FoundationsLesson 29 of 30 · Whole hands, whole words

First paragraphs

Whole paragraphs with capitals, dialogue and every mark of punctuation. Typing that looks like real writing.

New keys: No new keys
To pass: Done when the check reaches 92% accuracy and 22 words a minute.

Lesson 29 is locked

It opens when you pass the check in lesson 28 (The hundred words). Lessons open one at a time, in order.

Up to now every drill has been a line or two. A paragraph is different, not because the keys change but because your attention has to last. Over four or five sentences the eyes have to keep reading ahead while the hands keep up, and any stumble tends to snowball: an error, a correction, a lost place, and the rhythm is gone. The skill this lesson builds is recovery. When something goes wrong, fix it, find your place, and pick the rhythm back up without a fuss.

The paragraphs here are original and written to be typed. They use ordinary punctuation the way ordinary prose does: capitals at the start of sentences, commas where a reader would pause, the occasional question or quotation. Nothing is there to trip you. If a sentence does trip you, it is worth asking which part did it, because it will be a same-finger pair, a one-hand word or a Shift, and each of those has a lesson behind it.

The marks that structure a paragraph. Nothing before them, one space after.

There is no adaptive shortening on these drills; a paragraph is as long as it is. Take them at the speed at which you make no errors, and let the check tell you where that leaves you. Twenty-two words a minute is the target, and it should be within reach if the previous lessons are solid.