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On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:36:18 +0000, Jacey Bedford
<lookinsig@nospam.invalid> wrote:


>Just out of interest I did get one of those learn to touch type
>programmes, but got frustrated because I was so slow.
>
Yes.  It's very slow starting to learn to touch type.  Very.  But
there are big jumps in speed once your fingers learn the keys by
repetition.  If you try to type too quickly, you'll have lots of typos
like "lits" for list and "teh" for the.  These typos are so common
they've become somewhat cool in some newsgroups.   Your spell checker
will catch these, unlike the olden days of real typewriters with hard
to punch down keys.  Makes me love computers so much.  If you keep at
it learning touch it's worth it.

And watch the way your fingers hit the keys.  Proper touch typing has
you hitting them in certain ways (I don't do it quite properly, but
look at some of the diagrams in your program).  You might or might not
want to clip your fingernails, too, especially if you're hitting the
keys straight from above with the tips of your fingers, rather than
the pads of them.
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