![]() ![]() The keyboard key that interests us is the key with the number "6". How the top row keys are positioned in relation to the center of the keyboard? We will examine the QWERTY keyboard. ![]() Let's try to take a bit scientific approach and make some measurements to check if it is actually closer to reaching the keys with bumps to the center of the top row. If someone has typed for years in one way, it is hard to convince him or her to do it differently now. It is hard to argue with others' preferences. Some people claim that it is more comfortable for them to type using a "full cascade" pattern. Typing keys of the keyboard's top row is controversial. This approach is just more comfortable for your hands and thus healthier and more effective. This approach does not work as it should in practice, although, it looks very straightforward in theory this concept is illustrated in the below picture:Īlthough the correct approach is not obvious and seems less popular, we are still convinced that it is correct. Most of the resources on the Internet show that fingers should be assigned to keyboard keys in the form of a "full cascade". The fingers-to-keys assignment should look, therefore, the following way: Later in this article, we will discuss why the row of numeric keys should be treated as an exception. The cascade is "shifted" because numeric keys (the first upper row on the keyboard) should be pressed differently than the keys of other rows. The schema of correctly assigning keys to fingers resembles a "shifted cascade". If you that the position of your hands or your entire body is forced in some unnatural way during typing, change your position so that you feel comfortable again. It would be best not to lay your hands too close to each other. When typing do not try to bend your arms to the level when you don't feel comfortable. It is also important that your arms and hands are arranged in a natural way. You do not need necessarily come back to the base position, after a key has been pressed, although, your forefingers should keep their base position whenever possible. During touch typing, you reach other keys starting from the base position. The rest of the fingers (except for the thumbs) should be placed along the same row as the forefingers. For QWERTY keyboards the middle means keys: "F" and "J". If you can't type very quickly with your own typing technique right now, the learning effort is definitely worthwhile.The most important thing is to place your forefingers in the middle of the third row of keys (counting from the bottom). The time needed, which probably prevented you from learning to type with 10 fingers, can therefore be completely neglected in comparison to the possible long-term time saving. Depending on how fit you are on the keyboard at the moment, even a 3- to 4-fold increase in typing speed is possible - with correspondingly higher time savings. Of course, this is only an example calculation. For a working week of 40 hours, this means 4 1/2 weeks of free time per year, which you can use for other tasks or which at least allows you to go to work on time much more often. If you double your typing speed, you will save about 180 hours per year. Projected to one year, that is already 365 hours. Let's assume you spend an average of 1 hour a day entering texts. The time we spend every day entering texts on the computer may vary according to our profession and private usage patterns and may not seem so much to us - but the long-term approach is decisive here. And also privately we spend more and more time in the digital world. ![]() Nowadays, 2/3 of all professional activities require work on the computer. Who is our offer actually intended for? And is it worthwhile for you to invest the time and learn to type "the right way"? ![]()
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