Touch typing

I am doing quite well on the home row and the top row.

The first excercises to practice when learning a new letter are quite boring but its the best way to learn.

It goes something like this:

aqa aqa asa aqa aaa qqq

If you type 3 rows of each exercise its easy to see if they line up (No mistakes). If they don't line up then you are making mistakes and need to go slower and concentrate more.

Its all about checking your fingers are on the right keys and then looking only at your exercises not your keyboard or your screen. This trains your brain to remember where the keys and letters are just by your fingers being in the right position.

Obviously if your fingers are not in the right place when you start then you just type garbage. That's quite funny if you have typed a whole lot and did not notice when you started that something was wrong ;)

There are a lot of words you can type using just those two rows! Its quite fun.

There is a website I use after my own practising, to test my mistakes (accuracy) and speed.

http://www.typeonline.co.uk/lesson2.html - I have nearly finished all the exercises in Lesson 2 already with no errors!

I think by the end of this week I will be done with the bottom row as well :)

Here are some words I have been practising:

slow till lilt quail tight yell will those feathers lake pope police hope slope

Learning to type

I am learning to touch type.

I write a lot on my blogs and am also writing a book so it will help me a lot.

Touch Typing means that you learn which keys to press without looking at your keyboard. By practising repetitive exercises everyday, you train your brain to remember which fingers are supposed to press which keys.

I have already learnt the home row last week.

The left hand pressed asdfg and the right hand presses ;lkjh.

You can try it yourself:

Place your fingers as follows: little finger left hand on a. Then each finger in sequence on s d and f. The finger that we all learn in the rhyme as 'Peter Pointer' presses both f and g.

The same for the right hand. Your right little finger goes on ; and then the other fingers in sequence on l and k and j. The Peter Pointer of your right hand presses both the j and h.

These keys: asdfg and ;lkjh are known as the HOME KEYS and where your fingers rest when they are not pressing other keys. They always return to their home keys.

The practice exercises go something like this

aaa asa aaa asa aaa asa aaa x 3
sss sds sss sds sss sds aaa x 3

as you can see they are repetitive but very simple. It trains you to remember which finger is for which key. You first check your hands are above the right keys and then you only look at the exercises. You only look at your screen at the end. Then its easy to see your mistakes and which ones need more practice.

Today I was learning r.