Learn Typing Quickly

When a letter is typed rather than written, it allows the message to appear in a professional manner. You rarely find a business letter that is handwritten, which makes the ability to type a requirement when looking for an office job. Typing is a skill that can be learned quickly. Typing speed can be increased with practice.
  1. Home Row

    • The home row is the group of keys on the keyboard that your fingers return to after you type something. It is a sort of a resting place for your fingers when they aren't typing. All the fingers on your left hand (excluding the thumb) will rest on keys A, S, D and F, starting with the pinky. The fingers on your right hand (excluding the thumb) will rest on keys J, K, L and semi-colon. From these keys, your fingers will reach above or below the home row keys to type the letters, numbers, or symbols that are required.

    Capitalizing, Indenting and Spacing

    • To capitalize a letter or type a symbol or punctuation mark that appears on the top portion of a key, hold down the "Shift" key while you strike the key that shows the letter or symbol you want to create. When you take your finger off the "Shift" key, the typewriter or computer will resume typing in lower case. To type in all capital letters, depress the "Caps Lock" key. You'll need to press it again when you want to go back to typing in lower case.

      Paragraphs need to be indented. To indent a paragraph, press the "Tab" key on the left side of the keyboard. This key can be tapped again to indent further.

      To leave a space, you must press the long horizontal bar at the bottom of the keyboard. Each tap will leave a space. If you hold the bar down for any length of time, spacing will be continuous and you will quickly advance across the page.

    Moving to the Next Line

    • To move down the page and to subsequent lines, you will need to strike the "Enter" key. This key is situated on the right side of your typewriter. Each time you press this key, you will be brought to the next line on the page. It is not necessary to strike this key each time you reach the end of a line of text. Your typewriter will advance to the next line automatically.

    Gaining Speed

    • Once you become familiar with the keyboard you should be able to pick up speed with practice. You can start by typing the text from books. After a while, you can go to a "free typing lessons" website for help.

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