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Level 11 of 415

Meet the semicolon

The semicolon is your right pinky's home. It feels awkward now and it is worth the effort later.

Target
8 WPM
Accuracy
87.6%
XP
43
WPM0
Accuracy0.0%
Time0:00
Raw0
Consistency0%
;;; ;;; ;;; ;;; ;;; ;;; ;;; ;;;

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; Right pinky

Press ; using your right pinky finger.

Notes on this level

Which finger types this key

A browser can only report which character was typed, never which finger pressed it. That is why this lesson blocks on the wrong key rather than claiming to detect the wrong finger — the finger is something you have to build the habit for, and the table below is the habit to build.

;
Right pinky finger, home row — where the right pinky finger already rests.

What this symbol is for

Punctuation and symbols are where most typists slow down, because they combine the weakest fingers with the Shift key and appear too rarely for the habit to form by accident.

;
separates clauses, and ends a statement in many programming languages.

Where the mistakes come from

Errors are rarely random. A wrong key is usually the right finger travelling the wrong distance in its own column, which is why the fix is control rather than slowing down everywhere.

;
Most often mistyped as 0, -, =, p, [, ], \, ', / — the other keys the right pinky finger is responsible for.

Stuck on this level?

Most difficulty at this stage is technique rather than effort. These explain the technique.