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What Accelerated Learning techniques are used in typeSmart?

Trial and Success!

TypeSmart is based on ‘trial and success’ rather than trial-and-error. Only correct keystrokes allow you to progress, and thus train your mind correctly. In contrast, most conventional typing tutorials ‘beep’ at you when you make a mistake, negatively reinforcing the error in your head.

Only normal language used

The only combinations of letters used are those found in normal language, rather than junk chunks (e.g. 'fgf'), thus avoiding the 'unlearning' or cognitive re-imprinting necessitated by the Home Keys method. This results in dramatically shortening the time required for overall skill acquisition.

Psycho-motor associations.

TypeSmart is designed to progressively teach psycho-motor associations, so that you soon start keying like a pianist. This means training your unconscious mind to automatically associate, firstly, areas of the keyboard with your fingers, and secondly, words and syllables with finger movements in the way a pianist associates keys with notes. We use piano music in the eText Software to reinforce this association.

Both sight and sound are used.

TypeSmart also teaches you to create text based on cognitive processes of how we speak and read. Therefore it uses the two modalities of learning — sight and audio reinforcement learning, as words are ‘seen’ by some people and ‘heard’ by others.

Encourages creative thinking.

The right-hemisphere of the brain is considered to be the source of creative thinking, whereas the left hemisphere is considered to be the source of analytical thinking. Creative and managerial writing is predominantly a “right-brain” activity, whereas hunt-and-peck techniques and traditional typing are key-character based and thus are predominantly “left-brain” activities. TypeSmart is based on right brain learning and therefore is more compatible with creative writing.

For more information see:
Accelerated Learning Principles

What Accelerated Learning techniques are used in typeSmart?

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