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keyboarding Vocab
keyboarding Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Posture | the position of a person's body while standing or sitting |
alt+tab | switch between windows |
Accuracy | the quality or state of being correct or precise |
Backspace | a key on a typewriter or computer keyboard that causes the carriage or cursor to move backward. |
Caps Lock | Caps lock is a lock key found on many computer keyboards, depending on the local keyboard layout they implement. It is located in the position of a similar Shift lock key found in some other keyboard layouts |
Control Key | a key that alters the function of another key if both are pressed at the same time. |
Cursor Control Key | (Cursor-control keys (keyboard)) Keys on terminal or microcomputer keyboards, usually designated with arrows, that position the screen cursor up, down, right or left. |
Delete | remove or obliterate (written or printed matter), esp. by drawing a line through it or marking it with a delete sign. |
Enter/Return | Used to move the cursor down a line |
Home Keys | a key on a computer or typewriter keyboard that acts as the base position for one's fingers in touch-typing. |
Function Keys | a button on a computer keyboard, distinct from the main alphanumeric keys, to which software can assign a particular function. |
Gross WPM | The amount of words you typed without errors |
Hardware | tools, machinery, and other durable equipment. |
Homerow | Touch typing is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys |
WPM | word per minute |
Keyboarding Posture | The way your posture is while sitting at an computer |
Keyboard Shortcut | In computing, a keyboard shortcut is a set of one or several keys that invoke a software or operating system operation when triggered by the user |
QWERTY | denoting the standard layout on English-language typewriters and keyboards, having q, w, e, r, t, and y as the first keys from the left on the top row of letters |
Service keys | ex.) f5 reloads web page |
Shift Key | a slight change in position, direction, or tendency |
Software | the programs and other operating information used by a computer. |
PrtSc | Print screen is a key present on most PC keyboards |
net wpm | the amount you typed counting erros |