Typing practice fundamentals - Learning keyboard step by step
Typing practice fundamentals The 10 finger method is a very established technique to efficiently use your computer keyboard. With some practice and the correct finger positions you can type „blindly“ on the keyboard. If you have it down, you can significantly lower your error rate and increase your typing speed at the same time. 1 Hunt and peck Although the advantages of the 10 finger-method are perfectly obvious, still many people are hunting and pecking away. Here you are staring at your keyboard until you spot the right key and then hit it with your index finger. After some years you start using more fingers and you might know the positions of the keys better – however, without a distinct finger-key-combination only a few people can manage „blindly“ and equally fast. 2 Basic position for typewriting The basic concept of fast typing is quickly explained: Your fingers take up a fixed starting position, from where you can reach any key you need. Your left fingers are ...