Learn to Touch Type

Many people who use two fingers to type, generally have to look at the keyboard and often have to look for the individual keys, depending on how long they have been using that method.

It can mean they take longer to write their documents, and mistakes can occur more often.

Whereas with touch typing, you are reading text, while you are typing into the document and not looking at the screen. It’s a bit like playing the piano where the pianist reads the music and hits the appropriate piano keys without looking at the keyboard, to create music.

You can learn where the letters are without looking at the keyboard and hitting them at the appropriate time to create correctly spelled words.

Touch typing is a quick and efficient way to type using all your fingers on the keyboard and typing without looking at the keyboard or the computer screen. The skills are not hard to learn, it just takes practice.

To assist you to learn this skill, the step by step instructions give you typing exercises starting from basic keying tasks to words and then sentences. You will learn where to place each finger for each keyboard key. When you are happy will your progress, you can advance to speed tests and there is several of these to attempt. So you can see how fast you type, there is an instruction on the method of how you calculate your words per minute speed.