{"id":8927,"date":"2005-05-04T15:15:57","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T12:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/04\/touchtyping-practice\/"},"modified":"2005-05-04T15:15:57","modified_gmt":"2005-05-04T12:15:57","slug":"touchtyping-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/04\/touchtyping-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Touchtyping practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Maxim had his first touchtyping practice.  He didn&#8217;t want to go to sleep and we were sitting near computer, so I though: &#8220;What the heck?  Let him try.&#8221;  Maxim seemed to be interested in what was going around.  I sat him on my lap and showed him the keyboard.  He was hypnotised by it! He coldn&#8217;t take his eyes off it.  I gave him a couple of minutes to inspect it, and than moved it closer to him, so that he could reach it.<\/p>\n<p>From that point on, I didn&#8217;t have to say or show him anything, he started banging at it with both of his hands. He was hitting mostly the space bar, right Crtl, right Alt, and sometimes touching upon the right Shift.  Yey!  He played with it much better than he usually does with his toys.<\/p>\n<p>Now I wonder if that&#8217;s a good sign&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Maxim had his first touchtyping practice. He didn&#8217;t want to go to sleep and we were sitting near computer, so I though: &#8220;What the heck? Let him try.&#8221; Maxim seemed to be interested in what was going around. I sat him on my lap and showed him the keyboard. He was hypnotised by it! 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