practice

A test measures you. A drill improves you. Free typing spends most of its time on keys you already own, so these do the opposite: each one isolates what actually costs you time, and rehearses only that. Work down the ladder, then take the test.

1. isolate raw elements, repeated 2. combine elements in short fragments 3. apply real text, element-dense your weak keys type a test first and this fills in

the keyboard itself

Hands, not vocabulary. Nonsense syllables on purpose — a real word can be typed from memory as one motion, which is the very habit these are trying to replace.

home row asdf jkl; — where the hands live, and return to top row qwerty uiop — reaching up without losing the home row bottom row zxcv bnm — the row people cheat on most left hand qwert asdfg zxcvb — one hand at a time right hand yuiop hjkl; nm — one hand at a time index fingers the strongest fingers, and the busiest ring & little fingers the weakest fingers — where accuracy is won or lost shift & capitals the shift key with the opposite hand, every time number row 1234567890 — without looking down symbols the shifted row: ! @ # $ % & * ( ) and friends whole keyboard everything, mixed — the test of whether it has stuck

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