On April 17 2014 07:07 crms wrote: I'm typing this sentence to figure out how many figures i type with. I will conclude that after much studying that I use all 8* fingers.
Interesting.
*edit: thumbs don't count as fingers, so it's only 8, sorry. ~_~
Are your pinkies actually hitting characters, or just modifier keys?
I edited it in to my post above, but I'll mention again here - Having your pinkies in control of characters in addition to modifier keys seems foolish, because it means you've gotta leftshift for !QAZ and do really messed up stuff if you wanna alt+0169 (copyright symbol) and other seemingly unnatural cross-keyboard action. I can see how it MIGHT be faster if you're really interested in training yourself up to 120+ wpm, but then again you're probably as well off learning DVORAK.
I use all my fingers except for my right thumb to type with. I have yet to find a need for my right thumb unless I am holding shift down with my left hand, then I will sometimes use my right thumb just because it is more convenient.
On April 17 2014 07:07 crms wrote: I'm typing this sentence to figure out how many figures i type with. I will conclude that after much studying that I use all 8* fingers.
Interesting.
*edit: thumbs don't count as fingers, so it's only 8, sorry. ~_~
Are your pinkies actually hitting characters, or just modifier keys?
My right pinky is almost exclusively used for modifiers, buy my left pinky will select characters.
On April 17 2014 07:07 crms wrote: I'm typing this sentence to figure out how many figures i type with. I will conclude that after much studying that I use all 8* fingers.
Interesting.
*edit: thumbs don't count as fingers, so it's only 8, sorry. ~_~
Are your pinkies actually hitting characters, or just modifier keys?
My right pinky is almost exclusively used for modifiers, buy my left pinky will select characters.
Tend to agree with this, although I do use my right pinky for the letter "p" and and backslash and stuff.
That 10fastfingers website kinda overrates your WPM, since it only has easy words and no special characters. I can get upto 140WPM on that site, but on more standard text, I average 100-110WPM.
On April 17 2014 07:08 slam wrote: Can you post a decent resolution video of you typing at 90wpm (or +) with 5 fingers by any chance? I'm actually quite curious.
The pressure was high, so I was definitely a bit shaky and a little nervous. Sorry if the view isn't the best. I didn't really have any way to suspend the camera anywhere, so I just did this.
So two videos of 93wpm and 96wpm took me 4 attempts in total, four fingers... If you are reaally curious I could go a few times and get a 105wpm+, I think in each of those attempts I had to backspace like 4-5 times (and backspace like 3-4 letters each time). But essentially that's how I type. I think people think accuracy is poor doing this, but I've been typing like this for more than 12 years, and I don't think I make too many mistakes (again this isn't the best example.)
My stupid camera is too good, and each one minute or whatever file takes up 200MB and it's on my other laptop, and since I never do this, I didn't want to figure out how to compress the file, and two, it takes a really long time to transfer to my computer.
Here's the first one, second one is still uploading to youtube, but will be viewable once it uploads:
On April 17 2014 08:27 IMoperator wrote: actually now i realize that i use 5 fingers not 8, strange. I use 3 on my left hand and 2 on my right, and I average around 120 wpm.
My fiance types in a similar way. After reading this thread, I'm convinced that it's from all the Starcraft.
On April 17 2014 08:27 IMoperator wrote: actually now i realize that i use 5 fingers not 8, strange. I use 3 on my left hand and 2 on my right, and I average around 120 wpm.
Exactly the same here (although I average 100-110 wpm). I don't use my ring finger on my right hand, but I do on my left hand. Also, my right hand travels way more distance when I type. My left hand basically stays still, but my right hand is much more all over the keyboard.
I learned to type quickly from chatting in the middle of Everquest and Quake when I was 11-14. Gotta go fast from the mouse to the keyboard in those games if you want to type, so I think I trained my right hand to be highly mobile in general while on the computer.
On April 17 2014 03:34 Diks wrote: I have a silly question : How much WPM can you pull with one finger only ?
I tried this and only got 24.6 WPM :/
I just spent 30 minutes trying to teach myself the "proper way" and I am typing at approximately 18-20 words per minute. It is completely driving me insane.
i decided to do a video of me typing with 5 fingers. it's funny how little i use my right hand compared to my left hand. also my fingers are really fat
I use 7 - 3 right(no thumb no pinky) hand and 4 four left(all exept pinky) altough im pretty slow 80/min, but its because u have dislexia so i often scramble the letters or make silly mistakes
On April 17 2014 03:34 Diks wrote: I have a silly question : How much WPM can you pull with one finger only ?
I tried this and only got 24.6 WPM :/
I just spent 30 minutes trying to teach myself the "proper way" and I am typing at approximately 18-20 words per minute. It is completely driving me insane.
Only works if done correctly consistently. A good amount of it is muscle memory... or finger memory? o.O
On April 17 2014 03:34 Diks wrote: I have a silly question : How much WPM can you pull with one finger only ?
I tried this and only got 24.6 WPM :/
I just spent 30 minutes trying to teach myself the "proper way" and I am typing at approximately 18-20 words per minute. It is completely driving me insane.
Only works if done correctly consistently. A good amount of it is muscle memory... or finger memory? o.O
Yeah muscle memory is the correct term I believe. I think I will attempt to type like this all the time, and monitor my progress for the next two weeks to a month. If at that point I can type at a consistent 60 words per minute I shall stick with it.
Does anyone have a preferred site to learn from? Or do you guys think I will be okay if I simply keep my fingers on the home row and press the right letters with the right fingers?
On April 17 2014 09:10 IMoperator wrote: i decided to do a video of me typing with 5 fingers. it's funny how little i use my right hand compared to my left hand. also my fingers are really fat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvwjePW5O-E
I noticed the lack of shift, then noticed that you don't capitalize. Denied!
On April 17 2014 09:10 IMoperator wrote: i decided to do a video of me typing with 5 fingers. it's funny how little i use my right hand compared to my left hand. also my fingers are really fat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvwjePW5O-E
I noticed the lack of shift, then noticed that you don't capitalize. Denied!
the test has some words that require you to shift, i use right shift in order to capitalize lol.
On April 17 2014 09:10 IMoperator wrote: i decided to do a video of me typing with 5 fingers. it's funny how little i use my right hand compared to my left hand. also my fingers are really fat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvwjePW5O-E
I noticed the lack of shift, then noticed that you don't capitalize. Denied!
the test has some words that require you to shift, i use right shift in order to capitalize lol.
EPT
