Want to increase your typing speed? While I don’t have an exact solution to increase typing speed, but I have a quick hack to increase your keyboard output — a text-substitution software. Simply press a few keystrokes and you’ll get an instant output of anything you specify — hard-to-remember number strings, your address, phrases you often use, URLs, or even an entire email template.
Learn more in the video above!
- Download: Texter Text-Substitution Software (Zip file)
(Right click the link and click “Save as” to save the file to a specified folder on your desktop. I do not own Texter nor did I create it; I’m only providing a copy for your ease of download.)
Update Jan 2021: Seems like Texter doesn’t support foreign languages. I have two other tools to recommend with the same functionality: Perfect Keyboard and aText. I’ve been using aText for the past few months and it works perfectly.
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I have a “copy-paste” word file at work with text I use very often and now I will update/upgrade it with Texter :) Thanks.
Btw.: I can not download it from the link above…
Hi Miss Elf, just fixed the link! Please check! :)
And yes, this is definitely MUCH faster than a “copy-paste” word-type file (which I used to have as well; in fact I was even using a post-it note software for this but Texter still beats it by a mile because there’s no need to search for the information with it).
Wow! Just Loved it!!!!!!! Really Useful! I don’t have to be enter my details everytime I do my Net banking! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!
A really cool tool, especially because it runs in the background for both desktop applications and the Internet.
I don’t use many online forms so when I need to type a word a number of times in ms word, I usually use the replace all option. For example, I type BBM though out the document and in the end I run a replace all for be a better me.
But Texter seems better. So thanks!
My absolute pleasure, Charumati! :) Glad you find this useful!!
Damn, that’s a pretty cool trick. If you get really used to it you could exchange all particularly long words, or at least phrases, with keywords.
Yep, you said that right Ragnar! :) Once you master the tool you can literally jump your typing by multiple times. I haven’t utilized the full potential of the tool but I’m getting there.
I will play around with it on my home computer. It is a great idea to speed up typing with such a tool. I watched your video as well – a great demo!
Thank you very much Charles!! :) I hope the tool works out for you! I use it every day and it’s really fabulous.
I tried this on my MacBook, but I don’t think it’s compatible… or I didn’t do it correctly!
Hey Maximilianah, don’t think the software works for Mac–at the very least, the version I’ve uploaded is for Windows (since I don’t use a Mac).
And it seems like Mac already has a built in text-expansion / text-substitution function. Check this out: http://lifehacker.com/5931337/do-yourself-a-favor-set-up-mountain-lions-built+in-text-expansion-with-these-shortcuts
Hope that helps! :)
Thanks for the info Celes! I appreciate the feedback about the Mac function. I actually use both, a Mac and PC… I’m going to look into using both.
Well, the video is really useful, because I didn`t know that one can accelerate typing speed. I thought that this process can be increased only by typing more and more text, so to say it comes with practice, but now I know that there is one more method.
Do give the software a shot if you haven’t! It’s really useful! :)
Thanks! This will come in handy. Especially for the phone numbers.
I learned typing blind with ten fingers. Its actually pretty easy. It’s just the first two weeks that’s weird, but then you’ll get the hang of it. I learned it in school, but you can find online software nowadays. Just type in google, “dactylo online”
Such a program is a great idea! I had trouble with texter not always expanding text so I used another free program – Perfect Keyboard. I wrote a blog article about it.http://charuzu.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/faster-typing-using-perfect-keyboard/
After using my credit card twice today, I think I will add my credit card number as a short cut. Perfect Keyboard has the capability of inserting the date and/or time in all sorts of formats and this is a very useful feature.
Thanks for the Perfect Keyboard recommendation, Charles! I’ve included it as an alternative option in the blog post. I realized Texter doesn’t always expand for me either (the software seems a little buggy) so I switched to P.K. Works like a charm!
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