Yestarday I've found this amazing tutorial online... I was a pretty mediocre 55 wpm writer, and I didn't even know how to put my hands on the keyboard.
Just wanted to share this with the community.
http://www.typingstudy.com/
A couple of random things:
-what do you think about colemak layout? Is there someone that can definitively say that it's BETTER than qwerty? (I mean both performance and RSI prevention)
-I'm currently using qwerty, but I've remapped the caps lock to backspace. I highly reccomand it to you, the right pinkie now does much less work.
-I've noticed that my hand posture it's basically bad, with my hands constantly resting on the keyboard: that put a lot of stress on the finger's muscles.
http://www.rsipain.com/equipment.php
I'm thinking about getting one of those tilting keyboard tray, or even this:
http://www.ikea.com/it/it/catalog/products/90278244/
this way the wrists should remain HIGHER then the keyboard.
what do you think about it?
Just wanted to point out these things to the community, I think it's fundamental to type fast, but I think it's even more important to stay healthy.
Leonardo