How to Type Without Looking at Keyboard 

 Decide on the kind of keyboard you want to use and try to stick to it. QWERTY keyboard is the one that is more commonly used and the following steps relate to
typing on a QWERTY keyboard.
 The way you sit on your chair has a considerable impact on the efficiency of your typing. An incorrect posture can lead to more errors and slower typing speed.
 The keyboard should be at a comfortable height for your fingers.
 Now, sit straight and put your feet flat on the ground.
 Place you fingers in the home position.
 The index finger of your right hand should be on the ‘J’ key, while letting the other 3 fingers fall naturally on ‘K’, ‘L’ and ‘;’ keys.
 The same way, place the index finger of your left hand on the ‘F’ key and let the other 3 finger fall naturally on ‘D’, ‘S’, and ‘A’ keys.
 Type each key from left to right, as in - a s d f j k l. Make sure that you do not move the fingers at all and just press the keys that they are on.
 Now, repeat the procedure, but with capital letters. For this, you will use ‘shift key’ and not ‘caps lock’.
 If you want to capitalize the letters typed with right hand, press the left shift key with the little finger of your left hand.
 The same way, if you want to capitalize the letters typed with left hand, press the right shift key with the little finger of your right hand.
 Next, you need to be familiar with the rest of the alphabets, as to where they are positioned on the keyboard and how you type them.
 ‘Q’, ‘A’ and ‘Z’ are typed with the little finger of your left hand, which also presses the tab, caps lock, and shift buttons
 ‘W’, ‘S’ and ‘X’ are typed with the ring finger of your left hand.
 ‘E’, ‘D’ and ‘C’ are typed with the middle finger of your left hand.
 ‘R’, ‘F’, ‘V’, ‘B’, ‘G’ and ‘T’ are typed with the index finger of your left hand.
 ‘U’ ‘J’ ‘N’ ‘M’ ‘H’ and ‘Y’ are typed with your index finger of your right hand.
 ‘I’, ‘K’ and the button with ‘,’ and ‘<‘ on it are typed with the middle finger of your right hand.
 ‘O’, ‘L’ and the button with ‘>‘ and ‘.’ on it are typed with the ring finger of your right hand.
 The little finger of your right hand is used for typing: ‘P’, ‘;’, ‘:’, ‘'‘, ‘/’, ‘?’, ‘[‘, ‘{‘, ‘]’, ‘}’, ‘\’, ‘|’, as well as pressing the shift, enter and backspace keys.
 Your thumb is always on space bar.
 Keep your finger on the home position and type the phrase ‘the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’.
 Make sure that you do not move your hand and return the fingers back to the home position.
 Initially, start slowly and take sometime typing the phrase. Gradually, pick up speed and keep looking at your monitor.
 Try to correct the mistakes made by you, without looking at the keyboard.
 You have learnt the basic procedure of typing without looking at the keyboard. Now, all you have to do is practice!

Mastering Typing Without Looking in Three Steps

1. It helps to type sentences that use all the letters of the alphabet

2. Whenever you have a few free moments, use these sentences to practice typing without looking at your fingers

3. Type the sentences over and over

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The following two sentences utilize every letter in the alphabet and if you practice typing each just a couple of times per day or a couple of times each week, you’ll
find that your typing ability and speed grow rapidly.
Sentences that Help You to Type Without Looking:

 The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

 Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.

Start with the first sentence and if you have to look in order to memorize the sentence or help your fingers to find the keys that’s okay, too. (Don’t worry about
capitalization or punctuation; the idea is to just master the letters.)
Once you’ve committed the first sentence to memory and have a better feel for the keyboard, you should be able to start typing it without looking.
Don’t worry about typos. These will happen. Just keep practicing until you can type the first sentence flawlessly.
The process will seem awkward, at first-especially since you’ve relied on looking at your fingers while you type but you’ll be amazed at how you learn to feel the
keys and how you start to type without looking at your fingers.
Typing Without Looking
Typing without looking is simply a matter of training your fingers to locate the keys on the keyboard. Once you develop a feel for where your fingers should go, the
process becomes easier and easier. (This is really no different from learning to play a musical instrument or operating machinery. With practice, these tasks
become automatic.)
This exercise is designed for people who have some knowledge of typing and who know where their fingers should be placed on the keys
And, for those of you who don’t know: your fingers should rest on the middle line of letters and cover the keys on either side of the letters G and H. Just line your
fingers up sequentially on the letters on either side and you are ready to start typing! See my article Learning Typing: Finger Placement on Alphabet Keys for
detailed instructions.
If you practice these two sentences faithfully, in a short period of time you will learn to type without looking.
Note: a sentence that uses all letters of the alphabet is called a pangram. It is good typing practice, using a pangram to master keyboard letters. Using a pangram
to learn how to type is considered one of the easiest methods.