![]() ![]() ![]() The left 5th little finger (L5) under the 'A' key. The left 4th finger (L4) under the 'S' key. The left middle finger (元) sits under the 'D' key. ![]() The Home Row for the left hand starts under the left index finger (L2) on the 'F' key. As long as your two index fingers can feel the indentations, you know you are on the right starting keys. This is useful for you to quickly feel for the two home keys through touch alone. You will noticed that the keys 'F' & 'J' will have a raised indentation. Have a look at the following diagram and place your fingers accordingly under the correct 'starting' character. Once we've typed the key, the finger can naturally return to the home position ready for the next keystroke. This would be the placeholder or Home positions and the fingers will be on the Home Row.Įach character keys we type would essentially be a finger 'move' from our home positions towards the relevant character keys. ![]() In the first stage, we want to learn how to type without looking at the keys, to do that, we have a starting positions for all our fingers. You can read more about the QWERTY keyboard. Tiny hammers would strike inked ribbons based on the press of each keys.īut because the hammers would jam if people typed too quickly, the keys were rearranged to avoid collisions and so we end up with our current 'QWERTY' keyboard layout (which is the first letters of the first row in the sequence). The reason dates back in the days of the machanical typewriters - people used to type too quick! Wouldn't that have been so much simpler!?. Have you ever wondered how the layout of the current keyboard keys come about? Why aren't they laid out from 'a' to 'z' you may ask? If you are a typist who still looks at the keys to know their positions, then you have a lot of potential for improvements! Work towards improving accuracy & consistency (and hence speed).Learn how to type without looking (i.e.There are really only two stages to learning to type fast, that is. Adjusting your techiques on these tricky letters and mainaining consistency will drastically improve your accuracy as well as your speed. So if there is one number you should pay attention to the it is your accuracy rate.īe conscious of letters that you find difficult to type or frequently make mistakes over. If you make a lot of mistakes when you type, then time will be spent on making corrections and editing your words and this will slow your typing speed back down. Your focus should not be on the speed alone, your typing speed will naturally follow and increase when your accuracy is there. There will be time you will feel lazy and want to stop, but don't give up, it is a rewarding skill to have and when you have learnt to type, you will look back with a feeling of achievement and satisfaction. It is like learning how to ride a bicycle or learning to improve on a sport, at first, it'll be clumpsy, slow and you will probably make a lot of mistakes, but over time and with practice, it will feel natural and instinctual. Learning to type fast and accurately requires knowing the right techniques and then drilling upon those techniques until it becomes second natures to you. The truth is we do not only write assignments or documents but we do a lot of retyping and editing as well. The saving in times becomes more valuable if you use computers constantly as part your job, profession or studies. How much time can you save if you triple your speed to 60 Words per minute or higher and you had to write a 5,000 word report? In that short but achievable jummp, you have already double the time you saved for that same task. But imagine now if you managed to double your speed from 20 words per minute (WPM) to 40 words per minute. You may not at first realise how much time you will save because overall it does not look like much. If you think about the number of times you've used a computer this week, and think about how much time you take to type each character. We live in the digital age surrounded by computers, so it is only natural and beneficial to learn to type effectively. Whether you just want to use the computer, learn a new skill or improve your typing, there are many reasons for learning how to type. ![]()
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