COMPUTER 6

November 2020
PROPER KEYBOARDING
TECHNIQUE

LISD Technology Department

Proper keyboarding technique
includes:
Correct Posture
Correct Body Position
Correct Arm and Hand and
Feet Position
Correct Keystroking
Technique
Posture Spine straight leaning
slightly forward
Centered in front of
keyboard
Comfortable distance
from keyboard
Feet on floor, slightly
apart
Eyes on the screen or the
copy
I am facing toward my
computer
Body Position
My Keyboard is at
the edge of the table
I am a hand span
away from my
computer.
My body is centered
with the B and N
keys
 Feet on the Floor

• My feet are on
the floor.
• My feet are
slightly apart.
• I feel balanced.
 Curved Fingers
My fingers are
comfortably curved.
• My fingers are upright

and not leaning.

• My thumbs are resting
on the space bar.
My hands look like
“monkey fingers”
 Fingers on HOME ROW
 My fingers are resting lightly on
the TIPS of Home Row keys.
 My index fingers are resting on F
and J.
 With each key stroke my fingers
quickly return to Home Row.
Strive for this Not this..
Proper Key stroking Technique
•Use the tips of your
fingers to operate the
assigned keys
•Use a circular, pecking
motion (down and
inward)
 Eyes on Copy
 My copy is in the right
place ( perhaps on a clip
board)
 My eyes are on my copy
or my monitor
 I never look down at my
keys
 Wrists and Fingers

 Fingers curved, tips of

fingers resting lightly
on keys
 Wrists low, but palms
of hands not resting on
the keyboard
 Quiet Wrists and Elbows
 My wrists are level and relaxed.
 My wrists are not resting on the
keyboard or table.
 My elbows are resting naturally at my
side.
 My shoulders are relaxed.
 Forearms nearly parallel with slope of
keyboard
 Hands and wrists "quiet," almost
motionless
 How to be a good typist?
 There really is no "magic" or secret about good
typing ability.
 Takes time and lots and lots of practice!
 However there are some important things that will
help you in the process:
 Your goal at first should be to learn the
keys and HOME ROW before you begin
to build speed.
 Technique is most important!
Why are all of the keys mixed up?

 The reason for all the keys are mixed

up was to speed up typing while slowing
down the typist. 

Christopher Latham Shole in 1872

 invented the machine called the "Type-
Writer" 
 Why are all of the keys mixed up?
 Sholes redesigned the layout of the
letters on the keyboard to force the
typist to slow down.
 We call his layout the "QWERTY"
keyboard (after the first six letters of
the typewriter's second row).
 Home Keys
To begin typing, we should place their
fingers on the following keys, called the
home-row:
 What is the keyboard’s official
name?
 "Qwerty"
 Named after the top row of letters
on the keyboard
 If you don't think so just look on
your keyboard!
 Invented - 1864
IF YOU DO THIS . . .

 You will keyboard faster.

 You will make fewer mistakes.
 You will be able to type longer without
getting as tired.
 It will be less likely that you will have
health problems with your hands and wrists.
IT IS WORTH THE
EFFORT!
Computer 6
Performance Task # 4

Do Proper Keyboarding Techniques

Print a keyboard in a long bond paper and do
Proper Finger Position in the keyboard (Home
Key).
Take a video while doing the task, then send it
to your Computer Teacher’s Messenger.
Criteria:

Proper Keyboarding Technique: 10 points

Finger position: 10 points
Overall Demonstration: 10 points
30 points
Computer 6

Be ready for a quiz next

meeting.