Anyone have a recommendation for a method of learning touch typing for a rather frustrated HS student?
A manual typewriter will train muscle memory that lasts forever. Like riding a bike. I’ve been using a French azerty in qwerty mode for many years and don’t even look at the board.
Plus old #typewriters are cool.
@wion @DenubisX I also learned on a manual (and have recently uncovered one that needs only a /very/ little TLC). I don't know if that helped or not, but it doesn't seem to have hurt.
I /don't/ elevate my wrists any more though -- jam them down on the desktop. Who cares about carpal tunnels anyway ....
My hands are still off the machine, for the most part, but just lightly touching at base of palms, by wrists. I find a heavy contact screws up my typing accuracy 10-fold. I was always impressed by people that can do that though, and a lot faster than me. (I’m a relatively slow typer, but accurate, aside from the damn apostrophe gremlins.)
@wion Interesting... I will pass that on.