Two Simple Ways to Improve Typing Accuracy
Even seasoned touch typist spend a lot of time correcting typing errors. The backspace key is among the most used keys on the keyboard. When combined with other error correction it becomes obvious that anything that can get rid of errors in the first place is desirable.
Two Simple Ways to Improve Typing Accuracy
Two Simple Ways to Improve Typing Accuracy
Two Simple Ways to Improve Typing Accuracy
Two Simple Ways to Improve Typing Accuracy
The use of AutoHotkey and an overlay keyboard will help eliminate typing errors. Taken together they have have several advanTAGes.
Text is entered correctly the first time. Less time spent correcting error. Increased productivity. Typists are more alert.
This is because typists spend a lot of their time entering the same information over and over. Things like names, adDresses, web sit URLs, email adDress are typed multiple times a day. With AutoHotkey with an overlay keyboard all repeated information is assigned to macros and quickly recalled with one key press.
AutoHotkey is an open source (i.e. free) program. With it users create macros to automate repetitive tasks with Windows software. This can include Ctrl and Alt control key combinations. They then assign the macro to a hotkey. Macros can be of unlimited length. A user can easily create over 100 macros with AutoHotkey.
The problem quickly becomes one of remembering which hotkey activates which macro. This is where an overlay keyboard comes to the rescue.
With an overlay keyboard each key can be configured to reproduce any sequence of characters and commands available on a standard Computer keyboard. The user creates a graphic overlay representing what each key does.
At first you might be tempted to configure each key to contain an AutoHotkey macro. However, the limited memory in an overlay keyboard can quickly become full defeating the usefulness of this approach.
Simply configuring each key to reproduce an AutoHotkey hotkey is the quick and obvious solution to remembering the hotkeys. A quality overlay keyboard will have over 100 keys which is more then enough for all but the most macro crazed person.
The main problem with this approach is that the hotkey combinations are still active on the keyboard. The typist can inadvertently activate a macro causing havoc.
A better approach is to create one large macro that is activated pressing on hotkey, say F10. The macro then waits for a three digit code and jumps to the corresponding piece of the macro. Then each key on the overlay keyboard is configured to send F10 followed by its code.
Two Simple Ways to Improve Typing Accuracy