Doorway Text Type – The clearest typing tutor on-line!
Doorway Text Type is a touch typing tutor is designed for visually impaired people. One of the priorities was to make it as clear as possible.
It can be used by anyone wanting to learn to touch type.
There are some basic rules;
- Get into a comfortable position. with the keybaord placed centrally
- Locate the home keys. F and J have ridges on them to help you find them
- Do not look at your hands. All the information you need is on the screen. The letter to be pressed, the finger to use.
- Do not hurry. There is no advantage in going fast. It is acuracy that matters.
- Type at a steady rate. Do not speed up for the easy bits and slow down for the tricky parts. Try to type to a slow even beat.
- You need to score 94% on an exercise twice before going on to the next one. If you go on without mastering the previous one, it will just be too hard.
- At the start, do not try to to type too much. A single exercise at one session is enough. Use it on a ‘little and often’ basis.
- Do not look at your hands. If you look at your hands, you are practising a different skill. You will always need to look at your hands.
Touch typing is a motor habit like riding abike. Once you have learnt it you can use it any time again in your life.
