EPTHow do you unlearn a wrong skill? - Page 2
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Count9
China10928 Posts
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SolHeiM
Sweden1264 Posts
On October 11 2010 21:33 Boonbag wrote: That's pretty fucked up if now he can't drink booze. No. He can still drink, but it's when he is drunk that he plays all wrong, not that when he gets drunk he forgets the proper way to do it and has to relearn it again. When he's sober, everything's back to normal. | ||
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Boonbag
France3318 Posts
On October 11 2010 21:41 SolHeiM wrote: When he's sober, everything's back to normal. Ah. Good point. | ||
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niteReloaded
Croatia5282 Posts
On October 11 2010 19:29 micronesia wrote: Research shows that you can't unlearn something that you've established in your brain. You just 'pave over' it. A music teacher was explaining to me that he figured out the wrong way to use his fingers on the piano when he was a kid and had to learn all over again how to position his hands. He can play correctly now but when he gets drunk enough he reverts to the old style which is way inferior :p ha, interesting story! | ||
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madnessman
United States1581 Posts
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Lightwip
United States5497 Posts
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Armathai
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I just realized that I have pretty much the same typing flaw though... I'm just going to go with playing http://play.typeracer.com/ because that game doesn't let you skip errors(you always have to delete until you get it right) I'd just try and make a conscious effort to stop yourself when you're about to hit the wrong key. NVM it's impossible... | ||
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NukeTheBunnys
United States1004 Posts
I have to say 83 wpm is fine, there is no real reason to learn a new method since what you know works very well. | ||
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JeeJee
Canada5652 Posts
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Thratur
Canada917 Posts
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kyarisan
United States347 Posts
i just decided to force myself into typing faster, lol. i was at about 80 or so in high school until i decided to pump the shit out of training mode until i got to around 100 or so | ||
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ZeKk
Sweden320 Posts
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floor exercise
Canada5847 Posts
I mainly use my index and middle fingers | ||
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QuanticHawk
United States32160 Posts
I know that people have successfully beaten their children out of being lefties, saving them a life of shame (I plan on doing the same if god punishes me with a lefty) Perhaps every time you don't use the correct fingers, you smash your keyboard over your hand? | ||
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jabberwokie
Canada142 Posts
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Karliath
United States2214 Posts
On October 12 2010 00:24 Thratur wrote: In my opinion, 83 wpm is more than enough. There's no way you would think an essay faster than that. I got the same as you (85) and I've been typing in Dvorak-fr for the last 6 months or so for the improved ergonomy (it really feels like a lot less effort to type in Dvorak) in the most efficient way possible, and it still takes me 10 hours to do my damn lab report. 83 wpm is fine. The problem is, at 83 wpm there are a lot of errors. It takes a lot more effort to type correctly with my method than does the normal method. | ||
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Ilikestarcraft
Korea (South)17743 Posts
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Craton
United States17303 Posts
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Ellis
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Wargizmo
1237 Posts
Ok I've done this lots of times. I relearned how to type when I got a job as a transcriber (after doing something similar to what you were doing), I changed my entire guitar picking technique after 10 years of playing the wrong way, I've even changed my Starcraft keyboard hand from 'a-s-d-f' to 'ctrl-a-s-d' positioning halfway through the Sc2 beta and had to totally re adjust to my hand being one key to the left. As others have said, there's no 'trick' to stuff like this, you basically have to start really slow and force yourself to do things the right way. If you find yourself typing a letter with the wrong finger then slow down and concentrate on doing it the right way. It will be painfully slow for the first hour or so but after a couple of days you will surpassing your old speed. The brain is surprisingly good at readjusting and with ALL the examples I gave, I was up to my old speed within about 5-6 hours of time spent at said activity. People are really reluctant to change stuff like this because of how retarded it feels at first, but you'd be surprised how natural it feels after a few hours of practice. | ||
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