I clenched both my hands into fists then held them straight in front of me and rolled my clenched hands towards the floor. My left forearm/wrist still feels a little uncomfortable, but my right forearm is quite painful when I am reaching for letters that are not on the home row. I started day two full of enthusiasm but as I was typing I realized that I have a problem. I am beginning to think that I may not be able to reach my goal of 20 words per minute in 14 days. I am not too sure how much time I have spent typing today I type for around 20 minutes and then take a short break. I forced myself to look at the virtual keyboard on the monitor and not at my keyboard, this shows which key that you need to press and the correct finger.Īs I spent more time going through the lessons, I found that slowly but surely, I was starting to get better at this and remember some of the letter positions. The other thing that I found was that It was difficult to remember the key positions. I put this down to these muscles not being used in this way before and checked out a couple of YouTube videos to make sure that my hands were in the correct position. I found it a little difficult to get used to the finger placement to start with and the hand position felt uncomfortable with a slight pain in my wrists. This was pretty straightforward and after registering I was taken straight into an intro video about the benefits of a typing followed by the first lesson which was the J F and space keys. Ok so today is my first my day so I am going to start by signing up for a free online account at. Touch Typing Practice – Day One Touch Typing Practice Screen By the way, if you can touch type 40 words a minute apparently this is faster than a person can write.ĭepending on how long it has taken to reach 40 words a minute and if I enjoy practicing then I will continue until I reach 60 words a minute. My intention is to then set aside some time for practicing each day to hit 40 words a minute within 6 weeks. Hopefully, this will give me a gauge as to how I am progressing in the real world. I am also going to practice my touch-typing skills by writing this post entirely on a keyboard. This may be unrealistic, but you need something to aim for, so I want to be able to accurately touch type 20 words a minute after 14 days. Also, it is online and by creating a free account I can track my progress 4. I can live with a few display ads, nearly every website has them these days including my own blog. the main reason I chose this one is that teachers and schools pay to use the ad-free version. After reading an article by Guarav BIdasaria on the TechWiser websitewhich listed 8 free touch typing software programs. I did not really want to spend $30.00 as there seemed to be quite a few free alternatives available. There are a lot of websites promoting paid for touch typing software with varying claims that they are scientifically proven to be easier to learn, faster, more efficient, more engaging, etc for around $30.00. If you can type at 30 words a minute, then just doing a lot of typing it isn’t going to give you much of a speed improvement. The other thing interesting fact that I found out is that carrying out touch typing practice lessons designed to increase your speed is how you will get faster. So, this will take around 80 hours in total. To hit the target speed of 40 words a minute then it will require another forty hours practice. On another website who offer a paid-for product to learn touch typing state that for an average person it will take 10 -15 hours practice to be able to touch type slowly, it will then take another 30 hours to reach approximately 25 words a minute. Apparently, this is dependant on the amount of time that you spend practicing and your level of determination. It can then take anything up to 2 or 3 months to reach 40 words per minute which is the average typing speed. Initial ResearchĪfter a quick search online, one website states that it will take about 15 hours of practice to be able to touch type slowly. Who are still persevering with the tried and trusted two-finger method? 2. So, I have decided that I can put it off no longer and I am going to learn how to touch type and document my journey in the hope that it may help fellow procrastinators. I know that I could write the post direct into WordPress but it is just the way that I have got used to doing it. Then I type this up in Microsoft Word which takes an inordinately long time using two fingers before copying and pasting the post into WordPress. Most of the time when I write a blog post I use a reporter’s notebook to jot down my notes and ideas or sometimes I will write out the whole post in a notebook. 18 Touch Typing Practice – Day Fourteen.17 Touch Typing Practice – Day Thirteen.
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