touch-typing

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noun A technique of using the keyboard of a computer or typewriter in which the typist operates the keys without needing to look at the keyboard, knowing by heart the keys being allocated to each finger and the space bar to the thumb.

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I've a funeral to do later this afternoon which should warm up the fingers for some industrious touch-typing in the evening.

Ss Petri & Pauli John 2009
I've a funeral to do later this afternoon which should warm up the fingers for some industrious touch-typing in the evening.

Ss Petri & Pauli John 2009
Once he had mastered touch-typing, he was able to write with his eyes closed, using only the tips of his fingers.

Is Google Making Us Stupid? 2008
It is, we learned, easier to learn to fly a plane than to master touch-typing.

Radio review: Fry's English Delight: The Trial Of Qwerty 2010
Okay, so I was touch-typing in the dark last night and this required a LOT of cleanup.

APAture Live 2008
Even the gloss of her life sounded like one of our practice sentences: Who is the teacher who will teach our touch-typing course this term?

The Gin Closet Leslie Jamison 2010
Its pop-up keyboard is adorable, but too tight for touch-typing.

A Financial Advice Wonk Falls For The iPad 2010
Fry also visited a primary school that teaches its pupils touch-typing from an early age, and many of them can type more than 100 words a minute.

Radio review: Fry's English Delight: The Trial Of Qwerty 2010
Its pop-up keyboard is adorable, but too tight for touch-typing.

A Financial Advice Wonk Falls For The iPad 2010
Once he had mastered touch-typing, he was able to write with his eyes closed, using only the tips of his fingers.

Is Google Making Us Stupid? 2008