One Hand Typing and Keyboarding



Following is a 19 page sample of the 350 page MS Word e- version of

The Law Enforcement Officer’s

One-Hand Typing Manual on CD

This is part of the full

Law Enforcement Officer’s One-Hand Typing Package

The package includes:

✓ Comb bound printed manual for use in or out of police vehicles.

✓ One Hand Typing on CD, for use on any PC or Macintosh computer with a CD reader. On the CD:

3 Versions of the Manual which allow the user to do practice drills in

the text of the manual, on the screen (formats in Word Perfect, MS Word,

and Adobe Acrobat PDF)

✓ Simple one hand typing game in DOS.

✓ Motivational keynote speech by Jim Abbott, major league pitcher for the Angels

and the Yankees, one handed pitcher. In Microsoft movie file format.

✓ Suggested points to make in the briefing about why one hand touch typing is important

✓ Felt pads to use as anchor spots for one hand typing

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|[pic] |The |

| |Law Enforcement |

|Lilly Walters |Officer’s |

|acclaimed author of 13 books, and |One-Hand Typing Manual |

|one-hand typist! | |

| |Learn to type without looking, |

| |with speed, greater safety and more accuracy on the standard keyboard used inside and out of |

| |police cars and emergency vehicles. |

Introduction

How This Works!

You have about 10 pages of easy reading to do. Then, you will practice the drills right on your computer screen, on the “pages” of this e-manual.

The first few lessons are heavy on instruction. But, as you go on, the reading and instructions go away and you just have the drills.

Why A Text on Screen e-Manual Instead of Software?

There is a huge controversy going on now about the wisdom of using a typing tutor software, as compared to a printed manual propped on your desktop.

If you use a printed manual, the only way you know you have made a mistake is by honing your senses and your typing talents. This is a good thing, and the goal of learning to type!

If you use typing tutor software, you tend to know you have made a mistake only when a sound occurs to let you know. No sound, no awareness.

This manual on screen forces you to hone those typing skills and senses. No gongs or sounds, just you, learning to type.

Typing With One Hand, Driving With the Other, Watching a Computer Screen and Talking On a Radio!

Would You Pull This Driver Over?

If you saw an insane driver trying to type on a keyboard[1], read a computer screen, and talk to someone on a radio - all at the same time - you would most likely pull them over and give them a talkin’ too. Not a good idea, and against most agency’s policies. It can be a fatal mistake if you look at those keys when you type. If you are reading this, you must have done it once or twice yourself.

So you park like you are supposed to, and twist your body around to type. Your left hand can barely get to keys, your back and shoulders are getting distorted so badly you look like one of circus gymnasts!

If only you could sit straight forward, use your right hand and still have the speed of most good two handed typists!

Step away from the vehicle. Help is here!

How Fast Can You Type With Just One Hand?

It has been said that with one hand tied behind my back I type faster than most Officers on their mobile data computers! Too true. I'm married to a retired LA County Sheriff and I see first hand how he and most of his buddies type. I’m way better than they are at that keyboard … and I’m only using one hand.

I lost a great deal of left hand in an accident when I was 10 years old. Today I have 13 business books in bookstores, all typed with one hand! My best seller is my One-hand Typing and Keyboarding Manual. Who would have thought that so many people need to type with one hand? It came as a surprise to me. It is estimated that 12 million have a disability of the hand. Add Police Officers and anyone else who needs to offset the keyboard to one side, but still type fast and accurately. All totaled you have a huge number of us one-handed typists out there in the workplace.

My husband is the average cop typist. He hunts and pecks around the keyboard with two hands, doing 10 - 15 words per minute. If you hunt and peck with one hand in a police car, you are crawling along at about that same speed. I type 35 - 80 words per minute - depending on the amount of sleep and coffee I've had.

Any officer can learn to be fast on the keyboard with one hand. Hundreds of thousands of children with a disability are touch typists and are speeding along the keyboard faster than their two-handed friends. Most likely faster than you.

How Hard Is It to Learn One-Hand Typing

My original One-Hand Typing & Keyboarding Manual, written in 2000, was created with a 12 year disabled child in mind. There are many of these kids, some much younger than my target, who have used my drills and are now adept at typing with one hand.

One of our Sheriff buddies told me, trying to learn to type – fast – with one hand would be too hard for him.

“I have stubby fingers! I can’t type on the keyboard without looking!”

If a seven year old can do it …

The Advantages of Officers Learning to Type Well With One Hand

• SAFETY: You will not need to look at the keyboard and can keep your eyes focused on business.

• SPEED TYPING IN CARS: You will be much faster at typing in your cars, and more quickly be able to focus on other things, like bad guys!

• PRODUCTIVITY: Once back at the station, with a cup of coffee in one hand, you will type reports with the other hand - fast!  All work will be turned over much quicker than you formerly did when just hunting and pecking with two hands.

• AVOID BACK AND SHOULDER INJURIES: You backs, neck and shoulder are in a straighter, more forward position. The better ergonomics will help you fend off carpal tunnel, back, neck and shoulder problems.

Typing Outside of Your Car

When possible, use the Law Enforcement Officer’s One Hand Typing Manual CD. It has the same drills as this manual, but they come up on the screen.

We have an entire chapter on how to better type one-hand outside of your car. Please read it before you start practicing outside of your vehicle. In brief, here is what you need to know when you type outside of your car:

• Offset the keyboard to the right: In your car, the keyboard will be in the perfect spot for one-hand typing. Back in the station, or at home, you will need to offset the keyboard to right. FGHJ, the center four keys should be in front of your right hip. Everyone is a bit different, you might want it much farther over, or angled slightly. Time and practice will help you feel the location which is easiest on your hands and where you make the least amount of mistakes.

• Mouse to the left: This gives your left hand something to do, and makes you more productive.

• Use the left SHIFT key: Have your left hand do the SHIFT.

Slower to Get Faster -

A Motivational Manual

If you are feeling daunted by the task of learning all 26 letters without peeking, remember how old you were when you learned them in order! Certainly you are smarter now. Just keep practicing using the correct finger for each key, without looking. At first you will be slower than your old hunt and peck method. Persevere; soon you will be much faster.

My original One-Hand Typing and Keyboarding Manual is written with many motivational quotes and messages from famous people. Many of the kids who need it are faced with terrible challenges. Having traveled that journey myself I included what I needed to hear then and now, words to help uplift and to overcome.

In creating this version for law enforcement personnel I left a bit of those motivational messages in for you. Living with my own personal law enforcement officer has taught me that a bit of motivation is not a bad thing.

I was born without my right hand. I have never felt slighted. I learned to play baseball like most kids, loved to catch with my Dad in the front yard. The only difference was that we had to come up with a method to throw and catch with the same hand. What we came up with is basically what I continued to do my whole life. I used to practice by pretending to be my favorite pitchers. I’d throw a ball against a brick wall on the side of our house, switching the glove off and on, moving closer to the wall, forcing myself to get that glove on faster and faster. I imagined myself becoming a successful athlete.

- Jim Abbott, Major League Baseball Pitcher for the Yankees and the Angeles, and a one-handed typist!

Lesson: FGHJ HOME BASE, Space, & Return

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You will center your four fingers on the One-Hand Typing HOME BASE: F G H J. The chart above shows you the job of each finger. HOME BASE is in black, in the center. The black bar across the top, with the white numbers, shows you which finger takes over which section of the keyboard, and therefore the keys in that section.

|Homebase Key |Finger in Charge |

|F |Pointer finger |

|G |Index, middle finger |

|H |Ring finger |

|J |Little finger |

Your thumb takes care of the SPACE BAR.

Whatever else your fingers are doing, one finger – either the F or J finger – always stays on HOME BASE to anchor you.

Returning to HOME BASE

Remember, looking at the keys is a terrible time waster. Finding HOME BASE without looking will be your key to speed and accuracy.

Most people cannot leave the Pointer Finger on its HOME BASE key and still stretch the Little Finger as far as the RETURN KEY. So, you leave HOME BASE, with no finger anchored to bring you back HOME. This is where I most often make mistakes: after hitting a RETURN, I return to what I think is HOME BASE. I type away, thinking I am typing, “Hi! I am Lilly Walters.” But it comes out, “Jo. O s,: o;;u Es;yrtd” I have solved this with bumps!

BUMPS for One-handed HOME BASE Keys and Other Anchor Spots

When learning one-hand typing, it helps a great deal if you have something on the anchor spots so you will find them without looking

You might put something different under anchor points to give each its own feel.

As you practice and struggle you will know which keys on which you need to have anchors. At a minimum you will need anchors on:

F, J, 1, 4, 7, 0, SHIFT, RETURN

Four Way to Make Anchor Bumps

✓ (see full version for more)

Lesson: Finding HOME BASE

(The Pointer Finger)

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Place your fingers on HOMEBASE - FGHJ. The exercises you are to type look like this.

|fff |Using The Pointer Finger, type the exercise to the left into the |

| |blank space below this box, and above the next paragraph |

To bring you to a new line, (this means to bring the blinking line, called a cursor to the next line down your “page”) you use the RETURN key.

When you get done it will look should like this …

fff

fff

fff

More HOME BASE, Space Bar and Return Exercises

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|fff | |

|fff |In the space below, at least 10 times, type fff, hit RETURN, and then find HOME BASE, all without looking at the |

|fff |keyboard! |

|fff |Type the exercise to the left into the blank space below. |

| |Look at the screen, not at the keys. |

| |Type by touching the keys. No peeking! |

Now to the Middle Finger

Look at the chart. See which finger is assigned to ‘g’? The Middle Finger. Your thumb always does the space bar. See how The Middle Finger will also do all of the keys above and below G. Be very careful to type the spaces and the return when they are shown in these next exercises.

|ggg ggg ggg ggg |Type the exercise to the left into the blank space below. |

| |Look at the screen, not down at the keys when you type! You are learning the keyboard by TOUCH. |

Look at the chart above. See the tiny numbers in white on the black bars at the top? 1, 2, 3, 4? Not the whole line of numbers on the gray keys from 1 – 0, but the ones on the black. Those represent Fingers 1, 2, 3, and four. They are not really on the keyboard. See between each of those four in a thin line that goes down the keyboard. That shows you what each finger is responsible for. See how The Pointer Finger will do everything from the ~ key over to the $ 4 key, and all the keys below those.

|fg fg fg fg gggg | |

|ffff gf gf gf gf |Type the exercise to the left into the blank space below. Look at the screen, not down at the keys when |

| |you type! |

Hey!! Did you notice where there is a SPACE between the sets of letters above?

You needed to type fg SPACE fg. Also, after the gggg there is a RETURN.

Things like SPACES and RETURNS are just as important as the letters ϑ

Tips On Being A Great One-Handed Typist

Officially this method of typing is called One-hand QWERTY. QWERTY is the term used for the standard keyboard used in police cars, see the keys on your keyboard starting at the Q in the upper left corner, read them from left to right: QWERTY.

How long will it take you to learn?

Well, how fast can you memorize where those 26 letters are, using the correct fingers and not peeking? Some pick it up in a few hours, others a few weeks. Take 30 minutes a day, and practice. Soon, you will be speeding around that keyboard - like me!

Here is what you need to do:

• Learn the One-Hand QWERTY typing system with this manual

• Practice every day for 20 - 30 minutes, for one to three weeks

• Force yourself not to peek when you type. At first you will be much slower than when you looked at the keyboard to hunt and peck. Soon you will be much faster.

• Occasionally play with any mainstream two-handed typing program to test your speed and accuracy.

How Much To Practice?

"By nature men are nearly alike;

by practice, they get to be wide apart."

- Confucius

Those that grow to be the best in any sport are often not those with the greatest talent, but those who practice well. I believe it was Vince Lombardi, the great football coach who said, “Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect!”

For your first month, practice 30 minutes a day. Practice is not just having a great time on your computer, racing around the Internet, chatting with friends’ on-line, researching projects. Practice is sitting with the charts, or a software program, and doing the lessons. Practice is diligent effort to be better at the craft you are persuing.

I loved throwing a baseball. It is so important to find something in life you feel crazy about. Because you are so passionate you naturally practice. The hard work that it takes to do something well will come easily.

- Jim Abbott, famous one-handed professional baseball pitcher

Ready to Stop Practicing?

• We suggest you work from the CD and not from a copy of this which you could drag onto your computer. Normally, you would want to tell Word to SAVE your work every few minutes. But, in this typing manual, we are worried that you might erase part of the text itself then save the messed up version of your manual. If you work from the CD, you will not be able to SAVE your typing errors.

• When you are tried, and ready to quit, make sure you note where you are in the manual! Make a note on a piece of paper, and leave it next to the computer.

• When you return, open the document again by double clicking on the icon. You will see page numbers at the bottom of the document screen. It should say something like Page 10 of 208. If you double click your mouse on the page number, a window will come up. To the right is a box which says: Enter Page Number. Type in the page number you were last at and then press GO TO key, it will take you there.

• If you prefer, you will see a box on the right of screen. This is a scroll bar. Bring your mouse over the top of that, press down on the mouse button, and hold it down. Now you can DRAG the bar down. As you do, the page numbers at the bottom of the screen will change. Stop at the page you left off at.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures,

but of the success that may come tomorrow.

You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere;

and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

- Helen Keller (1880-1968,

blind/deaf author, lecturer, who typed all of her own books and speeches

Lesson: e

E is done by The Pointer Finger. When you reach up to do E, The Little Finger must keep you in touch with HOME BASE. He needs to stay on J when The Pointer Finger is going to work on E. The other fingers can lift up. When you do the keys on the left side of the keyboard, The Little Finger keeps you glued to HOME BASE. When you do the right side of the keyboard, The Pointer Finger has that job.

|fghj fe fe fe eee fff fefe efef efef |Type the exercise to the left |

| |into the blank space below. |

Look at the screen. Type by touching the keys.

|fghj ge ge ge |Type the exercise to the left |

|ggg eee gege gege |into the blank space below. |

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[1] WARNING: Most POST guidelines say you should not be driving and typing at the same time, but instead pull over safely and then type.

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