know in the comment
section what your typing speed is after you have done one of
these tests. Let me know what your typing speed is now and
what you hope that your typing speed will be in a few months.
I recommend just continuing to practice your typing. Keep
doing different typing lessons online until you can work your
way up to a higher typing speed. Transcription is a very
difficult job and having a having a high typing speed can
just help make it much easier. So thank you guys for
watching. Make sure to check out my playlist on
transcription jobs for beginners which I will link
you to in the description below. And I will see you guys
in my next video.