For Beginners: Keyboarding
I will be writing some posts especially for beginners in the clerical field. Helpful tips and what to learn to progress in an administrative career. These will be posted to the category For Beginners and will include For Beginners in the title.
For those just starting out in the clerical field, I cannot stress enough working on your keyboarding skills. Many secretarial and administrative assistant jobs will require typing at a rate of 50 words per minute or higher. The only way to attain and maintain those speeds is practice!
Here’s a few sites on-line where you can get some keyboarding practice:
- Peter’s On-line Typing Course - this is the best one, in my opinion. The text is a bit pedantic, but then, so am I. Overall, though, this seems to be a very complete keyboarding tutorial.
- Keyboarding Practice - a number of typing drills for practice
- Typing Tutorial - this site has a good general tutorial as well as games and tests to help you reach your goal.
- Keyboard Lessons - 10 lessons for keyboarding. Gives good feedback, but the interface is a bit annoying.
Remember, the best way to increase and maintain your typing speed is to practice regularly!
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2 Responses to “For Beginners: Keyboarding”
August 19th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
For a lot of fun keyboarding practice games, see the website I created with typing games for my after-school group to use. Over the years it’s grown and now has over 50 typing games! It’s a kid-safe site — I work hard to ensure that when links go to outside pages, those pages don’t have inappropriate ads or links to non-educational games, and I update the site regularly. http://www.auntlee.com/kids
Thanks for your time,
August 19th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Thanks, Lee. This looks like a great resource you’ve put together.
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