Definitely there must be practices but better strategies make it faster and promise the result.

Better Chunking

When look at the sentence, break them into comfortable chunk. 

Gax is a name you should not give to your child at all.
...
Gax is a name
should not give
to your child at all
// from TypeRacer

The length of your ‘comfortable’ chunk will grow over time.

Bundle the punctuation

The word ending must be bundle with your typing stroke

... give to your child at all.
Your flow should be
all.
Without a pause
all (pause) .

Rhythm of typing

Typing need rhythm, and rhythm make it faster and more natural.

I think this is easier at least for my brain.

Random
/ //  /   /   /// //    /  //  /   // /  /
Rhythm
/////   ////   ////  ///////  /////// ///

Where / mean key down.

Cut Half Difficult Word

On word that is difficult for you to go through in one bite.

You’d better slow down cut it in a half but still need the rhythm in each half.

Example:
everyone
every|one

Hope this help!