![]() This is, in all seriousness, my recommendation for learning to touch type: "Don't worry that you can't type much English with the home row (unless you're using another layout like dvorak)" If you already know how to touch-type and are learning a new keyboard layout, then obviously you already know the motor recruitment patterns and the approach used by this web app is great. Of course you can put English into these exercises when possible, but not to the detriment of the main point which is motor movement patterns. Once the student has established these motor patterns in the process of learning where each key is, then you can go on to English text. I think this kind of exercise pattern should be used to introduce all the keys. You can start to dissuade this in your next exercises by bringing in the home row letters typed with the adjacent fingers. But that shouldn't be hard to do in your instructions. Obviously you need to make sure they're keeping their hands on the home row and not typing d and e with two different fingers to go faster on this particular exercise. It is to exercise the movement pattern of moving a certain finger from the home row to the key and back. The point of this exercise isn't to achieve the absolute maximum speed. This gets them familiar with precisely the right motor recruitment pattern. The exercise would be something like this:ĭed ede dde eed eded dede deeded edded. Then once you have that, you introduce new keys by having them practice the jump from the correct home row key typed with the same finger to the new key and back. Just get them good with different combinations of "asdfjkl ". Don't worry that you can't type much English with the home row (unless you're using another layout like dvorak). I think it's better to introduce the home row first. This site teaches the letters "eaint" first. Every typing program I've seen seems to focus on the former and not the later. IMO there are two big issues for people learning to touch type: learning where the keys are and developing the motor coordination to move the fingers from the home row to the non-home-row keys and back again. This is looking nice, but I am frustrated because I have yet to see what I think is a properly designed set of introductory exercises.
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