Keyboarding Vocabulary
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Posture | the position of a person's body while standing or sitting
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| alt+tab | switch between windows
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| Homerow | Touch typing is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys.
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| Accuracy | the quality or state of being correct or precise.
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| Backspace | a key on a typewriter or computer keyboard that causes the carriage or cursor to move backward.
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| Caps Lock | Caps lock is a lock key found on many computer keyboards, depending on the local keyboard layout they implement.
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| Control key (Ctrl) Control key (Ctrl) | a key that alters the function of another key if both are pressed at the same time
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| 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.
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| Delete | remove or obliterate (written or printed matter), esp. by drawing a line through it or marking it with a delete sign.
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| Enter/Return | come or go into (a place).
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| Home keys | a key on a computer or typewriter keyboard that acts as the base position for one's fingers in touch-typing.
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| Function keys | a button on a computer keyboard, distinct from the main alphanumeric keys, to which software can assign a particular function.
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| Gross WPM | Alternatively referred to as GWPM, which is short for Gross Words Per Minute
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| Hardware | the machines, wiring, and other physical components of a computer or other electronic system.
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| WPM | Words Per Minute
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| Keyboarding Posture | The position of your fingers on the keys
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| 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.
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| QWERTY | denoting the standard layout on English-language typewriters and keyboards, having q, q,w, e, r, t, and y as the first keys from the left on the top row of letters.
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| Service Keys | The keys that give you services
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| Shift Key | a key on a typewriter or computer keyboard used to switch between two sets of characters or functions, principally between lower- and upper-case letters
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| Software | the programs and other operating information used by a computer.
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| Spacebar | a long key on a typewriter or computer keyboard for making a space between words.
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| PrtSc | Print screen is a key present on most PC keyboards
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| Net WPM | Words per minute on the net
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