How to Blind Type Part 1
A hundred and twenty words a minute. I think it is what I type, somewhere around there and maybe even more than that, it has been a few years since I have checked. I remember, first learning how to type on a typewriter an actual typewriter work, you know the characters were on this stems, this metal stems that would…
In fact that you know the QWERTY layout that you use to. You know the Q-W-E-R-T-Y layout. The reason why I was lay out that way is because of people that are, you know, who were typist at the time would type so fast that the key, the stems would get jammed. And it would happen to me, even then. And I got so skilled at typing over the years certainly through out High School and in the College and I know every year I get faster, every year.
And I am sure there is a law of diminishing returns but I mean I am a pretty skilled typist. I can do pretty well. If you likely heard me with ever got my keyboard upon the desk, but I do most of it if not all of it by touch as long as I know where my fingers are on home row and qwerty. Some, you guys, out there are more the Brock style. I do not know. People said, go to bracket as faster. You know, I am so good at QWERTY at this point, I do not know, I just do not want to little mess with my mind. I have sometimes problems with English itself.
Harry Thompson decided to submit this top 5 list for touch typing and he notes quite well that computer gamers and programmers are quite aware of that the benefits of this and people asked all the time, “How do you do it?” Well I will let you know because it is actually one of Harry’s tips here.
Number one—the keyboard, the famous and popular tactic use very often in typing classes is the blank keyboard with the reference poster for support on the wall, either on your side or behind you. This encourages just you to familiarize yourself with the keyboard layout which is absolutely essential. Do you have a spare keyboard it might be worth type pixing? Out the characters on the keys, type pixing. I had never seen that word before. Under no circumstances, those are recommended to do this on your primary keyboard. Just in case you do this as your reference sheet or somebody else wants to use a computer. There is actually keyboard available that has blank keys too by the way.
Number two—fading out, deleting all identifying marking in your keyboard is not for everyone. If you are willing to put in some extra time into the venture, then it might be worth to use this method by simply typing as you normally would but slowly forcing yourself to look at the keyboard less and less. This method is one that I started, this is the one I used to start learning before switching over to the blank keyboard, which is the evidence that the process is not rigid and rather be flexible. The one thing I always had issues are with the numbers. I have never been ten key person, you know the side I have always use the numbers on the top and sometimes we will have to look. I have got a way better with it but I am still bad in the function keys sometimes I have to look down or I have to keep pressing the function keys until I hit the right one. Which one was is it you know?
Number three—keyboard position, you can spend hours and hours and days and day or even weeks and weeks. More that you need to you learning the skill if you change the angle that you are to your keyboard. It is because your hands and fingers remember each process in terms of distance they moved. But it change of angle it normally change distances and you likely find yourself lost, in addition to this the change in the type of keyboard, EG40 or to something else you would be able lose again because again it changes the key locations relative to your fingers. Finding the right keyboard is well—key.
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