Genius Hour: Learning Typing

Week 6: It's Showtime

November 27, 2018


On this week, I have been practicing my typing skills in an additional online resource and I completed my typing practice course on RATATYPE.

I tried another online resource that it has helped me improve my typing skills:10fastfingers!  10fastfingers is a website that through different modalities encourages improved typing speed with short practices. It also allows online interactions among practitioners. I worked on the Typing Test Session that gives you a random group of words to be typed in a minute. Here is a sample of an exercise:

And here is the result chart of the practice above:




I  enjoyed practicing in 10fastfingers as well because its activities, with real words, not only help me focus on the adequate mechanical use of the keyboard but also on the content of my typing. I would continue using it for the practice of my accuracy. I will be worried about typing speed later when I really get well-trained in typing. 

With respect to the RATATYPE  typing practices, beneath you can see my certificate that confirms my culmination of the exercises from this website:



As you read, I ended typing 13 words per minute and 96.7 % accuracy.  I have made considerable progress compared to when I started. Now I am very proud of saying that I am able to type without looking at the keys and using both hands in my typing.  I would say that with typing, practice makes the expert. Currently, I know the basics and I just need to continue typing and using any opportunity I have to practice my new skill: TYPING, and overall, I am very happy about learning and improving my typing skills!😅😃


Comments

  1. AnonymousNovember 29, 2018 at 5:37 PM

    Clara, I love that you are working with typing. As part of my coursework in elementary and high school, I had to learn how to type. I wonder what my words per minute would be now. I think I am going to have to check your website out to see how well I do. Keep up the awesome work with your typing!

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  2. Literacy+December 2, 2018 at 3:39 PM

    I love the progress. Keep t up and yes it takes a lot of practice.
    Congratulations or your success!!

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  3. TWachtelDecember 5, 2018 at 3:02 PM

    This is a very practical genius hour! You will certainly benefit from this. Keep up the good progress, it does take time, but practicing will help. At school we use TypingClub for the students, you can check that out too.

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