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Number Typing is a numeric keypad speed drill. Numbers appear and you type them as fast as you can. It is a real and separate skill from prose typing — data entry, accounting and till work all live on the number row or the keypad, and prose speed predicts it poorly.
A number appears on screen.
Type it exactly.
A correct entry loads the next number.
Both speed and accuracy are tracked.
Numbers get longer as the run progresses.
Numeric keypad fluency. It is genuinely trainable and it is the skill tested in data-entry assessments, which usually report keystrokes per hour rather than words per minute.
Use the keypad if you have one, with your middle finger resting on 5. The bump on that key exists to orient you.
Never look down. The keypad is small enough to learn entirely by touch.
Type digits in groups of three, as they are grouped on screen.
Accuracy dominates in real data entry — one wrong digit costs far more than a slow entry.
Yes, substantially. They use different hand positions and different motor patterns, and being fast at one predicts the other poorly.
Usually in keystrokes per hour rather than words per minute, because the units are digits rather than words.
The number row works. It is slower for most people, so compare only against your own previous runs on the same keyboard.
Middle finger on 5, index on 4, ring on 6. The raised marker on 5 is there for exactly this.