How well do you type?

[Michael Luc]

Do you keep your fingers on the home keys?
Do you hunt around for keys?
Do you ever look to make sure you typed the right number?
How fast can you type?

Do you keep your fingers on the home keys?
Yes.
Do you hunt around for keys?
No.
Do you ever look to make sure you typed the right number?
I always do.
How fast can you type?
I took a typing test last year. 70 wpm

 

[Marbas]

Do you keep your fingers on the home keys? Yes

Do you hunt around for keys? Yes, for non-alphabet keys.

Do you ever look to make sure you typed the right number? Yes.

How fast can you type? Not very fast.

 

[G-Lexington]

Do you keep your fingers on the home keys? Yes.
Do you hunt around for keys? No.
Do you ever look to make sure you typed the right number? If it's extremely important, yes.
How fast can you type? 135 wpm.

Lex

 

[G-Lexington]

Yeah, I don't think I'll be getting much faster though.

Lex

 

[Swellegant]

Do you keep your fingers on the home keys? Not really... I sort of hover in the general area.

Do you hunt around for keys? Only the top row (numbers and characters)

Do you ever look to make sure you typed the right number? I usually use the number-key pad, in which case I don't have to look; but if I'm using the top keys... see above.

How fast can you type? I average 60 wpm, I can go as high as 70 when I'm warmed up, and go down to 55 when the ol' rheumatizz is acting up.

 

[byro]

I hunt and peck and make a huge number of mistakes. It's deeply depressing, especially because I suffered through an interminable typing class in high school and actually did pretty well, but have since forgotten it all.

So here's the question: how can I re-learn to type? I looked on Amazon for typing lessons software, but there didn't seem to be much available.

Any suggestions?

 

[jtearth]

Typing classes in High School? I had that class in Elementary School. My High School never had any typing classes… just extracurricular course on web design (Really it was free labor to work on the school’s web sit)

Buuuut... I don't keep my fingers on the home keys. I generally keep my eyes on the key board and hover over the whole thing. But when I get into the zone I can usually keep my eyes off the board and type pretty fast.

By the by… I type sooo much better on my desktop then my laptop. The laptop’s keyboard is really small >_<

 

[star-warrior]

Do you keep your fingers on the home keys?

What are the home keys? I keep my left smallest finger on A and my right digit on H. Everything else is just in the right place.

Do you hunt around for keys?

No.

Do you ever look to make sure you typed the right number?

Yes

How fast can you type?

Dunno. It took around 6 or seven minutes to write copy and type the following from a book on astronomy in a recent thread I was on. I auto-correct as I type.

Dead Universe

Regardless of how densely packed the Universe is, the matter within it will one day cease to exist. As time goes on, more and more interstellar gas will be consumed to form new stars. Some of these will explode as supernovae or expand as planetary nebulae, thus spreading gas back into space. But some of that material will remain locked away in black holes, neutron stars or white dwarfs. Eventually, there must come a point where no more stars can form. The neutron stars and white dwarfs will persist, but eventually they will decay into raidation, since matter is, on an exceedingly long timescale, ultimately unstable. Even the black holes, as Stephen Hawking showed, must eventually evaporate. The future is a grim one; a Universe of time, space and energy, but no physical matter.

If I factor in, looking for the book, finding the extract, then typing in, and posting then that may have taken about three or four minutes to do. 132/4 = 34, 132/3 = 44 so around 40 words per minutes whilst reading and typing in.

Is there a standard text to follow to see how much you've typed?

 

[dpnice]

I learnt to type when I decided to change jobs and become a secretary.

Learnt on an old mechanical typewriter, graduated to an electric one and finally a computer keyboard. Obviously in those days speed was important.

Buying my first computer in France I had to basically relearn to type as many keys are placed differently, there are accents requiring tapping two keys and the numbers require the caps key.

So yes I keep my fingers on the home keys not really looking whilst I type; checking numbers is necessary as I stopped learning the French system when I had finished all the letters; speed is no longer important so I just type at the speed I feel comfortable at.

 

[RationalLunacy]

I'm self-taught. I type 90 wpm with only the index and middle finger of my right hand. Leaves the other hand free for talking on the phone or other more pleasurable activities.

 

[slobone]

Do you keep your fingers on the home keys? Yes

Do you hunt around for keys? Only if I'm using the number keypad or the arrow keys.

Do you ever look to make sure you typed the right number? Yes, I've never really learned the top row. And I swear they keep changing the special characters on top of the digits.

How fast can you type? Just about as fast as I can think.

 

[Swellegant]

So here's the question: how can I re-learn to type? I looked on Amazon for typing lessons software, but there didn't seem to be much available.

Any suggestions?

Mavis Beacon: she's the standard. Here' V16 on Amazon (cheap!), V17 Deluxe is a lot more expensive, but how much different can it be? When I used MB in college (V5 or 6 probably), it was the exact same exercises as I had when I learned typing on a typewriter... the only real difference is not having to hit Return at the end of each line.

 

[Michael Luc]

So here's the question: how can I re-learn to type? I looked on Amazon for typing lessons software, but there didn't seem to be much available.

Any suggestions?

Try typing common words over and over and then type over and over the letters that appear together very often in words, e.g.,
at
ation
er
and
the

 

[gmoney]

Yes, I keep my hands (fingers) on the home keys! I was the first one in my typing class to have an electric typewriter! (God!, do I feel old!) It's all the top row, and now 'hot keys' that mess me up. And I recently got one of those 'ergonomic' keyboards, which is like learning to type all over again. Not to mention changing back and forth from the laptop to the desktop!

 

[Scrub]

Gosh, you all seem to follow the typing rules.

Do you keep your fingers on the home keys? No

Do you hunt around for keys? No, I know where everything is.

Do you ever look to make sure you typed the right number? Yes

How fast can you type? I really don't know, but i did qualify for a data entry position so i guess I was fast enough.

 

[slobone]

Mavis Beacon: she's the standard. Here' V16 on Amazon (cheap!), V17 Deluxe is a lot more expensive, but how much different can it be? When I used MB in college (V5 or 6 probably), it was the exact same exercises as I had when I learned typing on a typewriter... the only real difference is not having to hit Return at the end of each line.

And I miss that little bell... ding!

 

[Riverrick]

I don't keep my fingers on the home keys - maybe I would make less mistakes if I did. I make a fair number of mistakes but in my defense, I don't watch the keyboard, just the screen. I don't type very fast because I'm always backing up and correcting mistakes.

 

[hotdog1846]

I'm a touch typist. I never look at the keys, and almost always get the numbers and special characters right.

However, I'm not all that fast, at about 60 WPM.

I'm a lot more proud of my cholesterol.

 

[slobone]

I hunt and peck and make a huge number of mistakes. It's deeply depressing, especially because I suffered through an interminable typing class in high school and actually did pretty well, but have since forgotten it all.

So here's the question: how can I re-learn to type? I looked on Amazon for typing lessons software, but there didn't seem to be much available.

Any suggestions?

I always thought it was a good idea, when you're practicing, to keep up a steady rhythm instead of speeding up and slowing down a lot.

Use a metronome if you have one, and set it slow enough so that you can type without making any mistakes. Then gradually get faster.

 

[MRMATTX2]

I haven't thought about where you should place your fingers since typing class in high school. It was on IBM Selectric machines - ancient relics now!!

oh, God, that made me feel old.

I'm not a bad typist, I make a fair amount of mistakes but I'm quick to fix em'.


eh. whatever.