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Keyright, the color-coded keyboard that’ll teach you how to type
The keyboard is divided into eight color zones and each finger is assigned a different color |
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 You won’t want to leave home without your keyboard |
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Years ago, if you wanted to learn how to type correctly, you had to sign up for a typing course. Who could ever forget those blank keyboards that used to drive us crazy? A specially designed computer program displayed you where each letter would be on a normal keyboard. And when the student pressed the wrong key, the letter lit up on the screen as if she’d won a prize.
KeyRight is an alternative to these typing courses. The system is convenient, you can learn to type at home, and its colorful design is very appropriate for children and beginners.
It was created by a company called Look & Learn Typing Solution and is intended to teach us to type quickly and accurately. Its design is based on a system that uses 8 colors: the colors of the rainbow + the color pink. Each key is assigned a color, and each color is assigned a different finger. For instance, the right index finger should only touch blue keys; red keys are for the left pinkie…
The keyboard includes a tutorial software programthat teaches users the system step by step so that they can learn to type accurately using the right fingers for the right key. If you follow the steps in the tutorial, your mind will naturally learn to associate letters and colors, thus developing your motor skills on hands and fingers, and you will naturally acquire a sense of rhythm.
Interesting facts about the QWERTY keyboard
KeyRight is a QWERTY keyboard, which is the most commonly used type of keyboard in the world. Why is it called QWERTY? Because the first six letters in the upper row correspond to these letters of the alphabet.
Christopher Sholes invented this type of keyboard in 1868 and he did it out of necessity. Up until then, the keys on typewriter keyboards were arranged in alphabetical order and they worked by striking a piston that hit an ink ribbon thus printing the letters on paper.
But there was a problem, these pistons were very slow and the machine would often get jammed. Sholes decided to distribute the keys haphazardly, separating those letters that were most often used in writing (A, L, M, E, B…). That’s how QWERTY was born.
A curious fact: the letters that spell out typewriter all ended up on the upper row. Is that a coincidence? No, that was actually suggested by a businessman that Sholes had asked for advice about his new invention.
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