What is Touch Typing?
Introduction to Touch Typing • Lesson 1
Learning Objectives
What Is Touch Typing? Type even your eyes are closed!
In this digital era, we use keyboard everywhere. But still most of the people type slowly because they have to look at their keyboard.
So, what is touch typing? It is a skill where you don't need to look at your keyboard to type. You use all of your fingers to type fast.
In this section you will learn, what is touch typing? If you are fan of keyboards, we recomend you to learn touch typing. It's like learning drifting for your brand new Land Rover Defender. By the end of this course you will learn how to type faster using your all fingers.
What Does Touch Typing Mean?
Touch typing means, you type without looking at your keyboard.
You use all your ten fingers, and each fingers are responsible for group of keys. In touch typing we maintain a finger postion over the middle row ( asdfghjkl;), after clicking any key our finger returns back. This middle row called home row.
After practicing how to press a different key with a different finger our brain develops some muscle memory, and it helps us to type faster without looking at the keyboard.
Begining of Touch Typing: The Home Row
The home row is the middle row of a regular QWERTY keyboard, containing letters like a,s,d,f,g,h,j,k,l and ;.
Here’s where our all the 8 fingers rest. To place your finger properly there is a trick. Please look at your keyboard and find out F and J. You can see there are two raised bumps over those keys. Now simple fill them by touching with your both hand index fingers. Place your left hand index finger on F and right hand index finger on J. Great, Now place rest of your finger side by side to rest of the keys. Congratulations! this is our default hand positioning for touch typing.
For better positioning here is the list:
Left Hand
Pinky → A
Ring → S
Middle → D
Index → F
Right Hand
Index → J
Middle → K
Ring → L
Pinky → ; (semicolon)
Rest your thumbs on spacebar.
Why To Learn Touch Typing? Here Are Top 4 Benefits
1. You Type Faster
In our daily to daily work we spend our time mostly on typing, after learning touch typing you will write avg 30 to 50 words per minutes with little practice.
This means you will boost your productivity and even it will also helps us in this AI era to type prompts faster.
2. You Stay Focused
Because you will not look at your keyboard, your don't interrupt your brain while thinking something, for looking at your keyboard. You stays focused and write easily what you want.
This helps with:
Homework
Vibe Coding
Writing Documents
Chatting
Prompt Writing
Browsing
3. You Make Fewer Mistakes
You can look at your screen, while you are typing, so you can catch your typos easily and fix them.
4. It's Better for Your Body
If you look down for keys each time you write something, it will hurt your neck. Touch typing helps you sit straight and type while look towards your screen, which is healthier.
How to Start Touch Typing Today?
By following these simple steps you can learn touch typing easily:
Start by keeping your fingers on the Home Row keys.
2. Press Correct Finger for Each key
It might be hard initially but eventually you will love it with practice.
3. Avoid Looking at Keyboard
With practice always try not to look at your keyboard. Try to remember keys with practice and press correct keys.
4. Focus on Accuracy First
Do not try to type fast initially, practice slowly focusing on accuracy, eventually you will type faster.
5. Practice Daily
Just 10 to 15 minutes daily practice can improve your touch typing speed.