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Version 0.2

Written by David le Roux, using QT

Sounds and some lessons from KTouch

Licensed under the GPL Version 2 (see gpl.txt)

Croatian Version

Translated into Croatian by (if you don't mind having your name mentioned in the about box)

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lesson 1

"TypeFaster" typing tutor help

This program has been designed to teach people to touch-type.

Touch-typing is a skill that can be learnt with practice and perseverance.

Touch-typing is a method of typing which uses 8 fingers and one thumb.

Touch-typists do not have to look at the keyboard to find the keys they want to type.

Homekeys

Each finger has its own resting place.

These resting keys are called the homekeys

The homekeys have a blue outline in this program


For example, in the Croatian keyboard layout

The four fingers of the left hand rest on the keys "A","S","D","F", 

small finger on "A", ring finger on "S", middle finger on "D" and index finger on "F"

The right hand fingers rest on the keys 

The homekeys can usually be located easily on a keyboard

because the left and right index fingers' homekeys have a small bump on them.

The above image shows how the homekeys on the Croatian keyboard layout

are outlined in blue.

It also shows that the key that must be pressed is "E"

because the whole key is highlighted in red.

In touch-typing each key is always pressed by the same finger, in other words,

each finger only presses certain keys.

Make sure that after pressing a key, you return that finger to its resting place.

The reason that this is important is because in touch-typing

you learn the relative position of keys.

That is, you learn where a key is based on a movement from a certain homekey.

Capital Letters

Shift must be held down while the key you wish to capitalize is pressed

The left shift key is pressed by the left hand's small finger,

and the right shift key is pressed by the right hand's small finger

Which fingers to use

The program will highlight in red the key that needs to be pressed on the keyboard.

If the key to be pressed is not one of the homekeys, it will also highlight which

finger it must be pressed by, by highlighting the letter on the homekey on which 

the finger rests.

The right thumb presses the space bar although some people prefer the left thumb

and others use both.

Accuracy is vital when learning to type.  Try to make as few mistakes as possible.

Try to keep your accuracy rate above 95%.

If you make a mistake, you can use backspace (the big key near the top right hand

side of the keyboard, before the numeric keypad) to correct it.

Backspace is pressed with the small or ring finger of the right hand.

Speed will come with practice and after a while, you will know where the keys are.

Lessons

I recommend that you do each lesson several times before moving onto the next one.

The lessons build on to one another, so it is important to be comfortable with all

the keys in a lesson before moving on to the next one.

Numeric keypad

If you want to learn the numeric keypad, change the keyboard layout to 'numeric keypad'

Make sure the num lock light is on (it can be switched on by pressing and releasing

the num lock key which is at the top left of the numeric keypad).

The right index finger rests on 4, the middle finger rests on 5, the ring finger rests on 6.

The small finger presses enter and the thumb presses 0

Caps lock

Before you start the lessons, make sure that caps lock is off.

To generate certain letters, it is necessary to do two sequences of key presses.

The above image shows how this program indicates that you must do two sequences of key

combinations to generate the letter 'é'.

First do the combination that is highlighted in solid red and then do sequence

that is highlighted in the patterned red.

You can close this window now but you can always get back to it by pressing the 'help' button.

