Real terms of studying blind typing with low motivation

In the article, I will describe my purely subjective example of how long training in the method of comfortable blind typing takes. This is due to the fact that this skill was not critically important to me, but I had long wanted to have it.




I work as a programmer and a completely blind ten-finger print is not a critical skill, because Programming is more “about thinking” than about “typing a lot of text.” I could quickly type with the closest fingers, the focus was on the screen, and the basic word combinations knocked quickly on the machine. But I still felt a little discomfort. I have long since learned the Russian blind seal with the ten-finger method, but the English didn’t reach the English one. And so I felt the difference between a quick blind dial and a quick dial with periodic peeping.
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And the difference is huge. The point is not at all about speed. Two, four, six fingers, you can also quickly dial, and even faster than ten-finger ones. There is even a film “Love at your fingertips” [ 1 ], where a girl who prints with two fingers wins the competition (an artistic film - I can’t vouch for the authenticity).

The main advantage is the complete liberation of thoughts from the printing process. You can not just stop looking at the keyboard, and see only the monitor, instantly noticing errors. During blind typing, you can think about something completely different, have a conversation with a colleague, think about the next sentence in a paragraph.

So, I studied the English layout on a standard QWERTY keyboard with a standard ASDF + JKL: finger setting. I measured the deadlines for completing the full training course, although in reality half is enough to go to the blind press. However, the full course allows you to practice with the whole set of keys, including the rarer ones (and for the programmers the rarer ones become one of the most frequently used).

I took courses in the offline version of the program “Solo on the Keyboard” [ 2 ], but I also have good impressions from other programs, for example, from the Russian free Stamina [ 3 ]. And in general there are a lot of alternatives: [ 4 ]. Also, I do not think that it is of great importance in what language you are learning the layout and which particular scheme of finger placement you have chosen. For me, the standard turned out to be the most convenient. Probably, this is critical for typesetters, but hardly for others.



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