# Triple Your Typing Speed - The Ultimate Guide to Keyboard Mastery - review & insight | Gareth B. Davies Source: https://garethbdavies.com/course-insights/triple-your-typing-speed-the-ultimate-guide-to-keyboard-mastery/ [← All courses](https://garethbdavies.com/course-insights/) Business & Marketing · Quick win · Rated 6 /10 # Triple Your Typing Speed - The Ultimate Guide to Keyboard Mastery By Gareth B. Davies · Updated July 2026 Ali Abdaal · Doctor + YouTuber All levels · 53 min A doctor-YouTuber hands over his own keyboard-shortcut cheat sheet in under an hour, but the class is a checklist, not a curriculum. [Get a Free Month on Skillshare](https://skillshare.eqcm.net/c/3155494/298081/4650?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.skillshare.com%2Fclasses%2Ftriple-your-typing-speed-the-ultimate-guide-to-keyboard-mastery%2F855773348) New to Skillshare? Your first month is free, enough to take this course at no cost. Ali Abdaal opens by admitting the obvious: typing speed will not fix procrastination or make anyone more productive in a deep sense. That honesty sets the tone for a class that never oversells itself. What follows is thirteen short lessons, most under five minutes, built around a live demonstration format: Abdaal types on screen, narrates what his fingers are doing, and explains why. ## What the class actually teaches The strongest material is the correction-shortcut lesson. Instead of hammering Backspace, the class drills Option+Backspace to delete a whole word and Command+Backspace (or Shift+Backspace on Windows) to clear a full line, then extends this into using Option and Shift with the arrow keys to jump between words and highlight them for replacement. It is demonstrated on a deliberately garbled line of "Somewhere over the rainbow," which makes the technique concrete rather than abstract. This single habit, once internalized, changes how a fast typist edits mid-sentence, and it justifies sitting through the rest of the course on its own. The finger-placement and muscle-memory sections cover familiar touch-typing basics (F and J home-row bumps, resting position) but add a genuinely useful idea in the rollover technique, where the next key is pressed before the previous one is released, described through a piano-playing analogy. The practice-method lesson recommends keybr.com specifically because it isolates weak letters rather than testing whole sentences, which is a more targeted approach than the usual "just do more typing tests" advice, though the class stops short of building any practice regimen into itself. ## Where it thins out Several lessons drift away from typing speed into general productivity tricks: macOS text-replacement snippets for auto-expanding emails and stock replies, and Alfred-style app launching to skip the mouse. These are genuinely useful habits for computer fluency, but they are not typing speed techniques, and their inclusion padding out a 53-minute class suggests thin source material stretched to fill a syllabus. The keyboard-buying and posture lessons are the weakest of all: sensible but generic advice (mechanical versus membrane switches, QWERTY over Dvorak, a 90-degree seated position) that could be found in any ergonomics article. The class project, taking a typing test and posting a screenshot, gives no feedback loop or coaching, and the "how to fix weaknesses" lesson essentially outsources the actual work to a third-party website rather than building a practice plan into the course. For a class explicitly about building a skill through repetition, the absence of any structured drill sequence is a real gap. This works best as a fast primer for someone who already types reasonably well and wants a handful of habits, chiefly the word and line deletion shortcuts, to make their daily computer use faster. It is not a typing course for beginners who need graduated practice, and the Mac-centric demonstrations mean Windows users will need to translate several of the specific keystrokes themselves. The standout The Option+Backspace (word) and Command+Backspace (line) deletion habit, demonstrated live on a garbled line of text, is the one shortcut worth the whole runtime. ## What you will learn - · Word- and line-deletion shortcuts (Option/Command+Backspace on Mac, Ctrl/Shift+Backspace on Windows) for correcting typos without repeated Backspace taps - · Home-row finger placement and the 'rollover' technique of pressing the next key before releasing the last one - · A weakness-targeted practice method using keybr.com's per-letter drilling instead of generic paragraph typing - · Building custom text-replacement snippets (macOS Keyboard > Text or Windows equivalents) to auto-expand emails, links and stock replies - · Launching apps and files without a mouse using Alfred- or Spotlight-style search tools - · Keyboard and posture choices: mechanical versus membrane switches, QWERTY versus Dvorak, and a 90-degree seated setup Best for: Intermediate typists on a Mac who want a quick set of keyboard-first habits to shave time off daily typing and app-switching. Skip it if: Complete beginners wanting a structured typing curriculum with built-in drills, or Windows users, since most demonstrations and shortcuts are Mac-specific. Engaging Teacher Clarity of Instruction Audio & Video Quality Actionable Steps [Get a Free Month on Skillshare](https://skillshare.eqcm.net/c/3155494/298081/4650?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.skillshare.com%2Fclasses%2Ftriple-your-typing-speed-the-ultimate-guide-to-keyboard-mastery%2F855773348)