I am facing the issue... I want to increase my typing speed but with only competitive coding in mind and that too being a noob I am not sure if it will really be beneficial or should I just focus on my skills..

Typing with less than 10 fingers is a waste, not only in cp. Unfortunatly it is boring to learn. The good thing is, it does not take long and the ability will stay for all your life.

So google some ten finger typing tutorial and just practice like 30 minutes per day. For say, a month?

I think normal fast typing is different a lot with coding fast. And I have not yet found any where to tell you how to CODE fast...

maybe you should learn touch typing. I learned it from typingclub.com. it has 600 lessons by completing all of them you will be able to type faster without looking at keyboard.

Typing with 10 fingers is pretty nice. It is undoubtedly worth learning. You can type pretty fast without looking on the keyboard even with your room lights turned off. It will hardly take one month to get comfortable with 10 finger typing :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Qc_dzQTJ4

Watch this 1-month progress video it's interesting. More than 50-60 Wpm is really nice :)

Does it really matters how fast you type? I know it seems silly but I always wondered if we really need to work on typing fast?

I started practicing touch typing from this and it seems good as I do it for some time as a warmup before practicing problems and my speed increased significantly in a few days. You can sure check it out.

Apps to speed up your touch typing skills.

https://play.typeracer.com

https://zty.pe/

https://www.ratatype.ru/

https://www.typerush.com/

I still type with two fingers, however my WPS is around 80~90, so I think there's no need for to change to ten

I relearned how to type in October because I was trying to learn Vim and I wasn't used to keeping my hands on the home row. I started off using a bunch of random typing tutor websites. Then I used typeracer.com. My WPM is around 100.

Any general tools to learn fast typing, and then also https://typing.io/lessons (just demo version) and typespeed if you use linux.

Hi! Touch typing actually pays off really well. At first, your speed drops down to about 5-10 wpm ( You might have an urge of going back to your normal typing), then there's a constant but steep rise in typing speed after 10 days of touch typing. After some time it creates muscle memory and is more of a fun thing to do!

I started touch typing 2-3 years back and in a month reached about 50+ wpm and in a year reached about 90+ wpm, and without touch typing, I was always between 40 — 50 wpm that too with too much effort.

How I learned: One thing to remember is that speed is secondary, first comes the accuracy. I just learned home row keys on TypeMaster and all the vowel locations, then went to 10fastfingers for practicing typing commonly used words, In a few weeks you would be comfortable to hold a normal conversation at 30 — 40 wpm. Then I went to type-racer to type actual paragraphs and over the time gradually shifted my coding to touch typing.

Hope it Helps!

Thanks!

I believe typing with more fingers wouldn't make your typing speed considerably faster.

I recommend you to use a blank keyboard. Trust me, you'll never look at it.

To learn fast typing, just play AOE2.