Blind Typing

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Akas

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Heh, you really had to challenge me at my own game, haven't you? I blind-write a lot of times, mainly to get writer's block out of my system but sometimes to just put all of my ideas out on paper. I'm actually blind-writing right now,, if you want to believe it. The thing that usually messes me up most is recalling where I was after I accidentally delete soemthing that i know is a mistake. It's not as though I'm that great at it, but like I said, I have a lot of practice with it. Unfortunately, this only really applies to Western keyboards. I suck at dvorak and azerty layout, but I supposed that's to be expected (since I don't really have that much training with those keyboards). It'ss a fun tool, especially when you're trying to concentrate on something else: (like checking out that cute blond talking on the phone or watching to make sure your friend doesn't steal your food), but for the most part I like to put a blindfold over my face and just concentrate on images that i'm trying to write up. I've used it a couple of times in academic writing, but usually not too much: having too many spelling errors usually makes it so that I lose a point (or several, depending on how bad it is). Some of the toughest habits to break (as you might have already seen), are reversing letters due to typing too fast, but it's still usually not too bad.

Sorry if I rambled a bit, I usually use this (like I said before), for stream-of-consciousness writing, so I tend not to measure my words very carefully.
 

Terror_666

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blind typing I can do I know where all the keys are.
but some times yjid js[[rnd (this happens) mainly I have my fingers one key to the left or right of center and I get gobeldy gook and the obvious dyslexic spelling errors.
 

oni565

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Blind typing can't be that hard, so lets give it a try:

this is a sentence. I have a vat. am i doing ok. o gope so

I'm OK at it I guess. My eyes were closed
 

'DucereExemplo'

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Here's my go with eyes closed:

I'm typing this with my eyes closed. I'm good at typing without looking at the screen. It comes pretty easily to me, and I would bet on zero errors - not to be arrogant.

Guess I paid attention in typing class.
 

Conqueror Kenny

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I've tried to toufh type brfore though I'm not all that great at it.
Hey, I'm getting better, though I'm still painfully slow with it.
 

Samurai Goomba

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Well, this is my attempt. I looked at the keyboard once to get my bearings on where the center line thingy was for my hands, but I do a fair bit of blind typing... Wait... Am I supposed to leave mistakes in? Because I didn't look when I deleted them. That works, right?

...Drat.
 

a7r0p05

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I usually can type blindly pretty well while correcting any mistakes that I make by remembering where my fingers have touched. This is blind typed and I don't think there are any errors in it yet (because I am not looking...).
 

Blue Sonnet

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I taught myself blind typing when I worked at Cable and Wireless (now Virgin), I had so much typing to do but with no time limit, so I just made myself learn through trial and error. I do have a bugger of a time with this laptop keyboard as the hyphen and numbers are in a different place to a normal keyboard. Interestingly, I can't remember where any of the keys are, and if I think at all about what I am doing then I completely lose it and can't figure out where the next letter is - strange huh?

That was done blind, and I managed to hit the hyphen! Yay! Guess I'm finally getting used to this bloody thing! I've typed this section with a towel over my hands, which I guess is more of touch typing, if I paid any attention to the touch marks on the keys )looking now, they are the F and J keys).

I have been doing office and temping work for eleven years now, so that's probably why I can do it so well. I haven't found any other typists who can blind/touch type but can't remember where any of the keys are. I guess it's subconscious now.
 

'DucereExemplo'

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Blue Sonnet said:
I have been doing office and temping work for eleven years now, so that's probably why I can do it so well. I haven't found any other typists who can blind/touch type but can't remember where any of the keys are. I guess it's subconscious now.
Impressive, I've always had trouble typing on laptops as well.
 

xitel

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If you know what you're doing, it isn't really that hard. EYES CLOSED!
 

insectoid

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I actually find it a little depressing that I can type pretty much anything without looking at the keyboard...just proves how long I've spend 'honing' these skills. (Yes, that was all typed with my eyes shut).
 

Ronwue

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heh. I'm a computer science major. I write for a living. The only mistakes I make are when I forget to capitalize correctly :D or when I'm in a hurry
 

Clashero

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I always blind type. In fact, I type slower while looking at the keys, and I make more mistakes.
As I always write something on my PC, be it a poem, a story, or a wordspill, I have gotten into the habit.
 

Jurnigan

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If you just focus on the F and J keys, blind typing isn't that hard. Just try to feel the little bumps on the keys and you'll have no trouble at all. I can even tell when i made a mistake now and correct it without looking. It's a bit weird. Typing a lot in the correct position helps significantly, I would suppose. This entire post was blind typed and has not been edited.

EDIT: I can only touchtype well on my MacBook and some PCs. I spent four years only using a PowerBook and now I can't type correctly on any desktop.
 

AuntyEthel

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I usually look at the screen while typing, so this is my test of how I do with my ehes closed.

{open} Hey, not bad. Even got the comma right!
 

Erana

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I never really watch while I;m looking at the keyboard, though it is kinda tough to do so without looking at the screen.

One error, no backspace. Not too bad!
 

s-l-u-g

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id say im pretty good at it, considering that im doing it right now :D yay for me?
i dunno, i still dont feel ive acheieved anything, really. it's just typing except letting your fingers remember where the buttons are. kinda like life. if your life is annoying people, or you follow the 'prostitute' career path.