Are you afraid to practice typing?

You can learn to type if you practice typing.  Practice is the key whether you are an adult or a teenager. You will make errors; you will fumble with the keys from time to time.  Sometimes you will keep looking at the keys whilst learning to type but don’t worry all of us made errors whilst learning to type.  Sometimes we felt like giving up but we kept practicing and we finally made it.  We learned to typed fast and error free.

Visiting an office and watching a typist create a document using her computer keyboard on her desk made you believe you can never type like her.  You admired her typing skills also she looked relaxed and was typing at a high speed.  She even completed that task so quickly. You could not believe your eyes.  You felt that you can never reach that stage, ever.

Yes, you can practice typing

The typist also had a longing to learn to type fast and accurate. She would have seen others type fast using all eight fingers quickly as they typed, she too might have said never can she reach that stage but she did.  To do so she made sacrifices.

Do you think she developed such skills within a short time?  No, it took time for her to reach that stage. She would have practiced typing on a regular basis.  She would have made a lot of errors too but she did not give up, she practiced typing using the right fingers over and over to get it right and that would haven taken sometime to reach that stage. She is now at the office typing a document quickly and error free.

She would have followed the rules when it came to her posture in order to be relaxed and free from back pain eyestrain and swollen feet. All because she had a purpose for wanting to type fast.  Her goal could have been to get hired as a Typist or Secretary. You have your own reasons for learning to type.  

Sitting Position

Why do you want to learn to type?

If you are a teenager, do you want to learn to type in order to type your own school assignments, your resumes, a theses or getting hired as a Typist, Secretary etc.? 

If you are down in age, why do you want to type?  Is it because you want to type without depending on your daughter, son or other family members to type up an email, a letter to a friend or fill out your forms, for you.

All these are good reasons to learn to type. Rest assure you are in the right place.  You don’t have to leave home you can practice to type right in your home at your own time and pace.

This website practice typing can assist you all the way until you are able to type quickly and accurately.  You will make errors because errors are there to be made in everything, we are learning to do for the fist time.  We do not give up; we keep practicing until we get there. Practice typing is very simple.  Are you ready to start?

What do you need?

All you need is :

A desk or your table

Make sure your chair has a backrest so that you can rest your back.  Sit straight and tuck your elbows in.

A laptop or desktop computer

Make sure your laptop or desktop computer screen is in line with your eyes.

Freely look across at the screen, not looking down or up to the screen but in line with your eyes. Now you are ready! Let's start.

The Computer Keyboard

Take your time and look slowly at the letters and symbols on the keyboard.  Get acquainted with those letters of the alphabet for now. Look now at the second row it starts with the letters   asdfghjkl;.  That row is where we normally start learning to type. 

Why that row you may wonder? It is called the Home row.  It is like living in a village all your life then you finally left when you became an adult.  You will also want to go back home some time in your adult life.  The Home row is like that but you do not leave the Home row at no time.  Anytime you have to start typing your eight fingers must always rest on your Home Rows: asdf ;lkj.

First place your four fingers of your left hand on asdf starting with your little finger.  Then place your four fingers of your right hand on the other four keys on the right side of the keyboard, starting with your little finger that is; ;lkj.

G and H is left alone in the center as your guide to make sure your eight fingers rest on eight keys that is asdf ;lkj. You will use the g and h later in your practice.  They are called reach keys. 

Both thumbs are used to space your group of letters asdf ;lkj.   You space with the thumb pressing the long bar at the end of the last row of keys. So you type asdf then you give a space with your left thumb; Then you type ;lkj then give a space with your right thumb.

Now you are ready to practice typing.

First place all eight fingers on the keyboard  Home keys asdf ;lkj, then slowly press each finger one at a time starting with your little finger of your left hand.  Separate each group of letters using your thumb on the space bar. Look at the keys for now just to make sure you are pressing the right keys with your fingers. 

A Keyboard

Lesson 1

Asdf ;lkj asdf ;lkj asdf ;lkj asdf ;lkj  

Keep practicing until you feel comfortable using the eight keys and thumbs for space.

How did you do?  Am sure you did well for the first time.

End of lesson 1.

Choose a link below for Lesson 1b -

Practice typing mastering Home row

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