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Touch Typing - Mastery Course (all keys)

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Overview

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Increase your typing speed and accuracy by mastering touch typing. Achieve more, in less time!

Discover just how POWERFUL Touch Typing can be

Touch typing is the skill to type without looking at your keyboard. But how POWERFUL can it be?

Here is one example: I am using touch typing for 14+ years at a 1.75x speed than the average user, and it saved me 2000+ hours so far.

I also type at a speed about 4x faster than the average handwriting speed.

This course teaches you exactly how to learn, practice and become a Master of the touch typing.

This is the most straightforward path to learn and master touch typing and bottom line, it works.

Start to see value from the first tutorials of the training

This course is only about relevant, powerful, and effective tools that professionals regularly use to type faster and boost productivity while meeting the accuracy requirements.

I concentrated 14 years of work in Ms Office and more than one year of course preparation to select for you the best path to learn and master speed typing.

As a result, right after the first tutorials, you will be already in the position of using this knowledge in your daily work. This is a productive start to learning touch typing and the keyboard shortcut keys.

By the end of this course, you will be confidently and naturally touch typing to further increase your productivity.

Learn By Doing

The course is hugely interactive, with examples and exercises built into every lesson.

Follow the steps on screen, practice to learn fast, and get tangible results at work.

I designed the course to be hands-on and engaging. Using the files included in the course project section, you’ll be able to follow along, practice each concept, and receive a trusted certificate of completion when you complete the course.

We will cover all the keys. Here are some examples of what you will learn & receive: 

  • How to get from A to Z on your keyboard

  • How to use punctuation keys

  • How to type numbers on a numeric keypad

  • How to type all the special characters, including the ones on the number keys

  • Touch-typing practice file (QWERTY and QWERTZ - German configurations)

  • Keyboard color-coded map (showing for each key which finger to use)

  • Keyboard home map with finger position

  • Practice files 

So, let's get started! 

Valentin (Founder, VeryFastExcel)

Syllabus

  • Intro - increase your speed with Touch Typing
  • The Home Row Concept
  • Touch Typing the Home Row
  • Touch Typing the Top Row
  • Touch Typing the Bottom Row
  • The SHIFT keys - type Capital letters and special characters with ease
  • Measure your typing speed WPM
  • Touch Typing the top Number row
  • Type the special characters Top Nb Row
  • Touch Type the Numerical Keypad
  • Using CTRL Tab ALT
  • Conclusion

Taught by

Valentin Ilicea

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