![]() ![]() Start off by choosing practice if you don't like the pressure of competing in the beginning. I'm sure there exists other similar games too though and I have yet to check out those, so I'm open to other recommendations too! It really makes the whole learning process a lot of fun. Use one of those typing games to practice. ![]() (Notice the little raised bumps on your and keys).įrom the home row, you'll reach with your fingers or possibly move your hand if needed, to hit the surrounding keys. Your left hand fingers will rest on, and your right hand fingers will rest on (called the home row), while using your thumbs for. Take a look at this image here and just play around for a bit. better workflow and being able to focus on the screens content at all times.Īnyway, this is how I got from about 10 to 40 wpm in just 4 days, with only looking at the keyboard in the beginning:įirst, get familiar with where your fingers go.typing while not looking at the keyboard.And - it doesn't have to take long!įirst, why would one learn to touch type? Here's some benefits from the top of my head. So it took a lot of effort to correct it in the first couple of days, but rest assured that as you become better and better, it also becomes more and more fun. These finger positions may or may not be applicable for other types of keyboards for example, one of my coworkers has a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 which frankly I simply cannot seem to come to terms with, but which he swears by.I had a very weird typing style where I used pretty much three fingers on each hand and they went on all kind of illogical places on the keyboard, and if I took my eyes off, I was pretty much screwed. Now, this is for a straight ("non-ergonomic") keyboard my own keyboard is a 105-key Unicomp Ultra Classic, which is basically the IBM Model M, which is about as without bells and whistles as they come and certainly, I am sure, does not count as "ergonomic" by modern standards (but I like the straight layout). For the keys that aren't really a part of the alphanumeric set you pretty much have to move your hands anyway so I most often just settle for the finger that happens to "feel right" when the hand rests on the relevant part of the keyboard. (And I ended up having to actually specifically try most of these, because for the very most part I don't even consciously think about them, just like I don't consciously think about the positions of the alphanumeric keys with few exceptions, the intended glyphs just magically appear on the screen as I press down keys on the keyboard.)įor the function keys ( F1 through F12), I find that it's often beneficial to move your hands off the home position anyway, so tend to just reach for those with whatever finger happens to be conveniently nearby and that doesn't interfere with any modifier keys needed for the desired function. Right Shift - most often right little fingerīackspace (also strictly speaking not a modifier key) - most often right ring finger Right Control - most often right little finger, putting the tip of the finger to the right of Enter ![]() Right Alt (known as Alt Gr on non-US keyboards), Right Windows key and Windows Menu key - most often right thumb (though particularly for the menu key, this moves my right hand from the home position since those are used relatively rarely, I don't consider that a real problem) Left Windows and Left Alt - varies, but most often left thumb. Left Control - left little thinger, pushing down by the base of the finger (for me, this puts the tip of the finger just to the left of Caps Lock) Tab (not strictly a modifier key) - varies, but most often left index finger As a result, for me the modifier keys are at:Ĭaps Lock and Left Shift - left little finger stretched out to the left What I do, which works well for me, is to keep my hands mostly in the home row position, or near it (I will often rest my hands to the sides of the alphanumeric part of the keyboard). Comfort reduces body stress as well as likely reduces the number of mistakes you make. There is no One True Way, except that typing should be comfortable for you. In the end, all of touch typing boils down to what you find comfortable. Of course, I learned to touch-type properly some ten years ago now and have been using computers for much longer than that, which may influence things a little. I haven't seen any touch-typing tutorials myself that really give much credence to the modifier keys. ![]()
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