Touch Typing in Ten Lessons: The Famous Ben'Ary Method -- The Shortest Complete Home-Study Course in the Fundamentals of Touch Typing

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Do you need to learn to type in a hurry? Or do you just need a refresher course to practice with and tone up your skills? This is the shortest typing course that covers all of the fundamental skills of touch typing. This classic handbook, which has literally taught more than a million people the basics of typing, can teach you too. Touch Typing in 10 Lessons starts by teaching you the basic combinations for fingering the keyboard, and then helps you master the entire alphabet. Once you’ve learned the alphabet, the book jumps right into capitals, punctuation, and numbers. Learning the keyboard is just the beginning. The book will teach you how to set up professional business letters and tricks to help you get the most out of your word processor. There are dozens out of your keystrokes. There are dozens of drills that will help you develop the accuracy and speed you need in school and at the office. Finally, there are practice tests that will help you get over fears concerning typing tests and that will help build up your speed on the keyboard. Review: Valuable book - The book is old but a classic. I've been using it for almost 4 months and my typing speed is already 45 words per minute. It's very concise and to the point. Review: Back to the future? - This is so much like typing classes when I was in HS, 1940s. There is no substitute for repetition and practice. Tedious? Sure. But technology has not come out with a viable alternative, unless you consider a robot. I bought it to help my adult mentally handicapped son learn to keyboard, rather than hunt and peck. He asked for a standard typewriter, I got one for him, now he wants to know how to use it properly. I went through the whole book, copied appropriate (for him) pictures and text from a variety of pages, with very few printed words. I added my own support by encouraging him to practice a lot so his fingers would get used to hitting specific keys when held in position. I really don't know how much time/effort he will devote to this, but just having the instructions always ready to use will be most helpful. I copied, adapted, and sent a total of 8 pages, one side. That's about the limit to fit his attention span. Since I have the book, I can refer to specific pages to answer questions, make suggestions. Keyboarding is hard for me too because I was a speed typist, and computers require exact pressure on each key in a measured pace or they jam up. I still use a standard typewriter for single pages and envelopes, and sometimes because I know how to unstick the letters and how to make small immediate changes to other parts. Much easier to type when your machine keeps going. Thanks for the clear and plain instruction. I can still hear my typing teacher sing-songing every letter!