Fingers on the Keys

The F and J keys each have a bump. Your index fingers should go on these keys. Practice using your index fingers to feel their way to the bumps, without looking. Once that’s done, the rest of your fingers should be spaced out evenly along the same row. Just to check, make sure the pinky fingers are on the A and the ; (semicolon).

Whenever you come to your keyboard each day, your index fingers should automatically jump to the bumps. Once those fingers are there, all the others will fall into place along the middle row of keys.

Each finger owns its own territory on the keyboard. The little fingers and index fingers own especially big plots of land. The territories are shown below by the colour coded dots. For now, only worry about the letter keys because they will be the most important for you.

Remembering which keys are which.

Read the words for each key from top to bottom and then from left to right. Check it out on a real keyboard.

Quick	What	Even	Red	Then	Yaks	Under	I	Over	Peanuts!
Ask	Stops	Dogs	Fish	Grow	Hear	Jack’s	Keep	Long
Zoe	X-rays ?	Can’t…	Vanish,	Bigger.	Noises	Mattress.	Commas	Periods.

Other Keys

A good way of reviewing what you learned here, as well as practicing your typing skills is going to the www.easytype.com website. Click on the arrow next to Complete Online Typing Course. You will need to enter some information, and then make up a username and password. (All one word). It will give you lessons and times for you to practice. When you’re finished each day, just close the window (click on the X). The next time you will go back to the website and enter your username and password. Easytype will start where you left off.