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Touch typist5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() So you are not replacing your old typing habit, you just develop a new, better one, to use when necessary. There are multiple websites with exercises and games for you to practice. This is actually one of the best ways to learn the technique. You can still type like you normally do, and then allocate around 5 minutes each day to practice touch typing. Just like you don’t forget how to run after you learn how to ride a bicycle. Some may wonder, especially gamers, if they will lose their default typing technique when they learn how to touch type. yikes, what are you doing, or you developed that “gamer typing” which we talked about earlier. ![]() Now that we learned what touch typing is, let’s move on to how to actually develop this skill.įirst of all, if you don’t know how to touch type, then you are probably from one of two categories.Įither you type with just one finger on each hand, which. In this case, you should use “Ctrl” and “Alt” from the right side of the keyboard and press A with your left. If you were to press all the keys on your left side, you will force your hand in a weird position that will slow you down. The reason you should learn to use the modifiers on both sides appropriately becomes more obvious when you have to press more complex strings of keys, like “Ctrl” + “Alt” + “A”. If for example, you want to press “Shift” + “A”, you should use the right-hand shift, instead of the left one. ![]() The second most common mistake when learning how to touch type is using the wrong side modifiers. The same thing happens with “B” where you are supposed to press it with your left-hand index finger but it’s commonly pressed with your right index. For the “Y”, you should always use the right-hand index finger, but some people are used to pressing it with the other index. The most common one is crossing your fingers on the letters “Y” and “B”. There are some mistakes that people are doing when learning how to touch type and we’ll go briefly through the most popular ones. This technique was initially learned when typewriters were a thing and it still holds true today, even more so with the Raise, but more on that later. Starting from the home row, every finger is assigned a section on the keyboard, like in the image below. And it all starts with the Home Row.ĭid you ever wonder why there are little bumps on “F” and “J” keys? That’s for you to figure out if your index fingers are on the home row or not. You are using all your 10 fingers, and each one is in charge of a section or a column on the keyboard. Touch typing is a technique that creates a structure where you have to place different fingers on specific areas on your keyboard. With that being said, what exactly is touch typing? But if you can reduce that friction, you will be able to and will be fast enough. When you have to make a mental effort to transfer your thoughts into text because you keep looking at the keyboard, you won't be able to produce as much as you want given a certain time. The important concept here is cognitive friction. If you increase your typing speed to 100 words per minute (which isn’t hard to achieve) then what you were doing for 2 hours, now you’re achieving in just 1. Let’s say you type 2 hours a day and you are a slow typist averaging 50 words per minute. It’s a matter of both raw speed and keeping up with your thoughts. Typing fast enables you to create faster. So if you are able to type faster, then you can develop your thoughts faster and this impacts your creative process. In a way, typing has become an extension of our thinking and it’s very difficult to develop our thoughts without actually putting them on paper and reflecting on them. That’s why most of us are defaulting to a technique that’s actually called “gamer typing”, where you use 3 fingers on one hand and 2 at most on the other.īut now that we are grown-ups and we have “real jobs” and can’t game all day, we are starting to use the keyboard as a professional tool. In Deilor’s words, everyone learns how to type on a keyboard when they are young by playing video games. Typing with this technique is important because it can greatly improve your productivity, especially if you have a type-intensive job, like a programmer or a writer. Short answer, touch typing is a technique that helps you type faster and more efficiently by using all your fingers. What is touch typing and why is it important? We will explain the different typing techniques, what touch typing is, why it matters, what you can do to learn it, and once you’ve learned it, what else you can do to optimize your typing. And who better to explain the benefits of touch typing than Dygma’s CEO, Luis “Deilor” Sevilla. So we decided to write this article and also make a video on the topic. It’s also something that Dmitry from Hardware Canucks talked about in his review of the Dygma Raise. One common question that we've been getting a lot is about touch typing. ![]()
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