⌨️ Lesson: Type the Hyphen (-)
The hyphen (-) is typed with -. Use your right pinky — no Shift needed. These 4 exercises take it from a single tap to real-world uses, with a live keyboard showing the exact fingers.
How to Type the Hyphen (-) Correctly
The hyphen — also called dash, minus sign, hyphen-minus — lives on the number row of a standard US keyboard. Tap the - key with your right pinky — no Shift needed. It is right of the 0 key. Reach up and right with your right pinky and return to the semicolon.
The hyphen joins words (well-known), acts as a minus sign and is used in phone numbers and command-line options. Practising it now means you can type it without looking down when you meet it in emails, code, passwords or documents.
Note: keys can move on non-US layouts (UK, German, French and others), so if the symbol does not appear, check that your keyboard language is set to US English.
Press the - key with your right pinky. No Shift is needed.
Your right pinky types the - key. It does not need Shift.
The hyphen joins words (well-known), acts as a minus sign and is used in phone numbers and command-line options.
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