Michael Sliwinski explains how touch typing is important to your productivity and why it boosts your typing speeds by more than 300%. Learn to touch-type if you can’t yet and enjoy the benefits. It takes time but it’s worth it!
Question:
Can you touch-type? Have you consider learning this skill?
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Everyone in my middle school was forced to learn touch-typing and we all complained! Now I’m so glad I had that skill at such a young age. It helped all through college and my career.
Michele, I envy you – I think this should be taught in school all over the world as an obligatory thing. When I posted this video I thought I’d be laughed at… but I get lots of great feedback from people who are interested in learning touch-typing, seeing me do the magic on video. I had to force myself to learn it like 10 years ago and I was frustrated, too. But it paid off big time! Thanks for your comment and happy new year 2012!
@Michael … can you recommend a program for learning touch-taping?
The program I’ve used to learn it was an old one on Windows called “Mistrz Klawiatury” (Master of Keyboard). Just google “touch typing course” (or a similar phrase in Polish) and you’ll find free courses online. They’re quite good. Good luck!
I’m deaf, so we use TTYs to communicate (especially before internet), so touch typing is a must. Of course, I took typing class in high school, so that helped as well.
Thanks for your great comment Lola LB! I think touch typing should be a must for every modern worker nowadays. Hope people will start learning this and companies and organizations start taking classes. I’m going to start teaching this in my company.