I believe you misread the tutorial prompt, but I don't blame you, it wasn't all that clear.
The key to speed up is D, the game uses the standard WASD + Mouse scheme that a lot of games use.
I'll be sure to allow for different key-binds, controller input and a better default layout post-jam, as well as making the controls generally more clear to the player in-game, because its easy to misread the prompts