anyone learn to touchtype?

[Golf1.6]

im typing this out using touchtyping method ive learnt using mavis beacon teaches typing. ive just mapped out the alphabets so far, learing the shift cap next. it's a little bit hard to shift cap because my dexterity isn't brilliant and using my ring and small finger is difficult. my speed has dropped from 50wpm (pecking method) to 10wpm using this method but i need to keep at this so i can improve to 80-90wpm using 4 fingers. also correct typing will save my index fingers from developing arthritis early.

i wanted to learn to type for a long time but always assumed that it will take a very long time to learn but surprisingly it took me just 4 hours to map out the keys in my mind so i can type without looking. so i know have the skills to practice independently.

 

[Golf1.6]

I have learnt to type by pecking at the keys using my two index fingers, I dont think it's very wise to do this because. Because you're moving your ands around a lot and have your hands hovering over the keyboard it leads you to bash into the keys which will give your arthritis very quickly.

I remember a while back my index finger (left click mouse finger) was really sore a while back and I couldn't press the mouse with my index finger for 4 days. I developed RSI on it and had to adapt using middle finger temporarily which was really awkward. Most of us here are probably 20-30. I was using computers fr the last 16 years, I presume after 16 mores years of pecking at keyboards the index fingers will get knackered.

 

[Golf1.6]

How on earth are you still pecking after that long!? I'd be there all day if I still typed like that.

Pecking = using 2 index fingers to type all the letters with hands hovering over the keyboard.

Not necessarily typing slow, looking for every letter before pressing it.

 

[Golf1.6]

I do. It's so much faster. This is my keyboard:

A bit of encouragement to keep it up

Wow, I've never used the same keyboard that long to wipe out all the letters. Unfortunately for me I work at home and eat at my desk so the keyboards get gfood in them long before I wear out any keys.

 

[Golf1.6]

sigh, it seems that most people who type with 2 fingers and learnt to ype very fast using this method, think that they are touch typing.

With proper touchtyping you can type withoout looking at the keyboad AND looking at the screen either, you can write an entire paragraph this way with 100% accuracy and without using the backspace to correct yourself.

I can type using the two finger method without looking at the keyboard for a sentence or so, but I will occasionally miss press. I certainly cant use any of the punctuation method this way.