For a long time I wanted to take up touch-typing and increase my typing speed. I tried some training programs, but it was hard to find proper amount of time to spent eating alphabet monsters. As an every learning process the touch-typing requires taking lessons repeatedly. However, usually it could be hard to follow this proven rule because of meaningless nature of such programs, when you have to repeat many times a boring character sequence like ’sd jk as jk’. When I had some spare time at home I had to make a choice between writing an e-mail to a friend using the well known ‘two-finger’ method or to make one step towards the ‘ten-finger’, usually I chose the first one.
Some times ago I was given a bright idea how to combine the learning process with pleasure of writing to a blog or posting to a forum.
The main idea was to use a keyboard without any written captions on keys. It makes learning the key layout inevitable. Using this kind of keyboards brings you a great opportunity to beat the bad habit of constantly looking at the keyboard while typing. Actually, there is a good implementation here, however it will cost you pretty much sum of money.
As I was advised, I made the analogue thing from my old simple keyboard which probably costs now about 2$. Using a piece of emery board I erased all captions on the alphabet and punctuating keys.
This post was written using this keyboard and it took more than 2 hours. But, now I can remember all keys locations. I can’t afford using this magic device at work because of great time losses, but I definitely will use it at home.
Update:
I found a good implementation:
Quick and Dirty Das Keyboard (Blank Keyboard)
