10/20/2011 12:59:29 AM permalink
TypingMaster Posts 136	Hi FastTyper, Thanks for your post. Learning away from your old technique can be frustrating and tedious, we agree. Sticking to the touch typing technique and temporarily bearing with slower typing for some time really is the key to learning away from old habits. Any time that you can do that will help you progress. Unfortunately, there is no trick that we can offer, just regular practice, practice and more practice. Investing 5 minutes a day to drill with the program is a good idea if you have gone through the course once already. The more regularly you make yourself stick with the technique, the better the results. With this little time, I do recommend that you skip the key drills and select the drill type that you like the best. I personally prefer the word and sentence drills in our program - pick the drills that show the keyboard on-screen as you will really need to try to type without looking down. 5 minutes may not be sufficient, however. If you could fit in 10-15 minutes a day as a 2-week crash course that could work even better. Also try the drills in the Speed Building Course for variety and complete the review drills for difficult keys. After the two weeks of more intensive training, you could continue with the 5-minute schedule for 1-2 months to help in taking the new skill to practice. Sitting too close to the keyboard or having your seat too low can make typing the bottom row letters difficult. If you have problems reaching the upper row, you may be sitting too far from the keyboard. Note that using the ring and little fingers is the most demanding part of touch typing and overcoming the hurdle simply needs practice. Check that you sit centered to the keyboard and that you hold your wrists up when you type. If you rest your wrists on the table or wrist rest it is more difficult to reach both the top and bottom row keys. Are you keeping your fingers slightly curved? That also helps a lot. You do not need to keep your hands completely still over the home keys when you type. Other fingers can mimic the movement of the finger that types, that will help in keeping your typing relaxed. You could also try anchoring to the Space bar, that is letting your other fingers move slightly when you type but always making sure your thumbs rest slightly on the Space bar. This can help in keeping your hand movements vertical only, try to avoid moving hands horizontally to the left or right as that will make you lose the home keys. Let us know if this helps at all and how you are progressing. edited by TypingMaster on 10/24/2011 -- Best Regards, TypingMaster, Inc. www.TypingMaster.com
	10/20/2011 9:55:09 AM permalink
FastTyper Posts 2	Thank you! All good point. The tip about moving my hands vertically is great. I do tend to move so much that i lose my place and that is how the errors happen. I is very frustrating. But I will keep trying
	2/26/2012 9:32:40 AM permalink
nikkil Posts 1	+1 right here.
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