Can you touch type?

[Arravis]

66 WPM, 100% accuracy... all with two fingers (well, I use the pinky for Shift and the thumb for Space). I never took typing, but I can hunt and peck blind, without looking down. Not too shabby considering the method, lol.

 

[Merkuri]

Hmm... I wonder if it's better or worse for your wrists to "touch type" with two fingers (give or take) as opposed to all ten?

 

[lonesoldier]

Learning how to touch-type was a requirement in my grade 10 (2003) Information Technology class. Most of the class involved lessons like "This is a mouse," and "This is how you open a file!" but the typing section was actually useful. I get about 60 WPM when I focus on typing (if I'm writing some adventure material, say). I'm not a native English speaker so I occasionally mess up stupid things like "weird."

 

[Merkuri]

I'm not a native English speaker so I occasionally mess up stupid things like "weird."

A lot of native English speakers mess up wierd words like that. I always spell that wrong, and I've been speaking English for about 23 or 24 years now.

*mumbles* I before e except after c or when sounding like neighbor or weigh...

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Learning how to touch-type was a requirement in my grade 10 (2003) Information Technology class. Most of the class involved lessons like "This is a mouse," and "This is how you open a file!" but the typing section was actually useful. I get about 60 WPM when I focus on typing (if I'm writing some adventure material, say). I'm not a native English speaker so I occasionally mess up stupid things like "weird."

I consider myself to be a good speller but "weird" is one of those words that I always seem to have trouble remembering how to spell it correctly. I think it is because that, to me at least, it doesn't look obviously wrong when you spell it as "wierd".

Olaf the Stout

 

[Mycanid]

Hmm... I wonder if it's better or worse for your wrists to "touch type" with two fingers (give or take) as opposed to all ten?

Hey there ma'am.

I have always heard (whether true or no I am not sure) that pecking on keyboard/typewriter is better for the wrists. Of course it is wayyyy slower.

Whenever I do a lot of typing and my wrists begin to "heat up" I go back to slow pecking after a rest and have no problems afterward. But whether or no this is "clinical evidence" I cannot say.