EPTBasically, I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations on a website or program that teaches proper typing form (preferably free)
Thanks
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Deux
United States159 Posts
Basically, I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations on a website or program that teaches proper typing form (preferably free) Thanks | ||
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LSB
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pinenamu
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Coagulation
United States9633 Posts
my super elite typing skills come from the fiery forges of b.net x17 flame wars. | ||
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Gummy
United States2180 Posts
On October 20 2010 10:20 Coagulation wrote: ^^he wings it my super elite typing skills come from the fiery forges of b.net x17 flame wars. My super elite typing skills come from my many years of piano and several thousand plays of typing games. I was a huge fan of nexus word wars before it got taken down.  | ||
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Cow
Canada1104 Posts
On October 20 2010 10:24 Gummy wrote: My super elite typing skills come from my many years of piano and several thousand plays of typing games. I was a huge fan of nexus word wars before it got taken down. I learned how to type from playing Starcraft on Battle.net, no lie. I was horrible until I started. | ||
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Pokebunny
United States10654 Posts
Mostly just learned to type faster from playing online games... lol | ||
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Cofo
United States1388 Posts
No joke. | ||
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Asdkmoga
United States496 Posts
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Deux
United States159 Posts
On October 20 2010 10:16 LSB wrote: Wait, so how do you type? Nothing too interesting or unusual about it, just a bit different from normal. Basically I keep my hands more or less on home row but hit more things than I should using my index fingers and also hit things from one side of the keyboard with the opposite hand from time to time. It gets the job done and with decent speed and accuracy but it just bugs me. Plus it sort of falls to pieces when I'm nervous/rushed, Ex. trying to type gl hf before a game Edit: just took a typing test ~40 WPM normally | ||
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Archaic
United States4024 Posts
One thing that I might want to add: Most typing programs teach you to return to homerow constantly (asdf jkl;). However, based on sheer finger movement, not intentionally moving back to homerow, but rather the next key is *far* more efficient then going back and forth. Think about traveling from point to point on a star/asterisk. It's faster to go from corner to corner rather than go back to the center every time. Note this isn't saying not to use homerow. You still use it as a general guideline. | ||
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MuTT
United States398 Posts
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Nitrogen
United States5345 Posts
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wooozy
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On October 20 2010 10:20 pinenamu wrote: Look into Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing lol! I remember playing on that a lot when I was a kid. It taught me how to type properly well while I was trying to avoid getting bugs on my windshield in that car game they have hahahaha. god i loved playing mavis beacon in like 4th grade when they sent us to the computer lab. i always drew a crowd around me because of how fast i typed and felt so cool EDIT: http://somoe.org/typing/ typing game i used to play a couple years ago. duno if it's been updated or not recently but they had some pretty cool songs. | ||
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Vilonis
United States130 Posts
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Macavenger
United States1132 Posts
On October 20 2010 10:33 Asdkmoga wrote: learned from typing so much in my Early Years playing World Of Warcraft lol. Seconded. Raiding with no mic is an excellent way to improve typing speed. I had a class in high school where I learned proper form, but I never got any faster than hunt/peck with it until I started playing WoW. That literally doubled my speed to a respectable ~70-80 WPM. | ||
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Conversion
United States3308 Posts
anyways, i'd just type random passages daily until i was comfortable with most keys. i tried to keep proper typing form (found on google) but it was really uncomfortable so i just took the foundation and adjusted to fit my comfort level and practiced daily with passages. safe to say i peaked around 130 average apm in 8th grade, probably around 104-110 now. this on a QWERTY, not that other crap | ||
Antoine
United States7481 Posts
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Vanished131
France311 Posts
Line up your left 4 fingers on ASDF and your right 4 fingers on JKL; The next time you need to type something, keep your fingers always aligned. You are only allowed to type a key if you are using the finger that is closest to it. If you want to type "s" you use your ring finger on your left hand. If you want to type "y" the closest finger is your right index finger. If you want to type "0" use your right pinky finger. Pinkies are fingers too! | ||
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Sufficiency
Canada23833 Posts
I think it's important to be able to type reasonable fast, however, whether you look at the keyboard or not. I'd say try to memorize the keyboard and just try to type a lot until your muscle memory develops. | ||
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JeeJee
Canada5652 Posts
so yeah, play games where typing fast is required to perform.. you'll learn out of necessity plus, it's fun | ||
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HwangjaeTerran
Finland5967 Posts
You don´t have to "learn" to type, just pay attention to press every key with the finger closest to it for sometime and it´ll stick. Also open notepad and write random sentences and stuff while watching vids/vods/anime/porn or whatever you whippersnappers like to watch. I admit that I sometimes do alot of mistakes but my backspace operation is so godly fast they don´t really slow me down too much. My rest position is something like shift,a,e,f,j,i,l, and -/ö/ä area (scandinavian keyboard). It just feels the most natural & "fastest" E. Also ofc play starcraft and spam like hell! | ||
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SubtleArt
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Slow until I started using MSN more. Amazing when I started playing maplestory. YEEAA | ||
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TossFloss
Canada606 Posts
But why do you think there's something wrong with your typing? Go to the typing racer game someone mentioned and find out your wpm. If you're looking at the keyboard when you type then just stop looking at the keyboard. If you're not using all 5 fingers, then slow down and make a conscious effort to always use the optimal finger; after a while your brain will re-wire itself. P.S. don't take the two above typing games too seriously. Competitive typing requires you to practice many low-frequency and obscure words. | ||
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Kyuukyuu
Canada6263 Posts
I type ~150wpm and don't use optimal fingerings:S I don't think it's super important as long as you're using 3+ fingers per hand. | ||
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Zapdos_Smithh
Canada2620 Posts
I can type faster now actually though, so that's good. | ||
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Mithhaike
Singapore2759 Posts
its kinda like a habit, once your used to it it dont really matter | ||
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Gummy
United States2180 Posts
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RageOverdose
United States690 Posts
I mean, really if you want to learn to type "correctly" just see if you can't find a finger diagram or something. Really I find the standard home-row method on QWERTY is just intuitive. You use the finger that doesn't really move your hand much from the homerow to hit a key. Go slow and you get faster as you move along. Memorize the home-row keys first, get used to hitting space, enter, and backspace quickly, then just cycle through index, middle, ring, and little fingers. The question is really though, why? I mean, if you type really well as you do it, just keep it that way. Conforming to a "standard" when it won't improve your productivity is stupid IMO, just do what is comfortable to you and stick to what you're used to. | ||
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RageOverdose
United States690 Posts
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