I'd say six or so regularly with my pinky finger doing shift/special characters and my thumb on spacebar.

but word wise i only use my main 6

type like 140~ words per minute or so.
like 150 something was my personal best

salle

Sweden5554 Posts

October 05 2014 03:53 GMT

#242

9 since it's rare that I use the right hand thumb for space for whatever reason but all the other fingers are involved in the typing business. little fingers only for shift/ctrl of the other hand... so not too much involvement for them either. I guess the index fingers see the most action having the middle of the keyboard but the other fingers have their own keys so... yeah... I learned the "correct" typing style at school and then I didn't quite use it but it sort of just started to become natural... weird how that works out really.

Urth

United States1249 Posts

October 05 2014 04:01 GMT

#243

I'm really surprised by how many people type with less than 8 fingers (although I can understand 6). Did you guys not have to learn to touch type in school?

itsjustatank

Hong Kong9154 Posts

October 05 2014 04:04 GMT

#244

eight. 101 wpm.

my left hand stays near WASD and my right hand flies everywhere else on the keyboard.

MutantGenepool

Australia115 Posts

October 05 2014 08:03 GMT

#245

I use 2 fingers. Always did, always will. My right hand hovering over the mouse for spell checking.

Velocirapture

United States983 Posts

October 05 2014 08:20 GMT

#246

I have always been a 5 finger typist but recently have been trying to do the whole eight fingers on home row thing. It is slow going and my type speed, especially hitting keys with my pinky or ring fingers, is really bad. Do any of you know some good educational websites or software? I'd be especially interested if it helped you make the same transition I am trying to do.

My motivation is just the hope that answering emails could take up a little less time in my day. We will see.

Advantageous

China1350 Posts

October 05 2014 09:43 GMT

#247

I use 6 fingers to type overall, depending on if im using my keyboard or i typing on my laptop. my pinks dont do jack cuz they're just like my thumbs they're only responsibility is to hit those annoying backspaces and squiggly line thingy; and even then, most of the work is dont by my ring fingers lol.

my wpm is around 85-90 depending on the sentence and structure complexity. i do well if it's something i know or can flows well of the tongue but if its awkwardly phrased then i have some trouble (or maybe even struggle with the typing).

TheEmulator

28090 Posts

October 05 2014 10:15 GMT

#248

I type with all of them. And I generally do it the correct way. I'm not too fast though, just a bit over 100 WPM usually.

phiinix

United States1169 Posts

October 05 2014 10:19 GMT

#249

On October 05 2014 13:01 Urth wrote:
I'm really surprised by how many people type with less than 8 fingers (although I can understand 6). Did you guys not have to learn to touch type in school?

Nope. It wasn't typing/basic computer classes weren't mandatory or even available in my school district. It's entirely possible that those same schools offer such classes now though, I seem to remember computer labs being somewhat of a new thing at my elementary school.
(60 WPM) I type with 6 generally. I tried my hand at being better about typing and using more fingers, but when I did those exercises online, I felt like i was putting so much strain on my pinky finger. It also felt like I had 0 strength in those fingers so I went back to using my ring finger to get those keys... That being said I also have a hard time typing without looking at the keyboard, and typing words I generally don't use lowers my WPM by quite a bit. I should work on improving my speed but it's such a challenge D:

inimenesc

Estonia374 Posts

October 05 2014 20:48 GMT

#250

I use all of my fingers, well only one thumb for space bas but the rest are working all the time.

My wpm is about 60-70. So not that great, but I do not really type that much.

We had typing lessons in school where our hands were covered and we had to type blindly with all fingers and had speedtests on it. I was quicker back then.

Enki

United States2548 Posts

October 06 2014 01:56 GMT

#251

8 fingers mostly, but I use thumbs for the spacebar. WPM is usually around 80ish.

I remember typing classes in middle school rofl. I didn't know the keyboard layout that well and used 2 fingers to peck away at it. Thank god for all that Brood War I played back then, it's what helped me to type faster back then imo.

Algis

Netherlands86 Posts

October 06 2014 02:18 GMT

#252

My typing is quite a mess.

Right hand i use my middle and index finer only for like 60+% of the keyboard including space bar and pinky for the shift.

Left hand i use most of the time my middle finger for around the r, ring for around the w and index for just the c and x, pinky for tab and 1 etc, thumb uses ctrl if necessary. My index finger is moslty curled up and rarelu used so mostly just yping with 2 fingers.

Left hand stays in one position with my wrist one the keyboard, right hand goes all around including mouse.

Sometimes i type with left hand only but its quite slow, cuz my left hand is quite slow compared to my right.

Anyways in total my left hand is mainly 2 but in total 5 and my right is mainly 2 but can got up till 3. So 4-8 fingers rly.

I never learned to type properly so this developed mostly form playing rts and i overuse mouse compared to keyboard there.

Edit: Tried that typing speed test, making mistakes there is brutal (i make many TT). Got only 52WPM with 98.2 accuracy. Using trackpad and arrows to correct mistakes takes a long time.
Edit2: sitting behind a table with mouse it went up to 60.0 WPM with 96.2 accuracy.

[UoN]Sentinel

United States11320 Posts

October 06 2014 17:43 GMT

#253

Nine. Everything except for my right pinky, since I only use left shift and control and move my right hand to hit enter with the middle finger.

Sn0_Man

Tebellong44238 Posts

October 06 2014 18:22 GMT

#254

ur supposed to use that guy for "p"

[UoN]Sentinel

United States11320 Posts

October 06 2014 19:06 GMT

#255

On October 07 2014 03:22 Sn0_Man wrote:
ur supposed to use that guy for "p"

With my fat fingers it's a lot easier to just use the ring finger for that general area.

jinorazi

Korea (South)4948 Posts

October 06 2014 19:14 GMT

#256

8?? how can it not be 10?
like, pinkies for a, q, z, p, shift, enter. thumb for space bar. and rest of the fingers for everything else

REyeM

2674 Posts

October 06 2014 19:22 GMT

#257

I type with 6 fingers and I use my left pinky for caps lock, my right pinky for enter and my left thumb for space, so thats technically 9, I guess 6+3.