Keyboarding Practice
Mrs. Wilson's Very Special Drills

Key each paragraph once, single spaced, in the box provided.  Tab from one box to the next.

Keyboard
 

Warmup

Directions: Type the following text once in the box below.

 

  1. Students in the central york school district will soon have a new high school.
  2. military leaders met at the state department to discuss the security of the nation.
  3. Every year large numbers of people come out to see the rose bowl parade.
  4. The dalai lama of tibet is a follower of buddhism, yet many christians and muslims look to him for guidance.
  5. In Lancaster, a popular place to visit is long's park, and in maryland, a popular tourist attraction is ladew topiary gardens.
  6. We live in the northeast, yet we often travel west to pittsburgh for our summer vacations.
  7. Sometimes stargazers think the planet venus is a star.

 

Extra Drill for Expert Typists

Professor Jagger, using quantitative physics and fuzzy set logic, was able to prove that clocks go "tock tick, tock tick." We don't hear it that way because of our lack of attention in our youth. We missed the first cycle and began with "tick, tock." We are too stubborn to admit we are wrong. A survey of experienced teachers reinforced the findings that people don't listen and won't admit they are wrong. Hence the background was created for the emergence of a serious Chinese problem. The Chinese, who make 98.7% of the doorbells, read from right to left. Hence "ding, dong," when adjusted via translators, came out "dong ding." To prevent an international incident and avoid bankrupting the new government in China, the State Department brainwashed us into hearing "ding dong." Several diplomats with dyslexia went quietly insane but were employed to write crazy keyboarding exercises for Nimble Fingers. Now, we often lose innocent people trying to develop their keyboarding skills by giving them mind-twisting exercises to type. But at least time passes quickly, and they are not bored.