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I am keen to learn some typing skills.
Is there any way other than just practice that is especially effective?
Should I just play around?
I do find that I always look at the keyboard while I am typing. I would like to be able to free my eyes up - especially to be able to check that what I have just typed is indeed what I have hoped to have typed.

How can I free my eyes?

I am trying it now!!!!
It is fun!
I thiink the most important buttom to find is the backspace button because it allows you to try around!
I am typing all sorts of stuff then deleting it as I experiment.
Sometimes I have a look at the keybord and zip it up really fast other times i look at the screen and it goes very slowly.

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Go to the library and get a book on blind-typing.
It's very easy, once you practise. Within 2 weeks you'll be typing at a reasonable speed.

Basically you just start off with the J and the F (the two letters with little dots on the keyboard, so you know where to orientate your fingers) and then you go:

jfjfjfjfjf jfjfjfjfjf jkjkjkjk fdfdfdfd jkdf jkdf jkdf jkfd jkfd etc. etc. etc.

And this until you do it fluently and gradually more and more letters.
And in case you want to know secretaresse is the longest Dutch word you blind type with the left hand only.

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Originally posted by flexmore
I am keen to learn some typing skills.
Is there any way other than just practice that is especially effective?
Should I just play around?
I do find that I always look at the keyboard while I am typing. I would like to be able to free my eyes up - especially to be able to check that what I have just typed is indeed what I have hoped to have typed.

How ...[text shortened]... the keybord and zip it up really fast other times i look at the screen and it goes very slowly.
All you need to do is get to a computer store like staples or someplace online and get a typing program.

It will teach you the basics and practice, practice, practice! There are also fun games included with some of these programs... One game I remember was a shark eating a paragraph at a speed you pick.

As you type the paragraph, you need to beat the shark who is eating the words you read as you type....

Another was a western shoot out where you had random words to type and that would shoot the targets.

Look around, and you will type wild long posts like Prad and Ivan in no time in seconds!!!!

Lol!

If you do buy a program to learn with, don't be lazy. I got my words up to about 60 from 30 in a couple-few weeks.

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There are some freeware typing programs too.

I type very fast and to be honest, when I learned, the way I practiced was by typing out song lyrics of my favorites songs and bands. That worked wonders.

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There is a package called Easytype. Not free, but not expensive.
teaches touch typing, so you don't need to look at the keyboard. There are lessons and exercises. When you finish the package, you get a certificate.

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i would like a bigger keyboard to start with

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Originally posted by stoker
i would like a bigger keyboard to start with

Well the only problem with starting with a non-standard keyboard is that once your fingers get used to typing, you'd have to change their placement.

Its best to start with the standard keyboard and get proficient with that before changing (to an ergo or whatever).

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Originally posted by turtlex



I type very fast and to be honest, when I learned, the way I practiced was by typing out song lyrics of my favorites songs and bands. That worked wonders.
This is the way I practice too. I still do this to make sure my fingers don't get lazy.

Typing the lyrics while to song is playing is the best way for me because I am listening to the song rather than concentrating on my fingers so my eyes are staring at nothing. And trying to get every word typed, especially during a pretty fast song is fun!

ncrosby🙂

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Originally posted by ncrosby
This is the way I practice too. I still do this to make sure my fingers don't get lazy.

Typing the lyrics while to song is playing is the best way for me because I am listening to the song rather than concentrating on my fingers so my eyes are staring at nothing. And trying to get every word typed, especially during a pretty fast song is fun!

ncrosby🙂
Try to type during Whiplash by Metallica..............😉

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I learned touch-typing whilst in my first year of secondary skills...and it is good use!

If worse comes to worserererer, do a program, or ask people on a chess forums board.

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type a 400 page phd thesis... that will teach you to touch type 🙂

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Originally posted by shavixmir
Go to the library and get a book on blind-typing.
It's very easy, once you practise. Within 2 weeks you'll be typing at a reasonable speed.

Basically you just start off with the J and the F (the two letters with little dots on the keyboard, so you know where to orientate your fingers) and then you go:

jfjfjfjfjf jfjfjfjfjf jkjkjkjk fdfdfdfd jkd ...[text shortened]... you want to know secretaresse is the longest Dutch word you blind type with the left hand only.
i presume your index fingers are on those two marked keys:"j" and "f" most of the time.

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Originally posted by flexmore
i presume your index fingers are on those two marked keys:"j" and "f" most of the time.
That's how most typing classes and programs start out. They start out with the very simple jfjfjfjf thing and progress through all the letters until you know where all the keys are by heart and you don't have to look at your fingers. Then they progress into words, then sentences, etc etc.

ncrosby🙂

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Originally posted by ncrosby
That's how most typing classes and programs start out. They start out with the very simple jfjfjfjf thing and progress through all the letters until you know where all the keys are by heart and you don't have to look at your fingers. Then they progress into words, then sentences, etc etc.

ncrosby🙂
where are your little fingers?
where do you put your thumbs?
or do they just freerange it as they like - mine do
(do you know the book:"hand hand fingers thumb"? - my childhood favourite!)

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