Practice Typing 2-minutes Speeds

This is your practice typing 2-minutes speeds. Copy and paste them on your Word program  sheet. You can also print them or snap them on your mobile phone or even email them and upload them on a page in a Word program to use in the office or use at  home if you have a personal computer of your own.

Practice typing tips to practice two minutes speeds.

To practice two minute speeds make sure you

Set your clock for every two minutes speed.

Your sitting posture should be:

• eyes on copy on the screen or a printed copy,
• fingers are on the home keys asdf ;lkj.
• your elbows are tucked in
• your back is straight and
• your feet is flat on the floor.

Now you are ready to practice your two minutes speeds.

The following two minutes speeds are very short and simple sentences. Try to practice them as much as you can.  Make the time to do so.

The alphabet speeds should have helped you in typing smoothly and typing without looking at the keys.  There will be times that you may have to glance at the keys to make sure that your fingers are on your home keys. Once they are there you will be able to type accurately because you will be pressing the right keys.

Do not stay too long sitting to practice your two minutes speeds. You can type for a while maybe the first five paragraphs just a few times then take a break and go back.

If you find yourself making too many errors observe which keys are causing those errors and go back to your alphabet speeds on those letters and practice them a few times before you move on.

That quality of practice is described as good quality practice. With a lot of patience and endurance you will be amazed to see how much your speed will progress as quickly as possible. So do not take your practice of speeds lightly. It is worth all your time and patience.

Always remember there are lasting benefits. It will build confidence in you as a typist. You will alo be able to finish your typing tasks quickly and accurately. Most of all you will be fully qualified to keep your job.

Practice Typing 2-Minutes Speeds

20 words per minute

1. The mailing section of the firm is responsible in the normal course of events, for all letters as well as parcels sent out. The section may vary in size from one person in a small office, to a large staff.
   
   
2. A small office will pay postage by sticking a stamp or stamps on letters and parcels while a big office will probably have a franking machine which prints the postage and the date of dispatch on the mail.
   
   
3. The main duties of the mailing department are to see that all letters have been signed, that the right letter goes in the right envelope, to see if the postage is correct and all enclosures intended are in.
   
   
4. If a firm corresponds regularly with the same group of people, it is usual to use the addressing machine to save time. Such a machine prints names and addresses stored in it for rapid addressing of mail.
   
   
5. Now I am sure you have built some confidence in your typing. If you continue at this pace you will see improvements daily. Keep up. Do not give up or slow down. Be patient.

1. It took such a long time to chop through just the thin part of the trunk of the tree that it did not look as if they would cut all up and have a nice stack of logs by the time the truck came to take the load.
   
   
2. Once the lights were cut off they had to live by the light of their oil lamp which, while not as bright as the normal house light, did have a charm of its own and meant that they could at least read books using their oil lamp.
   
   
3. It took the seeds a long time to come through but once they started to grow they grew so fast it took them just one month to reach the top of those tall poles. They soon made thick green and pink mass.
   
   
4. The pool was quite deep at one end and proved a good place to fish for pikes. These pikes were to be seen from the bank as they lurked among the old tree roots waiting for their prey to swim from the deep sea.
5. An Agenda is a list of items to be discussed at any meeting.  It is prepared by the Secretary or Stenographer after consulting the chairman of the meeting. It is distributed before the day of the meeting to all persons attending.

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