Advice on Learning Fitaly as a Visual Keyboard

Re: Try these exercises - any programmers out there? -- Robert Carnegie
Posted by Jean Ichbiah , Wed, Mar 24, 1999, 20:34:39 Post Reply Top of Thread Forum


While we await Robert's game, here is some advice: Fitaly is a VISUAL keyboard. You can become very fast if you can "see" what you type before you type it, just like someone playing the piano sees notes ahead of playing them.

My recommendation is to train first VISUALLY before typing. Take a simple sentence and try to see the word patterns one by one without typing them. For that matter, the two sentences of the Dom Perignon contest are a good start since they contain words that you use all the time such as "what" "the" ... "to do to"... "one" "more":

    What you need to do to have a chance to win the contest is to tap this sentence as fast as you can without error. One more thing you need to have for a valid entry is a witness.
Another suggestions is to learn typical patterns. Each of the following is easy to see on the Fitaly. And the effect of trying to see them is to develop a familiarity with the layout:
what walk talky walky
the that chat chance
vital differ different ziff
ing ion region ation
final finally belly by
bye count harem charm

The idea is to do these VISUALLY and get to know where they are. Once you see the patterns the advantage of being able to "tap" them without moving the hand - just the fingers holding the pen - will become obvious.

Again, pause to see the word before you start tapping it. This little pause will end up saving time.

Jean Ichbiah

--modified at Thu, Mar 25, 1999, 00:18:10

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