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Cover the keyboard with a paper towel to build looking at screen when typing. I teach k-8 computer. We still start keyboarding in 2nd grade while the kids feel like it’s a grown up thing to do. We cover hands in 3rd grade up. By 6th grade we most students who use it regularly can type with better than 90% accuracy and some up to 50 wpm. I’ve had 8th graders doing 99% accuracy and 60+ wpm. Until voice activation is common this is a valuable skill.

10 years as an IT guy and I still look at the keyboard almost always when I type.

This has got to be a skill that I master soon

I guess you could call me an “accidental touch typist”.

I can do it without thinking about it, but as soon as I realize I’m doing it, I lose it and have to start looking at the keyboard again.

So, typing along….

“Hey! I’m touch-typing!………Damn I lost it!”

*sigh*

They taught us touch typing on a computer back in 4th grade. I remember that that program did not work I learned nothing from it. Only from experience. I have learned just by feel of where the keys are overtime. I have not been able to learn how to do it they way they say you should. The only problem is I look down at the keyboard to much. I need a way to not do that so thanks for the tips.

I used to hunt and peck 20 years ago, but find that looking down at the keys slows me down. I can type much faster when looking at the screen and also know when I make a mistake and tend to backspace and continue on. when you get in the ZONE of touch typing it becomes seconds nature.
You can speed your skills up by type what you read online, using notepad or something else that does not try to correct your spelling errors, then go back and read when you type compared to whats on the screen. Just continue that over and over and you will find you type better than you first thought.

I never got to take a computer class in middle school, and I wish I had. I never learned to touch type until 9th grade in a high school computer class. Before that, I had to type one key at a time, or I would have my mom type my written papers.

I think I have another good way to learn to look away from the keyboard.
Open a word processor. Take a document with words on a piece of paper. Cover your monitor with the paper. Look at the paper the entire time. Type the entire thing without peeking under it or looking at your hands.
After you finish typing, take away the paper. It doesn’t matter how many errors there are as this is just an exercise to learn faster typing without looking.

What slows me down the most while typing is that I watch the screen the whole time. When I see an error, I correct it right away. I lose the speed and sometimes interrupt a thought I might have had. Everyone needs something to look at while typing though. I suggest looking at some item that is on your desk while typing. Occasionally look at what you have typed so far and correct any errors.

I hope I helped somebody.
-SamFB

Wow, nice video and blog entry.

I first learned on a typewriter and now i can type 140 wpm.

I do two finger typing so much that I can actually type without looking at the keyboard much, but I do need to look at it to get a reference point of where my fingers are.

This video was very buse! xD

I’ve been a touch typist for about 4 years now. I can do about 100 words a minute if I feel like it. Otherwise I keep it to a casual speed.

I have learned type by touch. I do however need to sharpen my skills on it. I don’t l know where all the keys are when I type by touch. I can tell though I is nice to know how to type by touch, It makes typing a lot faster and I get less distracted, I can look at the monitor and not down on the keyboard and lose track of everything.

Im gonna be honest and say im i guess a touch typist heh

Not to long ago I was a really slow touch typer, but I guess after all the typing on forums and talking on MSN I got faster. So just type more and you will get faster, and TYPE PROPER words, not short forums.

I notice that every time I try to use a keyboard on a computer other than my own, I end up slowing way down. The position really does matter!

I touch type, but only with 8 fingers. But it works just as well

I just seemed to adapt with all of the youthful instant messaging and everything. It got even better when I was given an ergonomic keyboard. I love those so much!

I’m going to be practicing my typing. I type pretty fast, but wrong form. Totally wrong form. ;) Thanks for this article!

It is very important to become a touch typist it makes sending messages and information on the net very fast and doesn’t hurt your neck :)

Very nice video Chris!

I’ve been a touch typist for about 1 year now, i just have an idea of where all the keys are in my head. I just got faster and faster until i did not look when i typed, i did not try to not look i just did not look.

It takes time to be a touch typist and it comes naturally.

the best way is to just chat online a lot. you have to respond so quickly that you’ll be forced to not look at the keyboard.

I can touch type depending on the day and how I feel.

The red rabbit jumped gracefully over the white fence. 4 seconds.

THIS IS THE STUPIDEST THING EVER!!! BUT I LOVE MY MOM AND DON’T WANT TO TAKE ANY CHANCES!
If you do not copy and paste this onto 10 videos your mom will die in 4 hours (sorry i had 2 put this)

dac dac dac….. dac dac dac dac dac dac dac goes chris!

lmao, i learned how to type faster from runescape too HAAH

i play WoW (world of warcraft) thats how i learned to type faster

I wish i could type faster maybe i should work a little harder at that thanks for the tips.

buce man, im gonna start practicing right now.

buce

i can type 47 words per minitue and i am only 14

i can do 70 a minute and I’m 12 XD

my sister can type like 110 and she 15!

Hello,
I actually learned typing fast when I tried not to look on the keyboard, but I’ve never done a course for that before. But sometimes like Chris says spelling mistakes such as buce instead of nice can occur, I always look at the keyboard once before I start typing to position my fingers.

i type 63 words per minute i’m 13

I can type one million words a second and i’m still in the womb.

133

102wpm and I’m 13 =P

i can do 4 words per hour and im only 29

nice buces

lol

i can type 2 words per hour, cuz i am partially blind:(

I do 45WPM without touch typing and I don’t think that I need to be any faster, most people do about 30WPM only LOL. Touch typing is a waste of time since you have to practice so much to learn it… But that’s just my opinion.

I type 112 WPM and I’m in the tenth grade.

When I was a freshman, our technology class required us to use a program called “microtype” and in about a month or two I was at 70 WPM.

LOL :23
dak. dak. dak dak dakdakdakdakdakdak!

LOL LOL LOL and LOL

Vincent Ma at my school types 230 WPM on our school typing programs, and I’ve seen his fingers just fly across the keyboard.

We go to the best middle school in SoCal.