Cellular Phone Typing

Summary

This page is intended to help you memorize how to type text into a cell phone without looking.

 

This will be accomplished by memorizing how to type each letter. We'll start out easy (by memorizing the rows) and then build up to it.

Layout

This is the layout for most cell phone keypads. Take a moment to look it over.

 

1(___) 2(ABC) 3(DEF)
4(GHI) 5(JKL) 6(MNO)
7(PQRS) 8(TUV) 9(WXYZ)

 

Note that to type A you press the 2 key. To type B you press 2 key twice. To type C you press the 2 key three time.

First letters - by row

The first step will be to memorize the first letters on each key, by row. You may wish to scroll the above table out of view. Click the first (memorize) link and go through the table, then do the 2nd column.

 

Row	First letters
1st row	(1)      (2) A   (3) D
2nd row	(4) G   (5) J   (6) M
3rd row	(7) P   (8) T   (9) W
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First letters - keys

Now we'll memorize the keys, given each first letter. Do both columns.

 

Key	First letter
2	A
3	D
4	G
5	J
6	M
7	P
8	T
9	W
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Other letters

Next, we'll memomorize which group the other letters go with.

 

Letter	Letter Group
B	ABC
C	ABC
E	DEF
F	DEF
H	GHI
I	GHI
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Letter	Letter Group
K	JKL
L	JKL
N	MNO
O	MNO
Q	PQRS
R	PQRS
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Letter	Letter Group
S	PQRS
U	TUV
V	TUV
X	WXYZ
Y	WXYZ
Z	WXYZ
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Review

For review, we'll recall how to type each letter.

 

Letter	How to type
A	2
B	2 (2 times)
C	2 (3 times)
D	3
E	3 (2 times)
F	3 (3 times)
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Letter	How to type
G	4
H	4 (2 times)
I	4 (3 times)
J	5
K	5 (2 times)
L	5 (3 times)
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Review II

Letter	How to type
M	6
N	6 (2 times)
O	6 (3 times)
P	7
Q	7 (2 times)
R	7 (3 times)
S	7 (4 times)
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Letter	How to type
T	8
U	8 (2 times)
V	8 (3 times)
W	9
X	9 (2 times)
Y	9 (3 times)
Z	9 (4 times)
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