I would stick with 10fastfingers website.. it's simple, fast.. and responsive

You can use a typing tutor, but I've found them to be an over complication.

 10 fast is good because it is a very limited set of common words on the standard 10fast test...

it also has advance mode, which is an augmented set.. and also freestyle mode, which is a 600+ word set.

Well dust, You can start out by downloading the program "Mavis Beacon Teaches Touch Typing" It is a brilliant program and worked very well for me.
Very good for teaching correct placement and movement and a lot of practice texts and modes. It helped me go from no typing skills to using correct
technique with decent speed in 2 to 3 months.

Or cut up a box to stand and fit over your keyboard and hands and force yourself to use all fingers and you won't be able to look.

download? any link?
I found on google mostly to buy

Go and play a text-based MUD for a month or so -- your typing speed and accuracy will go way up.

Practice makes perfect

I learned to type as a kid playing Freelancer.  The learning curve sucked but after a year of online play I was a pro.

10fast is the best way imo..

it's easy to use, and you can start it up anytime with internet access.

Just do it. Place your fingers on the home row, set a picture of the layout as your wallpaper, and type without looking at your fingers... If you have trouble doing that, put a towel over your hands/keyboard.

...and practice. Amphetype is awesome.

Typing classes/lessons are boooooriiing.

Just do it. Place your fingers on the home row, set a picture of the layout as your wallpaper, and type without looking at your fingers... If you have trouble doing that, put a towel over your hands/keyboard.

...and practice. Amphetype is awesome.

Typing classes/lessons are boooooriiing.

Yes, it's boring, so is practicing. Formal training help stress basics faster than "just doing it"

Quote from: davkol on Wed, 27 November 2013, 13:00:40

Just do it. Place your fingers on the home row, set a picture of the layout as your wallpaper, and type without looking at your fingers... If you have trouble doing that, put a towel over your hands/keyboard.

...and practice. Amphetype is awesome.

Typing classes/lessons are boooooriiing.

Yes, it's boring, so is practicing. Formal training help stress basics faster than "just doing it"

It's possible to type so many words on Dvorak/Colemak/... home row. I wouldn't hate typing classes so much, if they actually consisted of typing something meaningful instead of that useless fjfjfjfj rubbish.

On the other hand, I actually enjoy typing quotes @ typing tests or stories in Amphetype, because I'm reading it at the same time.

Quote from: Fullcream on Wed, 27 November 2013, 06:58:58

Well dust, You can start out by downloading the program "Mavis Beacon Teaches Touch Typing" It is a brilliant program and worked very well for me.
Very good for teaching correct placement and movement and a lot of practice texts and modes. It helped me go from no typing skills to using correct
technique with decent speed in 2 to 3 months.

Or cut up a box to stand and fit over your keyboard and hands and force yourself to use all fingers and you won't be able to look.

download? any link?
I found on google mostly to buy

Oh I just torrented it off the pirate bay.   

You can find it there.

Yes although OP wants to learn correct technique and use all fingers. Some program would be good or put up a poster of finger placement guide above
your monitor to familiarize yourself.

Once you learn correct technique and never have to look. 10fastfingers and Typeracer are great for working on speed.

Just do it. Place your fingers on the home row, set a picture of the layout as your wallpaper, and type without looking at your fingers... If you have trouble doing that, put a towel over your hands/keyboard.

...and practice. Amphetype is awesome.

Typing classes/lessons are boooooriiing.

an always-on-top picture of your layout will work better.
online typing classes are ok, you don't have to do them for a lot of time. it took me three weeks to accomplish the classes for two very different layouts.

First, buy a keyboard. No, not one of those finger-crunching, badly laid out, horizontally staggered "qwerty" things which force you to overuse your pinkies, a REAL keyboard. ErgoDox, Nexus, Maltron, Kinesis contoured or Truly Ergonomic come to mind (although, ironically, the Truly Ergonomic is the least ergonomic of those mentioned).

Then choose a character layout. No, not "qwerty"! Pay attention! Something that won't ruin your fingers and wrists. Maltron, Simplified Dvorak, Programmer Dvorak, Neo, AdNW, QGMLW, Colemak, Capewell, Klausler, Workman and Norman come to mind (they're all better than qwerty). This is rather a personal thing, read the "reasons" for each, what they have been optimised for and decide which suits you best.

THEN start learning to touch type. I recommend blank keycaps and a printout of your character layout. That way you don't train yourself to look at the keyboard at all. Try to look at the printout as little as possible while learning.

If you don't want to go to all that trouble, then I recommend typing the way you are already, as it's most probably comfortable and less likely to cause injury than learning to touch type "properly".