Want to develop enviable iPhone or iTouch typing speeds? Try out the new Wordpress app and blog on the go. Not only will the practice help you get faster, but your posts will probably be better too. When you have to type at iPhone speeds (even at your crazy-ridiculous speed) you limit yourself to only the essentials out of necessity. Everybody prefers concise, simply worded posts.

Back to iPhone typing speeds. The first key to increasing your speed is to practice. That’s kind of obvious. Yet many people just don’t quite get enough practice to get over the iPhone typing speed hump. You’ll know if you are one of these people if you only use your iPhone for Twitter or SMS. Sure that’s generally most of what you want to be doing with your iPhone / iTouch, but once you’ve invested the time to get the hang of typing quickly, these tasks will be that much easier for you. In the end you will use your device more and you will enjoy it more too!

So what are the typing techniques that yield the fastest typing? Well, there’s the oldschool thumb method. Thumbs can get around this little keyboard pretty fast. However, I find that they aren’t as accurate and they get sore quick too. Then there’s the one-handed index finger method, which I find is actually surprisingly fast and accurate. Finally there’s the one thumb and one index finger method. The way this works is you hold the iPhone with one hand and you type with that hand’s thumb. With the other hand you can steady the device with your middle finger and your thumb, leaving your index finger free to type. This is the method I use as I find it is the best of both worlds. Of course everyone will need to find what works best for them. Share your iPhone typing technique in the comments.

Bonus Tip: learn to use the iPhone’s suggestions liberally for that extra speed boost.

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