#TYPING FINGERS POSITION HOW TO#
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Let your fingertips rest very highly on the center of each resting key, (see below for home keys). Relax at the end of each lesson if you need to. Start with short practice periods, such as 30 minutes a day, working up to longer periods of practice as you develop keyboard skills. Typing is a physical skill that requires practice, practice, and more practice. Develop your feel for the keys before trying to increase your speed. Repeat each lesson until you feel comfortable with your control of the keys, before moving to the next lesson. Say the letter of each key as you type, either out loud or silently. If you need to verify the location of a key, look at the hands displayed on your monitor. C with index finger, X with middle, Z with ring.Keep your eyes on the screen.

There is another option: Use the standard Colemak layout, but use the 'wrong' fingers, i.e. Agree its a bit annoying because of the Ctrl-Z shortcut, but it's still just about acceptable, and you could always define a separate Undo hotkey to avoid reaching for the difficult Z. For me the relative positions of the bottom row modifier keys would be too adversely affected. Move top and middle rows rightward? I like having the left Alt accessible with my left thumb. Hmm, if I were in your position and had to use ANSI.

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It took the Angle Mod to make me change my mind.

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ISO keyboards are standard here, but for a long time I used to hate that extra key to the left of Z, and would look enviously at ANSI keyboards. I went through a similar experience but from the other side. Well, my love for ANSI officially died this day. The DH mod was a bit more of a challenge, but quite easy nevertheless. Learning the Angle mod was really easy, it only took me a couple of days to feel comfortable with it. I like the result, but it's been wayyy too much work. My pretty images I've made as SVG in Inkscape, sweating blood in the process. Then you can paste that into a post of your own and edit it.

If you want to make an ascii layout design, press the 'quote' button on a post that has one you like and copy out the part with the layout. This mod moves a lot of keys physically, but again, not conceptually. The A-Frame/'A-Wing' mod keeps all the shortcut keys in place, at the cost of a key column between A/Q and Caps/Tab. Yes, having to move the Z is a bit of a downer – but that's only the Undo key which is a separate functionality from the Cut/Copy/Paste block – which is preserved in my DH-mod, in effect. So in 'reality', the XCV keys won't be moving although they're moved physically to accommodate the better angle. The idea behind the Angle mod is that you don't actually shift the bottom row in terms of fingering, but shift your wrist so it's straight instead of contorted. (Again, see my sig topics – or see the updated image further up in this topic.) I didn't like that either, so check out my DbgHk mod which is well suited for normal-staggered boards and less dramatic than the DvbgHm mod. Okay, if you do Steve's Mod-DH it does indeed move the V away (or rather, keeps it in place while moving XC away from it). EDIT3: Damn, I just realized that any mod that includes shifting home+top rows to the right also mean I have to shift the numbers row and.

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How do you guys make these awesome ASCII/image diagrams of keyboard layouts? I want to make one before I start figuring out how to program the POK3R.

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EDIT2: Mod DH moves the V away, breaking another very important Windows shortcut so I guess that's it.

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I'll think about the other options and update soon. So my only option in the regard of angle is to move home+top row one key to the right. EDIT: Thinking more about it - the Z-movement is out of the question because then I have to shift the bottom row one key left and that means all Windows shortcuts are slightly screwed up. Now I need to decide between ANSI Angle + Wide or moveZ + Wide and whether I really want to use DH mod or not. I'm almost sure that it won't harm my QWERTY almost at all because of my lack-of-technique. I've been typing QWERTY for 20+ years without any technique (but still fast around 100wpm), so my goal is to reset and do it right this time. I just want to make sure I do it right and avoid ad many bad habits as possible. I'd say about 80% of the typing I do with my personal keyboard and it should be able to 'remember' all the tweaks in firmware.

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