Keyboarding

Touch Typing

Learning to touch type takes lots of time and committment, but once you’ve mastered it you’ll never look back. It will save you so much time when typing up assignments and in your future careers.

In order to succeed you MUST practice as much as possible. At least 10 minutes EVERY day. Perhaps other family members might enjoy learning with you. It could become a fun family challenge.

Step one:

asdf ;lkj

These keys are called the home row. This is where your fingers should always rest. You will notice raised bumps on the F and J. Your pointer fingers should rest on these two keys. This is to guide you and help keep your fingers on the correct key.

Step one: Start by repeatedly typing asdf;lkj using the appropriate finger.

Step two: type this sequence repeatedly without looking, using the appropriate finger.

Step three: ask someone to call out any of these 8 keys. Without looking type the key that is called. Continue to do this until you are able to locate keys quickly. You will get faster with practise.

If you have internet access you can replace step three with the lessons on this website. Start with lesson one. Record your times.

http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/tutor/index.php?lang=EN

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