Free Touch Typing Course
Touch Typing Essentials
This free touch typing course explains finger placement and accuracy before speed. Join the lessons to connect home-row habits with everyday typing, from writing an email to entering numbers without constant keyboard checks.
About this course
In this free touch typing course, you learn how finger placement and repeated movement support typing without watching every key. The lessons begin with the QWERTY layout, posture, and home row, then connect those foundations with letters, capitals, and short sentences. You can understand where errors arise before focusing on typing faster.
As you learn touch typing online, the course adds numbers, punctuation, and keyboard shortcuts to everyday tasks. Timed exercises and error analysis introduce ways to track accuracy rather than judge progress by speed alone. You can apply these keyboard habits to administrative and clerical work in US offices, where reports and data entry call for accuracy as well as speed. You gain a foundation for continued keyboard practice; the course does not promise a particular words-per-minute score or readiness for every employer's typing test.
Course outline
Getting Started with Touch Typing: Keyboard Basics and Posture
Learn about the QWERTY keyboard, finger positioning, good posture, proper set-up, and muscle memory by practicing.
Mastering the Home Row
Learn how to place your fingers on the home row and thumbs as well as work on your rhythm and timing.
Expanding to the Top Row
Learn how to type top row keys, capitalization with the shift key, and exercises that will help you to gain accuracy.
Completing the Alphabet: Bottom Row Mastery
Learn bottom row keys as well as learn to use all the alphabet rows together in word and sentence exercises.
Numbers, Punctuation, and Symbols
Practice number keys, punctuation marks, symbols, use of the numeric keypad, and special characters for accurate everyday typing.
Building Typing Speed and Accuracy
Learn about typing speed and accuracy, practice timed exercises, minimize mistakes, work on rhythm, and work on weak areas by practicing.
Advanced Typing Techniques and Test Readiness
Learn keyboard shortcuts, keys for navigation, and specific device skills while preparing for timed typing tests.
Applying Touch Typing to Real-World Work
Use touch typing for writing emails, reports, data entry, and meeting notes.
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