EPTHow Many Fingers Do you Type With? - Page 8
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krndandaman
Mozambique16569 Posts
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Rostam
United States2552 Posts
On April 17 2014 07:16 slam wrote: Any test is fine, doesn't even have to be a test. I just wanna see someone type faster than me (80wpm on the tests) with only 4 fingers haha. I guess I only really use 4 fingers, I thought I used my left pinky more. Bad video 'cause I had to do it on my phone and couldn't figure out a good spot to set it up. But should be able to get the idea. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland25342 Posts
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CatNzHat
United States1599 Posts
On April 17 2014 00:21 c0ldfusion wrote: After some Googling, I've come to the conclusion that either this thread is full of lies (gasp!) or you guys are all using Colemak / Dvorak and not QWERTY. People type over 250 on QWERTY, google sean wrona, that guy is a beast. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20285 Posts
120+ is a little low threshold, many people can type more than that, i was getting 140 on some typeracer tests at one point but didn't test recently, so voted that Using Qwerty, i considered Dvorak a little but i really don't get the impression that i could just switch over and stuff like keybindings in games would be ok, so not worth time and effort to get speed from "great" to "amazing" when there is other stuff to focus on and the human race is not ready to adapt superior keyboard layouts yet | ||
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krndandaman
Mozambique16569 Posts
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FiWiFaKi
Canada9859 Posts
On April 17 2014 13:01 Cyro wrote: I know it says how many fingers do you type LETTERS with etc, but since i use pinky's/thumbs for everything appropriate, i included them. I only use thumb, pinky and index finger on my right hand though. 120+ is a little low threshold, many people can type more than that, i was getting 140 on some typeracer tests at one point but didn't test recently, so voted that Using Qwerty, i considered Dvorak a little but i really don't get the impression that i could just switch over and stuff like keybindings in games would be ok, so not worth time and effort to get speed from "great" to "amazing" when there is other stuff to focus on and the human race is not ready to adapt superior keyboard layouts yet 120+ wpm is at least the top 1%... From my data about the top 0.15%-0.25%, and I felt like (and still feel like) that threshold is plenty. If I included 140+ or 160+, I think it would just become too much of a brag contest. Hence the options ^^ | ||
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forsooth
United States3648 Posts
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darthfoley
United States8003 Posts
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Staboteur
Canada1873 Posts
On April 17 2014 13:21 krndandaman wrote: it's actually not that surprising that many of the people here can type that fast. this is a gaming forum for pete's sake and originally starcraft nonetheless. if you can average 150+ apm in starcraft I'd actually be more surprised if you couldn't average more than 100 wpm as well. Waaaait. If the average word requires, say, 4 keypresses, then isn't 100wpm the equivalent to ~400 apm? Obviously it's not directly comparable, because you don't type with your mouse, but still... | ||
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uriel-
Singapore1867 Posts
Oh and left pinky for shift. 95 wpm on the first link given. I know it's a suboptimal way to type, but it's nearly impossible to change by now and I'm not awfully slow so there's really no motivation to. | ||
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ShloobeR
Korea (South)3809 Posts
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Tatari
United States1179 Posts
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Falling
Canada11350 Posts
So, 8 fingers 72 wpm. (Although I found some of those speed tests really vary- one had some really old writing that had punctuation ever 2-3 words that slowed me down a lot- not used to typing quotes within quotes " ' ' " followed by colons and semi-colons, and exclamation points. (Aside from dialogue, when are is ! this ever used?) I also rarely use the numbers on top. If it's straight numbers, I use the number pad like an accountant.) I was atrociously slow in high school, but I learned to type with all fingers, without looking and slowly picked up the pace in uni just by typing a lot of assignments and later on forums. However, since playing BW, I've also picked up left-handed only typing as well- if I'm typing an easy login/password or something. | ||
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krndandaman
Mozambique16569 Posts
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Thalandros
Netherlands1151 Posts
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slam
United States923 Posts
On April 17 2014 08:09 FiWiFaKi wrote: 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: + Show Spoiler + That was pretty gnarly, good luck with the final.  | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20285 Posts
On April 17 2014 13:26 FiWiFaKi wrote: 120+ wpm is at least the top 1%... From my data about the top 0.15%-0.25%, and I felt like (and still feel like) that threshold is plenty. If I included 140+ or 160+, I think it would just become too much of a brag contest. Hence the options ^^ 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) | ||
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Therapist.
United States207 Posts
I use 7 fingers to type characters. My right pinky is resigned to its fate of shift/enter presser. My father was a programmer and so we always had computers in my house, back in the DOS days. I taught myself to type before I could even read and had my dad write out what I had to type to get to certain games he had on the computer. The way I type isn't terribly far off off from how you're supposed to do it and I honestly don't think it impacts my speed at all. At this point it's far too late to try to change as typing is engrained in my hands. Fun Fact: Long ago, when I was in grade school I was the fastest student typist in the state, but my entry was disqualified from the competition because I didn't use the home row method (my teacher was adamant I do so, and I wouldn't switch) and a slower person won. Edit: Because I scored higher. | ||
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Advantageous
China1350 Posts
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