Conseil de dactylographie, comment faire moins d'erreur
1) Précision
J'avais essayé d'améliorer ma vitesse pendant des mois et je n'ai pas vu beaucoup d'amélioration. Une fois, j'ai ralenti et j'ai commencé à être plus précis au lieu d'essayer de taper plus vite j'ai commencé à voir une augmentation de ma vitesse de frappe. Je me sens plus en contrôle. J'ai encore du chemin à parcourir pour mon but, mais je suis heureux.
Apprendre à être précis en premier, puis augmenter la vitesse ensuite.Chaque fois que vous faites backspace, ça prend plus de temps que si vous ralentissez un peu mais avec une meilleur précision. J'ai toujours fait beaucoup de fautes, mais je me rends compte quand je ralentis pour être précis, j'ai effectivement tendance à taper un peu plus vite.
2) Rythme
Ce qui est important est l'élaboration d'un rythme, de ne pas se presser. Etre précis est la première priorité. La vitesse vient naturellement avec la pratique et le temps. En conclusion, on doit apprendre à ne saisir que ce que l'on voit/lit!
* Mettez les index sur les touches qui ont un relief (petit point ou barre)
* A chaque touche il y a un doigt assigné. Une touche doit toujours être tapée par le même doigt.
* Ne regardez pas le clavier, les yeux doivent toujours être sur l'écran
* Entrainez-vous !
Reevaluation and correction: when you "feel but not hit" a key, you are not so much looking for a reference for key locations as much as you are looking for a height reference! You want to find out how high your fingers are hanging, in order to calculate (subconsciously) how high (how deep) you need to dive (to hit).
On top of the original "press distance," you also need to bounce extra-high, for insurance! which is tiring... And bigger bouncing height means the need for greater velocity to compensate to maintain typing speed, and greater velocity means heavier hit, and a heavier hit defeats the original purpose of the design of the blue-switches -- its lightness, its delicacy!
Moreover, you cannot type those "frequent combinations of keys" with a smooth "slide" move as you would be able to with a rubber film keyboard. This is difficult to explain... but let me try to tell "what is a slide?" -- it means after you press one key, you do not hurry to release it, but rather use it as an anchor to locate the next key depending on the location-relation between the two. So, you press the next key and release the current key at the same time; and your finger "slides" half-height as you would normally hang, from one key to another, which would be a smooth action, and "smooth is fast"! But wait, with the blue switches, you cannot do that! You would trigger all the other keys between the above-said two in the sliding path! Therefore, you cannot slide. You must bounce all the time! The original "press distance" is already long and on top of that distance, you also have to
When the switch is too light, it also means you cannot rest any finger on a key (for example a home key) during fast typing in order to find a benchmark (reference) of key locations. The ramification of this is that at first, you would type faster because you start from the home rows and you know the relative locations of keys. From there on, your whole hands have to suspend above in the air all the time and the overall hand position relative to the board would change. Because you cannot "feel but not hit" a key in order to reposition. You cannot be sure whether or not that "feel" action would trigger the sensitive switch!
Mechanical keyboards... The blue-switch ones really suck, guys! After so many frustrations, I carefully pressed to feel the key. Among other things, I found that if you press fast enough, the spring mechanism that results in the click sound (and feel) will fail to catch up. Obviously, there is very bad for fast typing! It means there is a threshold of typing speed, and your fingers get different feedback depending on whether you are above or below that threshold, which means the feedback is inconsistent! Every key is like a trap! With a sensitive trigger! This means you are prone to mistype: you need to hit heavy, and hit bottom, in order to type one key, because the click is not reliable feedback; but at the same time, you also need to hit lightly, and absolutely accurately, because a slight skew would trigger the neighbor key of which you intended to type.
Practice, practice, practice, and don't shortcut your hard keys. If you hate apostrophes, capital "I's", or quotation marks, try to do them with out looking at your keyboard no matter how long it takes you to get it down, without shortcutting it. Just take the time on your wpm to get them solidly down and then they will become like any other key.
When my fingers hurt after too much time on the keyboard, I...stretch not only my fingers but my legs, arms, ect. Then 5 mins. later come back and do it again.
When my fingers hurt after too much time on the keyboard, I physically unscrew them, lay them in a row and liberally spray them with a vegetable-based lubricant before reattaching them again in the correct order. I then proceed to remove lubricant from unnecessary surfaces with the help of isopropyl alcohol before resuming my typing pain-free! Of course, readers may be wondering how I (a) manage to unscrew my digits in the first place, and (b) find the dexterity to remove all digits on my hands in one go Well, allow me to expand. I am a well-built robot with 96% of my parts being removable and replaceable, so digit removal is really not an issue for me. And for those wondering how I remove and replace my hand digits, well, I use my toes to undertake the task by re-routing my finger-control systems to my feet. Clever, eh? Unlike my use of punctuation but not even robots are perfect
When I was a child, my dad was a chicken pecker when it came to typing. He always wanted to be faster with computers, and had he lived to see the modern age of technology, I believe he would have loved this website. He bought me Mavis Beacon and All The Right Type to practice at home, and I frequently found him taking breaks from work to plod his way through typing tests, staring ardently at his hands to make sure they stayed on the home row. Now, at my best, I can type over 100 WPM, and I owe that dedication and determination to him.
I set myself a goal speed, like 90WPM, and whenever I don't meet that speed on a test, I click on the title and train on the quote until I either reach that speed or do the test five times. That way my fingers get accustomed to whatever made me mess up more or get slower on the quote. It's way better than just dreading any time a quote comes up with keys I'm not good at. Practicing the same quote over and over also helps my fingers "memorize" certain combinations of keys so they can perform them without me having to think about it. The more combinations my fingers know, the faster I can type. I also make sure that I'm using the right fingers on the right keys. The more you practice pressing a key with the wrong finger, the stronger the bad habit becomes. I intentionally slow down and make sure I'm typing the right way every once in a while.
While typing on a desktop keyboard, always remove left control key cap when you want to type a little faster to prevent unintentional tab shutdown ctrl+w. It makes you feel great knowing this silly painstaking accident would not happen that much anymore. And of course if you will, remember to put that cap back in place.
A good strategy seems to be 1st to focus on accuracy, and 2nd to focus on a consistent typing pace, NOT speed. Once the time between hitting each letter is balanced, speeding up simply becomes a matter of repetition.
@emeraldsloth I started logging this about one or two months after migrating to Colemak from QWERTY. On QWERTY I was generally 120-140wpm, so I think I'm primarily restoring the speed I already had. I think a lot of speed comes down to memorizing individual words; the first time I type an uncommon word my speed dramatically drops, and when I practice common vs rare words (Monkeytype has this feature), the common words are much faster. My advice would fall under:
1. Go slow enough to focus on accuracy. A handful of errors drops my WPM for a test by 10-30. 2. Use peripheral vision to look a little ahead of what you're typing. The little bit of extra time lets your brain plan and queue up the physical motion your fingers will make. 3. Breathe. 4. Practice, often, and diversify how you practice. Transcribing visually only gets you so far. Practice taking dictation (possibly from TV)
