![]() ![]() Now it is time to cover the remaining gap, and then improve. You completed one of the most difficult steps, so never stop from now on. If you were able to get up to this point completing the lessons I mentioned above, congratulations! You did great, and you lit the fire. ![]() Don't try to skip them to complete the lessons fast. This gives you the right balance between completion speed and typing accuracy.įinally, make sure that you watch the instruction videos that appear from time to time as they explain some critical concepts like home row, posture, muscle memory, etc. So, instead I used four stars as the passing criteria for myself. Ideally you should get five stars from a lesson before you move to the next, but that can be quite tiresome. You can put a towel over your hand to fight with your habit (no kidding!).Īlso, focus on accuracy rather than speed during the lessons. While following these lessons, make sure you never look at the keyboard. Don't feel overwhelmed by the large number of lessons, they are very short and each one usually takes a few minutes to complete. Go to the site, create an account to track your progress (it's free), and complete the lessons 1-135. We will use to learn the basics of touch typing. Learn how to type without looking at the keyboard Learn the "home row" and how to put your fingers on the home row without looking During the first few days, you will follow online exercises to do the following: The basic idea of the touch typing method is assigning the keys on the keyboard to specific fingers as shown in the image above. A few days later, you will be a touch typist! An extremely slow one, though. But I diligently followed the exercises and all my worries just disappeared as my hands and fingers started to cooperate. I thought maybe it is too late to learn this technique for me at this point. Then, at some point, I realized that I couldn't get my fingers to stand still resting on the home row for a while, they were pressing keys now and then unintentionally. Some letters seemed too hard to reach for my fingers using the touch typing technique, I had doubts especially about the health of my left little finger for a while. You will possibly question yourself, the method, and the anatomy of your fingers… :) First step is the most difficult step in this whole process, because you will have many moments when you feel like you won't be able to do this at all. ![]()
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