keyboarding Vocabulary
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
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| Posture | The Position Of A Person S Body While Standing Or Sitting
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| alt+tab (try it) | Switch Between Window
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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. It is located in the position of a similar Shift lock key found in some other keyboard layouts.
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| Control Key | a key that alters the function of another key if both are pressed at the same time.
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| Cursor Control Key | a key that alters the function of another key if both are pressed at the same time.
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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 | Used to move the cursor down a line
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| Home Keys | on the keyboard, the keys A, 5, D, F, J, K, L, : and ; used in the QWERTY method of keyboarding
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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 | is short for Gross Words A Minute and is similar to WPM except it does not
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| Hardware | tools, machinery, and other durable equipment.
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| Homerow | Touch typing is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys. Specifically, a touch typist will know their location on the keyboard through muscle memor
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| Wpm | is a measure of input or output speed. For the purpose of typing measurement, each word is standardized to be five characters or keystrokes long, including spaces and
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| Keyboarding Posture | For the purpose of typing measurement, each word is standardized to be five characters or keystrokes long, including spaces and punctuation.
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| Keyboard Shortcut | n 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, w, e, r, t, and y as the first keys from the left on the top row of letters
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| Shift Key | a slight change in position, direction, or tendency.
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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 | Gross speed indicates the total number of characters you have typed divided by your time (with spaces and punctuation)
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