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 The techniques, posture suggestions, typing
exercises and speed testing programs for the Ergomatic keyboard
are provided here free for your use. They will help you become
a skilled Ergomatic keyboard operator. Most of the training
materials were written by Lillian Malt, an English lady who
speaks, thinks, acts, learns and also teaches using British
English and a no-nonsense manner of presentation.
The superiority of the Maltron keyboard
layout has been verified by those who mastered the qwerty
and then found that they could master the Maltron layout and
do better. It took one operator about 50-60 hours of training
to advance from 40 years of qwerty operating at 80 wpm to
110 wpm using the Maltron layout. This proves that you can
"teach an old dog to do new tricks!"
As you complete the prescribed exercises,
you will develop the mental skill of combining characters
in keyboarding patterns that are very useful when it comes
to making words fly onto your computer screen. When you have
mastered the Malt technique and are able to use it together
with the ergonomic shape of the keyboard, you will be ready
to free your mind of the need to concentrate on the physical
action of making the keys operate. This will leave your mind
free to determine what to type; the physical process will
happen as a background function, while you think or read in
the foreground!
Because the programs are not large by today's
standards of size -- well less than 1 megabyte -- it doesn't
take long to download them so that you can use them off-line.
As you open each exercise section, command your browser
to <Save page as..> and put it where you want to
store it for fast and easy access. But, if you prefer just
using or testing in an on-line mode, you can do that, too.
You will note that we make no charge for your access to
the software, nor do we need to license you to use it.
If you feel obliged to let
us know how much you like it, send your thanks in
any form that seems appropriate. Our main goal is to
help you learn to be more comfortable at the keyboard,
more productive, and free of the pain that has come to
so many. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, or Repetitive Strain
Injury (RSI) as the English call it, is now the second
most common cause of workmen's compensation claims.
In time, industry will have paid out enough
in medical and liability claims that it will come to insist
upon the employment of workers who use keyboards that are
ergonomically correct for both the mind and the body! We hope
you will discover how to accomplish this long before employers
react to the need to do so.
We hope to hear
from you about your level of accomplishment!
It is not a mandatory graduation requirement
for those who achieve a new, faster, and more accurate
keyboarding skill to thank Lillian Malt for inventing the
layout and training program or Stephen Hobday for finding
the way to nurture it into life. With thousands of their
hours of devoted effort having been contributed to those
like you who benefit, it is appropriate to send your words
of praise to them in thanks and appreciation. Letters to
this effect to these two English stalwarts will certainly
be forwarded to them!
Continue to The
Learning Process.
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