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Hand and finger position
Touch typing course
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About the course
Touch typing course
This lesson is for reading. You type in the course exercises - that's where you see your result after every attempt.
109 exercises - from the home row through capital letters to longer texts. 20 minutes a day is enough.
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- Results and progress saved lesson by lesson
- Error stats - see which letters you mix up most often
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After that, $29.99 once, for good, with no renewals - with a certificate once you pass the test.
The key to touch typing is the correct position of your hands and fingers. Follow these tips:
- Relax your hands.
- Keep your fingers slightly curved, as if you were holding a small ball.
- Keep your thumbs over the space bar.
- Hold your hands above the keyboard. Don't rest them on the desk or on the keyboard. That's not a good idea even with an ergonomic keyboard - its wrist rest is for your hands during breaks.
- Take the home position:
- the fingers of your left hand rest on the keys A-S-D-F,
- the fingers of your right hand rest on J-K-L-;
- both thumbs are over the space bar.
NOTE: the small bumps or ridges on the F and J keys help your index fingers find the home keys. - Your fingers stay in the home position all the time and go straight back to it after each keystroke.
- Strike the keys softly with your fingertips. All movement comes from your fingers, hands and wrists. Your elbows stay still.
- Don't lift your fingers too high after a keystroke.
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These exercises work right away, no sign-up needed - try them to see what learning in the course is like.