Keep your fingers on A S D F. Do not look at the keyboard.
Touch typing means typing without looking at the keyboard, with each key assigned to one specific finger. It starts on the home row, ASDF for the left hand and JKL semicolon for the right, because those eight keys are where your fingers rest between every other reach. Learn that anchor first and every other key becomes a short, repeatable movement from it.
The home row matters because it gives your hands a position to return to. Without it, every key becomes a fresh search, which is why two-finger typists plateau: they are navigating rather than remembering.
These lessons use a colour-coded on-screen keyboard so you can see which finger owns the key you just missed. That feedback is the part most self-taught typists never get, and it is why bad finger habits survive for years.
The home row is the middle row of letters where your fingers rest: A, S, D and F under the left hand, and J, K, L and semicolon under the right, with both thumbs on the space bar.
The F and J keys usually have a small raised bump so you can find the position without looking, which is how you reset your hands after reaching for anything else.
Most people can type without looking within two to four weeks of short daily practice, and reach a comfortable everyday speed within two to three months.
The first week is the hardest because you are slower than your old method. That is temporary, and it is the price of the ceiling being much higher afterwards.
Each finger owns a column that runs diagonally from the number row to the bottom row. Index fingers cover two columns each, the middle and ring fingers one each, and the little fingers handle the outer keys plus shift and enter.
The on-screen keyboard in these lessons colours each key by its finger, so you can check the assignment as you go rather than memorising a diagram first.
Learn touch typing. Hunt and peck has a hard ceiling of roughly 30 to 40 words per minute because your eyes have to leave the screen for every word.
Touch typing is slower for the first few days and then keeps improving for years, which makes the trade obvious if you type most days.
Usually yes, if you type for work. Fast two-finger typists tend to stall in the 40 to 50 words per minute range and pay for it in accuracy on long documents.
Relearning costs about two weeks of feeling clumsy. If you only type occasionally, that trade is less obvious and you may be fine as you are.
Move to the untimed practice mode and type full sentences without looking down, which is where the home row habit either holds or breaks.
Once accuracy stays above 95 percent there, take the timed typing test to get a words per minute score you can track over time.
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