The Alphonix journal
Notes from the work. Ideas on design, engineering, and making digital products useful in everyday life.
Explore the journalA plain guide to learning touch typing, with the posts to read in order: why it helps, the home row, practice, measuring speed, fixing mistakes, Kiswahili, schools and code.
Where your fingers rest, which finger covers which key, and a first practice routine for the home row, with a finger chart for a US QWERTY keyboard.
Typing errors tend to cluster on a few key transitions, not on whole letters. Learn the types of error, why same-finger reaches trip people up, and how to practise your weakest pairs.
Self-taught typists can be just as fast as touch typists, so why learn? Here is what a university study found and what touch typing does give you.
Brackets, braces, pipes, backticks and quotes slow many people down when they type code. Where the keys are, how to practise them, and what typing practice cannot teach.
There is no honest fixed answer, and we will not invent one. Here is what affects how long touch typing takes, and how short sessions and spaced review are meant to work.
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