Home row position and the F-J anchor

English typing is touch typing. Your fingers find the keys without your eyes leaving the screen. The F and J keys have small raised bumps that you can feel — your left index finger sits on F, your right index sits on J. The rest of the fingers fan out from there: ASD for the left hand, KL; for the right.

Lesson 1 drills only the home row. Eight keys. The goal is not speed — it is building the position so you can return to it without looking. Aspirants who skip this step end up touching keys two-fingered for years, hitting a permanent ceiling around 35 WPM.

Set your wrist position so your fingers curve naturally onto the keys. Wrists straight, not bent up or down. Elbows at 90 degrees. This posture matters more than people think — it affects how long you can type at speed before your wrists start hurting.

The 30 minutes you spend here saves you a permanent typing ceiling. Self-taught typists who skip home row practice peak around 35-40 WPM and never get past it. The reason: they two-finger hunt-and-peck, which has a hard physical limit.

Aspirants who do Lesson 1 properly — five days, 25 minutes each, no shortcuts — reach 50 WPM within 6 weeks and have no ceiling beyond that. The cost is one week of patience.