November 26, 2010 at 15:53Another compilation of personal experience regarding the already bored “blind ten-finger method”
I have written this article for myself long ago as an auto-training.
Do you think this needs to be posted somewhere from a personal blog?
In order to print well using the "blind ten-finger method", you just need to print.
Nothing more, just print and that's it.
After you type the first 300 kilobytes of text using the ten-finger method, no matter what happens, the speed of your fingers should noticeably improve.
You will feel that they will literally “flutter” on the keyboard.
After 500 kilobytes, you can generally count on significant progress.
Megabytes of typed text form motor reactions that no longer need to be controlled. You just think something, perhaps a thought, and all this, if necessary, "pours out" onto the screen (in a text editor).
By the way, for those who are “in the tank”: A megabyte of text is about 1,000,000 “bukaf” (if one-byte encoding is meant).
At the same time, it is important that this is precisely the text, that is, that the "letters" are not repeated.
Never print anything a hundred times apart from the initial exercises. And, yes, in them it is best to focus not on speed, or on correctness, but on remembering the “motor” path for moving your finger.
The most important thing in this matter is that a person’s thought is faster than anything, faster than speech, faster than fingers, etc. That is, if at first you just think about how to type something, how to put your fingers correctly and which key to press with which finger, then this will be a motor skill.
Some people, after they learn to print using this method, have a real need to print again and again, improving their skill, and I am among them. I regularly find myself thinking that I want to print something, as, for example, now.
Perhaps this can be tried to explain by the fact that the pleasure of the pumped experience is achieved more and more simply. Self-confidence arising from such a simple, “pleasant” and effective skill as typing “blindly” on the keyboard, with each “act” of typing, if it happens faster and faster, it grows exactly at the speed with which fingers are improved in set.
The greatest reflection on self-confidence is imposed by the impression that you begin to experience when you switch from the “keyboard simulator” program to real thoughts, that is, you start typing your thoughts, and not what you are asked on the screen.
And, although the typing speed is somewhat reduced, however, the lack of the need to control your fingers, and at the same time the ability to easily express your thoughts, monitor errors and correct them according to your own understanding, rather than being dictated, inspire you unusually, which is several times enhances the effect. By the way, after you start typing what you think quickly, the speed in the "simulators" also increases.
In addition, there is good practice that will help in the future - the independence of the number of errors from the position of the hands on the keyboard. Those. when one button in the end is attached not to a specific finger, but to a place at hand, that is, it belongs to several fingers at once.
At first, it seemed to me that the fingers should lie in accordance with a specific of the proposed settings. Subsequently, I realized that this can not especially bother. The fact is that, for example, I have non-standard hands (though, there are hardly two people with exactly the same finger length, and certainly there are no people with the same motor skills, this is logical) my fingers are not too long, but my little fingers especially short. At the same time, the phalanx of the middle finger is fundamentally longer than all the others. The standard provisions are not convenient for me, and the so-called “tunnel syndrome” arises in them, regardless of whether the keyboard is ergonomic or not. And, in connection with these same features, I do not like keyboards with a long stroke of keys, I optimally print only on a laptop or its similar ones.
Yes, you can still notice that in my childhood I was fond of playing the guitar, and when I learned to type, it helped a lot. My hands and, of course, the fingers, accustomed to constant training, did not feel tired even after several hours of “typing” practice. Since I still have not lost interest in the guitar, and of course I always have the instrument at hand, I was surprised to find that after training it is easier to play the guitar ... As well as vice versa, after a long guitar playing , with extensive solo compositions (I often “chop” Em rock-and-roll hourly solos “for the soul”), the practice of “typography” training is more fun, and the exercises are easier, faster and more accurate.
In addition, I have long noticed that a simple simulator such as a carpal expander significantly increases the power and fitness of the fingers, develops cartilages and bones of the hands. The main thing will be to maintain a balance between muscle strength and speed.
Let's get back to the original thought.
Initially:
After training:
From personal experience, I also note that subsequently fatigue does not affect print speed. For example, when I worked as an analyst, I had the experience of writing transcripts of interviews for three days directly during these interviews. Print speed and the number of errors are uniform and stable regardless of the time of day.
Thus, the end result of training in the technique of “typography” is the moment when the speed of typing will be equal to the speed of thought.
Unfortunately, this limit is unattainable ...
Anyway, there will be a barrier or buffer necessary for the passage of a nerve electrical impulse from the brain to the fingers.
BUT! To get close to this is quite real right now.
:)
It is enough to use some famous simulators.
Off-Line, only the most RU-known:
On-Line:
Do you think this needs to be posted somewhere from a personal blog?
In order to print well using the "blind ten-finger method", you just need to print.
Nothing more, just print and that's it.
After you type the first 300 kilobytes of text using the ten-finger method, no matter what happens, the speed of your fingers should noticeably improve.
You will feel that they will literally “flutter” on the keyboard.
After 500 kilobytes, you can generally count on significant progress.
Megabytes of typed text form motor reactions that no longer need to be controlled. You just think something, perhaps a thought, and all this, if necessary, "pours out" onto the screen (in a text editor).
By the way, for those who are “in the tank”: A megabyte of text is about 1,000,000 “bukaf” (if one-byte encoding is meant).
At the same time, it is important that this is precisely the text, that is, that the "letters" are not repeated.
Never print anything a hundred times apart from the initial exercises. And, yes, in them it is best to focus not on speed, or on correctness, but on remembering the “motor” path for moving your finger.
The most important thing in this matter is that a person’s thought is faster than anything, faster than speech, faster than fingers, etc. That is, if at first you just think about how to type something, how to put your fingers correctly and which key to press with which finger, then this will be a motor skill.
Some people, after they learn to print using this method, have a real need to print again and again, improving their skill, and I am among them. I regularly find myself thinking that I want to print something, as, for example, now.
Perhaps this can be tried to explain by the fact that the pleasure of the pumped experience is achieved more and more simply. Self-confidence arising from such a simple, “pleasant” and effective skill as typing “blindly” on the keyboard, with each “act” of typing, if it happens faster and faster, it grows exactly at the speed with which fingers are improved in set.
The greatest reflection on self-confidence is imposed by the impression that you begin to experience when you switch from the “keyboard simulator” program to real thoughts, that is, you start typing your thoughts, and not what you are asked on the screen.
And, although the typing speed is somewhat reduced, however, the lack of the need to control your fingers, and at the same time the ability to easily express your thoughts, monitor errors and correct them according to your own understanding, rather than being dictated, inspire you unusually, which is several times enhances the effect. By the way, after you start typing what you think quickly, the speed in the "simulators" also increases.
In addition, there is good practice that will help in the future - the independence of the number of errors from the position of the hands on the keyboard. Those. when one button in the end is attached not to a specific finger, but to a place at hand, that is, it belongs to several fingers at once.
At first, it seemed to me that the fingers should lie in accordance with a specific of the proposed settings. Subsequently, I realized that this can not especially bother. The fact is that, for example, I have non-standard hands (though, there are hardly two people with exactly the same finger length, and certainly there are no people with the same motor skills, this is logical) my fingers are not too long, but my little fingers especially short. At the same time, the phalanx of the middle finger is fundamentally longer than all the others. The standard provisions are not convenient for me, and the so-called “tunnel syndrome” arises in them, regardless of whether the keyboard is ergonomic or not. And, in connection with these same features, I do not like keyboards with a long stroke of keys, I optimally print only on a laptop or its similar ones.
Yes, you can still notice that in my childhood I was fond of playing the guitar, and when I learned to type, it helped a lot. My hands and, of course, the fingers, accustomed to constant training, did not feel tired even after several hours of “typing” practice. Since I still have not lost interest in the guitar, and of course I always have the instrument at hand, I was surprised to find that after training it is easier to play the guitar ... As well as vice versa, after a long guitar playing , with extensive solo compositions (I often “chop” Em rock-and-roll hourly solos “for the soul”), the practice of “typography” training is more fun, and the exercises are easier, faster and more accurate.
In addition, I have long noticed that a simple simulator such as a carpal expander significantly increases the power and fitness of the fingers, develops cartilages and bones of the hands. The main thing will be to maintain a balance between muscle strength and speed.
Let's get back to the original thought.
Initially:
- Thought is faster than a word.
- The word faster typing on the keyboard.
After training:
- Typing on the keyboard approaches the speed of thought.
- It will no longer be possible to make special efforts to record anything at the speed of speech, since speech becomes much slower than thought and fingers.
From personal experience, I also note that subsequently fatigue does not affect print speed. For example, when I worked as an analyst, I had the experience of writing transcripts of interviews for three days directly during these interviews. Print speed and the number of errors are uniform and stable regardless of the time of day.
Thus, the end result of training in the technique of “typography” is the moment when the speed of typing will be equal to the speed of thought.
Unfortunately, this limit is unattainable ...
Anyway, there will be a barrier or buffer necessary for the passage of a nerve electrical impulse from the brain to the fingers.
BUT! To get close to this is quite real right now.
:)
It is enough to use some famous simulators.
Off-Line, only the most RU-known:
- Stamina by Alexei Kazantsev: stamina.ru : absolutely free, a lot of humor, sometimes "naughty", a lot of fun. Compatible with Windows ™ and Wine on Linux.
- Solo on ergosolo.ru keyboard : it’s too boring for me, + excessive control over the learning process by the developer. They think that they have invented a system of training and “spiritual development,” and they are actively promoting it. Although, however, it is quite possible that all of these "chips" were noticed only by me.
On-Line:
- klavogonki.ru : “Respect and respect,” I have not seen a more fun simulator.
- klava.org : stylish, stable, cool, new chips are constantly appearing.