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Ten Key Test Room

Welcome to the Ten Key Test Room where you can learn how to increase your speed and accuracy, practice effectively, and take a 10 key test. Be sure to check out our Free Typing Lessons page too!

Why you should use a numeric keypad

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numeric keypad

The ability to use your numeric keypad on your keyboard by touch is vital to the typist being paid based on speed, but important to anyone who'd like to type more efficiently.

Many home business owners are using laptops - which generally have smaller keyboards without a numeric keypad. Also, in many cases, many of us were never taught to use a keypad efficiently and resort to the numbers above the letters across the top of a keyboard. This is a problem if typing speed is important in your earnings.

Here's why:

  • Straight text typing, that contains only the occasional number or very short strings of numbers, is fine for the number/symbol keys. But in many cases typing from various sources includes more numbers with long character strings.
     

  • When you use the number/symbol keys, there is no way to tell if you have entered the number accurately unless you look at the keyboard. This motion of looking back and forth between the source you are typing from and your keyboard - or the screen and your keyboard - or the screen, your source and your keyboard - is very time consuming!
     

  • This motion of double-checking your source and your typing also results in more errors because it is so much easier to lose your place or misread what you are typing. And we all know that accuracy is absolutely essential.

Try this:

Open Notepad or your word processor. Type the following using the letter/symbol keys.

2946 15th Ave

Now, type it again using your numeric keypad instead.

2946 15th Ave

How about invoice numbers, account numbers, and phone numbers? Try the same exercise entering the following phone number:

866-389-1572

It is far more efficient to use the numeric keypad. Practice, practice, practice until you can type ten-key by touch. This means not looking at your keyboard and not looking at your hand.

Try that phone number again, without entering the dashes. Many programs, including database applications, allow you to set the input criteria of the field so you can type in straight numbers and it will automatically format the data for you.

Type the phone number below, first using the numbers across the top of your keyboard, and then the numeric keypad.

8663891572

Each number of the keypad has a distinct feel. In addition, you can tell intrinsically when you've made an error, and even correct that error without looking at what you are doing.

I believe the best way to learn the ten key numeric keypad is by pushing yourself over and over again - going faster than you are comfortable - disregarding errors at first but certainly trying your best not to make them.

You see, most people that I've worked with personally are slow on the keypad because they are too careful. They are afraid to make errors. But you can't learn the feel of each key on the keypad or teach your subconscious to instinctively feel errors if you are looking at the keypad or your fingers.

In data entry - the faster you key, the more you earn. Proficiency at the numeric keypad is crucial. Read the article Typing Speed and your Earnings for more information about this important topic.

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Ten Key Test Scores Grades

Ten-Key Data Entry Grading Scale:

* A = 12,000 keystrokes per hour
* B = 10,000 keystrokes per hour
* C = 8,000 keystrokes per hour
* D = 6,000 keystrokes per hour
* F = Below 5,999 keystrokes per hour

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Offline, Printable Ten Key Test

Click here to print out a page of numbers, numbers, numbers!

Practice by not looking at the keypad or your hands ... go slow if you need to but do not peek!

Practice by pushing yourself as fast as you can go. Then check to see how many errors you've made and keep improving.

Begin practicing by including the decimal point. Next practice using the minus sign such as 12345-67890 and then 12345.12-98765.23

You can type up your own sheet of practice numbers using a spreadsheet program such as Lotus or Excel. Or, grab your checkbook register or the phone book. And keep practicing until you're burning up the keyboard!

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