Editing Touch typing (section)

{{Short description|Typing without the use of sight to find the keys}}
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[[File:Albert Tangora typing 1938.jpg|thumb|Competitive typist [[Albert Tangora]] demonstrating his typing in 1938]]
'''Touch typing''' (also called '''blind typing''', or '''touch keyboarding''') is a style of [[typing]]. Although the phrase refers to typing without using the sense of [[visual perception|sight]] to find the keys—specifically, a touch typist will know their location on the keyboard through [[muscle memory]]—the term is often used to refer to a specific form of touch typing that involves placing the eight fingers in a horizontal row along the middle of the keyboard (the ''[[home row]]'') and having them reach for specific other keys. (Under this usage, typists who do not look at the keyboard but do not use home row either are referred to as hybrid typists.) Both two-handed touch typing and [[one hand typing|one-handed touch typing]] are possible.

[[Frank Edward McGurrin]], a court stenographer from [[Salt Lake City, Utah]] who taught typing classes, reportedly invented home row touch typing in 1888.
On a standard [[QWERTY]] keyboard for English speakers the home row keys are: "ASDF" for the left hand and "JKL;" for the right hand. Most modern [[computer keyboard]]s have a raised dot or bar on the home keys for the index fingers to help touch typists maintain and rediscover the correct positioning of the fingers on the keyboard keys.