Learn to type

1)Don't know the meaning of typing.

2)Don't understand the value of time.

3)Don't want to do hard work to learn something.

4)Cannot keep up with the course. Many will give up half way due to frustration.

5)Think that they can type faster than those who know typing.

1)The single best use of typing is that it saves you alot of time.

2)You can type more.

3)You can earn more money.

4)You don't have to look at the keyboard.

5)The frustration that occurs when you look at the keyboard and use two fingers to type decreases.

The two software that you must use are Yesolo and Stamina. Download these softwares from the websites listed below.

Then install Yesolo which has a total of 100 lessons of which 40 can be used free. For using the remaining you should purchase the software .To avoid this the Stamina typing tutor is useful.

Start with Yesolo. It consists of large amount of reading material and adequate exercises. It also gives good advice on various aspects of typing such as posture and how your mind should be focused for learning to typing. Many people would just want to skip the reading part and jump straight into the typing part. Trust me, it is not a good idea. You will just waste your time doing that. Instead just read the material which contains useful information as well as good jokes to make you feel comfortable.

Read all the stuff and complete all the exercises. After each exercise you will be given a grade according to your performance. If you are starting the first time you will get C or D grade. I would suggest you to practice and try to get the grade as B or A which is the best.

After completing all the exercises you will be able to type the home row (i.e., the row containing ASDFGHJKL) with ease. If you feel like doing the exercises again, do them, it will only improve you. During these exercises if you feel frustrated play some typing games which will relieve the tension.

After completing Yesolo lessons, start the Stamina typing tutor. This one contains exercises for all the letters, numbers and special symbols. Do some exercises daily for half an hour and try to minimize the errors. Do all the alphabets first, the numbers and special symbols can be done later. After becoming good at typing all the alphabets go for the phrases mode where you can type several sentences. This will help you to improve your typing speed and will make you efficient at typing.

As you go on practicing you will feel that you are typing slowly but your speed will be the same as before. This indicates that you can now step up and increase your speed some more. If you keep up the pace and type 4 to 5 days a week you will increase your speed in just 3 to 4 months. Mind it that this will happen if you do it regularly. If you just leave the exercises in the middle then come back after a gap then you will have to spend some time to become better again.I did the mistake and when I came after a gap I had to redo some of the exercises again which wasted my time.So don't do this mistake.

1) Yesolo

2) Stamina

As you go through the typing course there will be times where you will just want to leave it. The various reasons may be

1)you are not able to type correctly even after alot of effort.

2)you will feel frustrated with the lessons and think of coming back after some days but you will totally forget.

3)you will get so angry that you will break the keyboard so you decide that it is better to leave the course than to cause damage to the keyboard.

4)you may become more busy due to some reason and leave it.

There may be other reasons also.Mostly you will feel frustrated with the number of errors that come each time you type and you get fedup of it and leave the course in the way and forget about it.

What will help you at such times is Self Motivation.
This is very important because alot of hard work and sincere and continuous effort will be required and you will have to work for two to three months continuously to catch the skill.

A simple technique that you can use to motivate yourself is

1) List all the things for which you have to use the computer

2) Then list all the improvements that can happen when you become a fast typist.

Write the above things on paper and see it whenever you think of dropping the course.This will go along way and help you in many things because today computer has become an indispensable tool for many applications.

This is the most common keyboard available in the world. It is known as Universal keyboard due to obvious reasons. This was the work of C. L. Sholes in the 1860's who gave the layout to a typewriter, which has been adapted to the keyboard as well.

This keyboard was developed by Professor August Dvorak, of Washington State University. In this keyboard the home row has all the vowels and five of the most common consonants used.

1) Why all the keys are mixed up on the keyboard?

2) When was the first keyboard invented?

3) What is the largest word that can be formed from the home row keys in QWERTY and DVORAK keyboards?

4) Why DVORAK keyboard has not replaced QWERTY?

People suffer from injuries doing different things. Even with typing you may be a victim of some common injuries. The best way to protect yourself from these injuries is to find out about them and take the preventive measures in order to protect yourself from them.

Some of the commonly known problems associated with typing are

1)Repetitive Strain Injuries

These are caused by the repetitive actions of the hand while typing on the keyboard due to the poor posture of the hands.

Find out more at www.rsi.org.uk

2)Carpel Tunnel syndrome

This is the most common form of RSI. According to "Wikipedia" "Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a medical condition in which the median nerve is compressed at the wrist, leading to pain, paresthesias (i.e. Abnormal skin sensations usually associated with peripheral nerve damage), and muscle weakness in the forearm and hand

3)Back Pain

It is also one of the common injuries that occurs due to wrong body posture. It can be dealt with by maintaining correct body posture.