EPTHow Many Fingers Do you Type With? - Page 11
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Golgotha
Korea (South)8418 Posts
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eluv
United States1251 Posts
On April 22 2014 05:57 Xapti wrote: Some people might not have realized —like me— that they don't type letters with their pinky fingers. Do all of you who said 8 fingers really use your pinky fingers for 1,q,a,z and p (and/or possibly others)? It seems quite strange that people would use both their pinky fingers in typing. One pinky seems maybe reasonable, but both seems strange. I'm thinking that many people didn't read the post entirely. I certainly use my pinky fingers but not for typing any letters. On standard layout keyboards it seems kinda inefficient to use pinky fingers for typing letters; the letters A, and P are used too often, and pinky fingers are generally rather weak and always short. Maybe a different physical layout and/or key layout, but standard grid QWERTY doesn't look like it works well. How do you guys type the word HELP? (or any word consisting of successive P's and L's) you type both (L&P) letters with the pinky? aside from seeming awkward, it seems slow and inefficient I did realize that I don't use my left pinky for 'q' or '1', but even typing "lazy", I use it for both the 'a' and the 'z'. As was pointed out, "help" definitely isn't awkward to type using your right pinky - it seems like it would be much more awkward to type without it to me. I think using a full-size (not laptop) keyboard makes a difference, since it would be harder to stretch other fingers to hit additional keys. | ||
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VeryAverage
United States424 Posts
I mostly attribute it to typing in Dota for almost 10 years now. I wasn't one for acronyms so I typed everything out, had to learn quickly. | ||
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Sn0_Man
Tebellong44238 Posts
On April 22 2014 06:52 VeryAverage wrote: I mostly attribute it to typing in Dota for almost 10 years now. Didn't seem to help ixmike much | ||
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VeryAverage
United States424 Posts
Quantity over quality. It took me awhile to get solid accuracy. When I type papers or really anything, I type it out as quickly as possible, trying to follow the flow of my thoughts and I just edit after, not worrying about things like spacing and perfect spelling until I actually submit it. Trying out typeracer, started out poorly (105-115wpm) but then I realized I was reading faster than I could type and kept getting hung up on punctuation and uncommon characters (-, :, ;, etc.), changed it to one line at a time and it's going better. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/eZSV5fp.png) | ||
Jer99
Canada8157 Posts
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Johnoldman
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opisska
Poland8852 Posts
The most interesting thing however about this topic is that it made me realize that I only use six fingers (plus thumb for space). Never really thought about that. | ||
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JustPassingBy
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a_flayer
Netherlands2826 Posts
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bardtown
England2313 Posts
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Figgy
Canada1788 Posts
Also, the most important thing about typing quickly is knowing how to spell the words you are typing, not your finger speed itself (until you start reaching 150+ wpm, which is where the speed actually starts becoming difficult). For example try typing words in a language that you are not native too and you'll find your speed greatly diminished. EDIT: Certified to type 136 WPM on type racer. Not too shabby. | ||
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bardtown
England2313 Posts
On September 18 2014 21:29 Figgy wrote: A small percentage of people are above 120 wpm on average, and a lot of people are lying on this quiz. The people who say they are 2 finger typing at 100 wpm are especially clueless on either what their actual speed is or what wpm actually means. I used the test given in the OP, which I thought we were agreeing to use as a standard, and I played multiple times. My top score is over 110 and my bottom score is over 90, I almost always get over 100. I use only two fingers except for space bar (thumb). Why are you upset? | ||
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Figgy
Canada1788 Posts
On September 18 2014 21:35 bardtown wrote: I used the test given in the OP, which I thought we were agreeing to use as a standard, and I played multiple times. My top score is over 110 and my bottom score is over 90, I almost always get over 100. I use only two fingers except for space bar (thumb). Why are you upset? I'm not upset, I just don't believe it. It's known to be quite difficult to properly type Caps properly with only 2 fingers and is rare for someone with such an inefficient style to be above 60wpm. for example you'd have to be moving this fast on average with high accuracy: Possible (obviously) but extremely inefficient for people who actually care about typing whatsoever. | ||
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Figgy
Canada1788 Posts
On April 17 2014 16:29 Cyro wrote: Yea i guess - think i hit 99.9'th percentile on here once - http://10fastfingers.com/typing-test/english - (with about 140, some of the more complex tests can slow down) but i'm average at best among my friends who can type well. There seems to be a massive amount of people who lack some basics skills and do not practice, so that if you have those basic skills, you are automatically top 10%+ Same thing with mouse TBH, set 800dpi on 1920x1080, 1:1, acceptable mouse, mousepad and posture and you automatically win - i don't get why more people don't do it, as it's much easier than reaching even platinum league was for me in sc2 (i went masters w/ practice) I hit 99.5 percentile doing ~120 wpm on my first try. Obviously there is some survivor bias in this polling, but most people are outright lying imo or haven't even bothered to do the tests. | ||
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bardtown
England2313 Posts
On September 18 2014 21:39 Figgy wrote: I'm not upset, I just don't believe it. It's known to be quite difficult to properly type Caps properly with only 2 fingers and is rare for someone with such an inefficient style to be above 60wpm. for example you'd have to be moving this fast on average with high accuracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPP6wDxFFRI Possible (obviously) but extremely inefficient for people who actually care about typing whatsoever. I'm moving faster than that :p. My background is playing games with apm a lot faster than SC2, btw, and I use flat key keyboards because it's harder to move quickly over chunky keys. | ||
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suxN
Finland1167 Posts
Also, i dont understand how people use pinkie fingers for typing, its tiring as hell and makes the back of my hands ache, had to use them when practicing typewriting but i dont use them anymore. (also, playing fps games for years with WASD kinda forced my index finger to the "D" button, meanwhile it would have been useful to learn typing while index finger is on F.) | ||
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ahswtini
Northern Ireland22208 Posts
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guN-viCe
United States687 Posts
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heliusx
United States2306 Posts
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