Typing Compressed

Typing: A closer look

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Points: • Typing • Keyboard layout • Saving time: typing fast

Typing • Typing: inputting text into a device, such as a computer, by pressing keys on a keyboard.

• Techniques: – Touch typing • Eyes are always on screen • Use of home row • Tips

• Pros: – Avoid wrist ache and other syndromes – Speed

• Cons: – Takes time to master

Agenda

• Techniques: – Search and pick: • Use of 2 to 5 fingers only • Varied from a person to another • Pros: – Develops naturally.

• Cons: – Slow – wrist problems – Mistakes

– Buffering – Thumb typing

• Keyboard layouts – QWERTY: • invented in1870s by Christopher Sholes, a newspaper editor. • Design

• Keyboard layouts – Dvorak: • patented in 1936 by August Dvorak, an educational psychologist and professor of education • Design: – address the problems of inefficiency and fatigue

• Compare

Agenda

• One handed Dvorak

• Programmer Dvorak

Save time: type faster • Words per minute measure – Why? – 5 characters = 1 word.

ex: “character” makes

2 words

– Averages • 33 for a normal user and around 60 for a typist

– YOU can save 1 hour a day or even more, if you spend two hours typing.

• Save time: type faster – Tips • Take a test http://www.typingweb.com/ • Take lessons http://www.typing-lessons.org/ • Use a software, Ktouch http://ktouch.sourceforge.net/ • Use shortcuts more often • Play touch typing games • Look online for other tips • Use a different keyboard layout – Use Dvorak – Use ergonomic keyboards

Points covered: • Typing: – definition and types : • touch, search and pick, buffering and thumb typing

• Keyboard layouts: – QWERTY and Dvorak and difference

• WPM measure • Tips for faster typing

References • Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_keyboard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY

• life optimizer: http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2009/01/09/save-time-improving-y • Kaufmann : http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/ • Images: Royalty free images: www.gettyimages.com