Repeat the lessons until you reach at least 97% accuracy without hesitating
That's one error in 33, which seems fair.
A seemingly small increase of 1pp to 98% means you need 50% more correct strokes per error. I tried doing this but it's a bit frustrating. Maybe it's even having the wrong effect on the training (i.e., I make more errors out of frustration).
Is 98% too high?
I wouldn't say there is "too much accuracy". Just relax while you type and take breaks. Do something in between the drills, or play different kind of typing games.
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I suppose accuracy depends on people, just like speed.
We do not expect everyone to type with the speed of 100wpm, so we do not expect everyone to type with 98% or 99% accuracy either.
Personally, my accuracy is about 98 to 99% (Amphetype graph above). While I cannot type too fast, I try to increase my accuracy for a change. Typing of the Dead has an option for practising that. It forces you to type words and immediately stops at a single mistake.
Most of us already type faster than what our brains can think, so we do not have to type faster. We need to think faster what to type.
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I suppose accuracy depends on people, just like speed.
We do not expect everyone to type with the speed of 100wpm, so we do not expect everyone to type with 98% or 99% accuracy either.
Well, I'd hope to do better than 97% in daily use. But my question is more about what limit to use for training. But I guess, as pafkata90 says, the best thing is to relax and not worry too much about it. Which is all there is to do anyway if the typing tutor doesn't have a limit.
Most of us already type faster than what our brains can think, so we do not have to type faster. We need to think faster what to type.
Maybe in some cases yes, but I'd sure like to be able to type as fast as I can speak -- which is usually around how fast I can think :-)
OK, then I recommend you try Typeracer accuracy races. The race stops immediately when you make a mistake :-) so be prepared!
http://play.typeracer.com/?universe=accuracy
And you are right, relax will make you calm and do less mistyping.
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Counter-intuitively, this is pretty fun. I've been practicing for two hours now!
It's nice to get the time to analyze my errors while having the context of which word I made the error in. So far, I've found out that only half of my errors are "simple" muscle memory confusion errors such as mixing up "i" and "e" or "r" and "s". Many are skipped letters such as "recon" when typing "recognition", "frin":"friend", "drak":"drank", or even "finay":"finally". Others are skipping/forgetting punctuation or even conjunctions. Others again are key repeats ("begg":"began", "didd":"did ") or missed repeats ("pose":"possess").
This is interesting :-)
