Location, location, location – that’s the key to the real estate world, and also the key to touch typing. You need to have your hands positioned correctly on the keyboard, and your fingers have to know exactly where all the letters are without your eyes having to help them along. When your hands are properly placed over the home row of the keyboard, you’ll be able to type in the fastest, most efficient way possible. The Fast Typing Tonics exercises in Typesy help you with specific practice routines to get your hands and fingers used to working on the home row, the top row, and the bottom row, or all three rows together. You’ll get exercises designed to strengthen your right hand and your left hand, separately or in combination.

You can practice these skills on your own as well, just by coming up with lists of words or phrases that focus on certain areas of the keyboard, or particular combinations of letters that give you problems. Remember, the more you practice, the more quickly your fingers will get the “muscle memory” that is essential to fast and accurate touch typing.

Here are some practice words that target different areas of the keyboard:

TOP ROW WORDS
typewriter
proprietor
perpetuity
repertoire
territory
potpourri
etiquette
propriety
prototype
pirouette
puppeteer

HOME ROW WORDS
alfalfas
flasks
salads
glass
alas
falls
glad
galls

LEFT HAND WORDS
tesseract
cataract
stewardess
aftereffect
exacerbated
reverberate
vertebrae
exaggerate
segregate
wasted

RIGHT HAND WORDS
lollipop
limply
polyphony
milky
million
homily
homonym
jolly
inky
hippo
jumpily
monopoly
kimono
knoll

ALTERNATING HAND WORDS
skepticism
endowment
dismantle
chairman
visitor
proficient
rifle
enchantment
problem
social