Hello everyone, welcome to my channel Jennifer Marie VO where
I teach you different ways to make money online and review
different money making websites. If you are a subscriber to my
channel, you know that a lot of my videos focus on transcription
work or transcribing, captioning, etc. And for this,
in order to make the most money possible in the quickest amount
of time, you need to be an excellent typist. You need to
have a quick typing speed because it does take a lot of
time to transcribe. So today I want to talk to you a few
different ways that you can learn how to type faster but
more importantly, I want to show you three different websites
that I really like for practicing how to type. Websites
where you can test your typing speed and learn how to type
faster and then even practice in a fun game like format that you
can even practice with your friends and family. And all of
these are of course for free. So first of all, I want to give a
little bit of general info about transcription.
Transcriptionists should be able to type at least 50 words per
minute, ideally over 65 words per minute. If you cannot type
50 words per minute probably becoming a transcriptionist is
not for you, because it will take you such a long time to
make, you know, even $1. Of course, that's not to say that
you can't learn. You can learn how to become a better typer.
But you will need to be a better typer or typist, in order to
become a transcriptionist if you want to make good money. The
average person can transcribe one audio hour in about four
hours. That means you should expect any audio that is less
than 15 minutes to be transcribed within an hour. This
is one of the things that makes me really angry when I see
different youtubers reviewing transcription websites and
saying, for example, Scribie: make $25 an hour typing.
Absolutely false. You will not make $25 an hour. You might make
$25 in four hours and even then probably not because Scribie for
example pays $10 per audio hour. So that means it'll take you
four hours to earn $10. So it's very important to be realistic
about what kind of money you can make depending on your skills.
And that's why the faster you can type and the better you are
at typing, the more money you'll eventually make.
A professional transcriptionist might be able to transcribe one
audio hour in three hours. So I recommend, say you have a job
right now or you got accepted into a program like QA world,
Scribie, Rev, transcribeme and so forth. Right now, you're
probably noticing that there's not a whole lot of jobs
available because everyone is home. So everyone is trying to
make some money while they're at home. So what can you do while
you're waiting for jobs is you can practice typing, you can
improve your skills and that way eventually, when there are more
jobs available, you'll be able to do the jobs faster and get
more money faster and then be able to take on more jobs as
well. Okay, so here's just a few little typing tips and tricks.
So this is the home position for your fingers while you're
typing. Your pinky, which is your small finger, will rest on
a, on the left side and on the colon or the semi colon on the
right side and your thumbs will rest on the spacebar. So you'll
have your first four fingers on A, S, D, and F. And then you'll
have a little space with G and H. And then your next four
fingers will be on J, K, L and the colon or semi colon. This is
the home position so your hands should always rest on this and
start on this position.
So start with your fingers at the home position. And then as
you're typing, you'll bring your fingers up or down as you're
typing. You can see on this keyboard I have it all laid out
and highlighted with red, orange, yellow, and so forth. So
let's say as you're typing, and you have to type E, you would
lift your finger from the home position from D up to E, or down
to C, just like you would with S, up to W and down to X. And if
you keep it in this position, this is the optimal position
that eventually you will type faster at this position because
you have all your keys around you that you need. Now, I even
struggle typing like this because I sort of type in a more
random way. But I try to practice typing this way because
it is more efficient, and you do get used to it because of muscle
memory. So again, these are the home key positions a, s, d, f,
j, k, l and colon or semi colon.
Okay, so now I want to show you the three different websites
that I highly recommend if you're trying to improve your
typing speed. So this first website is called
typingtest.com. You're going to click on this first icon here,
typing test. It says, welcome to the number one typing speed test
with over 4 million tests completed every month. Here you
have a few different options, you have the one minute test,
three minute, or five minute. And you can choose to do this as
a text, as sentences, or just as random words. I don't recommend
you doing it as random words. I like to click on the sentences
option. You can also click here on more options. And then you
can select the language so it doesn't have all languages. Of
course, I'm going to do it in English, but you could choose a
story so they've got the Wizard of Oz and so forth. I'm just
going to go back and I'm going to do the one minute test and
then I'm going to click on sentences. Then click Start
typing test. Okay, so they give you one minute as soon as you
start. Here they'll have your words per minute your mistyped
words. And as soon as you start typing is when it is going to
start taking the test. So wish me luck.
Okay, so it's just finished. And I've got Pro, which I'm very
excited about. My typing speed is 102 words per minute. I have
two errors.
Anyway, so here they show you the average typist is 36 words
per minute. Don't feel like you need to have 100 words per
minute. I've been using the computer for a very long time
since I was a kid. But what you're trying to aim for is to
become fast: over 65 words. You can still, if you're fluent, a
fluent typist, you can still make money as a
transcriptionist. It will just take you longer. So what I think
is cool here is you can click on tricky keys. And this will let
you analyze any keys that you start having some problems with.
But for example, let's say you had a problem with one of these,
and you had a really low score. So R was the lowest one that I
had. You can click on practice and then they will give you more
practice with the letter R or with whatever letter you have
the most problems with. And so that's a great way for you to
get better. Now, let's go over here to typing courses. And this
is all within the same website. So here, they say double your
typing speed, and you can boost your typing for free. So touch
typing, there are so many different lessons all for free.
So here, you can click on lesson one, for example. And here
they're going to teach you how to touch type. Now, this is just
what I was talking about before in my little presentation, that
you have your pinky finger on A and then you have S, D, F, J, K,
L, and semi colon. And so they're going to walk you
through how to touch type. And so this is an excellent way for
you to learn exactly what you're supposed to be doing and then
also have a little bit of a practice afterwards.
And if you want, you can just skip it. So let's say you are a
pretty good typist, and you just want to go right ahead to
another lesson. You can also click on speed building. And
these different lessons will help you to increase your speed
of typing. So the next website I want to show you is one I have
been using since I was in high school. I used to love this. I
even got my dad and my mom trying this out. It's called
typeracer.com. You can just type in typeracer.com and it will
automatically transfer you to the play.type racer.com. And
this is a global typing competition. You can increase
your typing speed while racing against others. And for this,
what's great is you don't need to sign up or anything you can
just come on here and play to practice. As you can see right
here, there's all these different high scores. You can
see all these different people with crazy high speeds,
all competing against each other from all over the world. You can
also race your friends so you can invite people to a private
chat say you want to get all your friends doing a race, you
can give
So I just got second place, very disappointed. This guy beat me,
but you can still see that other people are trailing behind.
Okay, and then you can click on race again if you want to have
another race. So this is a lot of fun. I really love this
website for practicing. Now the other one is called
typerush.com. And for this one, you have to sign up so I'm going
to go ahead and click sign up with my email.
So it's just when the light turns green, start typing this
text. This is my first time trying this.
So then you can click here on stats, and it tells you some
information. So I didn't do very well in the last race I, I only
got I got fifth place in the last one I just tried. But you
get money, fake money, so you can buy a new car. It's kind of
fun. You can go to the store and spend the money that you have.
So let's see right here I've got you know, I made this much money
on the game so I can go and buy. Let's see, I'm gonna buy
I'm gonna buy the Twilight so I can click Buy now. Yes. Okay, so
now I have this little car that I can use as I'm playing this
game, which is I think this is such a cool website, I really
like this. If you're okay with signing up and making an
account, definitely use typerush, it's much more
advanced than the other one that I showed you before.
And again, here, you can click on friends, and you can click on
invite friends. And then you can have a one to one race with your
friends. If you put this on. You can email it to them or send it
to them on Facebook or something and you can have a little bit of
a race. So again, I think that these are really awesome ways
that you can be spending your time while we're on lockdown
while we're under quarantine, to try to become a better racer
because this makes it like a fun game. It's competitive. You can
have a street race or boat race. And then if you're just looking
to improve your level without practicing, go ahead, go to
typingtest.com. Try the different typing courses and
just get better. All of this is free so there's no reason why
you shouldn't do it. So again, I really hope you enjoyed this
tutorial or this little demonstration of some websites
that I like to use to practice and work on my typing. Let us
know how you've done. Let us know in the comment section what
your typing speed is now and then maybe in a month from now,
you can update us and tell us if your typing speed has gotten any
better after you've been practicing using some of these
strategies. So thank you very much for watching. Once again,
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