Not on my crappy laptop keyboard. The 'o' works half the time and it's small in itself(9"). But on my home PC I can. I just turned 16 today.
Poll: Touch Typing
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To everyone who said they can, do you have enough faith in your typing to be able to look away from the screen, and still know you've typed it right?
I've gotten to the point now, where I'm backspacing because I know I've pressed the wrong key, without actually seeing it on screen, haha
I've gotten to the point now, where I'm backspacing because I know I've pressed the wrong key, without actually seeing it on screen, haha
Hahaha, so true. I've always wondered how people rest their hands on their keyboard if they aren't gamers. One hand rested on the mouse and one on wsad.obex said:
I can touch type, but only on my home computer, or my laptop. If I dare to switch to anything else I begin to type weird letters all over the place, and I constantly shift my hands so that they are in the wrong positions.
I also cant type at all on Mac-books or on those "smooth-key" keyboards. When the keys don't have substance to them, and there supposed "keys" are just small white planes groped next to a whole 101 white planes, my fingers just go crazy. I need to feel the groves of the key and the key next to it in order to type.
I also cant type at all on Mac-books or on those "smooth-key" keyboards. When the keys don't have substance to them, and there supposed "keys" are just small white planes groped next to a whole 101 white planes, my fingers just go crazy. I need to feel the groves of the key and the key next to it in order to type.
I can touch type.
I just kept playing those typing games the schools forced you to do in elementary. Got used to the little notch on the F and J key, and then got everything naturally.
Now, if I actually look at the keyboard for typing, I get really confused.
It's not to say that I type without mistakes, but I can quickly delete and type back what I need.
I just kept playing those typing games the schools forced you to do in elementary. Got used to the little notch on the F and J key, and then got everything naturally.
Now, if I actually look at the keyboard for typing, I get really confused.
It's not to say that I type without mistakes, but I can quickly delete and type back what I need.
The letters on my keyboard have almost completely worn off, and I don't need to look at it - or at my monitor - to appropriately type. I can even recognize errors just by touch when typing from a page, and automatically backspace to fix it. So, in short, the answer is yes.
I am one damn good touch typer.
I also type a little over 160 words a minute.
I am one damn good touch typer.
I also type a little over 160 words a minute.
There was an entire class in middle school on Touch Typing. I learned how to do it there.
It's like asking "Can you speak English?" to me while in America, speaking English.
It's like asking "Can you speak English?" to me while in America, speaking English.
Yes I touch type, it took about 3 days of using instant messenger before I learned it. (and they have classes for this sheesh)
After having taken a "typing class" in school three separate times (only one of which was even supposed to be typing, and that was in elementary school...), I'm a fairly competent typist. Granted, I can't spell for shit so I have to know where the backspace key is at all times, and I can't type numbers or some of the lesser-used characters without looking at the keyboard, but, for general typing, I do fairly well.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog! And jumps into my pit of doom for making me type that out over and over again
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog! And jumps into my pit of doom for making me type that out over and over again
Yeah. My dad's been a DB programmer as long as I've been alive, and they started keyboarding sessions in my third grade class.
It's kinda scary, I can even be looking at someone and speak with them while typing (slows down a bit), and even detect when I've mis-typed and correct it automatically. Creeps me out sometimes. Creeps my wife out all the time.
It's kinda scary, I can even be looking at someone and speak with them while typing (slows down a bit), and even detect when I've mis-typed and correct it automatically. Creeps me out sometimes. Creeps my wife out all the time.
yeah i can't type when i look at the keys. seriously. if i look at the keys my typing speed halves. its odd. i think its because i am thinking about where the letters are on the keyboard instead of remembering the shape of words. i dont even really think about the letters. i think about the shape of words as i move my hand. words i've never typed before or not very often i cant type at any reasonable speed. but i am pretty fast otherwise.
I took a mandatory semester-long computer course in 8th grade. We spent pretty much the entire semester playing typing tutor games on the computer. Incredibly boring, but effective.
So yes, I can touch type pretty quickly.
So yes, I can touch type pretty quickly.
Sure you can. Just ask ten people over age 50 who have had a keyboard in front of them in nontechnical office-type work, and see how many of them touch type for reals. My guess is somewhere between one and three.avykins said:
I taught myself to touch type at age ten or so, because I knew it was a cool thing to do. The entirety of my method was to put my fingers on the home row and type sentences into a text editor from a book. I had a paper chart which showed which finger was to do what; I would always try to remember the correct finger and row (for several seconds if need be) and if I didn't remember, only then I would look at the chart. Never looked at the keyboard itself during that learning. It took me one weekend to memorize the key locations (other than ~4 keys which aren't really used in my language; I learned those over time as I needed them). Special keys and numbers came much later. I remember learning US QWERTY special keys because US QWERTY was the keymap in Quake's console regardless of what keymap was set in Windows.
