FREE Typing Tip Posters

Use these FREE Typing Tip Posters in your classroom or at home to engage and motivate your students and help them learn the vital skill of touch typing. Kids who can type have a clear advantage in their ongoing education and in life.

Download these FREE Typing Tips posters to jazz up your classroom and help you to focus on teaching the crucial concepts that underpin good typing technique.

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Poster #1: Posture is important!

Sit properly on your chair
Adjust your chair so that your feet are flat on the floor.
Keep your head straight.
Your back should be straight.
Use a backrest to support the natural curve of your spine.
If your feet don’t reach the floor, use a footrest.

Poster #2: Posture is important!

Poster #3: Posture is important!

Poster #4: Posture is important!

Is this YOU? – The DON’T file

Poster #5: Posture is important!

Poster #6: Ready Set Go!

Poster #7: The Keyboard

Poster #8: Typing is all good!

Save time on:

School assignments
Social media posts
School projects
Online tests
Emails
Essays
Story writing

Poster #9: Keep calm and carry on typing

Poster #10: Keep your eyes on what you are typing.

Looking at your keys while you are typing breaks your rhythm, slows you down and causes errors.

Poster #11: Quirky QWERTY Facts 1

The first 6 letters on the top row of the keyboard are QWERTY.
The most frequently typed letters in English in order of popularity are ‘e’, ‘t’ and ‘a’.
The spacebar is the most typed key on the keyboard being used between each word.
The 10 most common words typed in English in order of popularity are: the, be, to, of, and, a, in, that, have, I.
The word “qwertyuiop” which is the top row of the QWERTY keyboard, was the first word sent by email and now appears in the Oxford English Dictionary.
When typing, the fingers travel approximately 1 mile (1.6 kms) for every 10,000 words.

Poster #12: Quirky QWERTY Facts 2

When typing, slow and accurate is better than fast and sloppy.
We measure typing speed in Words typed Per Minute (WPM).
You have 8 fingers and 2 thumbs. Use them all on the right keys to be your fastest.
Many people only use nine fingers when typing as they use only one thumb for the space bar.
For poor typists, the second most commonly used key is the backspace key as it is constantly need to correct errors.
A good typing speed is 40 WPM. With practice and by using the right fingers on the right keys most typists can achieve this speed.

Poster #13: Typing Timeline – The History of Typing

1440 Gutenberg printing press
1714 Henry Mill’s Machine for transcribing letters
1867 Prototype type writing machine
1873 Sholes and Glidden typewriter
1875 Remington No 1 typewriter
1877 Remington No 2 with QWERTY Keyboard
1935 IBM Electric Typewriter Model 1
1952 IBM Selectric with type ball
1976 Apple 1 computer
1978 Olivetti electronic typewriter
1984 IBM Model M Keyboard
2004 Typing Tournament CD version
2010 iPad 1
2016 Typing Tournament Online

Poster #14: Typing Speeds

WPM = Words per Minute. For the purpose of calculating typing speed it is commonly assumed that the average length of a word is 5 characters plus the space between words.

40 WPM: The speed most adult 10 finger typists can achieve
80 WPM: The minimum speed achieved by accomplished typists
150 WPM: The highest average typewriter typing speed maintained over 50 minutes by Barbara Blackburn
212 WPM: Barbara Blackburn’s peak typing speed
216 WPM: The world’s fastest recorded typing speed using a typewriter achieved by Stella Pajunas-Garnand
270 WPM: Peak speed often achieved by sprint typists in typing competitions using computer keyboards

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