Speed up your typing (by deleting faster)

If you spend a significant portion of your day typing—emails, documents, Slack messages, posts on Reddit about your hyperspecific hobby—and a lot of that time is wasted deleting things character by character. Holding down the backspace key like some kind of caveman is inefficient and frankly beneath you. These keyboard shortcuts will help you delete entire words, or even lines, at once, which is especially useful when you change your mind midsentence or realize you need to start over. Here’s how to do it—and keep in mind that your cursor has to be after the word or sentence you want to delete.

Delete entire words:

• On Mac: Press Option + Delete.
• On PC: Press Ctrl + Backspace.

Delete the whole line:

• On Mac: Press Command + Delete.
• On PC: Press Ctrl + Shift + Up Arrow + Delete on Windows (yeah, I realize this isn’t the easiest hack).

Once you get these shortcuts into muscle memory, you'll never go back to pecking away at the delete key one letter at a time.