Discover some top tips to help you teach touch typing and encourage students to put their touch typing skills to the test with Dance Mat Typing, in this article for BBC Teach.

“Everyone can learn to touch type,” says Liz Davies, Senior Trainer at Pitman Training, “and once learned, you retain the skill for life.” Davies should know; she is, after all, responsible for ...

Here's an embarrassing fact: I mainly use about six fingers to type, despite years of home key drilling and touch typing skill tests in my middle school Business Tech classes. I can get along at a ...

If you've ever tried to transfer your touch-typing skills onto a touchscreen tablet's virtual keyboard, you'll know what an impossible task that can be. Apart from the fact that there's no tactile ...

Touch typing is a motor skill that enables skilled typists to type quickly (over 100 words per minute) without looking at the keyboard. Touch typists rely on muscle memory and their sense of touch, ...

These days, due to the spread of computers, tablets and smart phones, almost everybody types. But most modern-day typists are self-taught and have adopted "nonstandard" styles that are much different ...