![]() ![]() If you can't type very quickly with your own typing technique right now, the learning effort is definitely worthwhile. The time needed, which probably prevented you from learning to type with 10 fingers, can therefore be completely neglected in comparison to the possible long-term time saving. Depending on how fit you are on the keyboard at the moment, even a 3- to 4-fold increase in typing speed is possible - with correspondingly higher time savings. Of course, this is only an example calculation. For a working week of 40 hours, this means 4 1/2 weeks of free time per year, which you can use for other tasks or which at least allows you to go to work on time much more often. If you double your typing speed, you will save about 180 hours per year. Once you have placed your two indexes on those keys, the other fingers are placed on the keys next to them. Projected to one year, that is already 365 hours. The F and J keys have a raised bar or a dot allowing your finger to identify them. Let's assume you spend an average of 1 hour a day entering texts. The time we spend every day entering texts on the computer may vary according to our profession and private usage patterns and may not seem so much to us - but the long-term approach is decisive here. And also privately we spend more and more time in the digital world. Nowadays, 2/3 of all professional activities require work on the computer. I think in your case that doing something like trying to remap a keyboard is counterproductive, because then you will either need to have two different typing styles in your head (for your computer and everyone else's) or you will have to be able to remap any computer keyboard you want to use.Who is our offer actually intended for? And is it worthwhile for you to invest the time and learn to type "the right way"? You know where the keys are spatially, and the autonomic part of your brain will do its best to make sure that key gets pressed by whatever means necessary. I suspect that after you lose use of your digit, there might be some annoyance at first, but you will compensate for it unconsciously very quickly. I make some mistakes, I erase them, then go some more, make some more mistakes, and soon enough, a few minutes into it and I'm doing just fine. I don't actually think "OK, now I have a different keyboard, I have to do this differently", I just go. Whenever I use a different keyboard, like on a laptop or someone else's computer, there is some adjsutment I need to do, but again it is almost an unconscious thing. Also, I use those old monster IBM Clicktronic keyboards at home and at the office, so I'm used to a single keyboard size of MASSIVE. There's no conscious thinking about it, it just "happens". What I've noticed about my style, such as it is, is that I just "know" where the keys are when typing, and will sometimes substitute another digit to press a key if I've moved my hand a certain way. I can type over 60wpm and I only use my left index finger, middle finger and pinky, and my right thumb, index, middle and pinky(sometimes for the return key, but sometimes not). I'm not a touch typist, but rather a weird hybrid touch/hunt and peckist. Posted by Juffo-Wup at 11:37 AM on December 10, 2008 I wish you the best of luck and I hope (and expect) that you'll be back to full-speed typing quickly! There are also websites like Typeracer, but the text blurbs on there are quite short and probably wouldn't be as helpful. I used Mavis Beacon when I was learning to type, but I don't know if they still make it. The practice exercises and feedback (on speed and accuracy) should help you feel out which fingers are best on which keys for you and your keyboard over time. ![]() I would recommend that you use some "learn to type" software but disregard its instructions (of course) on which fingers to use for which keys. You might find it more natural to use the middle finger for, and/or. and / keys, but this could be because I am already used to using that finger for many unusual keys. It seems the most natural to me to use my right ring finger for the. To see what it is like, I typed this response out without using my right pinky at all. I type well over 100 wpm on this keyboard in tests, although I have had a lot of time to practice. I do all of this on a standard keyboard the kind where the enter key is to the right of the ' key and only takes up one row on the keyboard. Why I do this, I have no idea, but it seems to work fine for me. ![]() ![]() I have a few oddball tricks such as the : in c:\, which I type by putting my middle and ring fingers on the right shift key and pressing the : with my right index finger, then hitting the \ with my right middle finger as usual. I use the left shift key in favor of the right for the most part. I learned to type on my own (with the use of software), and without really thinking about it or planning it out, I worked out the following system: I have had limited use of my right pinky finger for my entire life. ![]()
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