Home Row Heroes
his is where your fingers should always rest before you start typing.
What is the home row?
Press this big key to move down to a brand new line.
What is Enter or Return?
This acronym stands for "Words Per Minute," which measures your typing speed.
What is WPM?
You should look at this screen while typing, not down at your hands.
What is the monitor or screen?
Press this key to end a sentence before you hit the Space Bar.
What is the period?
Your left index finger rests on this letter, which has a small bump on it.
What is F?
Use this key to erase a mistake to the left of your cursor.
What is backspace?
This flashing line or arrow shows exactly where your next letter will appear.
What is the cursor?
Sit up straight in your chair to maintain this good physical health habit.
What is posture?
To make a question mark, you must hold down the Shift key and press this key.
What is the slash or question mark key?
Your right index finger rests on this letter, which also has a small bump.
What is J?
Hold this key down to make just one single letter a capital letter.
What is shift?
Typing a word incorrectly means you made this kind of mistake.
What is a spelling typo or spelling error
Keep both of these flat on the floor while sitting at your computer desk.
What are your feet?
This punctuation mark separates items in a list, like apples, bananas, and oranges.
What is a comma
Use these two fingers to press the Space Bar.
What are your thumbs?
Press this key once to lock on capital letters for every word you type.
What is capslock?
This word describes how many words you typed correctly.
What is accuracy?
This is the safe way to carry a laptop through the school hallways
What is with two hands?
You must hold down Shift and press the number 1 to type this exciting punctuation mark
What is an exclamation point?
These four letters make up the home row keys for your left hand
What are A, S, D, and F?
This long key at the bottom adds a blank area between your words.
What is the spacebar?
These keys sit above the home row and include letters Q, W, E, R, T, and Y.
What is the top row?
Do this important task right before your class time in the lab ends.
What is log out or save work?
This key, located next to the L key, creates a dot-on-top-of-a-dot mark.
What is a semicolon?