# Noob Question (Shifting)

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**Category:** Shift518 Automotive\
**Created:** [February 14, 2010, 10:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/noob-question-shifting/250311 "2010-02-14T10:59:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 11:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/noob-question-shifting/250311/6 "2010-02-14T11:32:35Z")

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> [@5/20: Taffy's Meet #1 for '07](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/5-20-taffys-meet-1-for-07/29315/2):
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> Well I’m pretty much teaching myself how to drive a 5 speed, this is my second day, I drive in very light traffic but more than half of the time it’s a rough start getting out of 1st gear. I mean I can shift up into 2nd 3rd and so on…
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> But my question is what is the proper way to shift up so that your car will not feel very rough when you do. Here’s the way I do it, again I don’t know if it’s right or wrong.
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> 1. Let off the gas
> 2. Hit the clutch
> 3. Shift up, but very roughly. My car shakes when I do and that’s the real problem.
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> You can make your remarks if you want lol, but thanks to anyone who helps.

Try this :lol: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqtctkznYjk](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqtctkznYjk)

Understand how manual transmission works, IMO, is the best way to learn to drive a manual car. This will give you an understanding to why you have to do what you have to do to drive the car:

> **[How a Manual Transmission Works](https://auto.howstuffworks.com/transmission.htm)**
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> What does that funny "H" pattern on my car's gear shift have to do with my transmission? How does it make the car change gears? And when I mess up and hear that horrible grinding sound, what is actually grinding?

[![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/a/7/a7a2188297a975f1baea22342caf06aeb8f312c7.jpeg "How Clutches Work") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BaECAbapRg)

Best way is to have someone show you how to drive, you will learn it in 10 mins. Where do you live?

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