Smartphones, tablets and other digital portable devices are becoming more and more firmly embedded in the everyday reality of modern man, displacing ordinary and familiar objects of the real world. So with the keyboard for typing messages and storing other information, it has become touch-virtual and the speed of typing on such a device becomes one of the necessary competencies.
Those who own the technique of blind ten-finger typing on the keyboard or are simply trained in the skill of quick handwriting will easily master the so far unusual touch panel for entering information. So where should you start learning?
How to learn to write quickly
As strange as it sounds, the first thing you should pay attention to is the comfortable posture and location of the device. Whether you are going to write with a pen, type on a computer keyboard, or master the touch screen, your posture should be comfortable, your back should be straight, your arms are slightly bent at the elbow, and the input device (sheet of paper, keyboard panel, smartphone) should lie to the right and at a slight angle. The distance from the eyes to the printing characters should also be within reasonable limits so as not to strain the organ of vision. As a rule, this distance is 30-35 cm or from the fingertips to the elbow.
The second thing that is required when teaching speed dialing is the ability to concentrate and not be distracted, so that you can keep the main idea of the typed message in your head. Familiarity with the qwerty layout greatly facilitates the process of finding the desired letter, although it will not work to wield all ten fingers on a small screen, but knowing the location of the desired character will shorten the typing time. The learning process is stimulated by a set timer, at the signal of which you must write as many meaningful words and sentences as possible.
Manufacturers of smartphones and other modern technology take care of their customers, so their software contains a large number of common words and phrases, as well as proper names, the list of which can be corrected independently. Therefore, when you enter the first two or three characters, "hints" appear, significantly speeding up the process of entering standard words and expressions. Another nice bonus from the developers is the ability to enter information by voice. In this case, all you need is the ability to correct the text that is not quite correctly recognized by the "smart" machine.
How can you write on touch screens
Touchscreens differ from each other depending on the technologies used in the definition of pressing and the cost of the model. So, cheap models are equipped with an alphanumeric keypad, similar to a regular phone, which will significantly reduce the typing speed even if you have a lot of experience and enable the T9 function. More promising for increasing typing speed is qwerty keyboard layout, since this type has long and firmly entered our everyday life with the advent of the first computer input devices.
By the type of technology used to determine the coordinates of the touch, touch screens are divided into capacitive and resistive. It is on the latter that the process of entering information can be facilitated using the back of a pencil, a special stylus and other auxiliary objects, while capacitive screens respond to a potential difference, that is, the touch of our finger. It can only be replaced by a special device - a capacitive stylus, the price of which starts at $ 30.
