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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I basically self-taught myself to two-finger type without looking at the keyboard years before my middle school eventually had classes to try and teach full-on 8 finger ASDF/JKL; typing. As a result, I basically typed faster my way than their way, so I deliberately avoided learning to 8-finger type by passing all the tests "wrong".

It's possible that I could have typed faster their way if I'd be able to break my existing habits, or if I'd learned their way first, but I've never had the motivation to do so. And I almost always write stream-of-consciousness anyway, which works fairly well with the speed at which I type. So I'm not sure I'd want to be able to type faster even if I could.

If anything, my typing speed is probably balanced out by the fact that I sort of speed-read, so my overall time to read something and write a response is probably the same as someone else who reads the initial post slower but then can write a reply faster anyway.

I was forced to take an online typing class, not because I couldn't type (2 fingers), but because of the school's keyboards being absolute pieces of shit when I was tested.

It was the easiest A I have ever gotten, but was also a complete waste of time. I aced it by ignoring absolutely everything, and kept typing my way, and aced the "final" (1 of 5 parts), to the point where I didn't need to do the other 4.