Type-to-Learn
 

Does most every dwellar know how to type? Like the standard way, and could probably type at least 40 wpm at 85% accuracy.
The dude next to me (I'm at the library) keeps banging away at the keys and he is shaking the table kind of. He has his fingers elevated and consistently looks down to find the keys. I feel everyone in college should at least know how to type, I learned in the 5th grade!!
LEARN TO TYPE DUDE GAH

I agree, fresh. Back in my HS days, you had to elect to take typing (no computers back then!) but it was recommended especially for those planning to attend college. Like many other things, once you get the basics down you just get faster. The basketball player who shoots and follows through correctly will almost always blow the unconventional but great shooter out of the water, eventually.

I didn't even really use my typing much until I bought my first computer, but am thankful for the poor made fun of Mrs Bair who taught me to type.

Do they even teach typing anymore?? As a class in school? Or is it "computer skillz"?

A nun taught us at my HS. I hated that class but I'm glad I took it.

I never took typing. I took computer classes instead. I taught myself how. I think I do a pretty good job considering.

We had a class called "Microcomputer Applications" (which I'm pretty sure was required) that included six weeks of typing. Honestly, the skill was really only honed because of all the papers I had to type throughout high school and college. I type about 70-75 WPM, but I don't use the correct fingers.

In my prime in high school programming classes I could type at 110 wpm with over 90% accuracy.

http://www.geckoandfly.com/wp-conten...ist_typing.jpg

I have degraded into an excellent typer.... who relies on spell check through right click (or automatically quick-fix in Word!).

Clod do you do look like this?
http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/reso...ingerchart.jpg

edit: I just took a typing test at www.typingtest.com and here are my results. Check yours!
Net Speed: 89 WPM
(words/minute)
Accuracy: 93%
Gross Speed: 95 WPM
(words/minute)

Clodfobble, you mean you have another set of fingers just for typing?

Well no, for one thing I could never type the letter G or H if I did. :)

I generally don't use my pinkies at all. Watching myself type (which totally screws up the flow, it's really hard to do,) it looks like I shift my hands over whenever necessary so that the third fingers can pick up the pinky keys. All the rest are generally standard, with the exception that if my hands have shifted outward to grab a pinky key, everything else shifts over too, so that I will use the second fingers to hit any third-finger keys, etc. until I have reason to shift back to the middle. I only use my right thumb for the space bar, and only the left-side shift and CTRL keys--which I've just noticed are the only two things I do use my left pinky for. As far as I can tell I never use my right pinky.

No. I can type damn fast but I mostly look at the keyboard (ask anyone from the chatroom gang) and use about six fingers. I keep practicing touch typing, but I'm just way faster the other way. When i was at school, typing class was only taken by those not likely to go to uni and who at best would hope to be secretaries. I didn't learn to type so I could never be a secretary. I took computers or something like that instead. Way back then there was no internet and they were sloooooooow so no need for speed. And all reports had to be hand-written. You weren't even allowed to use typewriters ('cause your mum could've done it for you). Handwriting was the main check against plagiarism.

good site btw buster.

I don't type correctly, but its never been an issue.

I swear nothing taught me typing faster than getting an instant messenger. I shit you not, I was the slowest fucking typist until I got AIM.

If more people would hunt and peck, they'd have time to rethink what they are sending/posting, before they commit to it.

I disagree. If people learned to read over before submitting, however......

(seriously, does anyone on here actually have to "hunt" for a key? I may look at them, but only to confrims I've not slipped. i know where they all are.)

I took two full years of typing in HS. I did so because my handwriting was too slow and too hard to read for me to get the ideas out of my head and onto paper before I forgot them.

They call it "keyboarding" now.

Is keyboarding torture?

lol @ Bruce - I still type with 5 or 6 fingers. Gotta be the worst evahhhhh. I look at the keys and still spell stuff wrong.
Well, I've been looking to take a class or something - typing may be just the thing!

i have no idea what the hell i do when i type. its not right, whatever it is. it's like a hovering-snake strike-jujitsu type of....typing. i use mostly the first two fingers of each hand except for the extreme outside of the keyboard. I guess i use my ring fingers for those, but never my pinkies. i type in spurts. 8 letters all in a burst...pause.....then nine...etc...


ok, so i guess i do have some idea of how i type.....but its still all fucked up.

I think they call it "keyboarding" around here.

I suck at typing. I wasn't able to take it in high school for scheduling reasons. I figured it didn't matter, because even though we were one of the first families in my town to have a computer, I never realized how widespread they would become.

Anyway, my technique is all screwed up. I use about 4-6 fingers when I type, and have to look at the keyboard to find the keys. Whne I try to type fast, I am very inaccurate.

It doesn't matter how fast you type in my world.....Lots of clever things have come from manual typewriters with no correction key, when accuracy and content are more important...Just a personal view.

That's probably also a poor excuse for my lack of talent in this area after all the instruction in it I have received.


The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog...

I'm old...I like to get it right the first time...That really slows me down.

I'm imagining the person at the library next to you as say, a dead Jack Kerouac or someone, pecking away, and being loud and deliberate....banging away with two index fingers....I actually have respect for that.....

I think quality of content trumps method? I mean, what if the person next to you is writing the next masterpiece and there you are.....Judging their typing methods....

I don't know about typing, but my filing techniques are unstoppable.

(Funniest stuff evah!)

True (but I'd think authors who can't type have someone do it for them). Sorry, but keyboarding is pretty much a necessity in communication skills--which is the most important thing companies look for in hiring new employees.

Not usually


Content is still more important in "communication skills". your 200wpm means nothing if you don't know how to express yourself. Unless all you want to be is a secretary typing somone else's words.

Aaah nope.Think again. Authors who can and can't type don't usually have people typing for them. Second of all, I have never known an author to be that lazy.

Keyboarding quickly is very important to a company if you are the receptionist, hon. Certainly not if you are editing or in data management.

No one sees how long it takes you to construct an e-mail. They are really big into the content of the e-mail. Please remember that....

People can communicate quickly and well about how inept they are....agreed there. That doesn't make them valuable.

Yeah, my bad, I didn't mean to brush over content as unimportant. I just hope that typing becomes a standard quintessential skill soon, just like handwriting was (because in 20 years I predict paper won't be used frequently at all).

Yeah right. Since Boeing went to paperless systems of production, they are buying 10 times as much paper as they used to.:rolleyes:

http://www.funfreepages.com/games/abc_typing.php

Type the ABCs as fast as you can!
Beat my high score of 2.562!

I got 9 seconds and change, and then 8 seconds and change, and then 7 seconds flat. Then I quit.

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 17 seconds, using one finger.

Sounds like my last date.

total tail-post
 

It's called "keyboarding" now.

That wasn't my finger.


Keyboarding has been outlawed by Congress, hasn't it?

You are a funny lady Shawnee!

Thats twice in one day, Shawnee - You should either be ashamed or congratulated! Not sure which.

Spanked? That's like shaming and congratulating all in one! ;)

[makes the technical sacrifice, spanks Shawnee w/left hand while typing this w/right]

Touch-type. Old school mechanical typewriters that went twackatwackatwacka on the paper, particularly if you hadn't remembered to lower the bail on the platen. I was never fast or good, and if my Backspace key ever breaks my typing breaks down into Low Dutch, but I think my speed has improved. Accuracy improves by keeping the touch-typing fingers moving rhythmically.

I get all excited when you spank me and say phrases like "bail on the platen."

:)

I aim to please -- in fact, I have to aim. Uh, could you kick your feet a little?

hey, I tried the typing site.
Net Speed: 60 WPM
(words/minute)
Accuracy: 96%
Gross Speed: 62 WPM
(words/minute)

Not bad for an old Joe.