Re: Hunt N' Peck II

"west" <restccq2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Come on somebody? ... Anybody? ... What's so hard about this question? I
> really would like to know. How do you train the home-schoolers?
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I suppose the most popular software for teaching typing is the Mavis Bacon
teaches typing.  I took typing in high school and I found the book I had
in
school at a rummage sale once.  The trick to learning to type without the
hunt and peck method is that you need to train your fingers first.  (That
is
my own term.)  When I type I don't think that this finger must hit the "T"
key or the "J" key.  It is just automatic.  Many times if you ask a touch
typist where a certain key is they have to type on an imaginary keyboard. 
I
could not tell you where the keys are on a keyboard even though I have
been
typing for years.  All I know is that my first finger on my left hand is
the
one that hits the "f" key when I want to type a word like "fun".  I guess
that is also the way morse code keyers do when they tap out the code for
radio messages.  The think they want to tap out "A" and their hand just
taps
out dot dash or whatever the code for A is.  The only way I know to learn
typing is to start out typing one letter so that you are teaching your
hand
that this key is punched when you want this key.  I still make mistakes,
and
I never will get a job typing for a living, however if you look at this
paragraph that I have written you, I have done it by looking at the
keyboard
about three times.  In school I never did get any better than 50 words a
minute with about 5 errors.  Since I have been typing on computers my
typing
has improved 100 fold.  Does that mean I type 5000 words a minute?  No, I
just make 5000 more errors.  Ha ha.   Ric in Wisconsin.