Touch keying is the ability to strike the various keys
on the keyboard without having to look at them.  Is there a
secret to this process?  Yes, the striking of each keyboard
key with the proper finger.  The little fingers, as well as
the strong index fingers, must be correctly employed.  When
a key is activated with a wrong finger, a damaging habit is
formed.  This damage is due to the use of a finger that has
to travel a further distance than the finger designated for
that key.  The finger assigned to operate a specific key is
always that finger which is nearest the key to be operated.
     We use eight fingers, nine with the right thumb, which
can be divided among the numerous keyboard rows and columns
in a manner that will permit touch control.  In the initial
years of the typewriter, its operation was slow, to say the
least.  This was a result of its operators using only their
strongest fingers.  Usually, only four fingers were used to
strike the keys, leaving six potential workers idle.  This,
of course, required that the fingers be visually controlled
as they moved from one key to another.  In time, the legend
says, a pioneering lady used all her fingers to touch type.