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Touch Typing in Ten Lessons: A Home-Study Course With Complete Instructions in the Fundamentals of Touch Typewriting

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This book is old, there are directions on how to set your typewriter and mentions that data processing units are much faster than typewriters. All that aside, I used this book as a way to practice for my keyboarding class. My typing speed increased and I'm getting an A. Your results may vary but I got exactly what I wanted. It's just like a highschool typing class!

I used a similar book when I was learning to type on a manual typewriter 30 years ago! This was adapted for electric typewriters and even mentions word processors, so it has very slight modifications. This is not "fun" or "entertaining" like some of the typing programs out there, but I wanted my 9 and 6 year olds to learn to touch type the way I did. I put a piece of paper over the computer screen so the kids can't see what they are typing and used a black marker to cover the letters on the keyboard. I wanted to buy a new, inexpensive keyboard to blacken but my husband said to just color our keyboard in. I can type with my eyes closed (98 wpm the last time I tested in 1982) so I wasn't worried about finding the keys later. My kids have always been impressed with my keyboarding skill so they are motivated to learn so they can type like me. Since they know that I learned in a similar fashion they don't seem bothered that there are no pirate ships or fun games to motivate them. Their motivation is their desire to touch type, quickly.

This is below low-tech, all the way down to no-tech. It is also incredibly inexpensive. I thought I paid $9.00 but it is now $7.38 which may be what I paid for it. I didn't have to worry about software compatibility, glitches in the program and keyboard skins that didn't fit....some of the myriad problems I had read about when researching a typing program for my children. You need absolutely nothing else. I would love to have a real typewriter for them to learn on, and a throw away keyboard that they could use just to practice strokes would be nice, but we are doing fine without it and my investment is less than $10.00 so you can't be the price.

The program has been very simple for my 9 year old. My 6 year old's hands are too small so we will wait a couple of years for him to try again. Any old style typist, secretary, transcriber, etc. will tell you that to improve speed and accuracy you just need repitition. In the old days, after learning where home keys were and what fingers were responsible for which letter you just drilled words and paragraphs for an hour or more a day, days on end, until you achieved the results you wanted. Repition, repitition, repetition. This book will give you the basic tools, and some drills but basically, as soon as you or your children know where to put your fingers, you just need to practice for a couple of months and you will get the results you want.

This is an excellent book, easy to follow for those who do not yet type.

I was interested in find a typing manual to use with individuals with special needs. While they need help with the written information the images and pictures are very helpful.Touch Typing in Ten Lessons: A Home-Study Course With Complete Instructions in the Fundamentals of Touch Typewriting

Submitted by: S. Landesberg

Thank you for the fast delivery. My daughter loves the book, and is already progressing as we speak. Thank you for your business.

This was just what I was looking for. Really helps me teach beginners who were typing by the "hunt and peck" method. Great book in excellent condition.

After many years of two finger typing, along with looking up and down I am finally able to overcome my bad habits and am getting able to improve my computer usage and more importantly making less keyboard mistakes.