Home Row Keys
A S D F J K L ;
The home row is where your fingers live. Get this right and everything else in touch typing follows; get it wrong and you will be staring at the keyboard forever.
Where your fingers go
Rest your left fingers on A, S, D, F and your right fingers on J, K, L, and the semicolon. Your thumbs hover over the space bar.
F and J have little raised bumps — feel for them so you can find the home row without looking. That tactile check is the whole trick: your hands return to the same eight keys every time.
Why start here
Every other key is reached by stretching one finger from its home position and snapping back. If your hands drift, those reaches miss. A solid home row is the reference point the rest of the keyboard is measured from.
It is also where the most common letters cluster — A, S, E-adjacent reaches — so strong home-row habits pay off on almost every word.
Tip: Always return to the bumps on F and J between keystrokes. No peeking.