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tips to learn how to type better
thibaut | Feb 19 2006
Hello all, I have the feeling that most of the crowd at 43F is pretty much fluent with typing on a computer keyboard - IT people ; like you don't have to look at the keyboard to type your messages. I think that typing is teached at school in the US for quite some time now, but here, in France, I've not been through such lessons. Everytime I see somebody typing and staring at the screen continuously, it's like seeing someone juggling with 4 empty wine bottles at the same time. My job doesn't really require me to be a keyboard ninja while typing texts, but I realised I had to go ahead and learn to type correctly in order to spend less time on writing emails or posts like this one. Or type more in the same amount of time... I've downloaded a nice freeware app for mac called 2T4Mac. I'm doing the exercices since two days, and my improvements already show up. Thanks a lot in advance for your input. 7 Comments
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 Dvorak?Submitted by marshmallowcreme on February 24, 2006 - 7:55am.
You may want to consider changing your keyboard layout. The current layout that's so ubiquitous (named QWERTY for the first 6 letters) was developed in the early days of typewriters to address the problem of people typing too fast on the alphabetical layout and jamming up the typewriter. Yes, QWERTY was designed to make typing as sllllooowwww aaaasssss pooosssibbbllleee. A guy named August Dvorak discovered this and set forth to figure out the most efficient way to type, and the Dvorak layout was born. Some people report typing speeds of over 200 wpm. I personally gave it a try and was typing 40 wpm within a week. However, that was slowing my brain down too much and I was too young and impatient at the time to keep at it. The next time I try it, I'll probably be able to adopt it on a permanent basis. Also, you can switch back to QWERTY if you need to use someone else's computer -- although that process takes a few minutes. During those few minutes after you set the intention to switch, and your nervous system is remapping your fingers, you end up typing a combination of both! Here's a website about it: » POSTED IN:
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