3D 89 QWERTY - Finger Positions
Conversion Exercise from SHOLES QWERTY TO Maltron QWERTY
Instructions for working through the exercises.
Finger Position
The tips of your elbows should be in a horizontal line with the tips of your fingers when they are resting on the home keys, which are:
Instructions for working through the exercises.
Finger Position
The tips of your elbows should be in a horizontal line with the tips of your fingers when they are resting on the home keys, which are:
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Never rest the palms of the hands while keying. If you rest your hands it induces a pushing keystroke which involves more work for the muscles in the hand and prevents the small hand movements needed to reach some of the keys.
Also - the underside of the wrist is a conduit for tendons, nerves and blood supply so resting on the underside of your wrists can add to the wear and tear and fatigue experienced by your hands and wrists, and can lead to pain and disability.
When keying any of the exercises, you should at all times have eight fingers resting on the home keys shown above. The thumbs should be on the Return and Space keys. You must use your thumbs for typing the Space and the Return keys. If you use the index finger for the Space - for example - then that finger will have to move too far from its home key.
The thumb pad areas require you to use your thumbs more and slightly differently from before - so using your thumbs on the MALTRON keyboard will feel strange for the first few days.
Also - the underside of the wrist is a conduit for tendons, nerves and blood supply so resting on the underside of your wrists can add to the wear and tear and fatigue experienced by your hands and wrists, and can lead to pain and disability.
When keying any of the exercises, you should at all times have eight fingers resting on the home keys shown above. The thumbs should be on the Return and Space keys. You must use your thumbs for typing the Space and the Return keys. If you use the index finger for the Space - for example - then that finger will have to move too far from its home key.
The thumb pad areas require you to use your thumbs more and slightly differently from before - so using your thumbs on the MALTRON keyboard will feel strange for the first few days.