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SECTION 3 MASTERING THE ALPHABETIC KEYS

U800002, Rev. 1.2, October, 2002

• Locational security and keyboard warmup are enhanced by using the following drill:

aa bb cc dd ee ff gg hh ii jj kk ll mm nn oo pp qq rr ss tt uu vv ww xx yy zz. The

second entry of the letter helps reinforce key location.

• It is critical to develop compositional skills whether using the DataHand or flat

keyboard. Being able to think and key contributes to such activities as preparing e-

mail messages, entering/extracting information from databases and spreadsheets, and

interacting with Web sites via the Internet to send and receive information. One way

to prove that thinking and keying at the same time is challenging is to time yourself

as you key the alphabet forward. Time yourself again as you key the alphabet

backward. For most people, the second attempt will take twice as long.

• One more technique that will help build speed on number keyboarding is to key the

numbers starting with 1 and go to 100 putting a balanced-hand word in between each

number as follows:

1 for 2 for 3 for 4 for 5 for 6 for 7 for 8 for 9 for 10 for 11 for 12 for 13 for 14 for 15

etc.

The balanced-hand words features faster finger movements as the fingers are on

opposite hands. The increased speed carries over to the numbers.

What's Left

The 4th segment of the DataHand Keyboard Mastery program features the punctuation and

symbols not covered so far, and accessing the function keys.

1 2 ... 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 ... 41 42

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