On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 09:42:34AM -0600, Erik Falor wrote: > On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 11:22:50AM +0200, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: > > Then I started to type long texts, I wanted to type anyways and put a > > towel over my hands for a couple of them. After that I removed the > > towel and since then I am touch-typing and never looked back.
> I second the suggestion of covering your hands so that you aren't > tempted to look at them. My typing teacher taped a large sheet of > construction paper above the top row of keys so as to cover students' > hands while working on exercises. I really hated it at the time, but > that's what finally broke me of my hunt-and-peck ways. the very first thing to learn about touch typing, if you have what I call a normal keyboard, is to learn to sense the tactile difference, usually a bump or raised part of the key, between the 'f' and 'j' key, as opposed to all the other keys -- these are made different because that is where touch typists place their index fingers -- they can find "home position" without looking using those keys -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
