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[stek]

Touch Typing

I heard Suity is a great typist, he uses all six fingers on one hand, you don't want to know what he's doing with his other hand....

[doodab]

I use all my fingers but not any disciplined touch typing way. It's not as fast as a proper touch typer but it's faster than most untrained people.

WHS. I only use three of my fingers on each hand, except for shift which is usually the left pinkie, and I'll often use different fingers for the same key depending on what came before or after.

[bobspud]

What I find fascinating is the way certain touchtyping errors have infected my ability to write manually.

"teh" is a common one & I've found myself writing that sometimes.

Most oddly odd in an odd sort of way.

^ this my handwriting was bad enough as it was without introducing apple keyboard errors into the mix

[Bunk]

I use all my fingers but not any disciplined touch typing way. It's not as fast as a proper touch typer but it's faster than most untrained people.

[bobspud]

All my life i've used mainly my index and middle fingers for typing. Just starting to learn touch typing and fook me - it's a right pain in the rase!

That is all.

Too late you will never learn to type properly now. I learned to type on a pitman course as others have suggested using an old typewriter and at one point could type faster than my computer could refresh the screen (it was a 286 so nothing too clever in that) but now I have picked up so many bad habits my WPM is probably in the low 20's (used to be above 60)

Hunt and peck has ruined you for life...

[Bunk]

Learned touch typing from a book.

Seemed to work ok.

fr4ffr4f etc.

Deeply tedious, but it did work eventually.

Can always tell a keyboard I've used because of the wear mark on the space key.

And the claw marks on the keys

[SueEllen]

I found that I could always type quicker my own way rather than following what Mavis suggested. I can just about touch type when I need to, which is almost never.

Pitman typing course as a teen. You get watched as you type.

Mavis is useless as no one has the patience to stick with her lessons.

Got up to 90 wpm but didn't want RSI so type slower now.

[Bacchus]

I did type a whole list of comments in clientCo's test system that said "twat".

They were supposed to say "test", but I was sitting at a sideways angle and was doing the 't' with my right hand and the 'es' with my left, which wasn't where I thought I'd put it.

Excellent, almost covered the laptop with a mouthful of morning coffee (c:

Almost a shame that you're not a teacher writing school reports...

[stek]

I did type a whole list of comments in clientCo's test system that said "twat".

They were supposed to say "test", but I was sitting at a sideways angle and was doing the 't' with my right hand and the 'es' with my left, which wasn't where I thought I'd put it.

You sure you weren't responding to one of SAS's posts?

[mudskipper]

I did type a whole list of comments in clientCo's test system that said "twat".

They were supposed to say "test", but I was sitting at a sideways angle and was doing the 't' with my right hand and the 'es' with my left, which wasn't where I thought I'd put it.

[TheFaQQer]

Never learnt it, but I do use all my fingers and type fairly quickly - accurately enough for a PC, but would be crap on a typewriter.

I remember 'Mavis Beacon teaches typing' but never got past lesson two.

I found that I could always type quicker my own way rather than following what Mavis suggested. I can just about touch type when I need to, which is almost never.

I tend to use almost all the fingers on my left hand, but only use a couple of fingers from my right hand.

[VectraMan]

Buy a natural keyboard. It forces you to keep your hands separate so you tend to do the rest properly too.

It's amazing how many two finger typists there are. I actually learned first on a mechanical typewriter, although I doubt I could do that now.

[cojak]

I can touchtype like a bloody hero when I am working by myself. The minute someone watches me I can't get a bloody word right!

+1

It happened to me yesterday. I must have looked like an imbecilic monkey...

[northernladuk]

I knew a VMS admin who could touch type and incredibly fast, but every time he'd rattle out 80 characters in 2 milliseconds and then backspace over 99% of them because of mistakes.

Actually just realised typing this that I type with mostly three but sometimes four fingers on each hand, but I still have to stare at the keyboard!

I can touchtype like a bloody hero when I am working by myself. The minute someone watches me I can't get a bloody word right!

[mudskipper]

Never learnt it, but I do use all my fingers and type fairly quickly - accurately enough for a PC, but would be crap on a typewriter.

I remember 'Mavis Beacon teaches typing' but never got past lesson two.