Two rows: putting it together

You now own two full rows: ten home keys and ten top-row keys, every one of them reached with a specific finger. That is twenty of the twenty-six letters plus the semicolon and the space bar, and it is enough to write real sentences, which is what this review is made of. There are no new keys here, and there are no capitals or full stops yet; those need the Shift key and the bottom row, and both are coming.

Before you start, it is worth checking your reaches one by one. Put your fingers on the home row, and without looking, touch each top-row key and return. Q, W, E, R, T with the left hand; Y, U, I, O, P with the right. If any one of them makes you hesitate, that is not a failure, it is information: that key needs another minute of the Keys drill from its own lesson, and the course lets you go back to any lesson at any time.

• Little fingers: A and Q, semicolon and P.
• Ring fingers: S and W, L and O.
• Middle fingers: D and E, K and I.
• Index fingers: F, G, R, T and J, H, U, Y.

The sentences below avoid every letter you have not met. That is why they can read a little strangely: there is no N, no M, no C, so words like and, in and can are missing. It is a small price for drills that never ask you to guess. Once the bottom row is done, the language opens up completely.