gold rush tutorial

i wrote this tutorial to help out a couple of people close to me - it was too painful to watch. given that we have another web gold fever about to explode my friends and family showed up at the gold rush with no shovels.

only four simple rules

1. place your fingers on the keyboard as follows so that each finger has a coverage area assigned to it. no more, no less.

2. look at the screen, not the keyboard - should be obvious but let us re-iterate it for the agnostics.

3. after typing a key, always return the finger to its base position (perhaps most important rule). because if the poor finger did not return to its base, it would be lost and you would have to remove your eyes from the screen to re-direct it to its base position.

4. use the shift key from the opposite hand when reaching out to keys requiring shift, such as the special characters above the numerics

it's show time

now that you know the incredibly complicated proper technique for typing, re-type the following simple sentence 20 times and time yourself:


a quick fox jumped over the lazy cow


the sentence should cover the entire keyboard in its basic form. when you are done with those twenty, give me forty more, and then give me some forty like i did in the military and in prison. and then you are giving me forty more, till your fingers do not know which side is up and you cannot feel them anymore. whoo-haa! be sporty, papah!

time yourself!

do this a couple of hours a day till you see some progress. if there is no progress, do not tell anyone. you are beyond help. but it is not your fault you were born in the wrong century, is it now?

on the othe hand, if you do learn type because of this tutorial, chances are that you keep a fond memory of this tutorial with you till the rest of the of the life.

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