Keyboarding Skills

Learning to Touch Type

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Why practice typing?

Typing is still the most common way to input text into a computer, and probably will be for at least a few more years. Taking the time to gain speed and accuracy while typing may return much more time to you in the future as less time spent typing.

QWERTY Keyboard Layout

QWERTY Layout

QWERTY keyboard layout (US)

QWERTY (/ˈkwərti/, /-di/) is a keyboard design for Latin-script alphabets. The name comes from the order of the first six keys on the top left letter row of the keyboard (Q W E R T Y). The QWERTY design is based on a layout created for the Sholes and Glidden typewriter and sold to Remington in 1873. It became popular with the success of the Remington No. 2 of 1878, and remains in widespread use.

While it is not well known, the qwerty layout was designed to cut down on mechanical arms getting stuck on old typewriters, and when they stopped being used, a newer layout was introduced to be more efficient for input. Unfortunately that newer layout, called the Dvorak Layout, never really caught on, mostly because everyone was used to typing with the old QWERTY layout.

Finger Positions

Start with pointing at F and J

and then place your other fingers on keys next to them

Learn to use the closest finger to each key

Use the color codes above

Find out your typing speed

What is your WPM and CPM?

Before we get to practicing, let's find out your WPM (words per minute) and CPM (Characters per minute). The average person types between 38 and 40 words per minute (WPM), what translates into between 190 and 200 characters per minute (CPM). However, professional typists type a lot faster — on average between 65 and 75 WPM.

The video here is about 141 WPM!

Use this website to test yourself and report your score to your portfolio periodically.

https://typing-speed-test.aoeu.eu/

The Future of Typing

The Race to Replace Your Keyboard

QWERTY keyboards have been around for over a century, but a new era in tech needs a new kind of input.

Practice, Practice, Practice

Login to TypingClub

https://togetherlearning.edclub.com/

Use your student number to login, ask your professor for the password. Let's try to complete all the lessons before the semester ends.

Try a typing game

Ztype is a space typing game

Just something different to try out your keyboarding skills. This simple space shooting game might keep you typing a bit longer to get you the practice you need to sharpen your skills.

https://zty.pe/