About this lesson: Number Row III
Mastery drills combine every skill at full difficulty: dense vocabulary, full punctuation, capitals, and numbers in realistic passages. Clean performance here means your technique is genuinely automatic.
Keys introduced in this lesson
Finger placement below describes the standard QWERTY layout — the drill itself adapts to whichever keyboard layout you practice with.
- 1
left pinky, number row. The farthest left-pinky reach.
- 2
left ring finger, number row. Reach up past W.
- 3
left middle finger, number row. Reach up past E.
- 4
left index finger, number row. Reach up past R.
- 5
left index finger, number row. A long stretch up and right.
- 6
right index finger, number row. A long stretch up and left.
- 7
right index finger, number row. Reach up past U.
- 8
right middle finger, number row. Reach up past I.
- 9
right ring finger, number row. Reach up past O.
- 0
right pinky, number row. Reach up from the semicolon position.
How to get the most from this drill
- Type these as you would real work — natural pace, full attention, no special effort.
- Hesitations at this level reveal your true remaining weaknesses; note and target them.
- Revisit mastery drills monthly as a benchmark of long-term progress.