Keyboarding Vocab Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Posture | the position of a person's body while standing or sitting |
alt+tab | switch between windows |
Homerow | Touch typing is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys. |
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. |
Control key (Ctrl) Control key (Ctrl) | 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 | come or go into (a place). |
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 | Alternatively referred to as GWPM, which is short for Gross Words Per Minute |
Hardware | the machines, wiring, and other physical components of a computer or other electronic system. |
WPM | Words Per Minute |
Keyboarding Posture | The position of your fingers on the keys |
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, q,w, e, r, t, and y as the first keys from the left on the top row of letters. |
Service Keys | The keys that give you services |
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 |
Software | the programs and other operating information used by a computer. |
Spacebar | a long key on a typewriter or computer keyboard for making a space between words. |
PrtSc | Print screen is a key present on most PC keyboards |
Net WPM | Words per minute on the net |
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