"I want to get better at typing" is a wish, not a plan — because there's no single thing called "typing" to get better at.
What feels like one skill is really five, layered on top of each other: accuracy, key location, speed, rhythm, and stamina. When your typing feels stuck, it's almost never all five holding you back. It's one — the weak link — quietly capping the rest. The fastest way to improve isn't to practise "typing" harder. It's to find that one weak skill and train it on its own.
Why "just practise" stalls
General practice improves your strengths and ignores your weaknesses, because you naturally lean on what you're already good at. A fast-but-sloppy typist keeps typing fast and stays sloppy. A careful-but-slow one keeps being careful and stays slow. The blurry goal of "get better" lets your weak skill hide. Naming the five skills separately is what drags it into the light.
The five skills
Each of these is trained differently — and a gap in any one of them shows up as a ceiling on the whole.
Finding your weak link
Map yourself across all five and the picture stops being a single number. It becomes a shape — strong on some axes, dented on one. That dent is where your next gains are hiding.
Here the dent is rhythm — fine speed and accuracy, but an uneven cadence that breaks the flow and quietly costs more than it looks. For you it might be key location, or stamina that fades after a minute. Whatever the shape, you don't fix it by practising the spokes that already reach the edge. You fix it by aiming straight at the dent.
Train them apart, then together
So treat a practice session like a workout with a target muscle. Pick the weakest skill, use the drill that isolates it from the table above, and stay on it until the dent fills out. Chasing accuracy? Slow right down and refuse to make errors. Rhythm? Type to a steady beat and care more about evenness than pace. Once the weak skill catches up, the whole shape grows — and your overall speed, the thing you actually felt stuck on, moves on its own.
The open practice arena is where you isolate a skill — your pace, instant feedback on accuracy and rhythm, free. When you want the underlying technique rebuilt properly, the grade-based lessons drill key location from the ground up.