[johan914]

Qwerty is top-row heavy. In my experience, a natural fast typer will naturally lean away from home row "touch typing" to a top-middle row hover style of typing. You have to use an alternate layout to really grasp what home row typing should be. Also, Z (and similar for the whole left bottom row) should be pressed with the ring finger. I'm really curious why anyone would use the pinky there, unless your hand is angled to the left.

[absoluteunit1]

> a natural fast typer will naturally lean away from home row "touch typing" to a top-middle row hover style of typing

Yeah, I agree. I've noticed that some folks who reach 160wpm+ start to move off from the standard, "best practice" touch typing technique. With the hand guide visualization on https://www.typequicker.com I focused on just following the common "best practice" approach.

I should add a comment somewhere on the site that these are just the general recommended finger placements and not gospel.

Certain keys are just more comfortable with variation. I use an orth keyboard split keybaord as well so for me especially the Z key makes sense to type with pinky. On a standard qwerty keyboard, I've seen folks do both pinky and ring finger.

I don't think either the correct way - whatever variation of standard touch typing feels better and helps you type faster is the solution

[hackshack]

I struggled for years with touch-typing on QWERTY. I remember the "hovering" action that you described.

After switching to Dvorak, within months, I naturally began touch-typing. I suspect it is due to it being home-row-heavy, with all vowels on the left and most common consonants on the right.

[absoluteunit1]

Oh interesting!

I'm going to be adding additional keyboard layouts to https://www.typequicker.com/practice soon for the keyboard visualization. This might help people who are starting to learn it.

Dvorak seems to be mentioned frequently on this thread alone - I was surprised how many folks use this layout.