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- --THE KEYPAD EXERCISER--
- (10 Key)
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- At the Program Selection Menu, position the cursor over
- "Keypad" and select this item.
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- The Keypad Exerciser closely resembles the Keyboard Exerciser
- in its organization and operating procedures. However, unlike
- Keyboard, Keypad does not require precomposed scripts as its numeric
- scripts are created by a random number generator. The maximum
- timing interval in Keypad is 1-minute and its selectable instruction
- weeks are weeks 1-12, entered at "Week Number."
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- FREE FORM
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- Now engage in a Free Form timing. If you wish, change the
- default week number. Press Function 9 to determine the numbers per
- minute rate required for each grade level. Select "Begin Exercise."
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- Five columns are now viewed, each column containing ten 4 digit
- numbers. The decimal displayed within each number is automatically
- entered and thus is not to be keyed. Its purpose is to facilitate
- the reading of each number.
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- Prior to beginning the 1-minute timing press Function 1 to
- obtain a help screen. You are informed that each number is to be
- "entered" with the "+" bar. An error entry may be deleted with
- either the CR key that serves as the "Entry Clear Key," or the "-"
- key. The Entry Clear Key deletes all digits, while the "-" key
- deletes one digit at a time, beginning with the last digit entered.
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- Once the Tab key is depressed the 1-minute timing begins.
- Following the entry of the first column of numbers, the tracking
- cursor jumps to the top of the second column of numbers continuing
- in this manner throughout the five columns. As each number is
- entered with the "+" bar, it is positioned in the simulated adding
- machine tape located to the right of the numeric copy. Like Free
- Form timings in Keyboard, Keypad Free Form timings can be ended
- prior to the expiration of a full minute. For some keyboards the
- NumLock key must first be depressed to convert the "1" key to the
- "END" key.
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- At the conclusion of the timing the numeric script copy is
- removed from the screen and is replaced by the numbers keyed by the
- operator, each number containing an error visually marked. The
- Score Card states the numbers per minute rate, error total,
- instruction week, grade, etc. A failure to correct ALL keystroke
- errors results in a minimum one letter grade penalty. To conclude
- the timing the ESCape key is depressed to return to the Keypad
- Exerciser Menu. To initiate another Free Form timing using the menu
- selections of the first timing, again select "Begin Exercise."
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- TEST TRIALS & PACED CURSOR
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- The procedures described for the Keyboard Exerciser Test Trials
- and Paced Cursor timings also apply to the Keypad Exerciser program
- and thus are not repeated.
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