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Can you touch type?
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D.Shaffer
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Technically, I dont think it's touch typing, but I can MOSTLY type without looking at the keyboard. Mostly I just use the first 2 fingers on each hand and the thumb for the space bar. Shift is pinkie finger, but that's usually just it. Sometimes I'll have to look at the keyboard for numbers, but that's usually it.
Strangely, this only works if I dont think about typing. The moment I do, I need to start looking at the keyboard to type correctly. Switchin keyboards messes me up for a while too until my hands 'learn' to correct.
I've never had it timed, but I'm told I'm a pretty speedy typer.
Strangely, this only works if I dont think about typing. The moment I do, I need to start looking at the keyboard to type correctly. Switchin keyboards messes me up for a while too until my hands 'learn' to correct.
I've never had it timed, but I'm told I'm a pretty speedy typer.
Merkuri
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I've been touch-typing since high school. It was mandatory for us to take a typing class, but by that point I was faster than the class needed us to be, though my accuracy needed some work. The class was pretty much a joke for me. I'd type the test assignments two or even three times before the teacher called "time".
I've always been a computer nerd, and I used to type up stories in my spare time, so that helped me learn to touch-type. That skill has been in use since then, between IMing, email, programming and other things for both work and pleasure.
My BF, Awayfarer, can touch-type, he just doesn't think he can. I watch him type, and he goes about as fast as I can, but he stares at the keyboard. There's no way he can type that fast unless he knows where the keys are, but he has to look anyway. Whenever I tell him to look up he only does it for about ten minutes, then is back to gawking at it again. One of these days I'm going to get one of those covers that hides the letters and will glue it to his keyboard.
Oh, and that typing test somebody posted above says I type 79 WPM net (I'm assuming that takes into account errors). I could probably get faster if I took it a few more times, but I don't really care that much.
Heh, I just looked down and realized that I really don't have a choice anymore to be a touch-typist. I've worn all the letters off of this keyboard. Ooh, and actually poked a hole in the T key. No kidding, there's a hole there.
I've always been a computer nerd, and I used to type up stories in my spare time, so that helped me learn to touch-type. That skill has been in use since then, between IMing, email, programming and other things for both work and pleasure.
My BF, Awayfarer, can touch-type, he just doesn't think he can. I watch him type, and he goes about as fast as I can, but he stares at the keyboard. There's no way he can type that fast unless he knows where the keys are, but he has to look anyway. Whenever I tell him to look up he only does it for about ten minutes, then is back to gawking at it again. One of these days I'm going to get one of those covers that hides the letters and will glue it to his keyboard.
Oh, and that typing test somebody posted above says I type 79 WPM net (I'm assuming that takes into account errors). I could probably get faster if I took it a few more times, but I don't really care that much.
Heh, I just looked down and realized that I really don't have a choice anymore to be a touch-typist. I've worn all the letters off of this keyboard. Ooh, and actually poked a hole in the T key. No kidding, there's a hole there.
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Barendd Nobeard
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I took typing in high school (back in early 1980s). My most recent typing tests were both in the early 1990s, and I achieved 76 wpm on both tests. I haven't tested myself since.
reanjr
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I touch type at abouyt 60 corrected words a minute (words that had errors but were backspaced over and fixed). I touch type at about 45 accurate words/minute.
My 10-key skills are phenomenal. I can do numeric data entry like a madman.
I am also pretty good with special characters, but some of them throw me a bit.
But I am a programmer professionally, so these are kind of important skills to have. I would not have acquired them if I only did message board posting and e-mail.
The strange thing is that I do not type how you are "supposed" to type. My hands move more like hunt and peck than a general touch typist. I never use my pinky for anything but shift, and my hand configuration changes dramatically for cut and paste work. My left ring finger doesn't really get any action at all, now that I think about it.
My 10-key skills are phenomenal. I can do numeric data entry like a madman.
I am also pretty good with special characters, but some of them throw me a bit.
But I am a programmer professionally, so these are kind of important skills to have. I would not have acquired them if I only did message board posting and e-mail.
The strange thing is that I do not type how you are "supposed" to type. My hands move more like hunt and peck than a general touch typist. I never use my pinky for anything but shift, and my hand configuration changes dramatically for cut and paste work. My left ring finger doesn't really get any action at all, now that I think about it.
Olaf the Stout
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Hypersmurf said:
I just went and played QWERTY WARRIORS for a bit. Good fun.
The fastest that I have seen someone type was when my wife and I went to get our wills done. We were sitting in the waiting room and all I could here was the sound of the keys going a million miles an hour. I don't know what speed she would have been typing at but it must have been very high. The only way that I could reach the speed that she was typing at would be to randomly hit keys as fast as I could. I was impressed to say the least.
Olaf the Stout
RangerWickett
Legend
I took an internet typing test, and after a few tries to get into the groove, I scored 108 words in a minute, no errors.
Darth K'Trava
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Sorta. But then I have to fix all the typos from my dyslexic fingers....
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