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posted by [personal profile] elanya at 09:43am on 14/04/2005
I have not ben sleeping well lately. Yesterday, I woke up at 4:30 for absolutely no reason. On thop of that, last night was not the first time in the pastweel or so that it took me over an hour to fall asleep. Partly this is Scallywag's fault, but even after I close my door so I couldn't hear him on his squeaky wheel filed with stuff, it took me a while to fall asleep. This is really just poor timing, as I neeed to be more, not less alert. On top of that, I almost slept in too late to go to school and print my essay. And then I forgot that I am trying to improve my typing. My biggest problem with that is not looking at the keyboard. I keep having to look at it too remember where the keys are, and where my fingers are. I wonder if there are any free typing tutorials on the internet, since I don't remember which fingers are supposed to hit which keys. Bah!

Really, I just hope that I am awake enough today to get some real work done :P
Mood:: 'sleepy' sleepy
Music:: Poe - Beautiful Girl
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posted by [identity profile] curtana.livejournal.com at 02:21pm on 14/04/2005
I would be willing to bet that if you can look at the screen instead of the keyboard, you will see the mistakes as they crop up, and be able to fix them. I know I don't have proper typing technique (fingers not on the right keys), but I can avoid typos and go pretty fast nevertheless - I just correct the typos as I make them. But maybe you wouldn't notice them? I know you don't always see the typos in your own writing when proof-reading, so maybe this would be similar?
 
posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 02:43pm on 14/04/2005
Yes, that is definitely part of the problem. I can type my own way without looking much at the keyboard, but the problem is that I take my fingers away from the keys too far and I get 'lost' a lot, plus I have to move farther to get to the keys, so it is slower. But a lot of my typos happen because I just don't see them.

I have problems speaking sometimes too... My words come out in the wrong order, or the syllables do, and sometimes I wonder if it is related. But it isn't such a big issue that I worry about it too much, unless it happens in class.
 
posted by [identity profile] ianxphoto.livejournal.com at 02:26pm on 14/04/2005
I know the answer! You need to get a copy of "Typing of the Dead"!

Seriously. They took one of the House of the Dead games, and repackaged it as a typing tutorial. You have to type words correctly to kill Zombies. I bet that's something you could really get behind.
 
posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 02:44pm on 14/04/2005
that would be *awesome*! I will look :)
 
posted by [identity profile] vureoelt.livejournal.com at 05:45pm on 18/04/2005
thop: top
pastweel: past week
close: closed
filed: filled?
more, not less alert: more, not less, alert
too remember: to remember

Left and right index fingers go on the 'f' and the 'j' keys respectively. You may notice little tabs on your keyboard on those keys. The remainder of your fingers rest on the keys horizontally outwards from there. You can reach a row up or down and notice that there's an easy key for each digit that will let you cover all the outlying letters. Thumb for the spacebar (either). The stuff in between (rest of letters) is usually handled by the index fingers.

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