|
I just let my hands rest wherever they end up, as I type one finger at a time (you know, the way your teacher yells at you in school for doing).
I'm generally around 110-120wpm doing this, and when I try typing "properly" I drop down to about 40-60wpm.
I feel I should also point out that when using home keys, I have no clue where anything is... yet somehow I can type with my eyes closed using one finger at a time.
I guess playing BW so much over the years has allowed me to memorize not the locations of keys (as I couldn't tell you what letter is where on the keyboard) but instead memorize the travel distance and direction from one key to the next.
|
On April 06 2010 04:07 Ursad0n wrote:
Lol i never learned to type forreal i just have my hands wherever the keys i need to type are. The way i'm sitting now i rest with my left hand on f, e a, shift, and space. and my right hand on i, n, p and ]
if i am sitting head on my hands aren't on they keyboard unless i type. just kinda hovering around.
I typa around 130 WPM i guess.
mine rest pretty similar to that but not exactly, and just like you I never learned to type "for real" and kind of made my own typing style
|
On April 06 2010 04:04 Day[9] wrote:
I type about 230 or 240 WPM. If I'm trying to fix the thousands of typos I make, probably around 70WPM.
You type 230-240 wpm CASUALLY? or when you were trying to type as fast as you can in a typing test, you got 230-240?
when trying to type fast (not my absolute fastest) on a typing test with 100% accuracy, i got ~110 WPM
230 is crazy o.O still with 100% accuracy, 110 > 70
i learned how to type playing gunbound several years ago, but i crack my fingers on multiple joints on all my fingers, several times a day every day, and that might have something to do with my hand's lack of dexterity... but i'm only 16
and i'm known in my grade as the fastest typer o.O
edit: my typing test had weird things like weird punctuations and everything so that kinda slowed me down i guess
|
On April 06 2010 04:27 bdams19 wrote:
I was actually curious about this so I googled typing test and clicked on a link. It included lots of hyphens and quotation marks which is totally lame but I got 84 wpm. I only use my right thumb to press the space bar and my left pinkie for shift 100% of the time. Never really noticed until now.
Just did a non quotation and hyphens test and got 111 with 0 errors. It is a habit for me to backspace after I make a mistake which is why I had zero errors; it's nearly impossible for me to just ignore errors and keep typing since my fingers know when I screw up.
|
On April 06 2010 04:33 Sere wrote:
I just let my hands rest wherever they end up, as I type one finger at a time (you know, the way your teacher yells at you in school for doing).
I'm generally around 110-120wpm doing this, and when I try typing "properly" I drop down to about 40-60wpm.
I feel I should also point out that when using home keys, I have no clue where anything is... yet somehow I can type with my eyes closed using one finger at a time.
I guess playing BW so much over the years has allowed me to memorize not the locations of keys (as I couldn't tell you what letter is where on the keyboard) but instead memorize the travel distance and direction from one key to the next.
You can type 110-120 wpm using one finger??!?
|
100-110 WPM, I use all my fingers but I don't do it the "technical" way where the same fingers always hit the same keys.
And I always use the left Shift key, and always use my left thumb to hit the spacebar. Not really that weird I guess.
|
120+wpm accuracy is probably around 98% i type with always hitting the space bar with my right thumb and tend to only hit the letters with 1 finger although i do tend to over lap and my right and left index finger just takes up the entire middle of the keyboard depending on what i have to type.
|
Colemak Layout
![[image loading]](http://colemak.com/wiki/images/8/80/Colemak_layout_2.png)
90WPM
|
96 WPM... I use a modified version of the standard, mostly my pointer and middle fingers do most of the typing. Rarely do I use the other two or the thumbs.
You should see my iPhone WPM  ... got some nasty thumb typing
|
FREEAGLELAND26782 Posts
Hmm I type differently when at my laptop as compared to the desktop. With the touchpad in the middle, my hands go in diagonally. On the desktop, since the keyboard is larger as well I can straighten them out more. Normally I get around 130-150, but it depends on the situation.
|
|
|
On April 06 2010 04:39 bdams19 wrote:Show nested quote +On April 06 2010 04:33 Sere wrote:
I just let my hands rest wherever they end up, as I type one finger at a time (you know, the way your teacher yells at you in school for doing).
I'm generally around 110-120wpm doing this, and when I try typing "properly" I drop down to about 40-60wpm.
I feel I should also point out that when using home keys, I have no clue where anything is... yet somehow I can type with my eyes closed using one finger at a time.
I guess playing BW so much over the years has allowed me to memorize not the locations of keys (as I couldn't tell you what letter is where on the keyboard) but instead memorize the travel distance and direction from one key to the next. You can type 110-120 wpm using one finger??!?
Well, one finger per hand, yes. Like... I'm only ever touching the keyboard with a single finger at a time (unless I'm holding down Shift).
It's hard to really explain, and it's not something I could ever see being taught... it's just the way I've learned to do it over the years.
I'm typing this sentence right here with my eyes closed, and my hands completely off the keyboard except when I hit a key. Somehow I manage to know the distance to move to hit the next keys even though my hands are generally hovering 1-2 inches above the keyboard.
I guess it's the same as being able to move your mouse an exact distance at sub-millimeter intervals to click a specific spot on your screen.
|
|
|
On April 06 2010 05:21 Sere wrote:Show nested quote +On April 06 2010 04:39 bdams19 wrote:On April 06 2010 04:33 Sere wrote:
I just let my hands rest wherever they end up, as I type one finger at a time (you know, the way your teacher yells at you in school for doing).
I'm generally around 110-120wpm doing this, and when I try typing "properly" I drop down to about 40-60wpm.
I feel I should also point out that when using home keys, I have no clue where anything is... yet somehow I can type with my eyes closed using one finger at a time.
I guess playing BW so much over the years has allowed me to memorize not the locations of keys (as I couldn't tell you what letter is where on the keyboard) but instead memorize the travel distance and direction from one key to the next. You can type 110-120 wpm using one finger??!? Well, one finger per hand, yes. Like... I'm only ever touching the keyboard with a single finger at a time (unless I'm holding down Shift). It's hard to really explain, and it's not something I could ever see being taught... it's just the way I've learned to do it over the years. I'm typing this sentence right here with my eyes closed, and my hands completely off the keyboard except when I hit a key. Somehow I manage to know the distance to move to hit the next keys even though my hands are generally hovering 1-2 inches above the keyboard. I guess it's the same as being able to move your mouse an exact distance at sub-millimeter intervals to click a specific spot on your screen.
i also type like this a lot.
instead of having hand positioning you pretty much hope your muscle memory does the work for you. when you're tired it leads to a crap ton of typos, at least for me.
|
On April 06 2010 05:25 Etherone wrote:Show nested quote +On April 06 2010 05:21 Sere wrote:On April 06 2010 04:39 bdams19 wrote:On April 06 2010 04:33 Sere wrote:
I just let my hands rest wherever they end up, as I type one finger at a time (you know, the way your teacher yells at you in school for doing).
I'm generally around 110-120wpm doing this, and when I try typing "properly" I drop down to about 40-60wpm.
I feel I should also point out that when using home keys, I have no clue where anything is... yet somehow I can type with my eyes closed using one finger at a time.
I guess playing BW so much over the years has allowed me to memorize not the locations of keys (as I couldn't tell you what letter is where on the keyboard) but instead memorize the travel distance and direction from one key to the next. You can type 110-120 wpm using one finger??!? Well, one finger per hand, yes. Like... I'm only ever touching the keyboard with a single finger at a time (unless I'm holding down Shift). It's hard to really explain, and it's not something I could ever see being taught... it's just the way I've learned to do it over the years. I'm typing this sentence right here with my eyes closed, and my hands completely off the keyboard except when I hit a key. Somehow I manage to know the distance to move to hit the next keys even though my hands are generally hovering 1-2 inches above the keyboard. I guess it's the same as being able to move your mouse an exact distance at sub-millimeter intervals to click a specific spot on your screen. i also type like this a lot. instead of having hand positioning you pretty much hope your muscle memory does the work for you. when you're tired it leads to a crap ton of typos, at least for me.
![[image loading]](http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/4277/type.png)
Leads to a few typos and slower typing when you're sick, too
|
I am an idiot, so I only write with two fingers. Need to find the time to learn to type with all ten.
|
I'm Melodic on there, I think I saw you J, lol.
|
I blind type with both hands every finger. (standard technical way i guesse). I took a course on it when i was 10 or something like that. It has helped my ever since. The course was even on an typewriter (pre comupter days ). I love my parrents for signing me up for that 
Havent looked at a keyboard since over 10 years. Don't know my words per minute but i guesse im in the 100 - 200 range. Though in english im a lot slower since I don't always know the spelling. In scramble mode with ignoring errors i could go as high as 250 i think.
|
I type at about 90 WPM and I just use all my fingers. Resting on asdf jkl; and thumbs on the spacebar.
|
I think some people are exaggerating their typing skills. Seriously.
Here's a site to test.
Edit: I never bothered learning "proper" typing. I just do whatever I feel like. Space usually goes to my thumbs, everything else depends on where my hands are at that point.
|
|
|
|
|
|
EPT![[image loading]](http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y155/huskythehusky/race.jpg)
![[image loading]](http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii129/neoalbert/Untitled-3.jpg)
