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Memorize the letters by not looking at your hands while typing.
Good posture helps your form. Keep your feet flat on floor, hips
touching the back of chair, back straight, and sit up tall.
Additionally, the way you position your arms, wrist, and fingers will
help deter any discomfort from typing. Remember to keep your fingers
curved, arms close to body, and wrists straight and not touching
keyboard.

Strike the keys with the proper finger, and then return those fingers to
home row keys.

How to Position Fingers on the HRKs

As a beginner in typing, it is very important to position your fingers on the
middle row of your keyboard which is known as Home Keys. Start with your
left hand placed on the keyboard as shown below with your little finger on key
'A', ring finger on 'S', middle finger on 'D' and index finger on 'F'

respectively.

With your right hand, place your index finger on 'J', middle finger on 'K',
ring finger on 'L' and little finger on the next key. Your thumb (s) must rest

on the spacebar. Press the enter key with the little finger of your right hand. At
this position, stretch fingers upward to type the URKs and downward to type the
BRKs. Always put your fingers back on the Home Keys after pressing keys on
the Upper and Lower Rows.

QWERTY Keyboard Picture – Look at the colour code as shown above. Pay
attention to how the hands are positioned. Keys of one colour are typed by the
corresponding home row key finger. For example, the left hand’s little finger is

above the home row key “A” and handles all the keys of the same color: A, Q, 1,
Z, Shift, Tab, Caps, and ` (the back-quote key).