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

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