Re: Can you touch-type?

Posted by greenfreak

Posted by FelAndJon

This is very impressive that so many of you can touch type!

I'm more surprised when I come across someone who CAN'T touch type. For some reason, I find more men who can't than women.

With kids having computers from infancy, it's kind of essential to know now. I'm trying to teach my nephew so he doesn't end up a hunt-and-pecker.

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I took typing in 7th or 8th grade on a old manual typewriter!! I don't think it helped me since I didn't type again (on any regular basis) until my summer job sophomore year of HS.

I sorta don't look at the keyboard and have no idea anymore what the "proper" placement is ... I still type pretty fast but always suck at typing tests!!!


(It just took me forever to type this!!! HAHAHA!!)


ETA: I do use all my fingers ... although as someone else said - not sure about the thumbs. What are they techically supposed to be used for?

Message edited 1/17/2008 8:49:37 AM.

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I had a headache yesterday, so I was typing with my eyes closed. Yup, I can touch-type! I don't know my exact speed, but i'm pretty fast. I'm just not as good with hitting the numbers.

ETA: My DH, who works with computers, types with two fingers!

Message edited 1/17/2008 9:00:57 AM.

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I can type and have a talk to someone at the same time. That was the one useful thing I learned in highschool. I can't do numbers though, I have to look.

ETA: I cannot write though. My handwriting is terrible. I type a lot faster than I write.

Message edited 1/17/2008 9:12:25 AM.

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I put use all ten fingers but look, but its kinda all little of both touch type and looking. I vary in between but usually if Im not looking I will make more mistakes.

eta, I work with numbers on a daily basis so i can work the number pad like no other

Message edited 1/17/2008 9:15:44 AM.

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I get that a lot too... someone will come over and ask me something but i'll continue to type an email while listening to them and looking at them. I'm actually better at typing without even looking at the screen.

When I took the typing test for my job now my speed was 82wpm.

ETA: I also took a typing class in high school (a a a space semi semi semi space ) if I didn't I don't think i'd be such a great typer.

Message edited 1/17/2008 9:23:30 AM.

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Only if I don't think about it.

Once I start to think about the fact that I'm touch typing I start to fumble.

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Touch-type without looking. Very fast. HS class.

But I need work on the numbers.

I love this skill!

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I use to type with 2 hands but have always looked at the keys but since I had a mini-stroke 10 1/2 years ago I only use 1 hand.

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learned from my dad. We're both pretty fast. We also both play the piano which helps with dexterity.

I can't look down.

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I can touch type. Im the girl typing and answering the phone.
I used to be able to type and hold DS as he nursed too.
I also took typing in HS and I really do think the class def. helped.
Then with the millions (ok, hundreds) LOL of college papers to type up, you just "GET IT".

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I took a mandatory class in junior high school & I had a software program on my home computer for learning to type, but I am still awful.

I sorta start out in thr right position, but I rely on my left hand more than my rights & I totally look.

I type semi- quickly, but with a lot of midtakes.

Message edited 1/17/2008 10:10:14 AM.

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yes... and I tought myself, I never took a typing or keyboarding class.

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total touch typer--in HS when i was learning i was at about 95 wpm...these days i'm about 70 wpm

DH gets so angry about the fact that i can touch type and he can't. he always says "do you HAVE to type so fast!?"

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Yes, I can! I don't think I learned how to do it...it just kind of happened after working in corporate America. They like to have everything done yesterday and I was wasting time typing with two fingers, lol. Now I can speed type and not even look at the keyboard. Unless I am doing accounting then I look at the numbers so I don't mess up.

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I touch type. I never took a class. I have just been using computers from a young age.

I realized from GoldenRod that I am apparently doing it "wrong" I don't use all ten fingers.

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I touch type and may look at the keyboard if I realize that I'm making a lot of mistakes.

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I can type very well.... Same as you, after 20 years, I know the keyboard well.

My only trouble with typing most of the times is when I do caps and I don;t let go of the shift key long enough and I get a SEntence THat LOoks LIke THis. My first to letters are always in caps

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I also took typing in high school- or maybe it was even junion high- i remember those old machines and the white out tape- blasts from the past.
but yes, I can touch type without looking & I can do the same thing, talk & have a conversation and finish typing something without looking.
i think at this point I can prob type about 80-85wpm

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I never look.

Last I checked I was over 110 wpm. I had to take a type test when I applied for a temp job when I moved to NYC back in 1999. I’m in insurance.

But I noticed that I still can’t type the numbers which is stupid cause I can do any of the symbols there but my brain won’t acknowledge that they are the same keys for numbers. I can still fly back and forth from the numbers to the keys though.

I can use 10-key on both a telepad and calpad (telephone and calculator are flipped).

I learned to type in Middle School on them old type writers that you had to move the arm back at the end of each line. Lets not talk about correction tape and getting the lines to match or centering a page…. Remember count every other character including spaces from the middle of the line and then take that number and go backwards from the middle of the page or some such nonsense. I still know how to do it if I have to!!!!

I use the slide tray for my keyboard so I never actually see it at all. Most people don’t even realize I am typing at all since my keyboard is hidden. So yeah, I freaks them out when I talk, listen and type.

Hubby and I use a Kinetic Keyboard with separated and sunk in keys (you actually lay your hands into the keyboard and practically just wiggle your fingers to type.) This has greatly improved our speeds.

ETA:
I have worked in Claims, marketing, Excess, International, Broker and Agency jobs in insurance.

Hubby works for a financial advisor.

So we both type.. A lot. I remember back in the days of MIRC (internet chatting) I would type faster than people on T1’s could respond!!!!

Message edited 1/17/2008 12:22:56 PM.

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