Several decades ago, in many high
schools used to be included the matter of typing, and even for those not
carried out a formal education, always had interesting advanced courses to
learn typing on the keyboard of the old typewriter, fast and without mistakes.
Over the years, and while
computers are increasingly popular, even at the household level, the truth is
that although it seems a contradiction typing has become a concept of
antiquity.
It is not surprising that today
we can observe thousands of users by typing on the PC keyboard in a slow,
wandering, with his eyes placed on the keyboard, instead of on the computer
screen, and even many used only two or three fingers to write. Bad habits that
do more than make much slower than our writing.
Ultimately, one of the best works
we can undertake to be much faster to type, and without looking at the
keyboard, is to make a map of the keyboard, just as it was many years ago in
the course of typing.
In addition, there are some
tricks that we can implement to achieve the results expected in a short time of
practice. Here the most important thing we must bear in mind is that, as it
happened with typing, most importantly be able to memorize the position of each
of the letters on the keyboard, but at the same time also will have to use more
and more our ability of motor coordination.
First thing we need to do is map
the keyboard with both hands, say that each one of our fingers find letters
that must be pressed when typing, and can thus begin with the memorization of
these locations.
We take into account that a good
idea is in principle to memorize the exact location of the letters
"F" and "J", since both keys have a small relief, which is their
precisely to act as guide for whom you are writing.
Once identified the location of
the letters "F" and "J", and also stored with your fingers,
what we do is by mapping out all the keys that are on the left side of the
keyboard, starting from the location of the letter "F", which will be
the keys that you click with the left hand.
Meanwhile, the keys that are
located on the right side, taking as a guide the letter "J", must be
mapped with our right hand, press them with her.
Placement of the fingers and the
keyboard mapping
From this moment we will start
with the mapping of the keyboard, so the first thing we have to do is place the
index finger of our left hand over the letter "F" key; without
lifting the finger, put your left thumb on the space bar.
After that, place the index
finger of the right hand over the letter "J", and just like that with
the other hand, put the right thumb on the space bar.
When you have placed the four
fingers, you will notice that the rest of the fingers will be distributed in
such a way that with them we can reach almost all the remaining keys, and then
already we can begin to map the rest of the keyboard.
Without removing your thumbs and
indices, with the rest of the fingers of both hands, begin to play the keys
that are available to them from the top down.
For keys that are in the Center,
between the "F" and "J", we will use the index finger of
each hand, i.e. for the letters "T", "G" and "B"
use the index finger of the left hand, and for the letters "S",
"M" and "N" will use the index finger of the right hand.
With respect to the
"Enter" key, the same must be struck with the little finger of the
right hand, while to assign case-sensitive, i.e. the "Caps lock" key
must use the little finger of the left hand.
To be able to practice and
achieve the results expected in a short time, is recommended in principle
perform the mapping and the first practices with the disconnected from PC
keyboard, or with some old keyboard that we no longer use.
Then it is appropriate to begin
to practice in text, for which we can open a Notepad document or any office
text processing tool, and continue with the practice and can visualize on
screen if we're typing correctly.
A very good choice for practice
is to use any game online, as it is the case that is offered in Kirby website,
this link, where you will be able to test what we've learned so far.
