5 fingers (I use ~95% of the time only 4 fingers) in use and ratatype.com says my speed is 49,6 WPM and accuraty 96%. Ofc I write finnish faster.
At school I was taught to use 10 fingers but as I was typing slower than with 4 fingers so I didn't started to use it. Now I don't even remember how its done.

Shikyo

Finland33997 Posts

September 20 2014 14:06 GMT

#225

8. I only use one thumb(right, some use 2 and that would probably be better but my left thumb sucks). The most difficult thing to learn was to use the opposite shiftkey for a caps letter without slowing down at all(Gets me questions about how I'm able to type so fast while having proper caps). Why doesn't thumb count, by the way? I'd say that it's my most commonly used finger and my little sister and mother at least use index finger for space so it's not like everyone uses it.

WPM depends. If I am typing something in my head and I know what I'm going to type without needing to think about it like right now it's probably over 120, but in typing tests where I'm supposed to read and copy sentences on the fly it's rarely above 100 so which do you mean?

A good suggestion for learning how to type like this is to get a keyboard like mine, which has no marked keys. It's just completely black. This way, you had better learn to touch type or you're pretty much doomed. It's funny when my mother for example tried to use my keyboard once and said that "it's completely impossible, how am I supposed to be able to type with this?"

Frolossus

United States4779 Posts

September 20 2014 14:11 GMT

#226

all of them
i'll use thumbs to hit from c to , usually

Targe

United Kingdom14103 Posts

September 20 2014 14:14 GMT

#227

On September 20 2014 23:11 Frolossus wrote:
all of them
i'll use thumbs to hit from c to , usually

with what dark magic do you achieve that holy hell

Yoz

Australia357 Posts

September 20 2014 16:11 GMT

#228

Using eight fingers and don't hit any letter keys with my thumbs for ~120-150 wpm on TypeRacer.

A few oddities:
- Middle section of keys are pressed with inconsistent index fingers depending on the preceding letters.
- Left-shift for all capitals.
- Right-shift for punctuation and symbols though.
- Left-shift for highlighting things too (as right hand on arrow set)

Wasaru

United States91 Posts

September 20 2014 16:20 GMT

#229

I type with 2 fingers, but at 95 wpm. Have always wanted to learn to touch type, but my brain just doesn't work like that

Nyxisto

Germany6287 Posts

September 20 2014 16:37 GMT

#230

ten, I type 'v' and 'n' with my thumbs. Does nobody else do that?

Jett.Jack.Alvir

Canada2250 Posts

September 20 2014 17:04 GMT

#231

I use all 10 fingers. I can reach 120 WPM with a few errors, but if I want to be careful I usually average 100 WPM.

i'll use thumbs to hit from c to , usually

I only use thumbs to hit the space bar/shift/cmd(mac only). I guess it feels comfortable for your thumbs to hit the 'c' and comma keys, but that feels so weird for me.

Dapper_Cad

United Kingdom964 Posts

September 20 2014 17:10 GMT

#232

Went from 4 fingers with glancing at the keyboard to 8 touch typing with this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Typing_of_the_Dead

If you're looking to improve your typing and you're a gamer I'd recommend it.

Silentness

United States2821 Posts

September 21 2014 14:06 GMT

#233

lol the guy who bumped this got banned.

All I know is I took a typing test at my state's government office (so that I could put it on my resume). I blew it out of the water, the lady giving the test was surprised. Maybe she thought I was a dumbass that didn't have quick & accurate typing speed.

saocyn

United States937 Posts

September 21 2014 14:57 GMT

#234

it sounds strange but i learned to use my left index finger & pinkie finger from learning invoker & Shadowfiend. i believe a partial reason we may not utilize all our fingers is due to our vocabulary. the letter's Q & P don't appear as frequently in the words i utilize, so i have less experience using the fingers that would reach those letters. whereas my n key is broken (i'm copy pasting the n letter in every word) due to the fact the letter appears far more often for me.

BigFan

TLADT24920 Posts

September 21 2014 15:21 GMT

#235

I use between 6-8 fingers. 74wpm with about 96% accuracy but I only did the test once and don't bother typing much or practicing to become faster. Still, 74wpm isn't too bad so I guess I shouldn't complain haha.

wunsun

Canada622 Posts

September 24 2014 01:49 GMT

#236

Just started playing typeracer and and am floating above slightly above 80 wpm. This puts me at 93 percentile. Seems like TL trends to the higher side; guess it should be since I would have guessed that there was a correlation between APM and WPM.

peanuts

United States1225 Posts

September 24 2014 06:43 GMT

#237

6, with the occasional 7th (left pinky) if I'm typing on a laptop. I generally hover around 85 wpm, but can go higher if I'm writing a recap. Oddly, it doesn't really correlate with my apm. Before my wrist problems, I played with 350+ apm. (Now I play with about 110).

FiWiFaKi

Canada9859 Posts

September 27 2014 04:19 GMT

#238

Hey guys.

So when I made this thread... I told myself that I'm going to change my typing habits from my 4 finger typing to 8 finger typing, I have been typing normally, and have been doing so for the last 5-6 months, and today I took a speed typing test.

I scores 100+ wpm 20x in a row for a 1 minute test. I'm glad I made the switch! Feels nicer, less stress in fingers, healthier for the wrists... It feels good!

I suppose my end goal is to reach 120wpm, but for now, I'm quite happy with the progress I made, even though it took me atleast 3 months of pain to reach where I was at before.

Alakaslam

United States17336 Posts

September 27 2014 06:11 GMT

#239

On April 16 2014 13:36 FiWiFaKi wrote:

Show nested quote +

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.

Guess what?

My aunt works for DuPont;

I am not so inclined to disbelieve him.

Especially if she is old; during the days of typewriters you had to pres hard

A computer makes it like "oh I can edit? Release the falcon"
So...

Edit:

On September 27 2014 13:19 FiWiFaKi wrote:
Hey guys.

So when I made this thread... I told myself that I'm going to change my typing habits from my 4 finger typing to 8 finger typing, I have been typing normally, and have been doing so for the last 5-6 months, and today I took a speed typing test.

I scores 100+ wpm 20x in a row for a 1 minute test. I'm glad I made the switch! Feels nicer, less stress in fingers, healthier for the wrists... It feels good!

I suppose my end goal is to reach 120wpm, but for now, I'm quite happy with the progress I made, even though it took me atleast 3 months of pain to reach where I was at before.

See so you already know the way of victory. Soon you will cross the threshold, and pass from thinking words and typing them to thinking sentences and WHAM it is onscreen