| The best thing I did was go from decent typing by knowing learned patterns (but having to look at the keyboard most of the time), to learning home key typing. I did this in year 9 at school and my typing speed went down for about a month whilst re-learning. The idea is you rest your fingers on asdf jkl; and to type a letter, raise the appropriate finger up or down. Typing programs will teach you quickly by practicing the home keys then adding letters one by one like ‘e’ and ‘i’. The biggest improvement comes because you don’t need to look at the keyboard. Your efficiency in overall computing tasks increases, then your typing speed rapidly overtakes your old style. After a while you learn patterns of words so you aren’t always moving a finger off the home key and back like a robot. This is when you get really fast. Always return to the home keys by feeling for the little bumps on the ‘f’ and ‘j’ keys. I used to lay in bed at night practicing typing simple words with my brain. I’m sure this helped considerably. It’s the best thing I ever self learned. Well worth the month of slower typing as my entire adult life typing has been a breeze. |