Touch-typing

[rachelmanija]

Where would one normally learn to touch-type, other than high school?

I taught myself to type and don't use all my fingers, and think that maybe changing my technique would help my RSI. (The occupational therapist thought it was worth a try.)

I am having a google fail moment, as various permutations of "touch typing class" "typing class" etc, and my location are not producing anything useful.

Comments

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Seconding the trackball suggestion if you find your mousing-hand has more problems than the other side; that repetitive motion always hurt me even more than poor keyboards. I tried a variety of different trackballs before finally settling on various models of these: http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/trackballs/devices/156&cl=us,en -- I used handed ones like the one in Kate's link for a couple of years, but eventually found that they relieved the wrist-forearm-elbow problems I had with conventional mice, but were starting to transfer the problems to the thumb. The Marble Mouse's design lets you shift the ball about with several fingers at once, and since it's not one-sided I can switch back and forth to right- or left-handed use if one arm is starting to get cranky from overuse.

[kate_nepveu]

Yeah, I brought that one into work when I got the handed one. Works well too, I just found it a little more difficult to be precise without too much tension.