[Nfbktad] Touch typing and keyboard

[slery]

April,
 
>From what I hear you saying in this message, you are relying on your vision
that doesn't exist to use the keyboard. Also, raising the "back" of the
keyboard is absolutely the wrong the thing to do. Just because they put
those legs on it doesn't mean that it is correct. Those legs are because
people have a crutch of needing to "see" the keyboard.
 
It takes a lot of practice to be able to touch type. I learned touch typing
back when the only thing electric on the typewriter was that it had a return
key.
 
Your keyboard should NOT be moving as much as you describe unless you have
some other reason for being unable to keep it still.
 
If you practice for an hour every day in proper techniques, you will develop
muscle memory for touch typing. I actually had an extremely difficult time
using on screen keyboards when they came out because I did not know where
the keys were because I could not touch type. My fingers know where to go
and the only keys I have trouble with are the top row numbers because my
fingers are short (had this problem when I was learning in high school). You
really do need a structured program for learning to touch type. It will
teach you to learn the letters and then learn to put them together in words
so that when you type you think in words and not letters. I type about 70
wpm and have done so since leaving high school.
 
I hope you find some of this helpful.
 
Cindy Sheets

-----Original Message-----
From: Nfbktad [mailto:nfbktad-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of April Brown
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 6:26 AM
To: nfbktad at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Nfbktad] Touch typing and keyboard



Thanks for the suggestion to take touch typing.  

 

I did that a quarter of a century ago on the old typewriters.  It was
nightmare.  I was promised my typing speed would go from 40 words a minute
to 100 words a minute.  It changed all right.  Down to 10 words a minute,
and ten times as many errors.

 

After about 15 years, I'm back up to 20 words a minute.  I'll never be able
to type as fast, or as accurate, as I did at 16 before touch typing class.

 

One thing I know about all the keyboards I use - they move constantly.  They
slide constantly.  The back end is almost never high enough, even with a
board under the legs to raise it up.  I have watched myself type the letters
in the correct order, heard the buttons go down, and spring back up, and the
letters either not appear on the screen, or appear in the wrong order.

 

I do know, when I am writing, even though my eyes face they keyboard, my
vision does fade out, and I don't see either the screen, or the keyboard.
Sometimes, I find myself typing a line too high.  Typing numbers instead of
letters.  If I am not watching the keyboard, I have no idea where my fingers
are.  And I can't predict the bounces it will take.  As I type this, the
left side has bounced back about two inches three times already.  I keep
having to adjust where it sits on the keyboard tray.

 

The thought of having to type without my partial eye is nerve wracking.
Especially after a few years ago when Dragon offered to uninstall Windows.
How will I know what crazy thing the keyboard has decided to type instead of
what I told it too?  I don't want it to delete a program when I am trying to
open it.

 

 

April Brown

 

Writing dramatic adventure novels uncovering the myths we hide behind.

 



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