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tips to learn how to type better
thibaut | Feb 19 2006
Hello all, I have the feeling that most of the crowd at 43F is pretty much fluent with typing on a computer keyboard - IT people ; like you don't have to look at the keyboard to type your messages. I think that typing is teached at school in the US for quite some time now, but here, in France, I've not been through such lessons. Everytime I see somebody typing and staring at the screen continuously, it's like seeing someone juggling with 4 empty wine bottles at the same time. My job doesn't really require me to be a keyboard ninja while typing texts, but I realised I had to go ahead and learn to type correctly in order to spend less time on writing emails or posts like this one. Or type more in the same amount of time... I've downloaded a nice freeware app for mac called 2T4Mac. I'm doing the exercices since two days, and my improvements already show up. Thanks a lot in advance for your input. 7 Comments
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 It's really lame, but when...Submitted by Berko on February 28, 2006 - 9:46pm.
It's really lame, but when I learned to type way back in the day (1995ish) it was when I was on AOL (thank God that's over) spending a lot of time in chat rooms. I got really frustrated when I looked down to hunt and peck a message and then when I looked back up, my message was no longer relevant because the conversation left me behind. This was my motivation for learning to type better. Some tips? 1) Force yourself to use all your fingers. I'm not sure about keyboards in France, but you might need to memorize the keyboard shortcuts for the special characters in French such as ? and accented vowels. If I weren't sleepy as all hell I could prolly think of some more. » POSTED IN:
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