fumble fingers for music lovers
Posted By: anon on 2007-12-19
In Reply to: Finger fumbling - Loopy
When I get like this, the only cure is to push the keyboard aside and pretend the tray is a piano and then listen to a fast piano piece and try to "play" it on the keyboard tray. (Obviously, I don't own a piano--yet.) This warms up my fingers and wrists, relaxes me, brings me joy if it is a favorite piece of music, and then when I type again it is usually more accurate and my speed is up. Sounds crazy but it works for me! Only takes about 3 minutes.
Another trick my piano teacher taught me when I was a kid was to practice the difficult parts with gloves on (yeh, that long ago). Then when I took off the gloves, I could play it better. This might work for the computer keyboard as well. You could use Playtex gloves perhaps.
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Could it be something on your fingers?
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Nothing to do with your fingers sm
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Ya know what FINGERS
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frozen fingers
do you guys have troubles with her hands getting cold? and what do you do about it?
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Actually the ones I have do not have fingers, just a thumb.
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fumbling fingers
When that happens to me, I consciously slow down and meticulously try to make no errors and eventually increase my speed. That seems to help me.
Another trick is to not think about your fingers at all, but still slow down a bit, and then you will find you are on the right track again after a while. I think it also happens when the dictator does not speak in a good flow of words, is choppy and starts and stops a lot. Your rhythm is off when that happens.
Hope this helps. 
Gee you must have bionic fingers
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The only movement should be fingers. I have
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lol. I figured my fingers
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fingers won't work
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Could be other things also on the fingers sm
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music
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Can't get into her music?
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Yay! Me too! MUSIC!
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music sm
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music
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Painful fingers from typing
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Keep your fingers on the keyboard and not the mouse. sm
I average anywhere from 500 to 600 lines an hour on recognized files; however, it took a little while to get there.
There are eScription provides tips and shortcut keys so you do not have to use the mouse (a lot of control + keys).
Do you have those tips? If not, I could try to e-mail them to you.
cause is brain going faster than fingers
I don't think there's anything we can *do* about it - except perhaps proof better as we type and/or not type as fast as we are.....it's our own flaw..I think.....and every time I re-read - I find something omitted - so I'm re-reading it all :)
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