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Living on the digital edge where typing is almost an everyday necessity, learning the ways of proper keyboard usage are crucial. Not only are you able to be more productive and get things done quicker with a keyboard, typing faster can enable you to keep up with your brain; that little voice in your head that has great ideas might only last for a few seconds before it’s forgotten.
In this article, we’ll give you 5 tips to get you started typing faster and proper . Some of the tips are quite obvious ones, but we’ll provide you with a few apps to help you practice and learn faster.
You can also use shortcut keys while browsing the web. Here are some shortcuts you could use to navigate in web browsers.
Finally, here are some common keyboard shortcuts for more general (Windows) navigation.
Using these shortcut keys will require the little finger a lot as many of the modifier keys like Ctrl, Alt and Shift are closest to your little finger.
5. Practice With Apps
Practicing typing on a keyboard need not be stressful (although it may feel like it at times). You can practice with a lot of typing games. Here are a few websites where you can learn how to conquer the keyboard and have fun at the same time.
TypeRacer is a simple and fun game where each player is represented by a car. You’ll be given a passage of text from a book or lyrics to a song, you then type it out to move your car in a ‘race’ with other players. Whoever finishes typing the passage first wins.
Keybr generates readable random words where some words are spelt incorrectly to help you remember common letter combinations better rather than typing random letters. It’ll give you statistics to tell you which area of the keyboard you are weaker in. It also offers words in different languages as well as different keyboard layouts.
The exercises in this site get you comfortable with the finger placement by repeatedly asking you to type those letters with the correct finger. It is also offered in different languages.
Learn typing is a basic looking website that has a ton of explanation good for beginners learning to touch type. Once you’ve gone through the basics, there are also more advanced exercises which you can do.
Happy learning!
In this article, we’ll give you 5 tips to get you started typing faster and proper . Some of the tips are quite obvious ones, but we’ll provide you with a few apps to help you practice and learn faster.
| Shortcuts | Descriptions |
|---|---|
| Ctrl + C | Copy |
| Ctrl + X | Cut |
| Ctrl + V | Paste |
| Ctrl + Z | Undo |
| Ctrl + S | Save |
| Ctrl + F | Search for word |
| Ctrl + A | Highlight everything |
| Shift + Left Arrow or Right Arrow | Hightlight next letter |
| Ctrl + Shift + Left Arrow or Right Arrow | Highlight next word |
| Ctrl + Left Arrow or Right Arrow | Navigate text cursor to next word without highlight |
| Home | Go to beginning of line |
| End | Go to end of line |
| Page Up | Scroll up |
| Page Down | Scroll down |
| Shortcuts | Descriptions |
|---|---|
| Ctrl + Tab | Switch to next tab |
| Ctrl + Shift + Tab | Switch to previous tab |
| Ctrl + T | Open new tab |
| Ctrl + W | Close current tab |
| Ctrl + Shift + T | Open previously closed tab |
| Ctrl + R | refresh current webpage |
| Ctrl + N | Open new web browser window |
| Backspace | Go back one page |
| Shift + Backspace | Go forward one page |
| Shortcuts | Descriptions |
|---|---|
| Alt + Tab | Switch to next opened window |
| Alt + Shift + Tab | Switch to previous opened window |
| Alt + F4 | Close current window |
5. Practice With Apps
Practicing typing on a keyboard need not be stressful (although it may feel like it at times). You can practice with a lot of typing games. Here are a few websites where you can learn how to conquer the keyboard and have fun at the same time.
TypeRacer is a simple and fun game where each player is represented by a car. You’ll be given a passage of text from a book or lyrics to a song, you then type it out to move your car in a ‘race’ with other players. Whoever finishes typing the passage first wins.
Keybr generates readable random words where some words are spelt incorrectly to help you remember common letter combinations better rather than typing random letters. It’ll give you statistics to tell you which area of the keyboard you are weaker in. It also offers words in different languages as well as different keyboard layouts.
The exercises in this site get you comfortable with the finger placement by repeatedly asking you to type those letters with the correct finger. It is also offered in different languages.
Learn typing is a basic looking website that has a ton of explanation good for beginners learning to touch type. Once you’ve gone through the basics, there are also more advanced exercises which you can do.
