Left little finger typing practice

These keys, measured

Keys

3

Share of English letters

8.3%

Fingers involved

1

This drill is made of real words that lean on those keys, so that one finger does most of the work. These 3 letters carry 8.3% of every letter in the 111 books behind the practice texts here — 4,296,818 presses out of 51,993,314, A alone accounting for 8.1%. No useful number of real words can be spelled out of 3 letters alone, so the drill takes real words that lean on them hardest instead of inventing nonsense. The set spans 3 rows (home row, top row, bottom row) and 1 finger.

as · at · an · am · ah · ha · ay · away · alas · papa · gaze · again · aware · gazed · equal · apart · alarm · ahead

The set spans 3 rows: home row, top row, bottom row. In the course these keys arrive in lesson 4, lesson 10, lesson 14.

One key at a time

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