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Essential Keyboarding Techniques Guide

To improve keyboarding skills without looking at keys, one must practice proper technique including sitting up straight, looking at the screen, keeping fingers on home keys like G and H, using only fingertips and pulling elbows in close to the body. Keys like F and J have raised dots to guide hands back to home position without looking down. Thumbs rest on space bar but only right thumb presses it, and backspace is pressed with right pinky when a mistake occurs.

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Essential Keyboarding Techniques Guide

To improve keyboarding skills without looking at keys, one must practice proper technique including sitting up straight, looking at the screen, keeping fingers on home keys like G and H, using only fingertips and pulling elbows in close to the body. Keys like F and J have raised dots to guide hands back to home position without looking down. Thumbs rest on space bar but only right thumb presses it, and backspace is pressed with right pinky when a mistake occurs.

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Proper Keyboarding Techniques

Imagine being able to type all of your letters on your keyboard without
looking at a single key. How will you reach that goal? The answer is
practice, practice, and more practice.

Proper Keyboarding Technique

1. Remember to sit up tall.


2. Look at the screen and not at your hands.
3. Stay on your home keys. You should always be able to see the
letters G and H between your two hands.
4. Only your fingertips should be touching the keyboard.
5. Pull your elbows in at your waist.
6. Feel for the raised dots on the F and the J keys. This will guide you
to your home keys without looking down at your hands.
7. Be sure both thumbs are hanging over the space bar, but only use
your right thumb to space.
8. If you make a mistake, press the backspace button with your right
little finger and then return it to the semicolon key. Do not let
your other fingers leave the home keys.

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