How To Start Typing?

To learn to touch type you should start at the home rows and there are great classes in school that can help you.  Keyboarding deluxe pro is great software.gl

Home   key   row. BE   SURE   TO   USE   THE CORRECT  FINGER  FOR  DEPRESSING  THE KEY.  (No  matter  how  slow  or  difficult,  the beginning typist must, at this time, develop the habit  of  hitting  the  correct  key  with  the  correct finger.   Speed   and   accuracy   will   come   with practice.)  Practice  the  lines  shown  in  figure  2-4 until they become fairly routine, and then go on to the next step. NOTE:  Depress the space bar with the right thumb  to  get  the  space  between  letter  groups. The hardest keys to depress in this exercise are the h, g, and ~ because you must move your finger from the home keys to these letters. The fingers should  be  curved  and  held  barely  touching  the home keys. Then, the respective finger (right index finger for h, left index finger for g, and the left index  finger  for  c  should  be  removed  from  the home key without any forward movement of the other  fingers.  The  respective  key  should  be  struck, and the finger returned immediately to the home key. This  should  be  practiced  by  looking  at  the keyboard  and  thinking the letters for the first few times. Then it should be done not looking at the keyboard.   When   this   exercise   can   be   typed properly for several times without looking at the keyboard,  you  are  ready  for  the  next  step. FIRST  ROW  ABOVE  THE  HOME  KEYS. Figure 2-5 shows some exercise lines for practicing the reaches for the keys in the row above the home keys. Before starting this exercise, you should go back  to  the  earlier  paragraphs  in  this  section  that discuss  which  fingers  depress  which  keys.  This information should be written down and followed until  the  reaches  are  routine  and  have  been memorized. The first five groups of letters in this exercise are  strictly  for  getting  used  to  reaching  for  the keys.  They  should  be  practiced  and  mastered before moving onto the last two lines. When you can type these first groups of lines without looking at the keyboard, you are ready to try the last two lines. When  typing  the  last  two  lines  of  the  exercise, you should think the WORD instead of the letter. BOTTOM  KEY  ROW.  Again,  you  should refer  to  paragraphs  that  discuss  which  fingers depress which keys in this row. Also, they should be written down and memorized. Figure 2-6 shows some  exercises  for  finger  reaches  in  this  row. SHIFTING  FOR  UPPERCASE.  The  shift keys and the differences between uppercase and lowercase  have  been  explained  previously.  The Figure 2-5.—Exercises for finger reaches for the keyboard row immediately above the home key row. 2-8