Touch Typing V Finger Typing

More and more people these days use the hunt and peck typing to compose emails, texts and do their work using laptops, especially young students. I have always asked my teenage daughters to touch type as there are lots of advantages in this. I am a trained touch typist therefore know the benefits. Firstly it is very fast, secondly you keep your eyes on the screen rather than the keyboard so you can read the sentences as type. As a touch typist you can feel or sense when an error occurs therefore, you can hit the backspace key and make the correction without missing a beat. However, I have observed my daughters typing using the hunt and peck typing. They do it with great speed and they tend to use the same fingers on their right and left hand accordingly on the right and left hand side of the keyboard. They, however, over the years and with practice do not look at the keyboard as they type at all times. This method creates a lot of noise on the keyboard whereas the touch type doesn`t.

Many experienced typists can feel or sense when they`ve made an error and can hit the backspace key and make the correction without missing a beat.

A highly trained touch-typist on a Dvorak keyboard is the second-fastest method of English text entry available as of 2007[update].[citation needed] (The fastest text entry method involves a highly trained typist on a stenotype keyboard.)[citation needed]

[edit] Hunt and peckHunt and peck (two-fingered typing), also known as search and peck, is a common form of typing, in which the typist must find and press each key individually. This is usually slower than touch typing. Instead of relying on the memorized position of keys, the typist must find each key by sight. Use of this method may also prevent the typist from being able to see what has been typed without glancing away from the keys. Although good accuracy may be achieved, any typing errors that are made may not be noticed immediately, if at all. There is also the disadvantage that because fewer fingers are used, they are forced to move a much greater distance.