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GuestJuly 29, 2022 at 10:18 pmPost count: 2899hi everyone and welcome back to my
channel so for the past one and a half
months i’ve been
learning touch typing or how to type
without looking
at the keyboard using all 10 fingers i
was used to
only using my two index finger index
fingers which made me
quite an average typer probably like
most of you watching
most things actually don’t require you
to go through hours
of online lessons which some websites
offer
for learning touch typing i took a
different approach that i’m going to
show you
in a minute which uses two websites
only five minutes per day of fun
practice and in a couple of weeks you
will type faster than
you are doing right now with all 10
fingers and without looking
at your keyboard there’s only one month
or a total of five hours of practice
between this guy right here
and this guy right here
so let me quickly tell you the three
reasons that motivated me and should
motivate you to
learn this skill first it’s less hard
than you think
only a couple of minutes each day are
enough to
learn this skill there wasn’t one day
that i missed because
i was looking forward to it each day i
think mostly because of the way how i
chose to
learn touch typing and one other thing i
did which i will also
show you in a minute reason number two
probably the biggest motivation
is the time you will save by learning
this technique
i love to improve my productivity and to
leverage my time
there’s no doubt that touch typing is a
high leverage activity you should take
up
if you type a lot if you spend 30
minutes a day typing over the course of
a year that adds up to
seven and a half days of typing non-stop
the average typing speed is about
40 words per minute and touch typing can
boost that to 60 to 80 words per minute
which is a 50 to 100
increase um if your typing speed
increases just by 50
through touch typing you will end up
saving about half a year of time
throughout your life which is kind of
amazing this is of course most relevant
if you’re doing a lot of typing which is
quite likely the case as you’re watching
this video
writing is quickly growing into a major
part of my day
to get your work outside into the public
you
need to somehow make yourself hurt
even if you’re using your voice as a
medium of transmission like here on
youtube
in general you need to write some kind
of script because you want to be concise
to only take
as much time of your listener as is
really necessary
and reason number three lastly it feels
and looks
just really cool and tyep test can actually spare
you quite some
some neck tension because you don’t have
to look at your keyboard right i also
bought a stand for my for my macbook and
revive the magic mouse
and keyboard that i have from my old
imac
to make it an even better experience
learning touch typing really reminded me
of learning how to play guitar
and piano what happens during the
process is you build muscle memory
muscle memory or procedural memory is a
type of motor learning
and happens in the brain through the act
of repetition your brain cements actions
into its neural pathways so that
the movement becomes kind of second
nature it’s the science behind
why you don’t forget how to ride a bike
or why after
if you’re a musician after years of not
practicing a particular song
you will still be able to play it on
your guitar without looking at your
fingers
your brain just knows which muscles to
fire next okay now let’s
move to how you can learn touch typing
the two websites
i used are kbr.com for my daily three
minutes
of practice followed by a speed check at
ten fastfingers.com i actually
took these from or learned about these
from
ala ali abdel from his youtube channel
you
should definitely check it out it’s a
great channel i really admire him
i’ve linked both websites in the
description apart from the practice
being a lot of fun
somehow maybe that’s only my weird
perception of what fun is
i tracked my my progress in a
spreadsheet and i found that this
definitely
helped me to be consistent each day i
was looking
forward to measure my speed and wanted
to have my my learning curve always
going up
which then the next day motivated me to
be
even better than the day before
just see how you’re getting better day
after day
that’s what i use 10 fast fingers force
let’s have a look um at this website
so yeah it’s pretty basic um you have
these words
uh that you are supposed to type in um
which actually
the 300 most common words in the english
language
as opposed to qbr where most of the
words are actually made up
the website then tracks your typing
speed over the course of one minute and
then gives you a number which is your
word per minute count and then you put
that
into your spreadsheet if you want to do
that um
yeah i i really enjoyed this it’s really
simple but
a lot of fun somehow so there’s two
things i would leave you with before
starting to
practice check which finger is delegated
to which key let’s have a look at
kbr.com so that’s how the website looks
like
the words are as i said mostly made up
so
you will start typing
qbr uses an algorithm that advances one
finger at
a time waiting for you to reach a
certain level of confidence and speed
for that key before moving to the next
before moving to a new key check which
finger to hit it with
i once mistakenly started using my right
index finger
for the letter b and it was really a lot
of effort to make it right if it does
happen
make the effort and correct it it’s
worth it it’s quite difficult though i
tell you
so better check beforehand your starting
position
is the always always the home row which
is basically the middle row on your
keyboard
and the little knobs on the f and j key
if you’ve ever wondered are for your
index fingers
um they just help you to orient yourself
your hands on the keyboard without
having to to look at the keyboard
so then let your fingers curve naturally
when placed on the home row
from here each finger has its keys that
are so depicted here if you want to take
a screenshot
while typing you should not rest your
palms
on your laptop or on the table it
enables you to
move more freely over the over your
keyboard
and also gives your hands a more natural
posture tip number two is that you
should never look at the keyboard just
don’t
it’s what we are trying to move away
from so just don’t build a bad habit
from
from the start right another thing that
i remembered
from learning how to play guitar
is that when you are practicing on kbr
mostly
type faster than you think you’re able
to
most people tend to be cautious and
really hit the right key
but thankfully there’s no punishment
for hitting the wrong keys it even has
advantages to prioritize speed
in this case because you will always
work
at the edge of your skill level and not
get too comfortable
at a certain stage it’s also more
efficient to build the necessary muscles
faster
now see what practice feels right for
you i found that
practicing touch typing a bit before
starting to work
on different things was a great
icebreaker for when
i’m sitting in front of my macbook
having an endless amount
of things i need to work on
most of them i don’t know how to do and
don’t know how where to start so hey
might just
as well get five minutes of touch typing
practice
from my to-do list right most of the
time
though already a couple of minutes into
practice i need to stop because
ideas start popping into my head somehow
the action of typing makes my brain run
wild
and i get really creative which then
makes it very easy to ease into my
daily tasks maybe you’ll have the same
experience
one last thing that i stumbled over
while going through my notes for this
video during
the first weeks i experienced some pain
in my lower arms
while practicing and i was wondering if
that was normal i made sure not to
overdo it
but still got in my couple of minutes of
practice each day
um so don’t worry it worked out well
probably it’s just a new set of muscles
that need
to get used to the new activity so
that’s it
i wish you good luck with your practice
feel free to put your comments
questions and your own experiences into
the comment section
thank you very much for watching and
talk to you next time
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