Reaches: putting it together

The three lessons in this unit were about the three kinds of movement that decide speed once the keys are known: the same-finger pairs that cannot be hurried, the little-finger reaches that are weak and steep, and the rolls that can go faster than anything else. A fluent typist handles all three without changing pace: the pairs get their beat, the little fingers do their work, and the rolls are swept through, and from the outside it looks like one even speed.

This review mixes them. The prose is ordinary, but it has been written to be dense with all three kinds of movement, so the pace has to absorb a same-finger pair, a capital, and a roll in the same sentence without a visible stumble. The target is thirty-five words a minute, which is the speed at which most people would call you a fast typist.

• Same-finger pair coming: keep the pace, let the pair take its beat.
• Little-finger reach: rotate the wrist a little, never lift the hand.
• Roll: sweep through it in one motion.

The Weak Spot Drill after this check will draw on a unit that deliberately stressed the awkward movements, so its targets are the most informative you have had so far. If a pair or a finger keeps recurring, it is worth ten minutes on its own lesson.