#learning to type

[hexenmond]

Call me a weirdo but I'm addicted already. To freaking typing lessons of all things. 😜

Still didn't pass but I'm going to try again tomorrow! Good night tumblr!

[retrocgads]

UK 1991

[aknightslittleromance]

How the fuck y'all type letter c with your middle finger ?? It feels so wrong, like , ain't no way my finger is supposed to bend diagonally like that

I should just learn how to play the piano at this point 💀

[firespirited]

Learning to touch-type has hit a snag: caps require knowing left and right. I can get a decent 22 wpm in all lower-case, but caps takes a two second delay to register which finger will reach for the letter and reach out with the opposite little finger for the shift key. Zero spacial awareness and still no ability to visualize the keyboard means I need to learn the capitals as double sensory gestures just like the original letters. Practising is helping a little but I think I need to write a custom script to enter into a typing program to learn them from scratch and by finger combos (as seen below).

On azerty, the period is in the same place as qwerty (middle finger down) but a cap. Very tempting to remove the fingers from position and press pinky and middle on the right hand but then you’ve lost your place.

[kaz-type-blog]

Touch typing is preferred over the ‘hunt and peck’ typing method for a number of reasons. Essentially, by learning to touch type correctly, muscle memory is engrained and for students and individuals with learning difficulties, can help with spelling.

[tarahblogs]

Learning to Write

Do you remember writing with a pencil for the first time? Learning to write your name or the letters of the alphabet over and over again? Do you remember typing for the first time? Was it lines of random words or letters as your teacher breathed over your shoulder to make sure you did it as fast and as accurately as possible? That’s how I remember learning these two types of writing. Reading and writing is something that’s always seemed natural to me, but that doesn’t mean I particularly liked how I was taught. 

I don’t know if this is still how schools teach writing and typing, but I was never a fan of it, especially the typing. We would spend so long learning to type the same series of letters and words. This did nothing but teach me unimportant words and phrases that mean practically nothing. Now days, I love to type, and I’m also good at it, but spending days (if not weeks) on the same lines is not beneficial. If it means anything to any one at all, I believe that they should give students short stories to retype in order to teach them how to type instead. This way they can learn not just HOW to type, but also how to structure certain documents. I’m not really sure where I’m going with this blog if I’m honest but I’m typing it out as I think it, which is also a more interesting/fun way to type instead of mindlessly copying the same words from another document. 

Hand writing was more fun for me to learn because I was younger and got to explore how I physically created a letter or word with the help of my own hands. I got to learn that if I took the pencil or pen in the wrong direction, it would not make the letter I was trying to make. As I’ve (probably) mentioned in previous blogs, I like typing SO much more than hand writing, but I can admit that as a child I found writing so fascinating. It was like magic to me to see a pencil create markings on a paper. 

[quippip]

If anyone wants to learn how to type quickly and/or without looking at the keys the website my teacher made us use was dance mat typing. It’s a really childish game but it really helped me when I was younger