What Is Touch Typing?

Touch typing is a way of typing that doesn't require the typist to see what they're doing. It's called "touch" because it's based on muscle memory: you train your fingers to know where to go without looking at the keyboard. You can also do this by feeling around, but it doesn't work either. Touch typing is the best type because it's all about muscle memory you have many muscles in your hands, and they are good at remembering things. So, when you touch type, you can remember where all the keys are without looking at them, and then you can go there whenever you want to type something. It is also possible to remember where some other things are located. For example, I could look over here if I tried to find my phone. That's where it usually is! While we're on the subject: Did you know that if you touch your nose with one hand and your elbow with another hand simultaneously, it feels like someone else is touching both? That's called synesthesia. While teaching typing classes, a court stenographer invented touch typing in Salt Lake City, Utah, named Frank Edward McGurrin, in 1888. The idea is to use a standard QWERTY keyboard with the hands placed at a starting location called the "home row keys. " The home row keys for the left hand are the "ASDF" keys, and are "JKL;" for the right hand. On most modern keyboards, the home keys for each index finger have a raised bar or dot to help the touch typist to maintain and recover the correct position of the fingers on the keyboard quickly without having to look at the keys. Touch typing allows you to type faster by using all ten fingers instead of just two (or three for hunt-and-peck typists). Theoretically, this should make an order without making mistakes easier, but we all know how hard it is to learn something new!