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Introduction To Touch Typing

Touch typing is typing without looking at the keyboard using muscle memory to find the correct keys. It was invented in 1888 and uses a QWERTY keyboard layout with home row keys to position hands. Each finger is assigned dedicated keys to allow rapid, two-handed typing without slowing to find keys. Though it has drawbacks for speed, the widespread familiarity of the QWERTY keyboard has prevented changes to the standard layout.

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Introduction To Touch Typing

Touch typing is typing without looking at the keyboard using muscle memory to find the correct keys. It was invented in 1888 and uses a QWERTY keyboard layout with home row keys to position hands. Each finger is assigned dedicated keys to allow rapid, two-handed typing without slowing to find keys. Though it has drawbacks for speed, the widespread familiarity of the QWERTY keyboard has prevented changes to the standard layout.

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Touch typing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EebWkecsW38 Familiarizing the fingers


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTknHArU1L8 Introduction to keyboard

Touch typing is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys.
Specifically, a touch typist will know their location on the keyboard through
muscle memory...... Both two-handed touch typing and one-handed touch-typing
are possible.
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What Does Touch Typing Mean?

Touch typing is a method of typing without the use of the sense of sight, or simply
by feeling the keyboard. However, the sense of touch is only slightly involved
since this typing method is governed by muscle memory through rigorous training
with the proper typing method. This way, the fingers get so used to typing that they
instinctively go to the appropriate keys without the typist needing to see or even
feel around the keyboard.

Touch typing was said to have been invented by a court stenographer from Salt
Lake City, Utah named Frank Edward McGurrin in 1888 while teaching typing
classes. Touch typing is done using a standard QWERTY keyboard with the hands
placed at a starting location, called the "home row keys." The home row keys for
the left hand are the "ASDF" keys, and are "JKL;" for the right hand. On
most modern keyboards the home keys for each index finger have a raised bar or
dot to help the touch typist to maintain and recover the correct position of the
fingers on the keyboard quickly without having to look at the keys.

Each finger of each hand has dedicated keys assigned to it which it can easily
reach. The design of the QWERTY keyboard, for the English language, ensures
that letters that are commonly pressed or used in succession are as far away as
possible to promote speed and the use of both hands, thereby distributing strain to
all fingers rather than just a few. Though the standard QWERTY keyboard is said
to have room for improvement in terms of speed and ease of typing, it is said that
this change has been resisted by touch typists everywhere because of familiarity. If
the standard is changed, all touch typists would have to relearn and spend a
considerable number of hours training for the new layout.

What Does QWERTY Keyboard Mean?

The QWERTY keyboard is the most widely used modern keyboard layout. It was
designed and developed by Christopher Sholes, the inventor of the typewriter, in
1874. The keyboard got its name from the first six letters of the alphabetical line
on the keyboard. A myth was popularized that Sholes designed it this way to
prevent letter jams of frequently used letter combinations. This does have some
truth to it, as early typewriters frequently jammed when two adjacent letters were
pressed at the same time. Placing frequently used letter combinations away from
each other did help to prevent this. However, this placement also hinders faster
typing.

The QWERTY keyboard is also known as the Sholes keyboard.

As the QWERTY keyboard layout was popularized, designers and developers


began to make alternative versions, claiming that these can be more efficient to
use. One of these versions was designed for mobile phones, and is known as half
QWERTY. With this keyboard layout, two or more characters share the same key,
increasing the surface area but greatly reducing the number of keys. Another
version is the displaced QWERTY, which was also designed for mobile devices,
specifically touchscreen devices. This is essentially a QWERTY layout that's
divided in two, with the right half somewhat rearranged under the left half. This
was first seen on the iPhone app "LittlePad".

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