Clumsy hands
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 6:10 pm
Well, I've got clumsy hands. when I type, or even when I play piano, my fingers have the unfortunate habit of "walking off" by themselves. I'll go to write (or play) something and my finger go to a different key than the key that I'm targetting.
Now, my average typing speed accoding to the tests is about 55 words per minute, but the issue is that I spend about 40% of the time correcting the mistakes of my clumsy hands. This also applies to when I'm typing normally (without a text of nonsensical words to enter). I know that by the number of keys that I type per minute that my writing speed should be something like 65 or 70 words per minute if not much more.
It's because of this horrible clumsiness that I am almost forced to look at the keyboard while I write to make sure that my fingers are arriving in the right place, and even then, they go off track. This also affects my test score greatly. I'm a proessional programmer and a musician, but these clumsy fingers slow down my progress a great deal.
It's strange because my hands almost always feel uncomfortable and irritated in any and all positions, and so they "twitch" off track, or resist cartain simple poses when I want to be able to write cleany and smoothly. (we can call it Restless Finger Syndrome)
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can do to improve my typing accuracy and speed (preferably acuracy first because the speed will automatically follow), and get control of my clumsy fingers?
Now, my average typing speed accoding to the tests is about 55 words per minute, but the issue is that I spend about 40% of the time correcting the mistakes of my clumsy hands. This also applies to when I'm typing normally (without a text of nonsensical words to enter). I know that by the number of keys that I type per minute that my writing speed should be something like 65 or 70 words per minute if not much more.
It's because of this horrible clumsiness that I am almost forced to look at the keyboard while I write to make sure that my fingers are arriving in the right place, and even then, they go off track. This also affects my test score greatly. I'm a proessional programmer and a musician, but these clumsy fingers slow down my progress a great deal.
It's strange because my hands almost always feel uncomfortable and irritated in any and all positions, and so they "twitch" off track, or resist cartain simple poses when I want to be able to write cleany and smoothly. (we can call it Restless Finger Syndrome)
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can do to improve my typing accuracy and speed (preferably acuracy first because the speed will automatically follow), and get control of my clumsy fingers?