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You may face some difficulty at this level by making typing errors or halting in between as you tend to forget the placing
            of your fingers on the appropriate keys. You may also experience some pain in your fingers.

            Stage 4
            After the successful completion of the given three stages you would have learnt the touch typing technique, however,
            you may be still lacking in perfection. So this final stage is the perfection stage where you practice the actual text, to
            perfect the skills acquired to increase your speed of typing with minimum errors.



                    POSITIONING OF FINGERS ON THE KEYBOARD

            The fingers of both the hands are kept on the Home Row keys and the thumb of both the hands are kept on the
            spacebar key. This position of hand in the beginning of the typing is called the base position. Keyboards usually have a
            small protruding bar or a dot on the F and J keys to help you locate the base position without looking at the keyboard.

            The left-hand fingers’ base position will be:
            •  Key A - left hand’s little finger

            •  Key S - left hand’s ring finger
            •  Key D - left hand’s middle finger
            •  Key F - left hand’s index finger

            The right-hand fingers, base position will be:
            •  Key ; - right hand’s little finger

            •  Key L - right hand’s ring finger
            •  Key K - right hand’s middle finger
            •  Key J - right hand’s index finger


















            Each colour code shows the movement of the fingers of both the hands for reaching out each key on the keyboard
            for typing. You should always try to locate the correct key with the fingers of both the hands and avoid looking at the
            keyboard to master the skill of touch typing.

            Some of the important points to keep in mind while using a keyboard, as a typewriter, are listed below:
            •  Though both the thumbs are placed on the spacebar, but this key can be used by whichever hand is convenient.
            •  The Shift key is always pressed by using the little finger.
            •  The Enter and the apostrophe keys are pressed by using the right hand little finger.
            •  Whenever the fingers are not typing anything, then they should return to the base position.







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