The best advice is to keep practising.

Well, I began with ~50 WPM, then I just wrote races in my free time.

Here is my typeracer account:

P.S. My friend IKindmanI completed ~1000 races.

Two years ago I started typing with 10 fingers and it was crucial for my typing speed. If you don't use all fingers then search for some downloadable programs with lessons (e.g. one lesson for each finger). It takes maybe a month or two to learn to type as fast as before (with "duck typing"). Then you can only be faster.

I used the same website and also http://10fastfingers.com/ (879 tests taken, average 92WPM, max 104WPM) with common English words. And one can practise programming typing on https://typing.io.

And btw. it's not really important to type very fast. I wouldn't be noticeably better in contests with typing two times faster. Because we don't use random words — we must think what to code. I heard about meret winning some competition with one hand only because the other arm was broken.

First thing is technique; you should know which finger is for which key.
Next is to practise these techniques as much as possible.

I, too, practise on play.typeracer.com(avg: 97 wpm, highest: 127 wpm).

Personally I think if your speed is above 40-50 wpm, you need not worry much about how you loose time typing in programming contests. If you formalise before typing, I think there will be a minor difference in time taken to type the whole code.

1. I think you don't need to worry about typing speed unless you are really typing too slow or making too many mistakes.

2. As mentioned above, we are not following an article but solving a problem. In my opinion, on codeforces, rushing some A, B problems would help more. For myself, I'm going to write a generator and some templates to accelerate.

3. Have you heard of MinakoKojima who uses a lot of macros and templates and maybe is a good reference on improving coding speed?

I agree that typing speed is very important in competitions, specially when solving the easier problems. It will give you extra points and also extra minutes to think the remaining problems.

The most important thing is finger placement. Learn how to place your hands correctly and use appropriate fingers for each key. Once you master that, all that remains is practice I believe.

I increased my typing speed from around 60 WPM to over 100 WPM when I started using all my fingers and pressing the space bar with my thumb (I used to press it with my index finger before). That was more than 10 years ago, and right now, I can type as fast as 140 WPM in English and over 150 WPM in Spanish. I didn't take any typing lessons whatsoever, I just practiced a lot (I have over 1000 completed races on TypeRacer).

In my opinion, coding speed matters while coding easy problems or remembered algorithms. In other cases, speed doesn't play an such an important role.

To achieve the highest speed, you should start using 10 fingers method and practice a lot. Personally, I have always been typing with only 6 fingers.

I have over 900 races in typeracer, and my average is 93 WPM (best race 122 WPM). I think it's my peak and I can't achieve more without learning 10-fingers technique.

Start learning 10 fingers method and keep practising.

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I don't think that the typing speed is much important unless you're in Div. 2 coding the first or second problem. Focus on solving more problems and your typing speed will automatically increase.

Does anyone here use the Dvorak Keyboard? :)

I have been playing the piano for many years, so typing kinda came naturally to me :P

but other than that, which is investing time into learning various musical instruments, as others said, practice on an actual keyboard is important.

I remember the first word I learned to type fast was "fishing". Not only do I enjoy fishing as an outdoors activity, it's also sooooo pleasurable to type on a QUERTY keyboard!