JP2000181340A - Touch type exercise recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a touch type exercise recording medium for taking exercises by positioning an exercise for storing a character position as a 1st step exercise and reducing an exercise amount of a Roman character input method to a fifth of a conventional method or less, and using character string for exercise considering appearing frequencies of characters both in Japanese and English as a 2nd step exercise. SOLUTION: As for a Roman character input touch type exercise recording medium, a touch type exercise file for inputting Japanese in Roman character is used starting with a 1st file for a Roman characters for storing 1st step character positions, and is sequentially used in order of a 2nd file for Roman characters, a 3rd file for Roman characters, and exercises are sequentially taken on a 2nd step frequency order 1st file, a frequency order 2nd file, and a frequency order 3rd file.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a touch-type practice recording medium for providing an efficient practice character string used for touch-type practice for inputting Japanese romaji and English using a QWERTY layout keyboard. It is.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art [1.] Horizontal practice and vertical practice Since the commercial typewriter was launched in 1874, the typing practice has not changed much for about 120 years. The keyboard layout of the first typewriter is AB
Although it is said to be in C order, this has a major defect of type bar jam, and it is said that as a result of continued improvement to avoid this, a QWERTY arrangement was obtained. Ergonomics of Kansai Medical University, Masaru Nakasako Vol-22. No. −
2 1986 P53, the QWERTY sequence is 18
Invented in 1973. Typing practice is QWERT
The mainstream is a horizontal or vertical type corresponding to the structure of the Y-arranged keyboard and a combination thereof. Over the long history, it has been determined which fingers on the keyboard are more efficient to tap with the right and left fingers. I also removed my thumbs when I started typing 8
The character on the keyboard on which each finger is placed is called the "home position" and is determined. The fingering and home position corresponding to the alphabet letters are the de facto standard for typing practice. Both the horizontal type and the vertical type are methods of practicing according to the physical structure of the keyboard irrespective of the character arrangement of the keyboard, and are characterized by little movement of fingers and easy for beginners to practice. Practice the horizontal type in the middle, upper, lower order,
When you can hit it, combine the middle and upper
It is a method of practicing the combination of the middle and lower tiers. The vertical type is a middle tier where the right index finger covers the hand and fingers.
This is a method of practicing upper, lower, middle, upper, lower, etc. covered by the middle finger of the right hand. Neither the horizontal practice nor the vertical practice takes into account the consonant vowel analysis and the frequency of appearance described below at all, so that 30 characters on the keyboard are usually practiced equally, resulting in poor practice efficiency.

[2.] Other practice methods and a 30-character practice file Another practice method is to practice the alphabets A to Z for both English and Japanese without considering the physical structure of the keyboard. In the case of Japanese romaji input, it is a method of practicing the Japanese syllabary table and "Iroha Nihoheto". This feature is that the movement of the finger is random because the ordinary person practices the memorized character string. Moreover, since the distance to move the finger becomes longer, the burden on beginners is greater than that of the horizontal type and the vertical type. There is no commercial book that recommends a method of practicing with this method alone, but it is best to practice in your own way because no preparation is required.
This is the easiest way to practice since you know the home position and then use a known string for practice, but it's pretty rough. In this case, too, the analysis of the consonant vowels and the frequency of appearance of the letters are not taken into account at all.
The practice efficiency is poor because you practice all characters equally, including letters and the Japanese syllabary.

Further, as a practice file initially devised by the present inventor, a practice file for storing the positions of traditional 30 characters was created. It is horizontal, middle right hand,
There are 9 combinations of upper, lower, middle upper, upper middle, upper middle, lower middle, lower middle, lower upper, upper lower, and right upper right. There are 9 practice files for the left hand as well as the right hand, for a total of 18 practice files. It was created. In the practice group described below, 4
This is a method to practice all 30 characters equally in 50 sets. 1
The eight practice files are shown below. 1. 1. Middle right hand (file name: f01rm) Upper right hand (f02ru),
3. 3. Lower right hand side (f03rl); Middle right upper hand (f04rm),
5. 5. Upper right middle (f05rum), 6. Middle right lower hand (f06rm
l), 7. 7. Lower right middle row (f07rlm), Lower right upper row (f08
rlu), 9. 10. Right upper, lower (f09rul); Middle left hand (f10
1m), 11. 11. Upper left hand (f11lu); Lower left hand (f12l
l) 13. 13. middle left upper hand (f13lmu); Middle left (f14
lum), 15. 15. middle left lower hand (f15lml), 16. lower left middle tier (f16llm); 13. lower left hand upper row (f17llu); Upper left lower middle (f18lul)

[3.] Features of keyboards other than QWERTY layout and commercially available type practice software In the past 120 years, many practice methods and new keyboards have been devised. QWERTY invented in 1873
The layout keyboard was determined to be inefficient for English input from the viewpoint of behavioral research. Dvorak
Devised a great Dvorak layout keyboard in 1935, adopted by the United States Navy during World War II, but pushed by the de facto standard QWERTY layout, and has never seen it on the market today. On the other hand, although it does not affect Roman alphabet input, Japanese national standard JIS established "information processing keyboard layout JIS X 6002" in 1980 as a keyboard for Japanese text input in 1980 for direct kana input. The common name is "old JIS keyboard". In 1986, a three-stage arrangement of "Kana-Kanji conversion type Japanese sentence input device keyboard arrangement JIS X 6004" was established in 1986 for Kana direct input. The popular name is "new JIS keyboard". In reality, the "old JIS keyboard" having a four-stage arrangement is still widely used today. Around 1987, Masanori Morita developed an M-type keyboard specializing in Japanese input and marketed it temporarily, but this was also pushed by the de facto standard called QWERTY layout, and it can be seen that it is on the market today. Absent.

[0006] Since the launch of Windows 95 in November 1995, personal computers have rapidly spread for personal use.
Internet standard on Windows 95
The number of browser and e-mail users has increased dramatically. At the same time, commercial books such as various touch-type practice software, type practice books, and commentary books are rapidly increasing. In particular, most of the commercially available typing practice software presupposes self-study, and various measures have been taken to prevent frustration during the practice until the touch type is available. For example, there is software that incorporates a game feeling. However, the practice character string itself as the essence of typing practice is described in [1. ] [2. There are many methods described in [1].

[0007]

As described in "Prior Art", typing practice has been mainly horizontal and vertical for about 120 years in the past. Moreover, the practice ends with the practice of memorizing the position of the letters, and the subsequent practice is usually to practice practical business documents. In the case of the present inventor, the practice of storing the character positions is regarded as the first-stage practice, and the amount of practice in the Roman alphabet input method is less than one-fifth of the conventional method. In the second stage of the practice, both Japanese and English use a practice character string that takes into account the frequency of appearance of characters.
Compared to this, the conventional practice method that does not consider the appearance frequency is very inefficient. A paper by Masuda and Oiwa who recommends practice in the order of finger movement is considered to be relatively unique in the research of various seniors (IEICE Technical Report 1988, Tadaru Masuda, Motoo Oiwa " Blind input technology that can be mastered "). However, one of the questions is that the middle finger is the easiest to move,
Next is the index finger. According to Murayama's paper, the dominance of the finger is as shown in FIG. Therefore, in the case of the present inventor, a practice character string for storing the character position in the first stage for memorizing the character position of the keyboard was prepared according to Murayama's paper.
Murayama's dissertation examines the dominance through the right and left, and creates a practice string based on the order of dominance in the right hand and the order of dominance in the left hand.

[0008]

In order to use the touch-type practice file for inputting Japanese romaji characters, the first step is to start with the first romaji first file for storing the character position in the first stage, and then use the second romaji file and the third romaji file. A practice recording medium for inputting Roman characters, which is practiced in the following order: a first file in frequency order, a second file in frequency order, and a third file in frequency order. Romaji input practice data for storing character positions on the QWERTY layout keyboard for characters excluding characters not used for Romaji out of all 26 characters are the first Romaji file, the second Romaji file, and the third Romaji file. The file consists of three files.

The first file for Roman characters is used for practicing characters used for Roman characters arranged in the middle and upper stages of the right hand, and the second file for Roman characters is used for characters used for Roman characters arranged in the upper and lower stages of the right hand. The third file for romaji is mainly for practicing the characters used for romaji arranged in the middle, upper, and lower rows of the left hand. As the second stage, the hiragana appearance frequency order practice data for practicing in the hiragana appearance frequency order is the first file in the frequency order,
It consists of three files, a second file in order of frequency and a third file in order of frequency. The first file in frequency order is the first group with the highest appearance frequency, the second file in frequency order is the second group with the next highest appearance frequency, and the third file in the frequency order is the third group with the next highest appearance frequency. It is a touch type practice recording medium for inputting Roman characters.

[0010] The order of using the touch type practice file for inputting English sentences starts from the first file for storing the character position in the first stage, practice the second file, the third file, and the fourth file, and then practice the second file. Two-step alphabet appearance frequency order This is a touch-type practice recording medium for practicing English sentence for practicing in the order of the practice file, and as a first step, taking into account the frequency of occurrence of English alphabets and excluding alphabets with low appearance frequency. The practice data for inputting English sentences for storing the character positions on the QWERTY layout keyboard is composed of four files: a first file, a second file, a third file, and a fourth file. The first file is mainly for practicing characters arranged in the upper and lower tiers of the right hand, the second file is for practicing the characters arranged in the middle, lower and upper tiers of the right hand, and the third file is mainly for practicing the characters arranged in the middle of the left hand.
The fourth file is for practicing the characters arranged in the upper row, and the fourth file is for practicing the letters arranged in the middle, upper, and lower rows of the left hand. As the second stage, the alphabet appearance frequency order practice data considering the alphabet appearance frequency and the appearance frequency order is 1
It is a touch type practice recording medium for English input that consists of individual files.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A traditional approach to learning the "30 characters (26 alphabets and 4 special characters)", which has been used for about 120 years to date, is a scientific approach to "consonant vowel analysis". And a readable recording medium for recording touch-type practice data that is characterized by touch-type practice reflecting "order of appearance frequency". The touch type practice data can be efficiently used by using the hardware resources of the computer. It assumes the use of a QWERTY keyboard that is widespread throughout the world.

In particular, in the Roman alphabet input method, in the case of a practice character string for remembering the position of a character, the present inventor first sets 30 characters.
In the conventional practice character string created to store the positions of characters, 450 sets of practice character strings were created with one set of three touches. However, the alphabet used for Romaji is 1
Since only 20 characters including 9 lowercase L's are used, the number of practice character strings was reduced from 450 to 190, or less than half, 42.2%. In addition, Japanese consonants are not consecutive, so in the end, the practice string of the alphabet was drastically reduced to 17.6% of 79 sets. More specifically, two types of practice data for inputting Japanese romaji and two types of practice data for inputting English sentences are provided as a total of four types of computer-readable recording media.

[0013] The type of training data is for both Japanese and English.
The first stage is practice data for character position storage, and the second stage is practice data in order of appearance frequency. 1. The Roman character position storage practice data for storing the positions of the 20 letters of the alphabet used for Roman characters is composed of three files. 2. The practice data in the order of the appearance frequency of the Japanese syllabary "Hiragana" is composed of three files. 3. The English character position storage practice data for storing the positions of the 18 characters of the alphabet in consideration of the frequency of occurrence of the alphabet for inputting the English language is composed of four files. 4. The practice data for alphabetical input frequency in English input is composed of one file.

Of the above four types of touch-type training data, character position storage training data for storing character positions of alphabets for both Roman characters and English sentences includes the following common features 1 to 4. Is included in each practice data. Features 1. The practice data for memorizing the character positions of the alphabet was designed to be able to be practiced in the order of hand and finger dominance, enabling reasonable practice. Features 2. In practice for memorizing the character positions of the alphabet, support characters were introduced instead of practice characters alone. This is because learning is quicker than practicing the practice letters alone. In practice, one practice character is practiced as one set of three touches of “support character, practice character, blank” as described later. Features 3. The keyboard is designed so that you can practice in the middle, upper, and lower rows in order of ease of practice. This is called "basic practice". Next, the middle and upper tiers, and the upper and middle tiers are practiced crossing each other, and this is called “combination practice”. Feature 4. One touch-type practice time is designed so that concentration can be completed in about 1 minute.

Characteristic 1 is that it is easier to practice in the order of finger dominance and ease of movement. For right and left hands, right-handed people usually practice the right hand first, and then practice the left hand. In the same hand, take the home position as an example. 1. home position index finger; 2. One index finger at home position Index character on the inside of the keyboard, Middle finger, 4. Ring finger, 5. The order is the little finger (see FIG. 9).

Characteristic 2 is that, in order to learn the position of a character on the keyboard, rather than practicing a keystroke of one character to be remembered, characters surrounding the character are introduced as support characters and practiced in combination with practice characters. But it is quick to remember. Here, I added a blank space so that I could practice rhythmically, and made it a rhythm of three beats. In this method, one set is composed of three touches of “support character, practice character, blank”, and one specific practice character is memorized. Specifically, the practice to remember the character position of a is
Since “a” is arranged in the middle of the left hand, “5 sets” of “aa sada faga” is arranged in the keyboard arrangement order.
Considering the order of finger dominance, fa gad
a saaa. Considering a similar set for the remaining four characters sdfg arranged in the middle left hand, there are 25 sets in the entire middle left hand.

Supporting character: A surrounding character was used as a partner of combination before a practice character to be memorized. In the basic practice, use the letters of the same hand and the same row as the letters to be remembered in the basic practice. For example, in the case of the letter a, the middle-left letter “asd fg” including the letter “a” where the letter “a” is placed is the support letter. From among these, the support character and the practice character are combined in order of the finger's dominance. Specifically, a practice character string for remembering the character position of a is as follows. fa (index finger and a) ga (index finger and a) da (middle finger and a) sa (ring finger and a) aa (little finger and a) Practice character: character whose character position is to be memorized, in this example, "a" blank: Space character introduced for rhythm of triple time

The feature 3 is that the 26 alphabets, semicolon (;), slash (/), comma (,), and period (.) Are the middle, upper, and lower three characters on the keyboard.
The training data is designed so that it can be practiced because it is easier to practice in this order. Furthermore, each combination of the middle and upper rows, the upper and middle rows, the middle and lower rows, and the lower and middle rows was also added to the practice character string. But,
The practice of combining upper and lower rows and lower and upper rows is very difficult and takes a long time because the moving distance of the finger is about twice, and it takes much effort and little profit to learn the character position on the keyboard. Not adopted as a practice string. As a result, the amount of practice was 350 pairs of full practice and 450 pairs of 77.
8%. Finally, the following practice data for character position storage was created from the 18 practice files described above. 1. The file names of the three character position memory practice data for Roman characters are fr1rmu.txt, fr2rul.txt, fr3lmul.txt The file names of four character position memory practice data for English sentences are fe1rul.txt, fe2rmuml.txt, fe3lmu.txt, and fe4lmum.
l.txt

Creation of practice character string for Roman character input method (Narrowing down from 18 to three practice files) From the viewpoint of storing character positions, Roman character input is the same as English character practice character string. When the twelfth character is expressed in Roman characters, all the 26 characters of the alphabet are not used, so the practice character string of the character position storage practice data for Roman characters is smaller than that for English sentences. In the Roman alphabet input, five characters of AUEO for the vowel of "Ai-ueo" and nine characters of KSTNHMYRW for the consonant of "Kasatanayarayawa" are line, zag, ba line, da line, and ぱ line. GZB for semi-dull sound
This is a total of 19 characters, 5 DP characters.

On the other hand, there are two types of Roman characters: Kunjo-style Roman characters and Hebon-style Roman characters. Most of the currently available kana-kanji conversion software covers both of these two systems. The inventor's opinion recommends the instructional Roman alphabet from the viewpoint of minimizing the moving distance of the finger in touch typing. For Japanese lowercase letters such as "@", MS-IME of Microsoft, one of word processing software popular in Japan, replaces X with AUEO, and JustSystems AT
In OK, AIUEO was input after L, but
Recently, even in MS-IME, lowercase "@" can be used in L. Since the fingers of both hands are usually placed at the middle home position, and L is located at the home position of the right hand, the stroke of the finger is longer when hitting L than when hitting X located at the lower left hand. It is clear that you can hit faster because of less.

In addition to the above, there are problems of murmurs, dots, and circles. In this regard, the present inventor added (FJ) in addition to 19 characters.
L,. ) Is recommended to practice. Fortunately, three of these characters are located at the home position. The purpose of the basic practice and combination practice is to learn the positions of the letters on the keyboard. However, considering the frequency, among the additional 5 characters (FJL ,.), F and J are less frequently used, so 75 sets of practice Only added 4 sets at the end of. Of the additional five characters, L used for lowercase letters and dots and circles,. Were added to 19 characters. As a result, the 20 alphabets and special characters,. It is only necessary to practice the two characters, and the number of practice character strings is considerably reduced. This is the utility and characteristic of the first Roman alphabet input method compared to "Kana direct input".

Next, in the practice method of one set of three touches described in the feature 2, the Japanese feature that there is no combination of consonants and consonants greatly affects. We noticed that Japanese consists of a combination of consonants and vowels. As in English, practicing all combinations was consid- ered to be much more wasteful than consonant / vowel combinations. In Roman alphabet input, the combination of consonants and consonants is used only in exceptional cases, such as murmurs, repellents, and prompts. It was determined that the practice string excluding the consonant / consonant combination was sufficient. This is the advantage and characteristic of the second Roman alphabet input method compared to “Kana direct input”. This is the "consonant vowel analysis", and as a result, the amount of practice was drastically reduced to 79 sets, 17.6% from 450 sets of full practice.

The process of creating a practice character string in which the amount of practice is drastically reduced is as follows. The first feature of the Roman alphabet input method is that 19 characters,. Are added to the basic practice character string. However, in the combined practice character string, only L for Japanese lowercase letters is added, and the number of characters is set to 20 except for the less frequently used FJ. There are the following 18 logical practice character string files by the horizontal formula. 1. 1. Middle right hand (f01rm) 2. Upper right hand (f02ru); 3. Lower right hand side (f03rl); 4. middle right upper hand (f04rmu); 5. Upper right middle (f05rum), 6. 6. Lower right middle row (f06rml), 7. 7. Lower right middle row (f07rlm), 8. Lower right upper row (f08rlu), 9.
10. Right upper, lower (f09rul); Middle left hand (f10lm), 1
1. 11. Upper left hand (f11lu); 12. Lower left hand (f12ll) 13. middle left upper hand (f13lmu); Middle left (f14
lum), 15. 15. middle left lower hand (f15lml), 16. lower left middle tier (f16llm); 13. lower left hand upper row (f17llu); Upper left lower middle (f18lul)

Although there are logically 25 sets for each file,
As described above, the feature that all 26 characters are not used in Roman characters is applied to 18 files as the first-stage narrowing. f01rm (jhkl) is 16 sets, f02ru (u
yiop) is 25 sets, f03rl (mn ,.) is 16 sets, f0
15 sets of 4rmu (hkl uiop), f05rum (uyi)
op hkl) is 15 sets, and f06rml (hkl mn) is 6 sets.
Set, f07rlm (mn hkl) is 6 sets, f08rlu (nm,. / Yui
op) and f09rul (yuiopnm,. /) are a combination of the upper and lower tiers, and the moving distance of the finger is approximately doubled.
f10lm (asdfg) is 25 sets, f11lu (wert) is 16 sets, f12ll (zb) is 2 sets, f13lmu (asdg wert) is 16 sets, f14lum (wet)
rt asdg) 16 sets f15lml (asdg zb) 8 sets, f16llm (zb as
dg) consists of 8 sets f17llu (zxcvbqwert) and f18lul (qwertzxcvb) are a combination of lower and upper rows, upper and lower rows, and the finger travel distance is approximately doubled. I do. The total is 190 sets and 570 strokes. 190/450 = 42.
Reduced to 2%.

Next, in order to improve the efficiency of the Roman character input practice character string, the result of the consonant vowel analysis, which is the second feature of the Roman character input, is applied as a second step of narrowing down. The purpose is to memorize the positions of the characters, but in consideration of the fact that a combination of vowels and consonants will occur when the next character is struck, both combinations of vowels and consonants are employed in addition to consonants and vowels.
Here, only L is added except for the four characters “FJ ,.” 2
0 characters were targeted. This idea is applied to all the following 18 files. 1. 1. Middle right hand (f01rm) 2. Upper right hand (f02ru); 3. Lower right hand side (f03rl); 4. middle right upper hand (f04rmu); 5. Upper right middle (f05rum), 6. 6. Lower right middle row (f06rml), 7. 7. Lower right middle row (f07rlm), 8. Lower right upper row (f08rlu), 9.
10. Right upper, lower (f09rul); Middle left hand (f10lm), 1
1. 11. Upper left hand (f11lu); 12. Lower left hand (f12ll) 13. middle left upper hand (f13lmu); Middle left (f14
lum), 15. 15. middle left lower hand (f15lml), 16. lower left middle tier (f16llm); 13. lower left hand upper row (f17llu); (F18lul in the upper left lower middle)

In order to eliminate the waste of the practice character string, the process of limiting the second step of the narrowing down to the combination of consonants and vowels and vowels and consonants, which are the second characteristic of Roman alphabet input, will be described below. f01rm (hkl) is excluded from practice because it is a consonant / consonant only. f02ru (uioip) is yp out of 25 sets,
The following 21 sets are obtained by excluding four combinations of consonants of py, pp, and yy. The alphabet (mn) at the lower right hand side should also be cut because only the consonants and consonants, but the dots (,) and Japanese characters in the lower right hand corner should be cut off because uu yu iu ou pu ui ii oy ui ii ii oi pi ui io io oo oop up op. As for the circle (.), The comma (,) on the alphabet keyboard is assigned to the point (,), and the period (.) Is assigned to the circle (.), So practice the points (,) and the circle (.) On the lower right. Mn,. Of the 16 combinations of 4 characters using, the following 4 combinations that are close to the combinations actually occurring in Japanese were adopted.

F03rl (mn,.) → m, n, m. n. Of 4
Gumi f04rmu (hkl uiop) uh ih oh uk ik ok ul il o
9 sets of l f05rum (uuiop hkl) hu ku lu hi ki li ho kol
The nine sets of o, f06rml (hkl nm), are consonants and consonants only and are not subject to practice. f07rlm (nm hkl) is excluded from practice because it is only consonants and consonants. f08rlu (nm,. / yuiop) and f09rul (yuiopnm,. /) are a combination of lower and upper rows and upper and lower rows. The practice distance is very poor because the moving distance of the finger is about twice, and it is used for character position storage. Omitted from

F10lm (asdg): ag ad as
ga da sa aa 7 sets f11lu (wart): er et ew rete
7 sets of ee we f12ll (zb) Only for consonants and consonants, so it is excluded from practice. f13lmu (asdg warm): eg ed es e
7 sets of a ra ta wa f14lum (wart asdg): ar at ae a
7 sets of wge de se f15lml (asdg zb): 2 sets of ba za f16llm (zb asdg): 2 sets of ab az f17llu (zxcvbqwert) and f18lul (qwertzxcvb) are a combination of a lower upper part and an upper lower part. Since the moving distance of the finger is approximately doubled, the practice efficiency is very poor, and it is omitted from character position storage.

Basic practice is for 25 pairs for the right hand and 14 pairs for the left hand
A total of 75 sets of 18 sets for the right hand and 18 sets for the left hand are the result of the second stage narrowing down. In the Roman alphabet input method, there are 35 sets of basic practice and 40 sets of combined practice character strings. ja ju jo for f and j
If four sets of fa are added, 79 sets and 237 strokes are obtained. 79/450 compared to 450 full practice strings
= 17.6%, which is a drastic decrease to about 18% compared to 450 sets initially thought by the present inventor.

[0030]

[Table 1]

Creation of English Character Position Storage Practice Data Next, English character position storage practice data will be described.
A character string where you can practice the middle home position, then the upper and lower letters, then the middle and upper rows, the upper and middle rows, the middle and lower rows, and the lower, middle and cross rows using the horizontal practice method. It was created. This approach is basically the same for English and Roman input, but for English
There are four special characters (;, ./) in the range covered by the eight fingers without limiting to six characters, and three characters including this are included.
To practice 0 characters is a traditional practice method that has been going on for 120 years. The present inventor has considered that an efficient practice character string can be created by considering the use frequency of 26 letters of the alphabet. In the case of Roman characters, the frequency of appearance of kana characters is not reflected in the practice data for storing the character position, but a practice character string is created in the practice data for storing the character position for the English sentence in consideration of the frequency of use. As a result, neither the 30 characters nor the 26 characters, and the two unused characters (wbvkxjqz) whose usage frequency is less than 0.02% and the four special characters (; /) are excluded from the practice character string,
I decided to practice a total of 20 characters, 18 alphabetical characters (= 26-8) and 2 special characters of (,.). Both basic practice and combination practice targeted 20 characters.

As practice in the order of the dominance, the right and left hands are practiced first in the order of the dominance. The index finger in the right hand,
Practice in the order of middle finger, ring finger, little finger and dominance. Next, move to the left hand and practice in order of the dominance of the fingers in the left hand. When this is arranged, it becomes the following eight kinds. 1. 1. the right index finger of the home position; 2. middle finger of the right hand in the home position; 3. the ring finger of the right hand in the home position; 4. The little finger of the right hand in the home position 5. the index finger of the left hand in the home position; 6. Middle finger on left hand in home position; 7. ring finger on left hand in home position; The little finger of the left hand in the home position.

Next, since it is easier to remember to combine two characters than to practice continuous keying of one character, as in the case of Roman characters, 3 characters composed of support characters, practice characters, and blanks are used.
A "pair" was constructed by touch. The 26 letters of the alphabet are arranged in three rows on a QWERTY layout keyboard, and create a practice string that covers both the middle-, upper-, and lower-tier practice orders and the order of finger prominence, which are horizontal features. did. Specifically, only the middle of the right hand practice, only the upper,
Only the lower row, then the combination of the middle and upper rows of the right hand, the combination of the middle and lower rows of the right hand, the practice of only the middle row of the left hand, only the upper row, only the lower row, then the combination of the middle and upper rows of the left hand, and the combination of the middle and lower rows did. The process of creating the character position storage practice data for English sentences is as follows, and the 4
A description will be given of the process of condensing 144 sets of practice character strings designed this time as compared with 50 sets of full practice.

Basic practice (practice only middle, upper only, lower only without crossing columns) All combinations of two characters for each of the five characters jjkl; covered by the middle finger of the right hand, ie, the four fingers of the right hand at the home position, are: There are logically the following 25 sets. Practice of j (5 pairs of right hand forefinger) --- jjhj kj lj; Practice of jh (5 pairs of forefinger of right hand) --- jhhh kh lh; Practice of hk (5 pairs of middle finger of right hand) ------ jkk kk lk; k Practice of 1 (5 pairs of right hand ring finger) ------ jlhl kl ll; Practice of 1; (5 pairs of right hand little finger) ------ j; h; k; l; ;; Eight characters whose usage frequency is less than 0.02% (wbvkxjq
Those excluding z) are used as practice letters. Therefore, in the middle of the right hand, the appearance frequency of the special character “;” and jk is low, considering the usage frequency, and 21 combinations including these three characters (; j: h: k: l j; h; k; l; ;; jj hjkj lj
jkhk kklk jhkh jlkl) is excluded from the viewpoint of training efficiency. As a result, the home position of the right hand can be practiced with two characters (hl), and the following four practice character strings are obtained. hhlh hlll

Similarly, in the case of the home position of five characters (asdfg) in the middle stage of the left hand, the following 25 sets of practice character strings are obtained. ffgf dfsf affg ggdg sgag fdgd ddsd adfs gsds sss faga dasa aaa Similarly, the upper right hand (uiiop) that does not include special characters is 2
There are also 5 sets and 25 sets on the upper left hand (rtewq). Of these, 2 letters wq have a low frequency of appearance, so if they are excluded from practice letters, they will be 9 sets of 3 letters rt.

Since the lower right hand portion (mn, ./) contains three special characters, detailed examination is required. Of the three characters, “/” is used less frequently than the two characters “,.”. The remaining 16 characters (mn,.) Form the following 16 combinations. mmnm, m. mmnnn, n, nm,
n ,,,. , M. n. ,. . . However, commas and periods usually follow a character, so one that contains a comma and a period
Eight of the two sets are excluded from the viewpoint of efficiency because they are used less frequently. Finally, the lower right hand is the next 8 sets. mmnm mnnn m, n, m. n. When the four characters of vbxz, which have a low frequency of appearance, are excluded from the practice characters in the 25 practice character strings in the lower left (vbcxz), one character set of “c” is obtained. Right hand, left hand and middle
The number of sets of basic practice that summarizes the upper and lower tiers is as follows. The basic practice for the middle tier, upper tier and lower tier only for each of the right and left hands is a total of 77 pairs.

Combination practice (practice of crossing the middle and upper tiers, and the middle and lower tiers) Next, practice of combining the two tiers centering on the middle tier. Specifically, middle and upper, upper and middle, middle and lower, lower
It is a combination exercise of four cases in the middle row. Even in this combination practice, the comma (,) among the four special characters (;, ./)
Two characters that are less frequently used than the period (.) (; /)
And 8 characters (wbvkxjqz), which are less than 0.02% of the alphabets used in English, are excluded. In the case of a combination of the middle and upper right hand, the middle (h
Since the purpose is to practice 1), h or l is placed in the second character, and the first five characters (uiiop) are used as support characters. In this way, ten sets of practice character strings were created. Specifically, uhyh ihoh ph u
10 sets of lyl ilol pl. In the same way, in the case of the upper right / middle, the upper right hand (uiop)
The purpose is to practice, but in combination with the middle (hl) 10
Practice the pair. Specifically, hulu hyly hill
10 sets of i holo hplp. Similarly, the middle and lower tiers of the right hand are a combination of the middle tier (hl) and the lower tier (mn,.), And specifically, hmml nhnl, h, l.
h. 1, but the four combinations (, h) (, l) (. h) (. l) are infrequently used and are excluded from the viewpoint of efficiency. Finally, practice 4 sets (mml nhnl).

The lower right / middle row of the right hand is a combination of the lower row (mn,.) And the middle row (hl), and specifically, hmlm hnl
nh, l, h. l. 8 sets. As for the practice of the combination of the upper and lower tiers and the lower and upper tiers, from the viewpoint of memorizing the position of the characters, since the moving distance of the finger is approximately doubled, it takes much time, but it takes a lot of labor and little profit. The practice string of this combination is not adopted as in the case of Roman characters. Basic practice of the middle, upper and lower left hand
As described above, the systematic practice method described in detail for the right hand was applied to the remaining four hands of the middle / upper, upper / middle, middle / lower, and lower / middle practice combinations. As a result, the total practice character string considering the use frequency is 450 logical full practice character strings,
144 pairs (Breakdown: 37 pairs of right hand basic exercises, 3 left hand basic exercises)
A total of 72 sets of 5 sets and 32 sets of right-hand practice and 40 sets of left-hand practice) and 32% (144/450)
Decreased to. A specific practice string was designed as follows.

Practice string of right hand (37 sets of basic practice, 32 sets of combination practice) f01rm (4) = hh lh hl ll f02ru (25) = uu yu iu ou pu uy yy iy oy py ui yi ii oi pi uo yo io oopo up yp ip op pp f03rl (8) = mm nm mn nn m, n, mn f04rmu (10) = uh yh ih oh ph ul yl il il pl pl0505 (10) = hu lu hy ly hi li ho lo hp lp f06rmlm (4) = mh ml nh nl f07rlm (8) = hm hn h, h. lm ln l, l. f08rlm = Not applicable. f09rlm = Not applicable.

Practice string of the left hand (35 sets of basic practice, 40 sets of combined practice) f10lm (25) = ff gf df sf af fg gg dg sg ag fd gd dd sd ad fs gs ds ss as fa ga da sa aa f11lu (9) = rr tr er rt tt et re te ee f12ll (1) = cc f13lmu (15) = rf tf ef rg tg eg rd td ed rs ts es ra ta ea f14lum (15) = fr ft fe gr gt ge dr dt de sr st se ar at ae f15lml (5) = cf cg cd cs ca f16llm (5) = fc gc dc sc ac f17llu = Excluded. f18lul = Excluded. Table 2 summarizes the above.

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[Table 2]

At the stage of creating an actual practice file from the above 144 sets, the practice file of one file is reconstructed in consideration of the fact that it can be completed in about one minute when the concentration can be maintained, and the four practice files are reconstructed. An English character position memory practice file was created. As the second stage, one with a high appearance frequency covering 95.3% of the cumulative appearance frequency of 26 letters of the alphabet
One practice file was created for the eight characters as practice data enabling practice in the order of appearance frequency. The practice data for inputting English sentences was composed of these five practice files.

The coverage of the practice character string for inputting Roman characters Although the practice data for inputting Roman characters is for the Japanese syllabary, there are exactly five characters per line of "Akasutana Harama", for a total of 40 characters. 6 characters of "Yayuyo Won", 9 small characters of "Poppo" There are 5 voiced and semi-voiced voices in each line of "Gazadaba", 25 characters in total. Among them, 24 characters excluding "ぢ",
The appearance frequency for a total of 79 characters is shown in FIG. What is important here is that Japanese use about 30% of kanji on average, and the frequency of the Japanese syllabary after the conversion of this kanji to reading was investigated. It is calculated. It has been found that when a so-called ABC analysis in which the appearance frequencies are accumulated is applied, the curve of the ABC analysis does not show a sharp rise. In the case of a sharp rise such as the sale of goods, the "20-80 rule" states that 20% of items handled account for 80% of sales.
Is often applicable, but in the case of this frequency,
For both Japanese and English, the training data was designed for a cumulative appearance rate of 90% or more. 44/79 = 5 in Japanese characters
Since 5.7% was targeted, "56-91"
Of the law.

In character units, 44.3% (35/79) of 35 characters were omitted from the frequency order practice data. However, since Japanese is premised on Roman alphabet input, considering the key-in for each consonant and vowel, we can practice well among the 44 characters of 55.7%. There is only one of P. The vowel part of "Aioe", which accounts for half of the semi-sounds, has been fully practiced. The omitted characters are the 35 characters shown in FIG. 2 (c), but if they are examined in detail by dividing them into consonants and vowels, 74 out of 79 characters
It can be seen that the character is practicing among 44 characters to be practiced. The cumulative appearance rate up to 91% in character units is covered by 55.7% of 44 characters of practice data, but in consonant / vowel units, the appearance frequency in semi-sounding sounds is in the order of “ぽ ぱ ぴ ぷ ぺ”. Yes, the cumulative appearance rate of “ぽ” having a high appearance frequency is 99.5%, which may be said to cover almost 100%. Figure 2 shows the cumulative appearance rate of 99%
As shown in (c), there are 14 characters in the order of “Bigu ぽ · ぅ”. These 14 characters have a cumulative appearance rate of less than 1%, meaning that they rarely appear. As shown above, 4
With four characters as targets of the frequency order practice data, three open appearance frequency order practice files were created.

An example of the touch type practice file according to the present invention is shown. [Touch type practice data for Roman alphabet input] In the following sentence, the meaning of fm-n "specific example: f1-0" means that f of fm means file, and m is 18 characters created to store 30 characters Means the number of the practice file, and n in fm-n means the number of "pairs" of practice adopted from the mth practice file. Roman character input character position memory practice file Roman character first file fr1rmu.txt "f1-0 + f3-0 + f4-9 + f5-9 = 18 pairs, 54 touches, hkl yuiop right hand combination practice" uh ih oh uk ik ok ul il ol hu ku lu hi ki li ho ko lo 2nd file for Romaji fr2rul.txt “f2-21 + f3-4 = 25 pairs, 75 touches, for basic right hand practice of yuiop nm ,.” uu yu iu ou pu uy iy oy ui yi ii oi pi pi uo yo io oo po up ip op m, n, mn Third file for Roman characters fr3lmul.txt `` f10-7 + f11-7 + f12-0 + f13-7 + f14 -7 + f15-2 + f16-2 + 4 = 36 pairs, 108 touches for asdg wert zb ja ju jo fa for basic left-hand practice, left-hand combination practice and 4 additional practice sessions "ag ad as ga da sa aa er et ew re te ee we ed es eg ra ta ea wa ar at aw ge de se ae ba za ab az ja ju jo fa

Example of a practice file in alphabetical order of appearance frequency First file in frequency order fr4kna.txt “For practice of the 10 characters with the highest appearance frequency” The second file in order of frequency fr5kna.txt "for the practice of the 10 characters with the second highest frequency of appearance" 3rd file in frequency order fr6kna.txt "3rd occurrence frequency" The ten highest twelve characters, the fourth highest ten characters, and the fifth highest ten characters are the four highest four characters for practice. I'm sorry, I'm sorry

[Touch Type Practice Data for English Input] fm
The meaning of -n is [Touch type practice data for Roman alphabet input]
The contents are the same as those described in. Character position memory practice file for English input First file fe1rul.txt "f1-4 + f2-25 + f3-8 = 37 sets, 111 touches, right hand of hl yuiopnm ,. Basic practice" hh lh hl ll ll uu yu iu ou pu uy yy iy oy py ui yi ii oi pi uo yo io oo po up yp ip pp mm nm mn nn m, n, mn 2nd file fe2rmuml.txt `` f4-10 + f5-10 + f6-4 + f7 -8 = 32 pairs, 96 touches hl yuiop nm, for right hand combination practice. "Uh yh ih oh ph ul yl il ol pl hu lu hy ly hi li ho lo hp lp mh ml nh nl hm hn h, h. Lm ln l, l. 3rd file fe3lmu.txt “f10-25 + f11-9 + f12-1 = 35 pairs, 105 touches for asdfg ert c, left hand basic practice” ff gf df sf af fg gg dg sg ag fd gd dd sd ad fs gs ds ss as fa ga da sa aa rr tr er rt tt et te ee cc 4th file fe4lmuml.txt `` f13-15 + f14-15 + f15-5 + f16-5 = 40 pairs, 120 touch practice for asdfg er tc left hand combination practice ”rf tf ef rg tg eg rd td ed rs ts es ra ta ea fr ft fe gr gt ge dr dt de sr st se ar at ae fr ft fe gr gt ge dr dt de sr st se ar a t ae cf cg cd cs ca fc gc dc sc ac

Alphabet appearance frequency order practice file fe5freq.txt “Practice of 18 characters with high alphabet appearance frequency, 27 sets, 81 touches” et in ao rs hd lc pf mu gy et in ao rs hd lc pf mu gy et in ao rs hd lc pf mu gy

Improving Typing Ability and Achieving Goals In the case of a person who has never handled a keyboard, typing while searching for characters on the keyboard with the naked eye will result in one in two seconds.
The speed is about 30 strokes per minute, but if you practice for 10 minutes, you will soon reach 60 strokes per second. The goal of the practice results was to achieve 120 strokes per minute, which is about twice as fast as handwriting (for students, about 100 strokes per minute, 1.5 times as fast as handwriting). If you can get this fast, you won't generally have a hard time using a PC or word processor.

If an ordinary person wants to learn for work or hobbies, the immediate goal is to use a speed of 4 as fast as handwriting.
00 characters / 10 minutes (= 80 strokes / minute). If you try hard, 1.5 times (= 120 strokes / min) of handwriting and 3 times (= 240 strokes / min) of young people
You will be able to hit documents at the speed of. Three times as much as handwriting (=
If 240 strokes / minute: 2000 key touches can be achieved, one A4 size sheet (approximately 1000 characters１０００1 line 35 characters 30 lines / page) can be hit in 10 minutes. Since touch typing is training of reflexes, handwritten 3
It is efficient to continue practicing until you achieve about double.

Regarding the speed of handwriting and keying, various certification tests sponsored by the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry are referred to. The outline of each test is shown below. 1. "Key Touch 2000 Test": Started in the fall of 1994 at the Japan Chamber of Commerce. Official name "Keyboard Operation Skills Certification Test", commonly known as "Key Touch 2000 Test"
It has a final goal of 2000 strokes in 10 minutes. Not directly related, but dictation speed is 30
It is said to be 00-5000 characters / 10 minutes (600-1000 strokes / minute). 2. The standard of pen test "quick writing" is 150 characters in 4 minutes for 2nd grade (75 strokes / min) 160 characters in 1st class in 4 minutes (80 strokes / min) Because of the conditions, the number of these characters is quite high for handwriting. 3. The standard of the input subject of the practical skill of the word processor test (the second writing subject, the second practical subject) requires the following speed in 10 minutes from the fourth grade to the first grade. Class 4-300 (60 strokes / min) Class 3-400 (80 strokes / min) Class 2-600 (120 strokes / min) Class 1-900 (180 strokes / min) It is a modern sentence containing up to 10 erroneous characters and 25-40% of kanji.

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Advantages of the Invention Reducing the amount of practice objects A number of type practice strings have been created and are commercially available for touch typing when entering Japanese romaji. As described above, 450 sets of practice character strings initially devised by the present inventor were created with one set of three touches. This is a practice string similar to the conventional method that has been continued today without changing for about 120 years since the typewriter was released. As a result of reflecting the "consonant vowel analysis" in the practice character string invented this time, the practice amount for character position storage was reduced from 450 pairs to 79 sets, 17.6% (79/450), an approximately 80% reduction in practice amount. did it. Furthermore, from the result of the statistical analysis of "appearance frequency of the Japanese syllabary", in order of practice in order of appearance frequency, to practice up to 91% of the cumulative appearance frequency for 79 target kana characters, practice 44 characters in descending order of appearance frequency. It turned out to be good.

Considering the consonant vowels, which are the characteristics of Japanese, in the alphabet used for the Roman alphabet,
The alphabet that is not covered by the frequency-sequenced practice character string this time is only one letter P used for the consonant part of the semi-voiced sound. In addition, the frequency of appearance of the five semi-voiced characters is very low, and the highest frequency among the five characters is “ぽ”, and the cumulative appearance frequency is 99.
5%. Therefore, the statistics show that in the frequency-sequenced practice character string of claim 1, an uncovered "@ line" is very rarely encountered. P is also included in the practice string created for the first stage character position memory. Similarly, for the touch type practice for inputting English sentences, the first 450 sets are the same. We decided to reflect the result of statistically analyzing the frequency of appearance of alphabets used in English sentences on the practice character strings. Alphabet 2
A practice character string for English sentence input was created for 18 characters from the one with the highest appearance frequency so as to cover 65.3% of the cumulative appearance frequency of 6 characters. As a result, the number was reduced to 144 sets. 45
It becomes 32.0% (144/450) of 0 sets, approximately 70%
The amount of practice can be reduced.

2. Practice time and progress The more you practice, the more practice time you need. The touch type is a skill that can be acquired only by training the motor nerves and reflexes. Excluding individual differences, it is natural to think that to some extent it will improve in proportion to practice time. From the above, theoretically, in the practice of character position storage for inputting Roman characters according to claim 1, it is expected that the efficiency is about five times that of the conventional method, and that for the input of English text, the efficiency is about three times that of the conventional method. The practice time required to achieve the same minute speed is about one-fifth for Roman alphabet input and about one-third for English input. Conversely, if you practice at the same time, you can practice 5 times in Roman alphabet input and 3 times in English input while practicing once in the conventional method. In practice in order of frequency, 55.7% (44/79) of 44 characters is about half, compared to the case of practicing all 79 characters of Hiragana, and 69.2 of 18 characters out of 26 characters in English. % (18/26) has reduced the amount of practice to about two-thirds.

Keystroke speed for beginners In order to prove the above theoretical superiority, it is necessary to apply this method to many subjects. An example of the result will be described. First, the speed and accuracy of touching a key on the keyboard for the first time by an inexperienced touch-type person will be described using the results of six subjects. An average of 6 strokes, 35 strokes / min, 87% accuracy
The net value reflecting this was 31 strokes / min.

An example of the conventional system and the effect of claim 1 will be described. In the level check, the two inexperienced persons are almost the same as shown in FIGS. After that, Mr. G practiced the practice character string for inputting Roman characters in claim 1,
Mr. H has a method similar to the conventional method, specifically, 50 sets of 25 sets of upper and lower rows and 25 sets of lower and upper rows for the right hand, and 50 sets for the left hand in the same manner.
Exercise was conducted using 350 practice strings excluding a total of 100 practice sets. Mr. G practiced 6 files for inputting Roman letters, and Mr. H practiced 11 files in the conventional method. FIGS. 4 and 5 show the practice results of eight and thirteen files for G and H respectively. In order to measure the speed at the start of the practice, a file for level check was added. The final test file was added to measure the speed of the final test at the end. Both were instructed to practice the next file after achieving at least 100 strokes per minute for each file. As a result, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the next file is practiced after exceeding 100 SPM (Stroke Per Minute) for each file.

Finally, as a result of testing (only once) the same 425 kana characters as a test character string for two people, Mr. G was 93 SPM at a minute speed reflecting accuracy.
Mr. H had a big difference of more than twice from 43 SPM. Many factors, such as individual differences, the function of the practice program, the use of the practice program, the hardware used, the chair, the desk, and the lighting, influence the improvement of the touch type. We believe that the impact is the most fundamental factor.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a hardware configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2A shows the cumulative appearance frequency of the Japanese syllabary (79 characters). (B) A graph of the cumulative appearance frequency for the Japanese syllabary and its data. (C) Data of 35 characters which are omitted from 79 characters and used less frequently.

FIG. 3 (a) shows an alphabetical appearance frequency. (B) Alphabet cumulative appearance frequency graph and its data.

FIGS. 4A and 4B are a graph showing the degree of progress of Mr. G and its data.

5 (a) and 5 (b) are a graph showing the degree of progress of Mr. H according to the conventional method and its data.

FIG. 6 shows an example of a display during practice.

FIG. 7 shows an example of a display during practice.

FIG. 8 is a QWERTY keyboard image diagram.

FIG. 9 shows a handedness (index) of a finger.

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[Claims] 1. The use order of the touch type practice file for inputting Japanese romaji is started from the first file for romaji for storing the character position in the first stage, and the second file for romaji and the third file for romaji are practiced. Next, the first file in the frequency order of the second stage, the second file in the frequency order, the third file in the frequency order
A touch-type training recording medium for inputting Roman characters for sequentially practicing to a file, and as a first step, storing character positions on a QWERTY layout keyboard for characters excluding characters not used for Roman characters among all 26 characters of the alphabet. The training data for inputting Roman characters includes three files, a first file for Roman characters, a second file for Roman characters, and a third file for Roman characters.
The first file for romaji is for practicing the characters used for romaji placed in the middle and upper sections of the right hand, and the second file for romaji is for practicing the letters used for romaji placed on the upper and lower sections of the right hand. The third file for Roman characters is mainly for practicing the characters used for Roman characters arranged in the middle, upper, and lower rows of the left hand. As a second step,
The hiragana appearance frequency order training data for practicing in the hiragana appearance frequency order is composed of three files, a first order file in the frequency order, a second file in the order of frequency, and a third file in the order of frequency. The first file in frequency order is the first group with the highest appearance frequency, and the second file in frequency order is the second group with the next highest appearance frequency.
The third file in order of group and frequency is the third most frequently appearing next
A touch type practice recording medium for inputting Roman characters, which is a group. 2. The use sequence of the touch-type practice file for inputting English sentences starts from the first file for storing the character position in the first stage, and the second file, the third file, and the fourth file are practiced in this order. The second stage is a touch-type practice recording medium for inputting English sentences to practice in the order of the alphabet appearance frequency order practice file. As the first stage, taking into account the English alphabet appearance frequency, excluding alphabets with low appearance frequency The practice data for English input for storing the character positions on the QWERTY layout keyboard is composed of four files, a first file, a second file, a third file, and a fourth file. .
The first file is mainly for practicing characters arranged in the upper and lower tiers of the right hand, the second file is for practicing characters arranged in the middle, upper and lower tiers of the right hand, and the third file is mainly for the middle tier of the left hand. The fourth file is for practicing the characters arranged in the upper row, and the fourth file is for practicing the letters arranged in the middle, upper, and lower rows of the left hand.
As the second stage, the alphabet appearance frequency practice data considering the alphabet appearance frequency and the appearance frequency order,
A touch-type training recording medium for inputting English sentences, characterized by comprising one file.