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109 exercises in 3 modules

Course outline

Lessons start from the home row and move up and down. Each one adds a few keys and reinforces the ones before. On top of that there are 111 longer texts for rhythm and stamina - extra material that doesn't count toward your course progress.

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Course introduction

Where you're starting and where you're headed - a few short lessons to begin.to read
  1. Welcometheory
  2. How to reach expert leveltheory
  3. Test - where are you now?theory

Theory basics

Desk, monitor, posture and hand position. For reading, not typing.to read

Workstation and posture

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  1. Setting up your workstationtheory
  2. Choosing and setting up your desktheory
  3. Keyboard and mousetheory
  4. Monitor setuptheory
  5. Lightingtheory
  6. Keeping good posture while typingtheory
  7. Hand and finger positiontheory
  1. Finger placement on the keyboardtheory
  2. Ending a line: Enter or Spacetheory
  3. Hand and finger warm-up exercisestheory

Basic course

The home row and nearly every letter - the core of the method, lesson by lesson.43 exercises

Home row

10 exercises
  1. a s d f
  2. Practice a s d f
  3. j k l ;
  4. Practice j k l ;
  5. Both hands together
  6. Words with both hands
  7. Rhythm practice
  8. Letter g
  9. Letter h
  10. Combining g and h

Top row

18 exercises
  1. Letter e
  2. Words with e
  3. Letter i
  4. Words with i
  5. Letter r
  6. Words with r
  7. Letter u
  8. Words with u
  9. Letter w
  10. Words with w
  11. Letter o
  12. Words with o
  13. Letter p
  14. Words with p
  15. Letter t
  16. Words with t
  17. Letter y
  18. Words with y

Bottom row

12 exercises
  1. Comma
  2. Letter z
  3. Words with z
  4. Period
  5. Letter c
  6. Words with c
  7. Letter m
  8. Words with m
  9. Letter b
  10. Words with b
  11. Letter n
  12. Words with n

Capital letters

3 exercises
  1. Left Shift
  2. Right Shift
  3. Both Shift keys

End of the basic course

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  1. Congratulations! What's nexttheory

Extended course

The last letters, Caps Lock and your first full texts.44 exercises

Remaining letters

3 exercises
  1. Letter q
  2. Letter x
  3. Letter v

Most common words - 500-character texts

15 exercises
  1. Text 1
  2. Text 2
  3. Text 3
  4. Text 4
  5. Text 5
  6. Text 6
  7. Text 7
  8. Text 8
  9. Text 9
  10. Text 10
  11. Text 11
  12. Text 12
  13. Text 13
  14. Text 14
  15. Text 15

Most common words - 750-character texts

15 exercises
  1. Text 16
  2. Text 17
  3. Text 18
  4. Text 19
  5. Text 20
  6. Text 21
  7. Text 22
  8. Text 23
  9. Text 24
  10. Text 25
  11. Text 26
  12. Text 27
  13. Text 28
  14. Text 29
  15. Text 30

Most common words - 1,500-character texts

10 exercises
  1. Text 31
  2. Text 32
  3. Text 33
  4. Text 34
  5. Text 35
  6. Text 36
  7. Text 37
  8. Text 38
  9. Text 39
  10. Text 40
  1. Caps Lock

Advanced course

Numbers, brackets and special characters - including the numeric keypad.22 exercises

Special characters

3 exercises
  1. Double quote and apostrophe
  2. Question mark and slash
  3. Curly braces and square brackets

Numbers and symbols

14 exercises
  1. 0 )
  2. 3 #
  3. 9 (
  4. 4 $
  5. 1 2
  6. Exclamation mark and at sign
  7. 5 6
  8. Percent sign and caret
  9. 7 8
  10. Ampersand and asterisk
  11. Minus and equals sign
  12. Underscore and plus sign
  13. Backslash and vertical bar
  14. Less-than and greater-than signs

Numeric keypad

5 exercises
  1. 4 5 6 +
  2. 7 8 9 -
  3. 1 2 3
  4. 0 .
  5. Slash and asterisk on the keypad

Practice texts

Longer texts for rhythm and stamina. Extra material - not counted in your course progress.111 exercises

Basic letters only

20 exercises
  1. Basic letters 1
  2. Basic letters 2
  3. Basic letters 3
  4. Basic letters 4
  5. Basic letters 5
  6. Basic letters 6
  7. Basic letters 7
  8. Basic letters 8
  9. Basic letters 9
  10. Basic letters 10
  11. Basic letters 11
  12. Basic letters 12
  13. Basic letters 13
  14. Basic letters 14
  15. Basic letters 15
  16. Basic letters 16
  17. Basic letters 17
  18. Basic letters 18
  19. Basic letters 19
  20. Basic letters 20

All letters and punctuation

20 exercises
  1. Letters and punctuation 1
  2. Letters and punctuation 2
  3. Letters and punctuation 3
  4. Letters and punctuation 4
  5. Letters and punctuation 5
  6. Letters and punctuation 6
  7. Letters and punctuation 7
  8. Letters and punctuation 8
  9. Letters and punctuation 9
  10. Letters and punctuation 10
  11. Letters and punctuation 11
  12. Letters and punctuation 12
  13. Letters and punctuation 13
  14. Letters and punctuation 14
  15. Letters and punctuation 15
  16. Letters and punctuation 16
  17. Letters and punctuation 17
  18. Letters and punctuation 18
  19. Letters and punctuation 19
  20. Letters and punctuation 20

All letters and digits

20 exercises
  1. Letters and digits 1
  2. Letters and digits 2
  3. Letters and digits 3
  4. Letters and digits 4
  5. Letters and digits 5
  6. Letters and digits 6
  7. Letters and digits 7
  8. Letters and digits 8
  9. Letters and digits 9
  10. Letters and digits 10
  11. Letters and digits 11
  12. Letters and digits 12
  13. Letters and digits 13
  14. Letters and digits 14
  15. Letters and digits 15
  16. Letters and digits 16
  17. Letters and digits 17
  18. Letters and digits 18
  19. Letters and digits 19
  20. Letters and digits 20

All letters, digits and special characters

20 exercises
  1. Letters, digits and symbols 1
  2. Letters, digits and symbols 2
  3. Letters, digits and symbols 3
  4. Letters, digits and symbols 4
  5. Letters, digits and symbols 5
  6. Letters, digits and symbols 6
  7. Letters, digits and symbols 7
  8. Letters, digits and symbols 8
  9. Letters, digits and symbols 9
  10. Letters, digits and symbols 10
  11. Letters, digits and symbols 11
  12. Letters, digits and symbols 12
  13. Letters, digits and symbols 13
  14. Letters, digits and symbols 14
  15. Letters, digits and symbols 15
  16. Letters, digits and symbols 16
  17. Letters, digits and symbols 17
  18. Letters, digits and symbols 18
  19. Letters, digits and symbols 19
  20. Letters, digits and symbols 20

A bit of history

4 exercises
  1. A bit of history - part 1
  2. A bit of history - part 2
  3. A bit of history - part 3
  4. A bit of history - part 4

Programming symbols and shortcuts

7 exercises
  1. Programming symbols and shortcuts - part 1
  2. Programming symbols and shortcuts - part 2
  3. Programming symbols and shortcuts - part 3
  4. Programming symbols and shortcuts - part 4
  5. Programming symbols and shortcuts - part 5
  6. Programming symbols and shortcuts - part 6
  7. Programming symbols and shortcuts - part 7

Business texts

20 exercises
  1. Business text 1
  2. Business text 2
  3. Business text 3
  4. Business text 4
  5. Business text 5
  6. Business text 6
  7. Business text 7
  8. Business text 8
  9. Business text 9
  10. Business text 10
  11. Business text 11
  12. Business text 12
  13. Business text 13
  14. Business text 14
  15. Business text 15
  16. Business text 16
  17. Business text 17
  18. Business text 18
  19. Business text 19
  20. Business text 20

Word frequencies for the exercises come from the Google Books Ngram Viewer (version 20200217), used under the CC BY 3.0 license. Longer practice texts include passages from public-domain books via Project Gutenberg.