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Just want to know what the percentage of people who touch type is these days now that we're all on facebook and shit.
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I touch type. In high school I took a typing class thinking it would be full of girls. Turned out it was full of guys who took the class because they thought it would be full of girls. I dropped the class and told the teacher that I would never have to type. Obviously one of the few things I've been wrong about in life.
I learned to type in the Army when I was stuck in a Headquarters Company for a while. Got up to 70 wpm on one of those old IBM Selectrics with the spinning ball. Now I work with computers all the time and I think I can type faster than I can think. Don't need to 'look' as I know when I've hit the wrong key as soon as I've done it. Watch me type this:
dkofiucjhwk,znvklbygbreh389f7vghdkdocv9bhedk3e9r78f67ejhdkdk
Now I'll do it again:
dkofiucjhwk,znvklbygbreh389f7vghdkdocv9bhedk3e9r78f67ejhdkdk
On an unrelated note, do you remember when you first learned to cut & paste?
Peace,
I learned to type in the Army when I was stuck in a Headquarters Company for a while. Got up to 70 wpm on one of those old IBM Selectrics with the spinning ball. Now I work with computers all the time and I think I can type faster than I can think. Don't need to 'look' as I know when I've hit the wrong key as soon as I've done it. Watch me type this:
dkofiucjhwk,znvklbygbreh389f7vghdkdocv9bhedk3e9r78f67ejhdkdk
Now I'll do it again:
dkofiucjhwk,znvklbygbreh389f7vghdkdocv9bhedk3e9r78f67ejhdkdk
On an unrelated note, do you remember when you first learned to cut & paste?
Peace,
Yeah I touch type. Dad made me learn in primary school. For about a decade afterwards I wanted to hunt down and stab Mavis Beacon, but I'm grateful he did. It's an incredibly useful skill to be able to read and type at the same time.
Last time I was assessed I think I did 56 or 57wpm with 98% accuracy, which is about professional typist level. Know a lot of people who are quicker than me though.
That's absurd.
Last time I was assessed I think I did 56 or 57wpm with 98% accuracy, which is about professional typist level. Know a lot of people who are quicker than me though.
That's absurd.
I can touch type in the sense that I don't need to look at the screen while I type, but I'm unable to touch type in the traditional sense of using all my fingers and thumbs. Just use my two thumbs, two index and middle fingers.
Almost taught myself to touch type in my last semester of undergrad uni. Stuck with it for two days while summarising a stack of resources for an assignment. Bailed on it when I was running low on time and needed to ramp it up and type without thinking. If I went back, I think I'd easily be able to learn to touch type in about two days. Just don't see the need for it. Do very little typing in my line of work.
I'm faster than my mother who is a touch typist and does a lot of typing for work. Just did a test and got 66 words per minute.
EDIT: 75 words per minute. Guess all those years of MSN paid off
Almost taught myself to touch type in my last semester of undergrad uni. Stuck with it for two days while summarising a stack of resources for an assignment. Bailed on it when I was running low on time and needed to ramp it up and type without thinking. If I went back, I think I'd easily be able to learn to touch type in about two days. Just don't see the need for it. Do very little typing in my line of work.
I'm faster than my mother who is a touch typist and does a lot of typing for work. Just did a test and got 66 words per minute.
EDIT: 75 words per minute. Guess all those years of MSN paid off
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I mainly use 8 fingers, both my pinkies have rubbish co-ordination.
Did a couple of typing tests online just now, 95 wpm in one that had few unusual characters, 83 wpm in one that had lots of " and ; and upper case which slows me down.
I haven't tested my typing speed lately, but it should be just shy of 60wpm. I learnt to touch type in high school, and I haven't looked back since. It's so much easier not having to look at the keyboard, since the keys are not arranged in alphabetical order. Very useful if you're taking notes at uni.
Yeah I do
In high school I sat in the advanced typing class, the only male in the whole class. We used old skool typewriters (electric!). Don't always use correct form but I'm no pecker.
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It's a bastardised version of touch typing, but yeah.
Strangely, I picked up my typing skills from playing Counter Strike and later Planetarion, back when I was in high school.
Would be about 70 odd wpm on my laptop, but if I use a computer with a different type of keyboard I lose a little bit of speed and alot of accuracy. It's almost like when you drive a different car to your own for the first time, nothing feels right.
Strangely, I picked up my typing skills from playing Counter Strike and later Planetarion, back when I was in high school.
Would be about 70 odd wpm on my laptop, but if I use a computer with a different type of keyboard I lose a little bit of speed and alot of accuracy. It's almost like when you drive a different car to your own for the first time, nothing feels right.
I have devastating pace.. think it was all those years playing CS and chatting on msn.
Just did a typing test then, got 102 WPM @ 96% accuracy. I rekon I could push 120WPM, just need to warm up
Just did a typing test then, got 102 WPM @ 96% accuracy. I rekon I could push 120WPM, just need to warm up
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Yeah, I do. Not something I really taught myself to do or was taught. Just sort of happened after using a computer for a long time (actually think BigFooty has helped quite considerably too).
Doing those tests now I ranged from 60-70 wpm. But only did the 1 type of test and that was hardly using words I'd use...stupid smart arse word usage.
Doing those tests now I ranged from 60-70 wpm. But only did the 1 type of test and that was hardly using words I'd use...stupid smart arse word usage.
I just took a test... 78 wpm.
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Yeah I do it no worries. It's not something i ever tried to learn, but just came with being a computer nerd.
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I touch type. Keewala typing adventures helped me in primary school.
I have the same feelings, i have a preference for keyboards (yes i've turned high brow). If i don't find it comfortable, i can't type as good. It can vary for me, i've been a Logitech keyboard (wired and wireless) user for the last 4 years or so, most of the time i had used a usb keyboard that had "lower" keys making it very similar to pressing the keys on a laptop.
If i want 100% accuracy i have to pace myself and end up typing 65 - 80 wpm. Anything higher than 80 (commonly hit 90 - 99 wpm), will usually result in 90 - 98% accuracy. My best ever result was 120 wpm, the thing with the tests is that while i can manage the speed for the duration (anywhere from a 1 minute - 5 minute test). I doubt even i could maintain the same pace for a legitimate hour. Or indeed a full day, i probably start off fast.... then have a 50 - 60 wpm (heck maybe even 40 or lower) rhythm by the end of the day.
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77 wpm on that stupid test with all the quotation marks, I remember early high school days I could push 90 wpm simply because the words were all so easy haha
EDIT: Just did the "Test Instructions" test on Typingtest.com and got 87 wpm adjusted, pretty happy.
Touch typing should be a skill that everyone has nowadays imo, I never used to think much of it but then I discovered why there were those little raised bumps on the "f" and "j" keys, now as long as I place my two pointers there I can type away.
The only finger that doesn't get a workout is the left thumb which is sort of odd.
EDIT: Just did the "Test Instructions" test on Typingtest.com and got 87 wpm adjusted, pretty happy.
Touch typing should be a skill that everyone has nowadays imo, I never used to think much of it but then I discovered why there were those little raised bumps on the "f" and "j" keys, now as long as I place my two pointers there I can type away.
The only finger that doesn't get a workout is the left thumb which is sort of odd.
I don't 'touch type' in the official way that typists/secretaries learn ( I don't use my little fingers for example) but I don't look at the keyboard any more. Just comes from 20 years of hammering away the keyboard (we've had computers in the house since I was 5 in 1990.)
I share the sentiments of many. I touch type but never learned, msn led the way.
I don't use my pinkes for anything other than the left shift key. Never really thought about it until this thread.
I don't use my pinkes for anything other than the left shift key. Never really thought about it until this thread.
I kind of learnt to touch type the tradtional way, but habits took over. Use all fingers but pinkys, they're only used to click enter and occasionally shift. Just got about 80wpm on a typing test.
