FoundationsLesson 15 of 30 · Reaching down
C and comma: middle fingers down
The middle fingers reach down for C and the comma. Your first punctuation mark, and lists become possible.
- New keys
- C,
- To pass
- Done when the check reaches 92% accuracy and 14 words a minute.
Lesson 15 is locked
It opens when you pass the check in lesson 14 (M and B: the inward drop). Lessons open one at a time, in order.
C sits below D and the comma sits below K, and both belong to the middle fingers. This is the first bottom-row reach for the middle finger, and it is gentler than the index-finger reaches: straight down, a little to the right because of the stagger, and back. If E and I have become automatic by now, C and the comma will follow in a day or two, because the movement is the same one flipped upside down.
The comma is your first punctuation mark. It is typed like any other key, but there is a spacing rule to learn with it: no space before a comma, one space after. The drills follow that rule and the engine expects it, so a comma followed by a space is two keystrokes: the right middle finger down, then the thumb. Get used to feeling those as a pair.
C brings can, come, each, which, because, once, place and since, and it turns up in many of the most common word endings. With it you have twenty-four letters and only X and Z left, which is why the next lesson can already start ending sentences properly.
can come each which because once place since call back