Well I got the idea for this since I remember that I learned to type by playing brood war.... my mind was motivated to type faster simply because in team games it would take valuable time to type messages to your allies. I think that's what motivated me to type faster.
I also type with a really ghetto style that any typing instructor would frown at... On my right hand I pretty much only use my index and middle finger, and for some reason on my left hand I use all the fingers... I also occasionally press the space bar with my right index finger, and sometimes with my left thumb (the normal way).
So what about you guys any weird typing styles or stories to share?
as for speed I would say that when typing short hand battle.net style messages probably somewhere around 160 wpm, and for grammatically correct real typing probably more like 110-130 wpm
I type very technical. I keep both of my index fingers rested on the little "bumps" on the "F" and "J" key at all times unless I'm needing it for another letter obviously. I use my thumbs for spacing obviously. The only "weird" thing I do for typing is when I type "M"s I use my index finger. Everyone else I know uses there middle finger for "M"'s, so meh. But this technicality helps me type I guess, grammatically correct I can type 120ish WPM.
I generally use what I believe is the "standard" way of typing. However, I began learning the Colemak keyboard layout. I got my friend to use it, and so far he's surpassed me by quite a lot. For grammatically correct typing, I can peak around 150-160, however I am so inaccurate that it usually drops me to 90-110.
As for Colemak, you really do notice less finger movement. As for accuracy and speed, I don't quite know as I'm not "fluent" with it, but it seems promising.
Ninja'd not once, but twice... I think I should type faster.
On April 06 2010 03:53 Archaic wrote: I generally use what I believe is the "standard" way of typing. However, I began learning the Colemak keyboard layout. I got my friend to use it, and so far he's surpassed me by quite a lot. For grammatically correct typing, I can peak around 150-160, however I am so inaccurate that it usually drops me to 90-110.
As for Colemak, you really do notice less finger movement. As for accuracy and speed, I don't quite know as I'm not "fluent" with it, but it seems promising.
Ninja'd not once, but twice... I think I should type faster.
The main problem with colemak/dvorak/other keyboard layouts in general is that EVERYTHING uses qwerty, so good luck using a computer that isn't yours.
On April 06 2010 03:52 Fruscainte wrote: I type very technical. I keep both of my index fingers rested on the little "bumps" on the "F" and "J" key at all times unless I'm needing it for another letter obviously. I use my thumbs for spacing obviously. The only "weird" thing I do for typing is when I type "M"s I use my index finger. Everyone else I know uses there middle finger for "M"'s, so meh. But this technicality helps me type I guess, grammatically correct I can type 120ish WPM.
Is that really so "weird"? I use my index finger to type M aswell :o
On April 06 2010 03:52 Fruscainte wrote: I type very technical. I keep both of my index fingers rested on the little "bumps" on the "F" and "J" key at all times unless I'm needing it for another letter obviously. I use my thumbs for spacing obviously. The only "weird" thing I do for typing is when I type "M"s I use my index finger. Everyone else I know uses there middle finger for "M"'s, so meh. But this technicality helps me type I guess, grammatically correct I can type 120ish WPM.
Is that really so "weird"? I use my index finger to type M aswell :o
good responses anyone have any ghetto typing styles out there? so far most people seem to be technically sound =)...
my "resting" position is left hand on F - E - S - A starting with index on F, and on my right hand I rest index on M and middle on O... I know my typing is weird but it's fast =p
On April 06 2010 03:52 Fruscainte wrote: I type very technical. I keep both of my index fingers rested on the little "bumps" on the "F" and "J" key at all times unless I'm needing it for another letter obviously. I use my thumbs for spacing obviously. The only "weird" thing I do for typing is when I type "M"s I use my index finger. Everyone else I know uses there middle finger for "M"'s, so meh. But this technicality helps me type I guess, grammatically correct I can type 120ish WPM.
this really sums up how i type. i use index finger for M too [thought it was common?] i type Q with my ring finger and i sometimes press Y with my left index.
i'm not sure "how" I type. but I know that its all thanks to broodwar! when I 1st started using starcraft and computers a lot, around 14, I used to have to look at the keys while i typed.. Through continuous usage of SC, having to look @ the keys for so long I eventually memorized the keys etc.. over the years, i've been able to adapt to not looking at the keyboard, and just having to type so much through BW i've just gotten better and better or quicker and quicker rather..
I took a test once to determine how fast I typed, but it was actually a hard test that was full of gramatical punctuations and etc that I had to back up and re-do.. it was also on a pad next to the comp, so I had to sometimes pause and look over to it and read the next few sentences or something.. which took time.. but ya, like everyone, im sure we all type fast "slang like" liek, omg u go so fast we alrdy know u soo good - when it would actually be "oh my god, you are so fast at typing, you already know what word is coming next"
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.
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.
use my thumbs for keyboard other than that i only use my index fingers(for all letters), and my pinkies for shift or control or enter
oh and i use my right ring finger for backspace
thats definitely weird.. I'm sort of similar with my right hand, I only use index and middle finger with my right, also my pinkies I use for enter, shift, ctrl etc like I think most ppl do
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.
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.
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
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 04:33 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 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 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.
Leads to a few typos and slower typing when you're sick, too
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.
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.
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.
The site is wayy too slow, I finished typing the next word and the system hasnt even caught up.
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.
The site is wayy too slow, I finished typing the next word and the system hasnt even caught up.
You type 553 characters per minute You have 88 correct words and you have 9 wrong words
* i use my index and middle fingers on each hand. * i press spacebar with my index finger. * i will often move my hands onto the opposite side of the keyboard. (ie: keyboard: Left hand: ead, right hand: kyboar).
I type naturally 60wpm using non-standard touch typing method. Using the standard method its like 10-15wpm lol, but I only just started trying to type with the standard style.
As a programmer most of my typing won't be a nice continuous flow it'll need loads of thinking all the time so when I was back in school my speed was probably like 120 wpm when I used to write reports and stuff.
I'm inclined to think that if any of you actually had a typing program on your computer that actually records how many WPM you do, and your accuracy, that you would all fall FAR short of what you're posting in this thread.
As for me, I use the standard qwerty keyboard, and do around 90 WPM if I'm practicing 8 hours a day for months. If not, I top out at around 70 WPM. I maintain 100% accuracy in this too.
*edit* For everyone taking "tests" that give you words and shorts bursts, you are artificially increasing how fast you type. If you actually had to type for over 5 minutes instead of taking these car game "tests" that end in 40 seconds, your speed would fall a LOT. Take a standardized typing program (I'll use Mavis Beacon) and take a random sentence test with a time of 5 minutes, none of you would get over 100 WPM with 100% accuracy.
On April 06 2010 03:52 Fruscainte wrote: I type very technical. I keep both of my index fingers rested on the little "bumps" on the "F" and "J" key at all times unless I'm needing it for another letter obviously. I use my thumbs for spacing obviously. The only "weird" thing I do for typing is when I type "M"s I use my index finger. Everyone else I know uses there middle finger for "M"'s, so meh. But this technicality helps me type I guess, grammatically correct I can type 120ish WPM.
Is that really so "weird"? I use my index finger to type M aswell :o
me too.
in touch typing, you're supposed to use your right inded for j, m, n, h, y, u, and i
On April 06 2010 06:16 ArmOfDeath wrote: I find it extremely amusing that all of you say that you type over 100 WPM, when the worlds best typist can only do 150 WPM.
I'm inclined to think that if any of you actually had a typing program on your computer that actually records how many WPM you do, and your accuracy, that you would all fall FAR short of what you're posting in this thread.
As for me, I use the standard qwerty keyboard, and do around 90 WPM if I'm practicing 8 hours a day for months. If not, I top out at around 70 WPM. I maintain 100% accuracy in this too.
Assuming what your link says is true, the typist maintained that speed for 50 minutes, which is quite a feat.
I've hit 160+ wpm once on a very simple passage but average 110-120 wpm. If you wiki the typing championships, Sean Wrona is one of the fastest, and you can find his top scores on typeracer. (I think he averages 200+ wpm. Remember that passages are reused and can become familiarized with. He didn't hit this speed in the competition of course.)
On April 06 2010 06:16 ArmOfDeath wrote: I find it extremely amusing that all of you say that you type over 100 WPM, when the worlds best typist can only do 150 WPM.
I'm inclined to think that if any of you actually had a typing program on your computer that actually records how many WPM you do, and your accuracy, that you would all fall FAR short of what you're posting in this thread.
As for me, I use the standard qwerty keyboard, and do around 90 WPM if I'm practicing 8 hours a day for months. If not, I top out at around 70 WPM. I maintain 100% accuracy in this too.
When I was taking a lot of notes in College I typed about 125 WPM. I just did the speed test and got 69 WPM. I use a QWERTY keyboard and I type about 70% of the keys with my left hand for some reason. I don't use the home-row, or any conventional typing method. Like everything since I haven't had to type a lot in a short period for a few years now I've slowed down a bit, but I can still type as fast as I can think of what I'm typing so its not really an issue. Oddly my APM is about 140 on SC2... weird.
Edit: Also when I type for a long time or do really high APM/Micro my hands become... I'm not quite sure how to put it, not functional? I have to take a break after each really intense game.
On April 06 2010 06:36 niteReloaded wrote: haha I just realized I press spacebar with my right index, im such a noob
Lol that's a method I've never heard of before. I use my left thumb most of the time, but I hit ALT with my left thumb as well so sometimes the right thumb hits space.
this site sucks, when it switches between sets of words i have to pause for a fraction of a second to change the orientation of my eyes You type 606 characters per minute You have 99 correct words and you have 8 wrong words
Depending on the online test, I tend to vary between 130 and 150 with no typos if I'm actually trying. When I'm posting on a message board, I'm probably more like 120.
I remember back in 9th grade, the typing teacher kept giving me bad grades because I wasn't using the proper homerow typing method, to the point of almost failing. I wound up complaining and got my 99 after proving that I could type pretty much twice as fast as she could and with less errors. Isn't that the whole point of typing anyway? I don't even use all of my fingers.
On April 06 2010 06:16 ArmOfDeath wrote: I find it extremely amusing that all of you say that you type over 100 WPM, when the worlds best typist can only do 150 WPM.
I'm inclined to think that if any of you actually had a typing program on your computer that actually records how many WPM you do, and your accuracy, that you would all fall FAR short of what you're posting in this thread.
As for me, I use the standard qwerty keyboard, and do around 90 WPM if I'm practicing 8 hours a day for months. If not, I top out at around 70 WPM. I maintain 100% accuracy in this too.
Assuming what your link says is true, the typist maintained that speed for 50 minutes, which is quite a feat.
I've hit 160+ wpm once on a very simple passage but average 110-120 wpm. If you wiki the typing championships, Sean Wrona is one of the fastest, and you can find his top scores on typeracer. (I think he averages 200+ wpm. Remember that passages are reused and can become familiarized with. He didn't hit this speed in the competition of course.)
That's nice, but he's doing his typing with burst, and memorization. If you want that, I can burst with the best of them at over 250 WPM. That isn't actually typing though, that's just typing 5 words as fast as you can. The point I'm trying to make is just because you can type a sentence or two in quick succession doesn't mean that you actually type at 100+ WPM. It means that you can do a quick burst of words quickly. If you really want to test and see how fast you can type, then you have to be typing continuously for 5+ minutes at a time.
note that these was my first typing in the last few YEARS..... and i started reading comments about how people thought I would never get past 50 wpm ROFL!!!!
after those 10 sentences i started to get the hang of things again, and im IMPROVING every word i type....
I'm 160 wpm in my last 16 sentences, these phrases and sentences are honestly no challenge................ most of my paragraphs with them are under 20 seconds because they are so bad with basic syntax/run-on skills.
keep in mind this is just my FIRST NIGHT back, my hands still feel like rocks compared to what they used to feel like, I'm sure I wont regain everything until at least a few weeks of typing... but when you easily get to 160wpm on my first night typing in 3 years has the competition really improved all that much?
On April 06 2010 06:42 psychopat wrote: Depending on the online test, I tend to vary between 130 and 150 with no typos if I'm actually trying. When I'm posting on a message board, I'm probably more like 120.
I remember back in 9th grade, the typing teacher kept giving me bad grades because I wasn't using the proper homerow typing method, to the point of almost failing. I wound up complaining and got my 99 after proving that I could type pretty much twice as fast as she could and with less errors. Isn't that the whole point of typing anyway? I don't even use all of my fingers.
if you listened to your teacher, you could've been even faster.
I type like a retarded gorilla, my hands kinda just run around the keyboard wherever they are needed in no particular order. Another thing that i get alot of crap about is the fact that i use my left thumb to hit control key for hotkeying units "LOL".
On April 06 2010 07:08 Machine[USA] wrote: I type like a retarded gorilla, my hands kinda just run around the keyboard wherever they are needed in no particular order. Another thing that i get alot of crap about is the fact that i use my left thumb to hit control key for hotkeying units "LOL".
I use pinky for ctrl, feels more natural. lol thumbs, that is really gorilla like actullay
Home-row is a cumbersome archaic method of learning how to type. Why would you want to type in a manner that requires you to move your fingers back to an arbitrary set of keys after each keystroke? It is much easier to just hit the keys in a manner that is comfortable. I got my first computer when i was 9 (22 now), and I started typing on that with the two finger 'peck and look' method. And after hours and hours of use I eventually memorized the keyboard, to the point that by age 12 when I had my first in-school typing class I was suffice it to say far ahead of even the teacher.
i don't really bother with technique or anything, in fact i have filmed myself typing just for the lulz, and it looks so freaking random haha.. i don't really use my right pinky for example for anything apart from the apostrophe, and all the keys in the centre like tgbyhn are any hand's game, depending on what my hand is typing. for instance when i type be, i use my right index for 'b' but when i type 'but' i use my left index for 'b'. dunno, it just feels comfortable, and at 140+wpm with basically no errors, who cares?
On April 06 2010 06:54 niteReloaded wrote: if you listened to your teacher, you could've been even faster.
I don't deny that, but it would have required to "unlearn" a lot of habits that I built through from playing MUDs back when I was a kid. I wasn't, and still am not, willing to drop by a good 50+ wpm in order to relearn the proper way. The huge short-term hit isn't worth the long-term gain that would probably be relatively small anyway.
On April 06 2010 06:00 Inori wrote: I'd really like to see people who say they do 120+ wpm post screenshots from some site like above. Myself, 90-100 at peak and 60-80 casually.
Just tried a race on typeracer... 126wpm, 100% accuracy. Seems like they're a bit more strict than other sites I've tried it on, or I might just be out of practice. I dislike how typeracer docks you accuracy points even if you go back and correct your mistake. It's essentially penalizing you twice since you're losing time to fix it.
edit: lol at David Kim being 9th on my screenshot...
I use both thumbs for pressing the space bar, my right hand's ring ringer for hitting backspace, my right hand's pinky finger for holding shift, and both index and middle fingers for everything else.
Pretty much learned it that way as OP described by playing so much SC and typing on b.net hahaha.
WPM is around 90-95 I think, but haven't really tested lately.
70 WPM but I believe its mostly because I never learned a specific way to type so I developed the habit of only using 4 fingers. Both my index fingers and middle finger are all I use to type every key. Sometimes I feel like with just those 4 fingers I can't keep up with my brain thoughts and I'll get stuck waiting for a word to finish. I could learn how to type properly I suppose but I've been typing like this for around 10 years and it suits me, I figure reconditioning myself would take a while to get used to and only maybe increase my WPM by 30 at the most so why bother.
use my thumbs for keyboard other than that i only use my index fingers(for all letters), and my pinkies for shift or control or enter
oh and i use my right ring finger for backspace
thats definitely weird.. I'm sort of similar with my right hand, I only use index and middle finger with my right, also my pinkies I use for enter, shift, ctrl etc like I think most ppl do
I type the same way. three fingers on my left hand + pinky for ctrl/shift/tab. Then on my right hand I ondly use two fingers/thumb, pinky for enter, ring finger for backspace lol. I can type 80-100 wpm somehow though.
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.
i dont really like this site... it only lets you see 2 lines at a time so i have to slow down right before it moves... here's mine:
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.
i dont really like this site... it only lets you see 2 lines at a time
I've been using this site for awhile, when I'm at school and bored... I average at around 115-120 WPM, usually no more than that..
On April 06 2010 07:08 Machine[USA] wrote: I type like a retarded gorilla, my hands kinda just run around the keyboard wherever they are needed in no particular order. Another thing that i get alot of crap about is the fact that i use my left thumb to hit control key for hotkeying units "LOL".
This is funny, because I used to do the same thing... Until I cut my thumb open while cutting some cheddar cheese -_- So I started using my pinky
70 ~_~.. people say i type in a crooked way but i never learned how to type "correctly" so i would stretch some fingers unnecessarily to get other keys. but hey, i learned how to type in 5/6th grade when talking to friends in Runescape :D i also dont use my ring finger at all and my pinky only for my back space
Most typing tests end horribly for because there are a few common mistakes I do while typing at an insane frequency. Anything that ends with an "n" while I'm typing quickly tends to have a "g" added, I will do "teh" about 50% of the time, and I also add additional suffixes at the end of words (I'll add an additional "ed" or "ng"). Type Racer (when I don't keep messing up) and the other site put me ~100 wpm.
I've wanted to try switching to Colemak and seeing how it goes; which I might do in the coming months should inspiration every strike me.
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.
i dont really like this site... it only lets you see 2 lines at a time so i have to slow down right before it moves... here's mine:
This website is annoying, every time it scrolls/jumps down, it confuses the heck out of me because I'm going too fast, I keep making mistakes there...
Also, this isn't "accurate", because when people write cohesive sentences, we write significantly faster. However, I guess this can be seen as sort of a "lower limit" on your typing speed. I'm curious to see a typing test that has proper sentences.
Regardless, seems that I got:
419 points, 596 char/min, 105 correct/3 incorrect... which isn't very accurate cuz many people go back to fix typos, like I do. Lol, I'd like them to measure my "Backspace key speed", it would be furious hahaha
use typing training websites or download the all you can type 3 demo, there's a glitch in the program
when you want to enter a lesson select it and hit enter instead clicking to do it and it will glitch/let you do the lesson/quiz without buying the full version
i used that to learn typing and it's rly good, i got 95 wpm and 180 apm :D
On April 06 2010 09:11 MagicARide wrote: use typing training websites or download the all you can type 3 demo, there's a glitch in the program
when you want to enter a lesson select it and hit enter instead clicking to do it and it will glitch/let you do the lesson/quiz without buying the full version
i used that to learn typing and it's rly good, i got 95 wpm and 180 apm :D
lol yeah ATRT3 demo is hilarious. it glitches at higher speeds tho (you can only get either 208, 216 or 228wpm if you go over 200.. it doesn't record anything in between, ever)
When I'm consciously trying to type fast, I get 120-130 wpm (and I get kind of fatigued from doing that too long, and I start making more typos and getting slower). I think my usual, relaxed speed is probably closer to 90 or so.
On April 06 2010 06:07 Mora wrote: i'm a funk-typer too!
* i use my index and middle fingers on each hand. * i press spacebar with my index finger. * i will often move my hands onto the opposite side of the keyboard. (ie: keyboard: Left hand: ead, right hand: kyboar).
edit - about 100 WPM
i find it extremely difficult to believe how so many guys can type 100+ using just 2 fingers on each hand O_o
On April 06 2010 05:54 neobowman wrote: I think some people are exaggerating their typing skills. Seriously.
That site is just bad - you can only see two lines so you have to wait and pause while your brain figures out what the next thing is every time you hit the end of the two lines.
I got 117, while I can consistently get 130-140 on every typing speed thing that doesn't suck.
On April 06 2010 06:07 Mora wrote: i'm a funk-typer too!
* i use my index and middle fingers on each hand. * i press spacebar with my index finger. * i will often move my hands onto the opposite side of the keyboard. (ie: keyboard: Left hand: ead, right hand: kyboar).
edit - about 100 WPM
i find it extremely difficult to believe how so many guys can type 100+ using just 2 fingers on each hand O_o
I wasn't exactly sure where abouts i sat in speed, though my guess was about 100. I did that type racer thing to see if i was anywhere close. I don't usually capitalize my i's, so that messed me up quite a bit. My accuracy in general is very low which hasn't ever mattered much to me - word programs will typically auto-correct mistakes that just have 2 letters reversed; typing in games online usually means i don't care much for spelling.
i played the test about 10 times, averaging about 85wpm. On a few of them with quote signs and stuff that i normally don't type my rate dropped to 60wpm. I'm definitely not consistent.
I do have high spikes on passages that have finger-friendly words.
I type at about 80-90 wpm, but I type horribly wrong, and am often incredibly inaccurate because of it. I only really use the first two fingers of my right hand and all but the pinky of my left hand. My left hand ends up doing significantly more work than my right. It also depends on the day. Sometimes I can't get my hands to move well for me at all, but I think that's probably everyone.
EDIT, over three minutes of sports writing I got 69 net speed, with 95% accuracy I think. Which isn't bad given my horrible style. I also blanked mentally a few times, and was having a bitch of a time spelling out Philadelphia for some reason, which came up like 5 times. When I type freestyle, though, my typing is undoubtedly faster as I don't have to process words on the screen first in order to type them... the vast majority of the typing I do is freestyle too, so I'd assume I'm in the 75-80 range when not copying something.
So Apparently accurately copying someone else's text I'm at around 70 WPM, but I feel I type way faster and accurately when I'm typing my own thoughts. I guess it's the reading and then turning what I read into mental commands to hit keys is messing with my head =[
only weird thing I do is hit the B key with my right index instead of my left... so all of those sweet ergonomical keyboards with the space between the left and right set of keys doesn't work for me... unless the letter B gets erased from the alphabet, that is
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.
OMFG me too! i have noo idea where keys are, but i can mime typing any word in the air without even thinking about it.
hmm, i never noticed this before, but when i type, i basically only use the index finger of my right hand (as a support, if you will) and all the fingers on my left hand. I find this weird, as I am totally right handed in everything. 120-130 wpm gramatically correct, qwerty.
Wow, some of you guys have insane typing speeds, I'm around 70-80 wpm. I use my own style of typing, so maybe that's why I'm not so quick. I was wondering (and it has been on my mind for a while) should I learn to properly touch type? Because right now I'm only using certain fingers and my hands move quite a lot when I type. So should I start from scratch and relearn it? Will I be able to type faster?
I type sorta slow when it's grammatically correct because I am so tall and my hands are huge even for my size. But probably around 150-160wpm for shorthand bnet messages.
i type using the qwerty homerow system. but move my hands in strange ways and look at the keyboard alot to hit those symbols like []{}()=+-<> and company.
edit: and i type at what i guess is about 80wpm
edit: okay fine i lied, that hi-whatever game tells me i am 42wpm over three trials.
At exactly 100 on the first typing test linked. Took it one time, got 95, then 2 other times after that getting 100 each time. The line shift kinda screwed with my eyes the first round, heh.
On April 06 2010 03:52 Fruscainte wrote: I type very technical. I keep both of my index fingers rested on the little "bumps" on the "F" and "J" key at all times unless I'm needing it for another letter obviously. I use my thumbs for spacing obviously. The only "weird" thing I do for typing is when I type "M"s I use my index finger. Everyone else I know uses there middle finger for "M"'s, so meh. But this technicality helps me type I guess, grammatically correct I can type 120ish WPM.
At my strongest, around 5-6 years ago, I could probably type at around 120 in short bursts during writing my novel and average at 100. Nowadays it's become a lot harder to type with accuracy because of my mental problems have grown in severity (screws up motor functions overall, I mix up a lot of words and my mental mapping is totally broken...), so I probably average 70-80 now.
I type with two fingers, extremely rarely a middle. I am incapable of homerow or anything like that. My setup requires perfect positioning so my mental layout works. If I'm leaning or something, it becomes virtually impossible to type properly.
I frequent typeracer.com, over 500 races under my belt. Average 90-95, top speed 115. My left hand stays still and is much more accurate than my right, which has to pivot. I do not use my pinky nor my thumb on my right hand and only sometimes use my ring finger. I use all digits on my left. I also have accuracy issues with the following keys:
( ) - ; : ' " , . ?
which are the main hindrance in my typing atm. I've found that concentrating on accuracy will actually make me type faster than if I concentrate on speed, because correcting mistakes is the worst time waster.
Proof of my average (this is the first time I used this "replay" site, saw it on an earlier page in this thread)
thanks to counter strike, my left hand is on asd (index on D) and my right hand flies around the keyboard because you dont use a mouse to type (but you use a mouse in cs)
I usually just freestyle it, half looking half not but i've got good enough at it i actually learned by how to type by playing on battle.net when i was little haha
On April 06 2010 03:52 Fruscainte wrote: I type very technical. I keep both of my index fingers rested on the little "bumps" on the "F" and "J" key at all times unless I'm needing it for another letter obviously. I use my thumbs for spacing obviously. The only "weird" thing I do for typing is when I type "M"s I use my index finger. Everyone else I know uses there middle finger for "M"'s, so meh. But this technicality helps me type I guess, grammatically correct I can type 120ish WPM.
Is that really so "weird"? I use my index finger to type M aswell :o
me too.
in touch typing, you're supposed to use your right inded for j, m, n, h, y, u, and i
this seems really ineffecient,
the finger that strikes Y should be based purely on what side of the keyboard the next letter is struck
for instance, if i typed "yeah" im comfortable with using my right middle finger, because my left hand is instantly hovering over ea and my index is sitting on top of the h just waiting for the opportunity to strike.
But-- if I typed "you" I'm going to use my left index to stretch over to y while having my right hand on o and u respectively to be struck in succession.
I'm quite fast, guessing from 120-150. I'm slowly learning the Dvorak layout to take it easy on my wrists/hands in the long haul. I like to think I'm a somewhat symmetric typist but I the truth is that I use my right for the middle keys more often than the left.
On April 06 2010 03:52 Fruscainte wrote: I type very technical. I keep both of my index fingers rested on the little "bumps" on the "F" and "J" key at all times unless I'm needing it for another letter obviously. I use my thumbs for spacing obviously. The only "weird" thing I do for typing is when I type "M"s I use my index finger. Everyone else I know uses there middle finger for "M"'s, so meh. But this technicality helps me type I guess, grammatically correct I can type 120ish WPM.
Is that really so "weird"? I use my index finger to type M aswell :o
me too.
in touch typing, you're supposed to use your right inded for j, m, n, h, y, u, and i
this seems really ineffecient,
the finger that strikes Y should be based purely on what side of the keyboard the next letter is struck
for instance, if i typed "yeah" im comfortable with using my right middle finger, because my left hand is instantly hovering over ea and my index is sitting on top of the h just waiting for the opportunity to strike.
But-- if I typed "you" I'm going to use my left index to stretch over to y while having my right hand on o and u respectively to be struck in succession.
Seems weird to hit "i" with your index; I use my middle but perhaps just a diff train of thought. I always use my right index for "y" but this way also makes a lot of sense. Damn you, Mavis Beacon.
I do most of my typing with my middle three fingers on each hand. Half the keyboard is for my right hand and half is for my left hand. Sometimes my left hand goes onto the right side, but that is when i am using shift or something. I average out at about 63 WPM, even though i do not use homerow.
You may see me on typeracer sometimes, under the alias of "Teh PK", and my in-race name as Zach
I thought I was fast, but I received a 57 wpm score from here here, but that's 57 wpm without errors. I can't believe that I've actually gotten faster than I was in my typing class (~40 wpm).
Edit: I forgot the how you type part. I do text book qwerty style, except I use my left thumb to hit the space bar. I can still hear my typing teacher complaining. Can you say annal?
According to this:http://www.typeonline.co.uk/typingspeed.php I type at 66 WPM. I thought I typed at around 120. It makes me wonder how you guys are calculating your WPM. I am typing on a laptop however.
On April 07 2010 00:54 Warrior Madness wrote: According to this:http://www.typeonline.co.uk/typingspeed.php I type at 66 WPM. I thought I typed at around 120. It makes me wonder how you guys are calculating your WPM. I am typing on a laptop however.
If you mess up enough, then your speed can drop that fast. Generally they do it by multiplying your percentage to your gross speed. I type 100 words (I believe it's set at 5 letters/word) in one minute, but I only have a 66% accuracy, then it would give me 66WPM.
from so much video gaming, i've gotten to the point where i use my left hand for everything over to j, while right hand is on mouse... type about 95 wpm on a qwerty
WPM is a bad way to measure typing speed. It should be measured in characters per minute.
Case in point: forum posts. I can maybe go 120+ wpm on a typical forum post with familiar words, but according to this http://www.typeonline.co.uk/typingspeed.php, with UK spelling and convoluted punctuation, I only got ~85 wpm, although i didnt make any mistakes.
On April 07 2010 00:48 Zack1900 wrote: I thought I was fast, but I received a 57 wpm score from here here, but that's 57 wpm without errors. I can't believe that I've actually gotten faster than I was in my typing class (~40 wpm).
Edit: I forgot the how you type part. I do text book qwerty style, except I use my left thumb to hit the space bar. I can still hear my typing teacher complaining. Can you say annal?
IMO a typing system is inefficient. Develop what works for you.
I feel like a total noob reading this thread and then finding out I type at an amazing 30 wpm. But then I also I haven't had any typing class as it seams most people have and I also almost only type with one hand. The one hand stuff i believe comes from gaming where I always have one hand on the keyboard and one on the mouse..
I type between 60 and 100 words per minute. Learned using Mario Teaches Typing and Micro type. I use my index fingers to much and my other fingers too little. Only use pinkies for shifts and enter and don't like thumbs.
I have about 120-140 WPM usually. I use my right thumb for the space bar, and actually use all my fingers on my left hand, and index, middle and ring finger on my right hand. I only use my right pinky to press the space bar, shift key, and ;'\. Also, I sometimes use my thumbs for the keys next to the spacebar (ie cvbnm) I think I learned to type initially using one of those lame typing games you play in elementary school, but was using very poor form (ie only using index/middle fingers). I really started typing properly when I took computer science courses in high school and began to create programs.
Damn it, this whole time I actually believed I typed at like 120 wpm, but then I decided to test myself on one of those online tests, and found out I average between 60-70 wpm (I can get up to 120 if I just forget about trying to be accurate and just speed through though).
Reading some of the responses in this thread make me feel so slow =/
On April 07 2010 07:34 Old Sagat wrote: Learned using Mario Teaches Typing.
Awesome! Me too!
Oh, and to answer the other question, I type "properly" in that I have all my fingers on the home row, use my fingers almost equally depending on what I'm typing, use thumbs for space, etc.
In one study of average computer users, the average rate for transcription was 33 words per minute, and only 19 words per minute for composition.[1] In the same study, when the group was divided into "fast", "moderate" and "slow" groups, the average speeds were 40 wpm, 35 wpm, and 23 wpm respectively.
I seem to average 50-60 wpm on those different tests, most of the time 100% accuracy though (partly because I just can't stop myself correcting a typo). My typing technique is horrendous though, I only use my two index fingers for everything. Guess I never learnt to type the proper way. :/
Probably would get higher if i took it again though because I wasnt familiar with format of the test.
I tend to just use all fingers on left hand and all but pinky on the right (except for right shift, which is what i use all the time to capitalize and do symbols)
110-120wpm usually, I use my right index finger for spacebar, and I usually never really use my pinky finger unless it's for the quotation marks and shift key.
Probably would get higher if i took it again though because I wasnt familiar with format of the test.
I tend to just use all fingers on left hand and all but pinky on the right (except for right shift, which is what i use all the time to capitalize and do symbols)
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Got 71 on my first try, gonna try to beat it now that im warmed up
79 second try, with no mistakes too!
339 points, so you achieved position 7266 of 179977 on the ranking list
wow I didn't think that 79 wpm was actually fast. I guess it is just slow in the context of TL's blazingly fast typists.
From wiki:
The average human being hand writes at 31 words per minute for memorized text and 22 words per minute while copying
This is why I dislike TAs who make you put away your laptops during section
without reading 8 pages of replies to see if this method has already been posted...
I am a seasoned user of computers who has been typing on QWERTY probably for two solid decades. I've never used dvorak ever, nor split ergonomic keyboards for any length of time, only incidentally.
I remember being clocked at around 100/110 WPM as a teenager. I just did a google search while writing this post for "typing speed test", picked the first one, and got 91 WPM on the first try, just so I could post current results.
How do I do it? Well, I use a modified "home row" (asdf jkl; ), except I move both of my hands outward, away from the middle, the distance of one key each. This leaves my ring, middle, and fore fingers resting above asd and kl;. Thus, I use my powerful fingers to reach into the middle of the keyboard, while my weak pinky fingers do not participate in the typing of characters. Instead, they rest on system keys that they can press immediately when called for, instead of having to move there (which would be slow, because they are weak fingers). I hit left-shift with my left pinky and the Return key with my right pinky. Space bar is obviously my thumbs. Actually I'm not sure if I press space with my left or right thumb but as I typed this sentence I noticed that it was my right thumb exclusively hitting the space bar. I guess my left thumb is entirely idle.
This method developed naturally for me after learning home row when I was younger, which I found to be too slow (most people reading this thread probably know that QWERTY w/ home row is designed to artificially slow down typists, so that typewriters wouldn't get stuck...) I learned home row by taking a keyboarding class using Apple ][e's in middle school, and I also learned on Mavis Beacon software before that.
I guess this may not work for you if you don't have good reach? Not sure. My handspan is one octave and another eighth on a piano.
About 70-80 WPM. I type dvorak usually, but I'm pretty keyboard bilingual between it and regular qwerty. I'm passably fast on qwerty still, but I need to watch the keyboard the whole time and I screw up little things like hitting 'e' instead of '.'.
Before switching to dvorak I had a sort of bastardized hunt-and-peck style, but since the switch I type more-or-less properly with the home row stuff and whatnot. I actually find I type faster and more accurately if I'm not looking at the screen OR the keyboard.
I type about 50-60 wpm, seeing as I'm not like in a race or something when I type. I don't really use the "standard method" but it doesn't really matter. I have to look at the key board a lot of the time though.
Well ive always been very impressed with how fast some people can type my mother for example was a medical secutary for many years and she could type with no mistakes at any speed that was required as she mainly did dictation at meetings. As an aside as you can see my typeing is pitiful.
On April 06 2010 06:53 BroOd wrote: ok so I started out 40 wpm.
note that these was my first typing in the last few YEARS..... and i started reading comments about how people thought I would never get past 50 wpm ROFL!!!!
after those 10 sentences i started to get the hang of things again, and im IMPROVING every word i type....
I'm 160 wpm in my last 16 sentences, these phrases and sentences are honestly no challenge................ most of my paragraphs with them are under 20 seconds because they are so bad with basic syntax/run-on skills.
keep in mind this is just my FIRST NIGHT back, my hands still feel like rocks compared to what they used to feel like, I'm sure I wont regain everything until at least a few weeks of typing... but when you easily get to 160wpm on my first night typing in 3 years has the competition really improved all that much?
in a few days Ill be 240wpm....
BroOd on teamliquid...
freaking epic I laughed the hardest I have in weeks reading this lol makes me realize how immature I looked =p
type-racer is probably the best website for settling this. I bet almost everyone in here is exaggerating. My best record over 5 minutes of typing with punctuation, numbers, etc, was 147WPM 100% accuracy on qwerty. I use 100% proper typing technique, and play on type-racer quite a lot!
used to be up to 60-70wpm one handed back when I was playing sc1, since I would never take my hand off the mouse to type during games and it just became habit outside of games as well
so i decided to try to type with just my right hand: i got 31 words per minute!
i tried to do this without looking at the keyboard, which was entirely ineffective... so then i started looking at the word on the screen and then looking at the keyboard to type it.
edit - 21 WPM with less than 100% accuracy. that was tough t.t
2nd tries: RH: 35 WPM LH: 23 WPM
3rd try RH: 38 WPM. bahaha i'm gaining speed!
edit - and after averaging about 85 WPM with 2 hands on this websites test, i now just got 97WPM! perhaps practicing individual hands is the KEY TO SUCCESS.
edit - i'm all apparently very entertained by this. This time i discovered that when i type in German, my WPM slows down to 56 WPM! some crazy!
57 WPM in for Danish.
and only 26 words per minute in Finnish!. Apparently i can type English while only using my right hand faster than i can Finnish with both hands. That's insane.
edit5 - ok,37WPM in Finnish on my 2nd try. Still faster with RH English.
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