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Digital Literacy#

Touch Typing#

Touch Typing is one of those neglected skills, especially with the popularity of mobile and touch-screen devices. However, one such skill becomes more and more valuable as the kids progress. Teach your kid to touch type -- the skill of typing on the keyboard without looking at the keyboard.

It is OK to stay with the world‘s generic default QWERTY1 and not necessarily force someone to DVORAK2, as suggested by a few typing enthusiasts.

Here are few tools, Apps, and methodologies to learn to touch-type.

Footnotes#

  1. QWERTY is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The name comes from the order of the first six keys on the top left letter row of the keyboard -- QWERTY. The QWERTY design is based on a layout created for the Sholes and Glidden typewriter and sold to E. Remington and Sons in 1873. It became popular with the success of the Remington No. 2 of 1878, and remains in ubiquitous use. ↩

  2. DVORAK is a keyboard layout for English patented in 1936 by August Dvorak and his brother-in-law, William Dealey, as a faster and more ergonomic alternative to the QWERTY layout (the de facto standard keyboard layout). Dvorak proponents claim that it requires less finger motion and as a result reduces errors, increases typing speed, reduces repetitive strain injuries, or is simply more comfortable than QWERTY. ↩