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This is an interesting thing to me. In school you've always been taught to type with all your fingers, but man hasn't that been a long time ago? When I look around, I never really see anyone type with all of them though. My grandparents and not-very-computer-literate people type with 2 index fingers, but even my peers don't use them all I think it may come from playing Starcraft too often back in the day or other bad habit developments, it really trains you not to use your pinkies I feel.
Do you feel like you lack from typing speed? Typing speed is undoubtedly a very important thing in today's technology driven society. Has anyone used to type with only a few fingers and now types with all of them? How did you do it? Did you find it to be a huge help? What have you guys found to help with your typing speed and accuracy?
For myself, I currently type at a respectable 90wpm while I'm working, and around 80wpm when I'm just being lazy on the computer. However to type actual letters, I only use 5 fingers. My index and middle fingers, and my left ring finger for a & z. Even though I only use such few fingers I do alright, and therefore I was wondering about peoples' experiences with their typing, and if they have done anything about their typing in their past.
Question 1:
So I ask you, "How many fingers do you type letters with?" A thumb for space bar doesn't count, and using a finger just for shift/ctrl doesn't count, using a right pinky for enter/backspace does not count either. Having a finger for comma, period, semi colon, colon, question mark, brackets, quotations, does count however. This is to get the most accurate correlation of fingers used to typing speed because using one pinky for enter or backspace doesn't attribute much to typing speed, hence the logic.
Remember, this is not to brag, but to gauge how most people type.
Poll: How Many Fingers Do You Type With? (Read Specifics Above)8 (449) 37% 6 (269) 22% 7 (113) 9% 2 (102) 8% 3 (99) 8% 5 (95) 8% 4 (85) 7% 1212 total votes Your vote: How Many Fingers Do You Type With? (Read Specifics Above) (Vote): 2
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Question 2:
Now my second question, how many wpm (words per minute) do you type at? Again, this isn't about bragging, so if you're going to take a wpm test (link below), try to take an average number, don't try 50x and reply with your one highest outliar because you had an easy text to type. We're trying to get an accurate assessment. ^^ And of course it should be a typing speed with at least a 99% accuracy.
Remember, an average 13 year old types at 23wpm, an average typist types at 40wpm, and an average secretary types at 70wpm. If you haven't taken a typing test in a while, it'd be preferred you did one to know your speed more accurately. and give this poll more accurate data.
Good Speed Typing Test to use as standard: http://www.ratatype.com/typing-test/test/
And a cool typing game for your free time: http://play.typeracer.com/
Poll: Your Typing Speed in WPM? (Words per minute)<30 (14) 2% 30-40 (32) 4% 40-50 (64) 8% 50-60 (94) 11% 60-80 (251) 30% 80-100 (192) 23% 100-120 (115) 14% 120+ (62) 8% 824 total votes Your vote: Your Typing Speed in WPM? (Words per minute) (Vote): <30
(Vote): 30-40
(Vote): 40-50
(Vote): 50-60
(Vote): 60-80
(Vote): 80-100
(Vote): 100-120
(Vote): 120+
I am really looking for some anecdotal evidence with typing speed, opinions about typing with fewer fingers, how to change bad habits, spur discussion, link topics to research done, etc. I think it has the potential to benefit a lot of people, thank you!
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I type with all my fingers(by whatever standards you have), with top speed at around 120wpm, but my average wpm is probably around 80-90.
Sometimes, when I get lazy I type using one hand.
When I first started, I think I used to use 2 fingers to type. Then I had some typing classes which taught me how to type properly, and I just typed like this ever since then.
My advice would be to remember every letter in the keyboard first. Then just practice. I used All the Right Type program to practice my typing in the beginning. Afterwards, I got a lot of practice from just using the computer a lot lol.
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On April 16 2014 12:19 Nemesis wrote:
I type with all my fingers(by whatever standards you have), with top speed at around 120wpm, but my average wpm is probably around 80-90.
Sometimes, when I get lazy I type using one hand.
When I first started, I think I used to use 2 fingers to type. Then I had some typing classes which taught me how to type properly, and I just typed like this ever since then.
My advice would be to remember every letter in the keyboard first. Then just practice. I used All the Right Type program to practice my typing in the beginning. Afterwards, I got a lot of practice from just using the computer a lot lol.
Hmm, see but I'm in university and I've been typing for a long long time. It's not like I type slowly, is it worth relearning typing? I never look at the keyboard when I type, and I type faster than what most people do with 8 fingers, and from the few people I've talked to online, I've heard the same thing. That they may use 6 fingers but still type quite well.
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Yes, relearn typing if you type with less than 8 fingers. It's not about speed, it's about not straining your fingers and causing injury down the road. Speed comes with the territory though.
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Just realized I only use 4 fingers. Only my middle finger when using my left hand and the ring, middle and index fingers when using my right. I have a hard time typing capital letters. I only type at 75wpm.
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i use 6.. my pinky and thumbs arent used for letters... didnt check my wpm but i feel like i can type pretty fast if i want to without many mistakes and im pretty fast at correcting those mistakes if it does happen...
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8/55. I had to take typing class in 5th grade while band practiced because it was pointless for the teacher to teach to less than half the class. That got me to ~75 WPM. Some time last year I randomly decided to switch to Dvorak, I became proficient but never explicitly trained for speed as I didn't really have the need to type faster then or now. It was hilarious because I switched cold turkey without any program help and I was stuck at 10WPM for a good 2 weeks. Pain in the ass to type anything at that speed.
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On April 16 2014 12:42 hellokitty[hk] wrote:
Change to dvorak...
Not practical, because if I go somewhere else, they will likely have a qwerty keyboard and I will be unable to use it quickly. If I was only at home or at work at all times, and I had a Dvorak keyboard there, I'd agree with you.
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I tend not to use my pinkys and my right ring finger. It is weird, actually.
I type pretty fast with it though, got 88 WPM
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8 ofc. How else would I get my 141 wpm avg?
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On April 16 2014 12:54 Emerson_H wrote:
8 ofc. How else would I get my 141 wpm avg?
By lying obviously.
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I only use 7, what option do i use for the poll? (I don't use my right hand's pinkie finger).
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On April 16 2014 12:56 Rollin wrote:
I only use 7, what option do i use for the poll? (I don't use my right hand's pinkie finger).
Well there is an option for 7 in the poll 
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On April 16 2014 12:58 FiWiFaKi wrote:Show nested quote +On April 16 2014 12:56 Rollin wrote:
I only use 7, what option do i use for the poll? (I don't use my right hand's pinkie finger). Well there is an option for 7 in the poll
Oops! Somehow I thought it was even numbers only.
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I think Broodwar d*cked my typing, sometimes my index and middle finger run across the keyboard and I have to slow down and force myself to get back in line. Anyway type with all fingers usually and generally 110wpm. Something crazy I've noticed is my aunt types at ~150WPM average and other than that she isn't very computer literate.
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On April 16 2014 13:30 sUgArMaNiAc wrote:
I think Broodwar d*cked my typing, sometimes my index and middle finger run across the keyboard and I have to slow down and force myself to get back in line. Anyway type with all fingers usually and generally 110wpm. Something crazy I've noticed is my aunt types at ~150WPM average and other than that she isn't very computer literate.
You do realize that for prolonged lengths of time the world record typing speed is around 150wpm. Just so you're aware. People go throwing around 120wpm like it's nothing.
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all 8 fingers plus occasionally a thumb will pop in there
i think i average around 100wpm but can get it up to around 120. not for any significant length of time to be sure
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I only use my first three fingers on my left hand and first 2 fingers on my right hand (unless you count using the 3rd finger just for backspace) and I type at around 110wpm. I think the amount of amount of fingers vs speed only matters when you want to push past 120+ wpm.
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I just realized I use just 5 fingers when typing. My index and middle finger do most of the work on the left while my right hand only uses the middle finger. Left thumb for spacebar. Left pinky for shift. Ring finger on my right hand is only ever used for backspace whenever I need it so I guess that counts as a 6th finger? Ring finger on the left sees use when I use ctrl+shift when highlighting huge chunks of text at a time.
Need to relearn typing I guess. But I can already hit 110 wpm like this so not sure if I really need to.
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