W and O: ring fingers up

W sits above S and O sits above L, so both belong to the ring fingers. You already know the ring finger's weakness from the home row: it moves with the middle finger unless you ask it not to. An upward reach makes that harder, because now the ring finger has to lift as well as press. Expect a few stray Es and Is at first, where the middle finger came along for the ride. They fade with repetition.

O is one of the most common vowels, and W starts a great many of the small words that connect sentences: who, how, what, where, with, would. Together with the letters you already have, this lesson gives you nearly every function word in English. That matters more than it sounds. Function words are typed so often that your speed on them sets the speed of everything else.

Because the ring finger is weak, there is a temptation to let the middle finger type O, since it is right there beside I. Do not. The middle finger already has E, I, D, K and more to come, and giving it O means that every word with an O in it gets typed a different way depending on what came before. One key, one finger. The ring finger will get stronger.

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