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v Take breaks and stretch. Take a 20 second break 
for every 20 minutes spend on the keyboard. 
With these simple ergonomics adjustments, you    
can keep your body in proper alignment and avoid 
unnecessary strain.

Successful Keyboarding Tips  
The techniques for the successful keyboarding or typing are as follows:
v Press the keys softly and do not put undue pressure on them.
v While typing, rest your fi ngers on the Home row.
v Release the key immediately after pressing it, otherwise the character will be typed repeatedly.
v While using the keyboard, never look at the keyboard.
v Try to maintain the similar time interval between the two key press while typing.
v Always use the allotted fi ngers to press the specifi c keys.
v Speed and accuracy are equally important. So, do not try to type faster in the beginning as it will lead to
error prone typing.
v Stay relaxed while typing and avoid any type of mental stress.
v Be consistent with your practice.

Session 3

Getting Started with RapidTyping Software

To gain mastery on computer keyboard, undertake repeated practice of typing words, sentences, paragraphs.
There are many typing practice software available which can be downloaded free from the Internet. These
software help to learn typing effi ciently and effectively. Besides providing the lessons for typing practice,
they also provide typing games to make the learning interactive. They also help in spotting errors and their
rectifi cations.
We will now learn to use one such software named RapidTyping which is very popular among those who are
new to the touch typing.

RapidTyping
RapidTyping is one of the convenient and easy to use touch typing trainer that helps to increase typing speed
and to reduce typing errors. It provides various typing lessons which focus on the keyboard key groups. These
lessons help to learn touch typing in a short time.
Now, let us start with RapidTyping lessons to learn and practice touch typing.

How to Start RapidTyping?
Rapid typing is a freeware software that can be downloaded free of cost from the Internet and
easily installed in the system. Once RapidTyping is installed, you can open it.
To open Rapid Typing, follow the given steps:
Double-click the RapidTyping shortcut icon on Desktop.
Or
Step 1: Click on Start button.
Step 2: Click on All apps.
Step 3: Click on RapidTyping 5 option.
Step 4: Click on RapidTyping 5 in the sub menu to open the software in a new window.

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