Both speed and accuracy are important, but accuracy should come first.

Why Accuracy First?

• Errors slow you down more than slow typing
• Correcting mistakes takes extra time
• Accuracy builds foundation for speed
• Most jobs require 95%+ accuracy

The Relationship

Speed naturally increases with accuracy. Focus on accuracy first, speed follows.

Ideal Balance

How to Improve Both

1. Start with accuracy-focused practice
2. Gradually increase speed
3. Don't sacrifice accuracy for speed
4. Take tests measuring both

The Training Order That Works

The most reliable way to develop both qualities is to let them take turns leading. For the first stretch of a session, type at a pace where mistakes simply do not happen — comfortable, unhurried, eyes on the text. Only once your hands feel settled should you push the pace, and the moment errors start piling up, drop back to the comfortable rhythm instead of grinding through the damage.

1. Warm up at an easy pace until the keys feel familiar and your shoulders drop.
2. Run a short block where clean output is the only goal, even if it feels slow.
3. Step the pace up in small increments, holding each one until the text stays clean.
4. Pull back the instant mistakes cluster; that is your current ceiling announcing itself.
5. Close with a final easy block so your hands remember the correct rhythm, not the scramble.

Mistakes That Quietly Cost You Accuracy

• Backspacing on every single error. Fix the sentence, not each letter, so you keep the flow alive.
• Attacking unfamiliar keys harder than the rest. Extra pressure on an unsteady key almost always produces a second mistake.
• Practising while tired. Fatigue shows up as sloppy accuracy long before it shows up as slow speed, and it teaches bad habits to your fingers.
• Skipping punctuation, capitals and spacing because they feel like side issues. Examiners read the finished line, and small slips are still slips.
• Rewarding a fast, messy run more than a slower, clean one. What you celebrate is what you repeat.

Turning an Error Log Into Progress

Keep a running list of what actually goes wrong — repeated wrong keys, dropped words, doubled letters, misplaced spaces — and review it once a week. Patterns appear quickly: the same two or three keys cause most of the damage, and a handful of those keys is worth ten focused minutes more than another generic typing drill. Clear one pattern, then move to the next. Progress in accuracy is rarely dramatic; it is the slow removal of recurring annoyances until almost nothing left goes wrong.

Quick Self-Check Before Each Session

Final Tips

Speed is what you are measured on; accuracy is what makes the measurement worth anything. Build from clean lines outward, let your pace rise only as fast as your mistakes fall, and read every practice run as information rather than as a verdict. Candidates who train this way find that on the day itself, their hands already know the answer — steady, correct and only then fast.