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StarTouch:
Trainee Case Studies Stories
of a few trainees from the past year or so who demonstrate the sort of
results that are possible. Your
Back button will let you ‘retrace your steps’ after any links… What happens after the
training? How intense is the
practice / how long does it take? >>>>>>>>>
THE CASE STUDIES <<<<<<<<<<<< |
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After initial training with StarTouch,
trainees must follow a practice path
which is all about: converting Very Accurate but Very Slow and deliberate touch typing This is the
Learning Phase and results in “conscious competence”
And it takes as
long as it takes, depending how intensely the trainee can apply themselves. |
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The Practice path is different for everyone - one approach fits all! StarTouch practice is very
flexible. Trainees may have learnt in as little as 1 Day
(sometimes 2, for private groups). But the timetable for putting that
learning into Practice is in entirely their hands… They can implement their Learning: . at their own
chosen pace . at their
preferred intensity . and over their
own time frame Some trainees get on with it quickly. Others take their time. But everyone can
build a new efficient (accurate AND fast) typing ‘habit’ if they follow the
programme. |
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A note about the
Data behind the case studies . we can show
details of the progress these sample trainees have made because they recorded some, or all of their practice using our
online practice app. . a few trainees use the app to record their typing regularly,
whilst doing most of their practice off
the app (we have no visibility of this practice and can’t gather data for
it). Thus the app tracks their progress
but not necessarily the amount of
practice they did. . but for many people, they use the app to record all their practice. So
for them, we can show a pretty full
record of the amount of time and
effort invested – AND the results it brought. |
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Some
real-life examples… (with Accuracy & Speed
graphs from the data we gather) HIIT and Run! Pace Yourself Slow & Steady wins the race |
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HIIT the Road (need an explanation of “HIIT”?) Holly’s Story: Before training, we measured Holly’s
typing at around 89% accuracy and 44 wpm After learning to touch type, slowly and
accurately… …Holly went from 9 wpm to 40wpm (over 444%
speed increase) Importantly she maintained 99% accuracy throughout!
Blue line – sky high accuracy throughout (average 99%) Green line – speed trend; tracking the daily speed
averages measured. More detail about Holly’s experience… . Holly
attended training on 06 Feb 2019. . She got
straight on with her practice regime from the very next day. . She
recorded daily practice on the
StarTouch website over 5 days in a row straight after the training. . This
amounted to about 37 minutes of practice
in total over the 5 days. . Then she
settled down to a more modest 2-3 minutes on average – every few days – and increasingly occasionally over the
next few weeks. . On
average she recorded just 3.7 minutes of practice per day on each ‘Practice Day’ over the recorded period (we assume she was
probably practising more than this, but not using the app - we only have data
for the practice done on the app) |
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“Pace Yourself” Bhu’s Story… We measured Bhu’s
pre-training typing at 86.7% accuracy and 43 wpm After training her practice started at 98-99%
accurate and stayed that way! Her new skill speed went from 4 wpm to 50 wpm (1,250% speed
increase!!) Some days she practised 20-30 minutes or
more, some days less, some days none. On average though, it worked out at just 3-4 minute’s practice per
day.
More detail about Bhu’s experience… . Bhu
attended course June 2018 but did no practice for several months. . She got in
touch again October and, with guidance and encouragement from us, but no further tuition (since her
Learning was still very “intact”) …she got on with her practice path in
mid-October. . She took our advice to focus on as much
daily practice as possible, and as often as possible over a longer
time-frame. . The
closeness of the green columns above testify to the
frequency of her practice days. . And by
early February 2019 – 3-4 months after ‘getting on with her practice –
Bhu had already ‘moved into her new
house’ (that’s our terminology for starting to use touch typing “for real” –
to do all her typing, including under the pressure of work conditions)
…though she still revisited the app a little to record her continuing speed
improvement. |
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“Slow and Steady Wins the Race” (Longer implementation) Jas’s Story… Before training,
Jas averaged 85% accuracy and 25 wpm Immediately after
training, her accuracy rose to 98% and stayed there! After initial
dexterity exercises her typing speed started off at 3 wpm (that averages out to 6.6
minutes per calendar day)
She is continuing
her practice path beyond the time shown here More detail about Jas’s experience… . A busy working mum, Jas attended the
course in early December 2018. The gap in practice over the summer months in
2019 are mainly because of her commitments as a parent. . After her training, she had a slow
start with: - several weeks of not ‘getting on with
it’ and - some fingers which were slow to build
precises physical control (NB: this is quite rare.
Physical control/dexterity is normally quicker to settle than most people
would expect). . She made up for this slow start with dogged determination and close attentiveness to the coaching
she got from StarTouch. Once underway, she soon became one our most prolific
practisers! . She started touch typing at work (at least some of the time)
back in early May. |
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Explanation of HIIT? “HIIT”
is a term used in Fitness Training. It stands for High Intensity Interval Training. It describes a programme of short
bursts of intense exercise, not too far apart - rather than the hours
of workout that some people might expect they need to do! The same
approach can work for typing practice, too! You can make surprising progress
if you get going with LITTLE bits of Very Accurate practice, as OFTEN as possible. |
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