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- Touch keying is the ability to strike the various keys
- on the keyboard without having to look at them. Is there a
- secret to this process? Yes, the striking of each keyboard
- key with the proper finger. The little fingers, as well as
- the strong index fingers, must be correctly employed. When
- a key is activated with a wrong finger, a damaging habit is
- formed. This damage is due to the use of a finger that has
- to travel a further distance than the finger designated for
- that key. The finger assigned to operate a specific key is
- always that finger which is nearest the key to be operated.
- We use eight fingers, nine with the right thumb, which
- can be divided among the numerous keyboard rows and columns
- in a manner that will permit touch control. In the initial
- years of the typewriter, its operation was slow, to say the
- least. This was a result of its operators using only their
- strongest fingers. Usually, only four fingers were used to
- strike the keys, leaving six potential workers idle. This,
- of course, required that the fingers be visually controlled
- as they moved from one key to another. In time, the legend
- says, a pioneering lady used all her fingers to touch type.
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