Two Finger Typing - I Will Never Make It At Wealthy Affiliate

Just like the image above I am from the old school.

In my 40 years of working I never really had the need to type and honestly it wasnt until I joined Wealthy Affiliate and realised that a big part of this business was content creation that my two typing finger skills would need to improve!

I have seen people here saying they average around 60 - 80 words per minute (Does that sound correct??) and I thought s*%t I would be lucky to type that in an hour LOL!

The great thing with being able to type at those speeds, is that as quick as you are thinking what should be written, your 10 fingers (well 8 and two thumbs) are putting them into your post.

I really do know how frustrating typing a handful of words per minute can be, and while over the past 3 and a bit months I have been here my speed has definitely gotten better I am still nowhere near the dizzying heights that you speed typers are at (God Im Jealous LOL!!).

So What Have I Done About It?

One thing I havent done about it, is use it as an excuse that Wealthy Affiliate wont work for me because of the speed that I write at.

What I have done is thought, this could be a problem for me so what I need to do is find a solution!

Remember my good friends, especially the new members here like myself. With every problem in life there is ALWAYS a solution.

Excuses are easy, solutions are satisfying. I just made that up and I like it!!

What Was My Solution?

I remember being on the Wealthy Affiliate chat one afternoon and Kyle was online, a few of us were talking about the speed of our typing I think it was, and I mentioned that this was one of the problems I was facing.

Kyle then mentioned there were several types of software that were avaiable where you simply talk into a microphone and it will automatically dictate this for you onto a word doc, or what ever format you choose.

Since that day, this has now become the method I use and it has sped my article writing up to where I now type as many words a minute as I can speak, and those that know me personally will know thats a lot of words!!

What Are You Using?

For me, I simply bought a cheap $10 USB microphone from my local electronics shop and use this with the free, already installed Microsoft dictator.

The above (Not Very Good Picture) is the microphone I am using.

While I still have to do some error fixes in spelling, puntuation and grammar it really has given me back hours of time to create more articles.

There are probably better types of software out there, and if anyone is using them I would love to get your input.

However at the moment I am just glad I changed my excuse, to a problem and solved it, all thanks to the always helpful family here at Wealthy Affiliate.

Final Words

These literally are my final words, as everything I have here are the words I spoke through my cheap as $10 microphone with almost no work done by my two little fingers who are finally getting a well deserved break.

So if your excuse to why you cant succed within Wealthy Affiliate is based on you not being able to create content fast enough, I encourage you to try this method, because for me it has been an absolute game changer.

Wishing everyone all the success they deserve.

Mark