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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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 online typing gameSubmitted by Tricia on February 28, 2006 - 5:02pm.
Hi, For something silly and easy, there's: http://www.typingmaster.com/individuals/bubbles.asp There used to be one with several levels, each one faster than the previous one, but I couldn't find it with a quick Google search. I did see one with Tux the penguin, but I haven't used it. (I know these are geared toward children, but sometimes when it's silly, it's easier to get yourself to do it.) Part of training yourself to touchtype is to 1) train your muscles, then 2) not think about it as you're typing. (I can, for instance, transcribe something very fast - until I think about it! Then everything goes wonky...) Twyla Tharp, in her book The Creative Habit, mentions how important muscle memory is to a great many things we do. Good luck. One of the few downsides to being able to touchtype well is that sometimes handwriting becomes frustrating because it's so slow. I get that way when trying to write fiction longhand - after a while my fingers just itch to type. (Hence, the Neo in my gadget arsenal.) Another downside is the ever-popular phonetic spellings that start showing up, at least that happens with me. It might just be a brain-uh, short. » POSTED IN:
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