Typing Practices – How to get past one and two finger typing
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I get asked allot by students about how to improve their typing and move on from 1 finger jabbing at the keyboard that beginners often start out with. Many years ago I took a word-processing and text processing qualifications which whipped my fingers into good habits.
Improving your typing skills has a lot of benefits. Besides the obvious typing speed, people who type with ten fingers make fewer mistakes, spend less time in front of the monitor and suffer less wrist pain.
Here are some free online typing lessons that you or people your are involved with helping along with their IT can try out. They vary from the very formal to the BBC’s version for children (which is just as fun for adults).
Typing Practice 1
http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/typing/
Typing Practice 2
http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/tutor/lessons.php?lang=EN&lesson=1
Typing Practice 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/flash/stage1.shtml
Typing Practice 4
http://www.typeonline.co.uk/copypractice.php
Typing Practice 5
http://keybr.com/
Have you got any others which you can suggest and how to you incorporate them in a session?
July 22nd, 2010 kate | 1 Comment »
July 22nd, 2010 at 6:06 pm
tried them all for you. the http://keybr.com/ is the best for quite a few reasons (IMHO). Essential to see keyboard onscreen. not too heavy on flash and loading. uses words not just letters. haven’t seen a better one online. only improvement would be a quick practice on just the homekeys before launch into other words.
chris