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- ** Frame 1 **
- THE HOME KEYS
-
- Put your fingers on these eight keys. Your fingers remain permanently
- on these keys. Whenever you strike another key, your fingers
- MUST RETURN to these keys.
-
- a s d f j k l ;
-
-
-
- Fingers: Fourth Third Second First First Second Third Fourth
-
- Third Row ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) \ ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
-
- Second Row (a) (s) (d) (f) ( ) \ ( ) (j) (k) (l) (;)
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- First Row (Shift) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) \ ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) (Shift)
-
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- ** Frame 2 **
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- Finger Stretching Exercises
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- Place your fingers on the home row keys:
-
- a s d f j k l :
-
- Notice that all upward reaches from this home row are slightly left;
- all downward reaches are slightly right.
-
- Fingers: Fourth Third Second First First Second Third Fourth
-
- Third Row ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) \ ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
-
- Second Row (a) (s) (d) (f) ( ) \ ( ) (j) (k) (l) (;)
-
- First Row (Shift) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) \ ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) (Shift)
-
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- ** Frame 3 **
-
- Your first fingers, being stronger than the others,
- also make one reach to the center of the keyboard on each row.
-
- Take a moment to run each of your fingers up and down their
- pathways and see how simple it is.
-
-
-
- Fingers: Fourth Third Second First First Second Third Fourth
-
- Third Row ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) \ ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
-
- Second Row (a) (s) (d) (f) ( ) \ ( ) (j) (k) (l) (;)
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- First Row (Shift) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) \ ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) (Shift)
-
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- ** Frame 4 **
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- First-finger Reaches - Left Hand
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- Put your fingers on the home row keys.
-
- a s d f j k l ;
-
- Look at the chart below and think of your 'f' finger as being in the
- center of a car wheel. Touch 'f', move up to 'r' and back to 'f'; up
- to 't' and back to 'f'; over to 'g' and back to 'f'; down center to 'b'
- and back to 'f';down to 'v' and back to 'f'. Think of this as a
- clockwise motion even though you return to 'f' each time.
-
- (r) 1 (t) 2
- \ /
- \ /
- (f) -- (g) 3
- \ \
- \ \
- (v) 5 (b) 4
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- ** Frame 5 **
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- First-finger Reaches - Right Hand
-
- Put your fingers on the home row keys.
-
- a s d f j k l ;
-
- Now follow the chart below with your 'j' finger. Think of this
- as a counter-clockwise motion. Touch 'j'; up to 'u' and back to 'j';
- up and to the left to 'y' and back to 'j'; over to 'h' and back to 'j';
- down to 'n' and back to 'j'; down to 'm' and back to 'j'.
-
- (y)2 (u)1
- \ \
- \ \
- (h)3-- (j)
- / \
- / \
- (n)4 (m)5
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- ** Frame 6 **
- First-Finger Reaches - Drill
-
- Type the following drill. Say each letter as you hit the key.
- Hit the space bar with your right thumb after each group.
- Press the return key at the end of each line.
-
- Note that this drill contains all the letters struck by your first
- fingers. Each 'word' appears five times.
-
- Reminder Diagram: (r) (t) \ (y) (u)
- (f) (g) \ (h) (j)
- (v) (b) \ (n) (m)
- [space bar]
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- ** Frame 7 **
- First-Finger Reaches - Drill
-
- Frame 7 is the same drill as Frame 6. This time you will not have
- the reminder diagram on the screen.
-
- Type this drill five times.
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- ** Frame 8 **
- First-Finger Key Words - Drill
-
- Type the following drill.
-
- This drill contains all the letters struck by your first fingers.
- Each word appears five times.
- Say the letters as you strike the keys. Try to increase
- your speed each time you repeat a word.
- Reminder Diagram: (r) (t) \ (y) (u)
- (f) (g) \ (h) (j)
- (v) (b) \ (n) (m)
- [space bar]
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- ** Frame 9 **
-
- Type each word as it appears below.
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- ** Frame 10 **
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- Review of First-Finger Reaches
-
- Say each letter as you strike the key.
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- ** Frame 11 **
-
- Review of First-Finger Words
-
-
- Type the following drill five times. Say each letter
- as you strike the key.
-
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- ** Frame 12 **
- Second-Finger Reaches
-
- Put your fingers through the following motions without striking the
- keys.
-
- Your second finger on your left hand strikes 'd' on the home row,
- reaches up slightly left for 'e', and below the home row slightly
- right for 'c'.
-
- Your second finger on your right hand strikes 'k' on the home row,
- reaches up slightly left to 'i', and slightly right on the bottom
- row for comma (,).
-
- [e] (r) (t) \ (y) (u) [i]
-
- [d] (f) (g) \ (h) (j) [k]
-
- [c] (v) (b) \ (n) (m) [,]
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- ** Frame 13 **
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- Second-Finger Words
-
- Type the drill as it appears. Say the letters as you strike
- the keys.
-
- Reminder Keyboard:
- [e] (r) (t) \ (y) (u) [i]
-
- [d] (f) (g) \ (h) (j) [k]
-
- [c] (v) (b) \ (n) (m) [,]
-
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- ** Frame 14 **
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- Review of Second-Finger Words
-
- Type each word once. Do not look at your fingers as you type;
- this will hold back your progress in typing automatically by touch.
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- ** Frame 15 **
- Drill on First and Second-Finger Words
-
- You will now practice all the reaches made by your first and second
- fingers.
-
- Before typing each new word for the first time, put your fingers
- through the motions of typing that word without hitting the keys.
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- ** Frame 16 **
- Review of First and Second-Finger Reaches
-
- Look at the first group of letters, 'frf'. Close your eyes and mentally
- make the reaches.
- Now type these reaches five times with your eyes closed.
- Do this with each three-letter group.
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- ** Frame 17 **
- Review of First and Second-Finger Words
-
- Mentally reach for the letters in each new word.
- Type the word five times with your eyes closed.
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- ** Frame 18 **
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- Third-Finger Reaches
- Your third finger, left hand, strikes 's' on home row, reaches
- up slightly left to 'w' and down to bottom row slightly right
- to 'x'.
-
- Your third finger, right hand, strikes 'l' on home row, reaches
- up slightly left for 'o' and down to bottom row slightly right
- for period (.).
-
- [w] (e) (r) (t) \ (y) (u) (i) [o]
-
- [s] (d) (f) (g) \ (h) (j) (k) [l]
-
- [x] (c) (v) (b) \ (n) (m) (,) [.]
-
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- ** Frame 19 **
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- Third-Finger Words
-
- Type the following words. Feel out the reaches before striking the keys.
-
- Pause briefly before exploring each new word.
-
- Reminder Keyboard: [w] (e) (r) (t) \ (y) (u) (i) [o]
-
- [s] (d) (f) (g) \ (h) (j) (k) [l]
-
- [x] (c) (v) (b) \ (n) (m) (,) [.]
-
- ( s p a c e b a r )
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- ** Frame 20 **
-
-
- You are now beginning to build a memory pathway between your
- eyes and your fingers. When your eye sees a letter, the appropriate
- finger wants to move in the direction of that key. Pretty soon your
- fingers will do the walking through the keyboard while your mind
- remains in neutral.
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- ** Frame 21 **
-
- Drill on First, Second, and Third-Finger Words
-
- Type the following drill to test your memory pathway.
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- ** Frame 22 **
-
- Review of First-Finger Reaches
-
- Think of your 'f' finger as being in the center of a car wheel. In
- a clockwise movement touch 'f', move up to 'r' and back to 'f'; up to 't'
- and back to 'f'; right to 'g' and back to 'f'; down center to 'b' and
- back to 'f'; down to 'v' and back to 'f'.
-
- Make the same motions with the 'j' finger in a counter-clockwise movement:
-
- jujyjhjnjmj
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- ** Frame 23 **
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- Review of First and Second-Finger Reaches
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- Type the following drill.
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- ** Frame 24 **
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- Review of Third-Finger Reaches
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- Type each three-letter group five times.
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- Finger the keys before typing each new unit.
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- ** Frame 25 **
- Review of First, Second, and Third-Finger Words
- Part 1
-
- Put your fingers through the motions of typing each new
- word without hitting the keys.
-
- Close your eyes and type the word five times.
- Open your eyes and mentally finger the new word.
- Close your eyes and type that word five times.
- Repeat this procedure until you complete all the words.
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- Review of First, Second, and Third-Finger Words
- Part 2
-
- Put your fingers through the motions of typing each new
- word without hitting the keys.
-
- Close your eyes and type the word five times.
- Open your eyes and mentally finger the new word.
- Close your eyes and type that word five times.
- Repeat this procedure until you complete all the words.
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- ** Frame 27 **
- Fourth-Finger Reaches
-
- Your fourth finger on your left hand strikes 'a' on the home row,
- reaches up slightly left to strike the 'q', and down to the bottom
- row slightly right to strike 'z'.
-
- Your fourth finger on your right hand strikes semicolon (;) on
- the home row, reaches up slightly left for p, and down to the
- bottom row slightly right for the oblique mark (/).
-
- Put your fingers through these motions without striking the keys.
-
- [q] (w) (e) (r) (t) \ (y) (u) (i) (o) [p]
-
- [a] (s) (d) (f) (g) \ (h) (j) (k) (l) [;]
-
- [z] (x) (c) (v) (b) \ (n) (m) (,) (.) [/]
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- ** Frame 28 **
-
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- Type the following drill. Say each character as you strike it.
-
- Reminder Keyboard:
-
- [q] (w) (e) (r) (t) \ (y) (u) (i) (o) [p]
-
- [a] (s) (d) (f) (g) \ (h) (j) (k) (l) [;]
-
- [z] (x) (c) (v) (b) \ (n) (m) (,) (.) [/]
-
- ( s p a c e b a r )
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- ** Frame 29 **
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- Fourth-Finger Words
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- Finger each new word before striking the keys.
-
- Then type each word five times.
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- ** Frame 30 **
- Key Words
-
- You have now completed the 25 key
- words that cover the entire alphabet plus
- the comma and the period. You will type
- this list every day as part of your warm-up
- until you complete this course.
-
- Type these key words. Say each letter as you strike the key.
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- ** Frame 31 **
-
- Close your eyes and type the 25 key words from memory.
-
- Check your words against the list.
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- ** Frame 32 **
-
- Type two additional copies of the 25 key words.
- Say the letters as you strike the keys.
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- ** Frame 33 **
-
- Think and type the following drill.
- Keep your eyes only on the copy. Say each letter as you
- strike it.
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- ** Frame 34 **
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- Typing Capital Letters
-
- Hold down the shift key with the fourth finger on your right
- hand to strike a capital letter on the left side of the keyboard.
-
- Hold down the shift key with the fourth finger on your left
- hand to strike a capital letter on the right side of the keyboard.
-
-
- Fourth Third Second First First Second Third Fourth
-
- (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) \ (6) (7) (8) (9) (0)
-
- (Q) (W) (E) (R) (T) \ (Y) (U) (I) (O) (P)
-
- (A) (S) (D) (F) (G) \ (H) (J) (K) (L) (;)
-
- [Shift] (Z) (X) (C) (V) (B) \ (N) (M) (,) (.) (/) [Shift]
-
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- ** Frame 35 **
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- Practice typing capital letters on the 25 key words.
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- ** Frame 36 **
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- Timed Writings
-
- You have learned the full alphabetic keyboard. Fill your tank with
- high octane gasoline. From here on in we go for speed. Every key you
- strike will now be timed. You will be scored for every word you
- type.
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- ** Frame 37 **
-
- Take ten 30-second timings on these now familiar key
- words. Start typing whenever you want, as the timer will not start until
- the first key is pressed. In thirty seconds the screen will clear
- and your score will appear. Try to beat your speed each time. You will
- have ten chances.
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- ** Frame 38 **
- Tips on Timings: How to Develop Typing Skill
-
- Starting now, you are going to build your typing speed to higher
- and higher levels throughout the rest of this course.
-
- As you force your fingers to make faster and faster responses, you
- will certainly make some stroking errors. However, this is natural.
- Your accuracy can be improved by taking some timings with accuracy
- as your goal. Use your own judgment on balancing your timings
- between emphasis on speed and emphasis on accuracy.
-
- Here are some things you should know about the development of
- typing skill:
- 1. All gains in speed are made on short, intensive efforts of
- one minute or less.
- 2. Longer timings are taken to develop the ability to write for longer
- and longer periods at somewhere near your one-minute rate.
- 3. Take 1/2-minute and 1-minute timings until you can type for one
- minute at 30 words a minute. To take longer timings before you
- reach 30 WPM on 1-minute timings is a waste of your valuable practice
- time.
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- ** Frame 39 **
- Timing Tips - Continued
-
- 4. When you reach 30 WPM on 1-minute timings, take some 2-minute timings
- every day. However, most of your practice time should be devoted to
- increasing your 1-minute rate.
- 5. Always loosen up your fingers on the preliminary drills before taking
- any timed writings.
- 6. Learn to relax on the home keys every time there is a pause in your
- activity. Keep your fingers curved on the keys and let your palms
- rest on the frame of the keyboard. NEVER rest on the frame while
- typing.
- 7. Once you start to type, look at the screen, not at the keys.
- 8. While typing, if you feel you hit the wrong key, do not look up to
- verify it; forget it and just concentrate on continuing to type,
- otherwise you will lose confidence.
- 9. Intelligent, concentrated practice as suggested above will make you
- a fast, accurate typist in a very short time.
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- ** Frame 40 **
-
- Warm-Up Drills
-
- Close your eyes and type the 25 key words from memory.
-
- Check your copy against the first two lines of the drill below.
- Then type the entire drill.
-
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- ** Frame 41 **
-
- Experts Rhythm Drill
-
- The a;sl drill introduced here for the first time is known as the
- Expert's Rhythm Drill.
-
- Type this drill three times.
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- ** Frame 42 **
- Learning to Type Numbers
-
- You will type numbers by associating them with the home keys. Remember
- that all upward reaches from the home keys are slightly to the left.
- In addition, the 'f' and 'j' fingers make one center reach on each row of
- keys.
- Type the following drill. Say each letter and number as you strike the
- keys. Check your accuracy.
- Fourth Third Second First First Second Third Fourth
- (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) \ (6) (7) (8) (9) (0)
- (q) (w) (e) (r) (t) \ (y) (u) (i) (o) (p)
- (a) (s) (d) (f) (g) \ (h) (j) (k) (l) (;)
- [Shift] (z) (x) (c) (v) (b) \ (n) (m) (,) (.) (/) [Shift]
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- ** Frame 43 **
- Timed Writing
-
- Think and type the following paragraph as it appears here.
- Say each letter as you strike the key. Think of the space after a word
- or a punctuation mark as part of the word just typed.
- Hit the space bar with the same smooth rhythmic beat as the letters.
- Space once after a comma and space twice after a period.
- Take five 1/2-minute timings on the following paragraph.
- Note your best score of the five timings.
- Timing begins when you start to type.
-
- The words disappear in 30 seconds and your score appears on the screen.
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- ** Frame 44 **
- Warm up Drills
-
- Close your eyes and type the 25 key words from memory. Check
- against the list below and see how many you remembered.
-
- Then type them again while looking at the list.
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- ** Frame 45 **
-
- Type the following drills.
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- ** Frame 46 **
- Review of Number Code
-
- Type the following code.
-
- Focus your attention on each letter and number as you strike the keys.
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- ** Frame 47 **
-
- More Review of Number Code
-
- Think of the home-key finger used to reach for each number but
- type only the numbers in each group.
-
- Think 's' and with that finger reach up to the top row to strike '2';
- think 'l' and reach up to the top row with that finger to strike '9'.
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- ** Frame 48 **
- Special Character Reaches
-
- Shift on the semicolon (;) key and you will get colon (:).
-
- (q) (w) (e) (r) (t) \ (y) (u) (i) (o) [p] [{]
- (a) (s) (d) (f) (g) \ (h) (j) (k) (l) [;] [']
- (z) (x) (c) (v) (b) \ (n) (m) (,) (.) [/]
- ( s p a c e b a r )
-
- Practice these reaches without striking the keys.
- The fourth finger on your right hand reaches up one row next to
- the letter "p" to strike ({). Shift and you will get (}).
- One key to the right of (;) gives you (') on lower case and (")
- when you shift. 'P' finger reaches to bottom key for (/) on lower
- case and (?) when you shift.
-
- Type the following drill.
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- ** Frame 49 **
-
- Special Characters on the Top Row
-
- To become familiar with the special characters on the top row,
- add the following drill to your warm-up. Use the Shift Key to type
- the special characters.
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- Timed Writings
-
- Take four 1/2-minute timings on this copy.
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- Timed Writings
-
- Timed writings are the key to developing superior typing skill.
- Take four 30 second timings on this copy.
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- ** Frame 52 **
-
- Reminder
-
- It is important that you memorize the 25 key words for the
- alphabet and also the simple code for writing numbers. You should
- have a copy of them with you at all times to review in your spare
- moments. Once committed to memory, you will have them for life.
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- ** Frame 53 **
-
- Warm-Up Drills
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- Close your eyes and type the 25 key words and the code for numbers.
-
- Check against the copy and then do all the drills below.
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-
- More Practice Drills
-
- Type the following drills.
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- ** Frame 55 **
- Timed Writings
-
- All your timings will now be for one minute. Take seven 1-minute
- timings on this copy.
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- ** Frame 56 **
- Timed Writings
-
- You will type this paragraph six times. Your first typing will be
- for accuracy.
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- ** Frame 57 **
-
- Warm-Up Drills
-
- Start your warm-up by typing the 25 key words and the number code with
- your eyes closed. Check your "closed-eyes" drill against the drill
- below. Then type two copies of the entire drill.
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-
- Warm-Up Drills Continued
-
- Type two copies of the following drill.
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- ** Frame 59 **
- Timed Writings
-
- We are back to speed once again. You won't gain speed unless you
- push. If you push, you will make errors. That's because you are
- trying to type faster than you can type. But that's the way you
- gain speed. Start Flying!
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- ** Frame 60 **
-
- Wow! That was work. Take a 2-minute breather. Stand up. Stretch
- out. Bend over. Punch the air. But don't punch me. Relax.
-
- This is a new paragraph. Slow down for accuracy.
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- ** Frame 61 **
-
- You will now type five 1-minute timings on this familiar but
- most important material.
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- ** Frame 62 **
-
- Are you tired? That was hard work. It's a great way to build speed in
- a hurry. Take a long two-minute rest, and hit those keys again.
-
- This time for accuracy.
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- ** Frame 63 **
-
- We are back to speed again. More back-breaking
- work. More speed. This time we are going to give
- you ten chances to set a new speed record. Your
- first typing will be for accuracy. Your next ten
- typings will be for speed, and your final typing
- for accuracy. Notice your speed increase between
- your first typing and your twelfth typing.
-
- Start typing for accuracy this time.
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- ** Frame 64 **
-
- Start your warm-up each day by typing the key words and the number
- code with your eyes closed before copying the warm-up drills.
- Every time you type them, you are reviewing the entire alphabet,
- the comma, the period, and the numbers.
-
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- ** Frame 65 **
-
- Timed writings. Start typing for accuracy.
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- ** Frame 66 **
-
- Timed writings. Start typing for accuracy.
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- ** Frame 67 **
-
- Warm-Up Drills
-
- Remember - The key to your success in typing is KEYBOARD MASTERY -
- being able to hit all keys without looking. The drill lines coming
- up are aimed at that goal. Keep trying to commit them all to
- memory.
-
- Type these next four lines with your eyes closed. Check your accuracy.
- Then type this drill again with your eyes open.
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- ** Frame 68 **
-
- Review of Special Characters
-
- The best way to pratice special characters is by associating
- them with the numbers on the keys. After some practice, you
- will be able to use them in any combination. Type this drill
- -- without looking.
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- ** Frame 69 **
-
- Common-Word Practice
-
- Starting with this drill, you will practice the most common
- words in our language. Words of less than four letters were
- left out. They are listed in the order of their frequency with
- a few exceptions made for the sake of the arrangement of the copy.
-
- Type the following drill, trying to speed up your fingers
- on the second and third typing of each word.
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-
- Common-Word Practice continued.
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- ** Frame 71 **
-
- Timed writings. Start typing for accuracy.
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-
- Timed writings. Start typing for accuracy.
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- ** Frame 73 **
-
- Warm-Up Drills
-
- Type these five lines with your eyes closed. Check your accuracy.
- Type them again with your eyes open.
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-
- Common-Word Practice
-
- Type the following drill, trying to speed up your fingers
- on the second and third typing of each word.
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-
- Common-Word Practice continued.
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- ** Frame 76 **
-
- Timed writings. Start typing for accuracy.
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- Timed writings. Start typing for accuracy.
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- ** Frame 78 **
-
- Common-Word Practice
-
- Type the following drill, trying to speed up your fingers
- on the second and third typing of each word.
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- ** Frame 79 **
-
- Common-Word Practice Continued
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- ** Frame 80 **
-
- Timed writings. Start typing for accuracy.
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- ** Frame 81 **
-
- Timed writings. Start typing for accuracy.
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- ** Frame 82 **
-
- Warm-Up
-
- Type the five lines with your eyes closed. Check your accuracy.
- Type them two more times with your eyes open.
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- ** Frame 83 **
-
- More Warm-Up
-
- Six new words are being added to your daily warm-up. Their purpose is to
- give you better finger action and to cut down on unnecessary wrist
- and arm motion.
-
- Type this drill.
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- ** Frame 84 **
-
- This is your final timed writing. Practice this or any of the timed
- writing frames as often as necessary to achieve your desired speed
- goal. Remember to begin and end every speed-building activity with
- an accuracy writing. Start typing for accuracy.
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