It's important not to look at your hands when you are learning to type. The best way to ensure that you don't look at your hands is to cover them up - you can make a simple box out of cardboard or wood to cover both the keys and your hands.
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1. I learnt to type by playing video games.
2. I do not know how to touch type.
3. I can touch type some words I frequently use, like my name and passwords.
4. I am a engineer and most of my work is on my computer.
5. I hunt keys on the keyboard as I type and at best my speed is around only 35-40 wpm.
6. Since I program most of the time I never had to improve my typing speed, since i can only progam as fast I think and not as fast as I type.
7. I am 27 years old.
8. I only use 8 digits to type and I dont use my 2 pinkys for typing other than for pressing Ctrl or Shifts or Return keys.
I felt that I am putting more strain on my eyes and get tired very easily swicting my vision from keyboard to the screen constantly. And I also have some mild pains on my right wrist, due to bad wrist mouse positioning over the years. I don't want to aggreviate the condition with my bad typing habits.
Other than that, over the years I have increased my programming skills and recently I feel like I cant type as fast as I think. I also want to learn to touch type so I dont have to live with this bad habit anymore and improve overall well being of my eyes, fingers and hands.
I researched online for a bit and decided to learn touch typing. I have been trying it out for the past 2 days on qwerty. Yesterday I went the whole day with touch typing on qwerty although I was slow as a snail at about 10 wpm. I got some sleep and tried to touch type in the morning and feels like I have gotten slightly better. Now I can touch
type much faster at about 15-20 wpm and even faster (Probably because I knew most keys by muscle memory) if I dont use my all 10 fingers and only use 8 (no pinkys).
I am trying to give colemak a shot. Mainly because of the homerow key placements and less finger movement. And feels like a sensible choice. Since I dont know how to type properly anyway, I thought I might as well try it.
I don't remap Vim keys at all, since it's useful to find Vim on an install and just start using it without having to setup a config first. The arrows are entirely not a problem, and I use Extend anyway. Look it up on if you're curious.
Will I be able to retain the muscle memory of both qwerty and colemak layouts if I learn both of them at the same time? I have seen some videos on youtube where some say they can use 2 layouts at the same time although it takes a few minutes to switch. Some even claim its too hard to switch back to qwerty after learning colemak or dvorak. I do not know which of these 2 scenarios will be true for me.
Yes, you will if you want to. There are people who can fluidly switch between three or more layouts at top speed; Jashe Poon is the most extreme. But as for me... I don't want to type QWERTY any more whenever I can avoid it. It's so ugly and uncomfortable. I can type it at a decent enough speed for my purposes, by looking at the keys. I need no more, and if I have to type for a longer time at another computer I can always use EPKL or a USB-2-USB QUICKIE device.
Your background is similar to mine (except for the part about being 27 -- I wish!!). I used to type fairly poorly and make a lot of mistakes, and eventually decided to learn to touch type and Colemak at the same time. Qwerty makes it hard to type touch because the most common keys are all over the place, causing your hands to leave the home positions too much, whereas Colemak practically forces you into good technique.
If you are in control of your equipment, why not ditch Qwerty entirely? I don't maintain it all, but on those rare occasions I need to quickly type something on a different computer, I can get by with hunt-and-peck. You never lose your Qwerty entirely, it's like riding a poorly constructed bike...
I recommend practicing for 10 minutes every day for a couple of months, and switching when you've reached two thirds of your previous typing speed. Repeat the lessons until you reach at least 97% accuracy without hesitating.
While you're touch typing many keys will be hidden by your fingers, so you'll have to lift them every time to see the letter below. It will also make it more difficult to adapt to working on other people's computer, whether typing in QWERTY or Colemak. I don't recommend physically moving the key caps because it will move the bumps on the keys below the index finger ("F" and "J" keys on QWERTY). If need help specially with COLEMAK you can practice typing with one words per minute test tool that will help you a lot.
Learning touch typing is a lot more challenging for a seasoned hunt-and-pecker. Years and years of acquired habits are difficult to unlearn. Additionally, having daily tasks to keep up while learning to touch type, and the fact that initially touch typing is even slower than hunt-and-peck style doesn't help with the situation. However, following a disciplined process can alleviate most of the difficulties.
I had my moments as well. Some letters seemed too hard to reach for my fingers using the touch typing technique, I had doubts especially about the health of my left little finger for a while. Then, at some point, I realized that I couldn't get my fingers to stand still resting on the home row for a while, they were pressing keys now and then unintentionally. I thought maybe it is too late to learn this technique for me at this point. But I diligently followed the exercises and all my worries just disappeared as my hands and fingers started to cooperate.
The basic idea of the touch typing method is assigning the keys on the keyboard to specific fingers as shown in the image above. During the first few days, you will follow online exercises to do the following:
We will use www.typingclub.com to learn the basics of touch typing. Go to the site, create an account to track your progress (it's free), and complete the lessons 1-135. Don't feel overwhelmed by the large number of lessons, they are very short and each one usually takes a few minutes to complete.
Also, focus on accuracy rather than speed during the lessons. Speed will come naturally. Ideally you should get five stars from a lesson before you move to the next, but that can be quite tiresome. So, instead I used four stars as the passing criteria for myself. This gives you the right balance between completion speed and typing accuracy.
Finally, make sure that you watch the instruction videos that appear from time to time as they explain some critical concepts like home row, posture, muscle memory, etc. Don't try to skip them to complete the lessons fast.
If you were able to get up to this point completing the lessons I mentioned above, congratulations! You did great, and you lit the fire. You completed one of the most difficult steps, so never stop from now on. Now it is time to cover the remaining gap, and then improve.
When I came to this point, I was able to touch type around 8 WPM (just eight, no typo)! Compared to my hunt-and-peck speed of 45-50 this was like a joke. I knew this would quickly improve if I started doing all my typing using the proper touch typing method, but this was not feasible at all. Even writing a short email would take more than 10 minutes with this approach. Besides, I do interviews regularly at work, and as I mentioned in the previous post, we need to take extensive notes during the interviews. So, there was no way that this would work. So, what I had to do is to live two different lives for a while.
Following my approach, you will use your old typing style during the day, and you will try to use the proper touch typing method after work. A hunt-and-pecker during the day, and a touch typist in the evenings.
Buy black stickers (this one, for instance), and blank out your keyboards as seen above. You might want to start with blanking out letters only, and as you learn symbols better, you can blank them as well.
After you make the switch, your speed and accuracy will gradually improve as you do your regular work and use touch typing continuously. This process will probably take too long, and you might even get stuck at a considerably low speed this way. What you need to quickly improve your speed and accuracy is to keep working on the touch typing exercises. Here is what I did (and still doing, although less frequently):
After doing all those practices, some keys still felt a little awkward. Especially some of the symbols like [,], {, }, | - which are all assigned to the same finger - was hard to type accurately. Then, I discovered another touch typing site: www.ratatype.com. The exercises on this site are more focused towards improving muscle memory with more accuracy. I felt much better after I completed the lessons on ratatype focusing on these symbols.
Another thing I would like to improve was typing while programming. As you well know at this point, the sites I mentioned up to now all focus on typing regular text, like a part of a book. There is another site which focuses on typing for programming: www.typing.io. I used this site (although not as often) to practice typing programs. The site allows typing source code in many different languages ranging from common ones like C, C++, Java to less common ones like Erlang and Haskell. 152ee80cbc
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