Poll of the Day > How do you guys type?

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I don't only use one method, I change it up depending on how much i'm going to type and how lazy i'm feeling.

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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.
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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.

3 fingers each hand, both looking and not looking, I think last speed test I took was like 30 something words per minute.

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I usually just slap at the keyboard with my peen.

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1 finger, or sometimes 2, 1 from each hand

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Traditional.

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Traditional and mega fast, although ....mega fast for the 70's/80's, now 100-120 wpm is no longer really that fast (but it was seriously fast back then....as in I didn't know anyone without 40 wpm of me).

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Usually just both index fingers plus my right middle finger. I often look at the keyboard out of habit, but in practice I generally don't need to.

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On my PC: Two fingers(one on each hand) normally while looking at the keyboard and occasionally looking at the screen
On phone: One finger.

wolfy42 posted...

Traditional and mega fast, although ....mega fast for the 70's/80's, now 100-120 wpm is no longer really that fast (but it was seriously fast back then....as in I didn't know anyone without 40 wpm of me).

Based on this I'm one step closer to becoming a sloth.

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All fingers, not looking at keyboard.
Five seconds later, deleting everything and starting again with one finger of each hand, while peering at the keyboard.

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Mostly 3 fingers on each hand and the pinky just for the last column on keys on the keyboard.

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Voted A but meant B. I never really learned to type with all fingers, but never felt I needed to.

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Mostly with my thumbs.


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