Increase Typing Speed

Typewriting- Typing

Typewriting is similar to writing, but it is done on a typewriter or a computer instead of a paper. Just as we have learnt writing with a lot of years of practice as a child, definitely as an adult, a new style of writing, that is typing here, is going to take a few weeks or months, depending on your efforts. But typing is not as difficult as it seems when we see others doing typing or typewriting. It's all the game of practice.

Requirements for learning typing faster

1. Good Health

You must have good health, because if you have a good health then your focus will be better. Focus is a basic necessity for learning a new skill. Also good health gives you good command over your body. So the response time will be very low. It means you will think of an alphabet and at fractions of milliseconds you will be able to press the key on keyboard with your finger.

2. Dedication

Typewriting is a skill which will require consistency and your consciousness. You will only be capable of learning typing only if you practice it regularly. At the same time when you are practicing typing, you must be conscious. This is so because your brain have to learn that which fingers will have commands on specific keys. So dedication will make you learn typing skill faster.

3. Right Information regarding Typing

While learning a new skill, it is important that you are putting the right stuff related to skill in your brain. But good news for you guys. You are going to have correct information regarding Typing skill in the same post as Basic Fundamentals of Typing. So don't worry about that.

Basic Fundamentals of typing

This is the core technical part of learning typing. So let's start. You have to place your fingers correctly on keyboard. Your left four fingers on keys A, S, D, F and the right hand fingers on J, K, L, ; . This will always be your hand positioning as a default. By default I mean whenever you take a break while typing, even for a second, your fingers should be on the above mentioned keys. 

This will make your eyes free from looking at the key board. because now you know which finger have Authorization over which keys. 

Remember: 

The upper and lower row keys will be pressed by same finger. like Q, A, Z with same finger and U, J, N with same finger. while shifting from one row to another your hands movement will be slightly north west when shifting to upper row and south east slight when shifting to lower row. It is because of composition of keyboard.

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What we can do to not look at the keyboard at all 

Yes that may be a question arising in your mind. It's because this will save our time and effort to look here and there again and again. Right?

Don't worry about it. It you observe you keyboard properly by touching, you will find two alphabetic keys having a rough surface over it. Yes these are F and J. These are the keys where you have to place your finger next to thumb. Left on F and right on J.

B key should be pressed with right hand finger next to thumb. This is on experience basis, it helps me to type uninterruptedly. Space bar with right thumb. Shift key should be pressed depending on what alphabet you want to type. Suppose of you have to type some alphabet which falls on right hand jurisdiction, press shift on left side and vice versa.

Enjoy typing...