To go in another off-topic direction...of course I mainly did it because I wanted to. I had a view about how to teach/learn typing that the popular typing prog

To go in another off-topic direction...of course I mainly did it because I wanted to. I had a view about how to teach/learn typing that the popular typing programs then didn't seem to have. When you're learning typing for the first time, IMO it's fundamentally a kinesthetic endeavor. It's more important to focus on burning the motor pattern of moving your finger from the home row to the key you're typing and back to the home row than remembering where the letters are placed on the keyboard. (Of course you have to also remember where the letters are, but that will happen automatically in the process of doing the former.) So I wanted to take this into account and have my students type things like this: fff ggg fgf gfg ffgg fggf gffg jjj hhh jhj hjh jjhh jhhj hjjh This forces the student to exercise that movement pattern in a way that just telling them to put their fingers on the home row and type English words does not. So the above sentence you quoted was a an over-simplification for story telling purposes and not the whole story. :)