Type by Touch

For any parents reading this - please be aware that just doing a touch typing course is not a guarantee you or your son or daughter will turn into a touch typist. I often see an outcome where it's simply boosted 'familiarity with the keyboard'. So yes, typing might be quicker, but the need to 'look down' is ever present. With a very Dyslexic 18yr old having just completed the course and as with all who learn with me, now a bona fide touch typist, thought I'd mention a few thoughts. Firstly to echo his wish he'd learned this skill years ago, rather than having to depend on a scribe for school exams! The many lifelong benefits this skill provides are now literally at his finger tips. Yes it takes some effort and energy but is so worth it. Having an experienced tutor guide and encourage, makes the tricky business so much easier. 1:1 tutoring is fun and gets them over the line with it, normally in just 10 - 12hrs.

A group of 10 learners asked me to run a Face to Face course last week near Newark. Such a super bunch of people and a beautiful home venue. The participant who was fastest through the programme, turning into a bona fide touch typist in front of my eyes, also happened to be a 10yr old, the youngest there.
This was no coincidence. This skill is easiest learned by those fresh to keyboards. It's way harder breaking bad 'hunt & peck' methods of typing and having to retrain the brain away from memorising where letters are on a keyboard, to the finger movements that hit them! Latter is what builds the muscle memory that makes this a lifelong skill, once learned properly.

I'm running a Face to Face course at a school in Salisbury from Sun 12 - Wed 15 December (09h15 - 12h30). Few places still open - do get in touch! Either 07494 717578 or [email protected]

13 Aug: Just received feedback from a young 13yr old who did the online course recently:
“Hey Diane I got my GCSEs back yesterday and they went amazingly and I just wanted to say Thankyou so much for teaching me how to touch type, i couldn’t of got anywhere close to what I did without you and I’m still using it now and I will do even sometimes map it out with my fingers before I go to bed 😂
Thankyou
Ben”

Sums up what learning to touch type can do!