EPTHow Many Fingers Do you Type With? - Page 5
| Forum Index > General Forum |
|
Iceman331
United States1306 Posts
| ||
|
TheFlock
United States389 Posts
When i try to type the proper way and keep form, my wrists and hands start aching pretty bad. I guess i just need more practice | ||
|
ZasZ.
United States2911 Posts
When I was in elementary school a local oil and gas company was responsible for a rather large underground oil spill, and in reparations were forced to pay our school district a fair bit of money. As a result, in 5th and 6th grade we were provided with pretty basic little laptops called eMates! The functionality was pretty limited but they had games like Snake and whatnot, as well as Type to Learn. Around the same time my mom was going to grad school at night, and rather than pay a babysitter, she would pay me to sit in the hall outside and I would play Type to Learn for 3 hours 3 nights a week. Needless to say, I got quite good. I didn't know it at the time, but I'm so glad that's what I decided to do with my time out there. Watching my girlfriend type is painful (20-30 WPM with a hybrid hunt and peck method) and I've tried to encourage her to learn to do it a bit better but it's difficult when you are already in a professional environment and need to do your job, not learn to type faster. If I had any suggestions for someone serious about learning how to type better, I would recommend those learning games that are designed for children. They have you learn to type one set of fingers at a time so you slowly add them to your repertoire, until you're suddenly using all of them. It takes some time but can definitely be worth it. And then you can practice by playing Typing of the Dead ^^. | ||
|
gruff
Sweden2276 Posts
| ||
|
Manit0u
Poland17257 Posts
| ||
|
ThomasjServo
15244 Posts
8 fingers, 100+ WPM. | ||
|
synapse
China13814 Posts
| ||
|
Khalum
Austria831 Posts
[edit] I just read the part where you asked for results with 99% accuracy. My errors come from not being that used to typing English sentences, so I'd say the result is still pretty much valid. | ||
|
o29
United States220 Posts
It's good to see that others also have strange and inefficient typing habbits as I thought I was the only one. It would probably be tremendously helpful to my WPM if I actually learned to use all fingers, but I'm not sure it's worth the headache that I'd have to go through to relearn how to type. And as someone else mentioned, I also have the strange habit of only using the right shift key. The next logical question is whether or not you keep your fingers on the proper home keys. I remember back when we were forced to "learn" typing in high school, the teacher would walk around and scrutinize everyone's hand position. We'd all have to scramble and put our fingers back on the home row -- shortly before reverting back to our old bad habits as he'd walk away. I have my own default hand position for my left hand, usually with my pinky on control, but my right hand moves around the keyboard so much that a default position for it isn't very beneficial. | ||
|
FiWiFaKi
Canada9859 Posts
On April 17 2014 03:19 o29 wrote: This is an interesting topic to me. Until recently I thought I typed with all 8 of my fingers, but I had an epiphany when I realized that I only use about 4, and most of the time, only 3. I use my left hand middle finger, my left pointer finger, and my right pointer finger. My left ring finger is only used for Q, A, and Z, so a lot of the time I'm only really using 3 fingers to type. This seems terribly inefficient. I type around 70-80 WPM casually and can go up to 80-90 if I'm trying to type quickly. I tried to take the test in the OP but it wouldn't load properly on my work computer. It's good to see that others also have strange and inefficient typing habbits as I thought I was the only one. It would probably be tremendously helpful to my WPM if I actually learned to use all fingers, but I'm not sure it's worth the headache that I'd have to go through to relearn how to type. And as someone else mentioned, I also have the strange habit of only using the right shift key. The next logical question is whether or not you keep your fingers on the proper home keys. I remember back when we were forced to "learn" typing in high school, the teacher would walk around and scrutinize everyone's hand position. We'd all have to scramble and put our fingers back on the home row -- shortly before reverting back to our old bad habits as he'd walk away. I have my own default hand position for my left hand, usually with my pinky on control, but my right hand moves around the keyboard so much that a default position for it isn't very beneficial. Using proper technique usually your left pinky is only used for Q,A,Z, and that's what you do with your ring finger, and as such I definitely would consider that typing with 4 fingers. The below is the proper form that you should use when typing: ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/wczXkGO.gif) | ||
|
Diks
Belgium1880 Posts
| ||
|
Reason
United Kingdom2770 Posts
On April 16 2014 12:29 mikeymoo wrote: 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. I use the 3 middle fingers on left hand and first 2 fingers on right hand to type. I use my right thumb for space and I use my left pinky for shift, so left thumb, right pinky and one next to that are never used. I've used this particular set up for years, I am self taught, I can type perfectly with my eyes closed and I can type very fast. What are the problems for my health here exactly? Typing is actually quite a large part of my job and in my spare time I'm typing a lot too so I don't really like that idea of anything bad happening to me.  + Show Spoiler + Here's just a little test that I wanted to do with my eyes closed so that I could feel out if I was actually using any of my other fingers but nope I'm not using any other fingers from what I can tell although I haven't probably used all the letters of the alphabet  Yay! I did it fast too It would appear Tyrant Potato also uses this awesome method ???  Hmph. 96.0 WPM ACCURACY 98.5 % | ||
|
MtlGuitarist97
United States1539 Posts
| ||
|
Omnishroud
1073 Posts
| ||
|
FuRRie
Belgium815 Posts
Like right now i use about 4 - 6, I can type the right way too with 8-10 fingers. But I generally type faster when I use my 'own' way. :p | ||
|
ZenithM
France15952 Posts
Edit: Seems like I got faster since the last time I took a test, cool :D | ||
|
psychopat
Canada417 Posts
| ||
|
killa_robot
Canada1884 Posts
I made so many mistakes haha. | ||
|
IMoperator
4476 Posts
| ||
|
NapkinBox
United States314 Posts
On April 16 2014 23:54 Kevin_Sorbo wrote: you realize that 140 wpm = 140*5characters=700 characters/60 seconds= 11.66666 characters a second with 2 fingers. the tip of your indexes must have burned or something dude. Well I dunno how accurate typeracer is but that's what I used back then :S | ||
| ||
