How to Reach 60 WPM in Thirty Days — A Realistic Plan
A structured four-week plan that combines home-row drills, tempo tests, and weekly benchmark runs. No apps stacked on top of apps — just a clear ladder to a solid 60 WPM.
Before you start: set an honest baseline
Sixty words per minute is a comfortable, practical typing speed. How long it takes to get there depends on where you start, how often you practise and whether you are replacing old habits. Someone who already types quickly while looking at the keys will have a very different month from a complete beginner. Treat this plan as a structure to follow, not a promise. Results vary from person to person.
On day one, take a 60-second test in the language you want to improve and write down your WPM and accuracy. LipiTyping counts only correctly typed characters when it calculates WPM: correct characters divided by five, divided by the minutes elapsed. Your score therefore already reflects the cost of mistakes. If you log in, your results are saved to your account and shown on your dashboard, which makes it easy to compare weeks.
Week 1: home row and posture (15 to 20 minutes a day)
Spend this week building the foundation. Sit upright with your feet flat, shoulders relaxed and the screen at roughly eye level. Let your wrists float just above the keyboard rather than resting on the desk edge. Place your fingers on A S D F and J K L ; with your thumbs on the space bar.
Work through the first lessons slowly. The goal is to press the right key without looking down, not to be fast. If you forget a key, look at the on-screen keyboard, which highlights the next key, instead of at your hands. Aim to keep accuracy at 95 percent or higher before you increase your pace.
Do not test every day this week. One 60-second test at the end of the week is enough. If you are switching from looking at the keys to touch typing, your speed may drop below your baseline for a while. That is normal, and it usually recovers as the new positions become automatic.
Week 2: the full keyboard (20 to 25 minutes a day)
Now move through the remaining lessons so that every finger learns its reaches to the top and bottom rows. A useful daily split is 10 minutes of lessons, 10 minutes of free practice with real sentences and, two or three times this week, one 60-second test at the end of the session.
Pay attention to the keys that cause most of your errors. When a key keeps tripping you up, slow down on it rather than rushing past it. It is better to type a word correctly at a slower pace than to type it quickly and wrong.
Week 3: rhythm and real text (25 to 30 minutes a day)
Most of this week should be spent in free practice. Real sentences include capital letters, punctuation and awkward letter combinations that drills often skip. Focus on an even rhythm, where each keystroke follows the last at a similar pace, rather than bursts of speed followed by pauses and corrections.
Add one 120-second test every few days. Longer tests show whether you can hold your speed once your attention starts to drift. After each test, look at where you slowed down or made mistakes and return to the lesson that covers those keys.
Week 4: controlled speed (about 30 minutes a day)
Split each session into three parts. Start with 10 minutes of accuracy warm-up at a relaxed pace. Spend the next 10 minutes in practice, pushing slightly faster than feels comfortable while keeping your accuracy high. Finish with 10 minutes of timed tests, alternating between 60 and 120 seconds.
At the end of the week, repeat your day-one test in the same language and with the same duration so the comparison is fair. Compare both numbers, WPM and accuracy, against your baseline.
If you are not at 60 WPM yet
Many learners need more than a month to reach 60 WPM, especially if they started from zero or spent the first weeks unlearning old habits. That is not a failure. If your speed has gone up and your accuracy has held, the plan is working. Keep the week 3 and week 4 routine going and test once or twice a week.
The leaderboard can be motivating, but your own baseline is the only comparison that really matters. Improve against yourself first.
Habits that apply every week
Practise a little every day rather than once a week for a long session. Take short breaks to rest your hands and eyes. Keep your eyes on the screen. If your accuracy drops, slow down until it recovers before trying to speed up again.
Conclusion
Reaching 60 WPM comes down to steady, accurate practice over time. Build the home row, learn the full keyboard, practise with real text and test regularly to see where you stand.
Begin today with the lessons and take your baseline test: Lessons · Timed test