Keyboarding (aka Touch Typing)
This is the goal of keyboarding. What do you notice?
This video gives a broad overview of what you should expect from class. You will hear it all again when you do Typing Agent.
Here's an example of a 10 year old who can type 100 words per minute. Watch how he keeps his hands on the home row keys and uses the right fingering. He hardly moves anything. It seems pretty effortless.
Here's an example of adults typing in a contest. Look at their hands and their eyes. See how they seldom look down at their hands.
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What is Important and Why
Here's what is important (in priority order)
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Hunting and Pecking isn't as accurate or fast as touch typing. Watch this video and find out why it's about much more than that.
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Typing Games
Have you ever wondered why the keys are laid out the way they are?
The QWERTY keyboard was designed in the 1800s for mechanical typewriters and was actually designed to slow typists down. If typists typed too fast, the type hammers would move up and down so quickly that they would get jammed.
A typewriter is what people used before there were computers to generate type written documents. It is a mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic device with a set of "keys" that, when pressed, cause characters to be printed on paper. The above photos show an older mechanical typewriter. |
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