How to improve my typing?
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Being a poor typist is definitely holding me back as a developer -- and my typing skill are fairly poor -- yikes. I just tested myself on-line to discover I average about 29 words a minute. Does anyone have a touch-typing training source they can recommend? Is there training software that is worth it?
A good one that I learned to type with is http://www.fonlow.com/kptypingtutor/ Typing skills are a definite must when not coding, and definitely take your mind off of the keyboard. KP Typing Tutor has the text invader game and supports several languages and keyboards, and several OSs. I do about 40 wpm before my arms start to hurt (can't keep it up for hours on end ;)). Jeremy Pemberton-Pigott
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New Dawn Engineering -- modified at 23:49 Thursday 6th July, 2006 -
Being a poor typist is definitely holding me back as a developer -- and my typing skill are fairly poor -- yikes. I just tested myself on-line to discover I average about 29 words a minute. Does anyone have a touch-typing training source they can recommend? Is there training software that is worth it?
Just simple, put your four left fingers over the keys A S D F and your right fingers over the keys ; L K J And then just practice moving your fingers up and down, one by one, so you will be typing with the ten fingers of your hands Example: (well with my english I dont know the names of the fingers) The left index finger can use R T F G V B The right index finger can use Y U H J N M The other fingers will type three keys each one (ignoring the number keys), example, the left middle finger can type E D C. When I was in high school (about 12 years old) it took me 5 or 6 months to learn it from the beginning, so take your time! I'm the master of computing, but... where's the start menu? :laugh:
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Being a poor typist is definitely holding me back as a developer -- and my typing skill are fairly poor -- yikes. I just tested myself on-line to discover I average about 29 words a minute. Does anyone have a touch-typing training source they can recommend? Is there training software that is worth it?
In linux there is an program called 'gtypist', You can use this to learn typing. Download: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=gtypist Regards, Varadhan
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Being a poor typist is definitely holding me back as a developer -- and my typing skill are fairly poor -- yikes. I just tested myself on-line to discover I average about 29 words a minute. Does anyone have a touch-typing training source they can recommend? Is there training software that is worth it?
Marginal answer: Use 'F' keyboard layout. The dominant 'Q' layout was actually designed to slow down typers, for the sake of mechanical typewriters which were not so quick at the time. Their keys would easily become jammed. The unobvious reason why F layout works better lies in the clever layout of the keys: 1. Wowels and consonants are separated on the left and right sides. Since words are usually composed of a fine consequent order of these, you type in a LH-RH-LH-RH manner. 2. The most commonly used letters are in the center of the keyboard, near your strongest fingers. 3. It has much better suited versions for different languages (i.e. Turkish in my case), than the standard Q layout. I can't tell it's easy to switch. As a good Q-typer at the time, I had go through weeks of orientation. However, it has paid well off. I used to type real good in Q, now I can type even better in F. By the way, it also helps with the carpal tunnel syndrome on your wrists, because your hands travel little or none. Regards, Aykut Türker
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Being a poor typist is definitely holding me back as a developer -- and my typing skill are fairly poor -- yikes. I just tested myself on-line to discover I average about 29 words a minute. Does anyone have a touch-typing training source they can recommend? Is there training software that is worth it?
Test yourself here: http://labs.jphantom.com/wpm/ Learn here: http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/ Fun here: http://2addicted.com/letters Enjoy Jacob
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Just simple, put your four left fingers over the keys A S D F and your right fingers over the keys ; L K J And then just practice moving your fingers up and down, one by one, so you will be typing with the ten fingers of your hands Example: (well with my english I dont know the names of the fingers) The left index finger can use R T F G V B The right index finger can use Y U H J N M The other fingers will type three keys each one (ignoring the number keys), example, the left middle finger can type E D C. When I was in high school (about 12 years old) it took me 5 or 6 months to learn it from the beginning, so take your time! I'm the master of computing, but... where's the start menu? :laugh:
P0110X wrote:
practice moving your fingers up and down
And then practice with some actual text. Practice and practice and practice more. Start with Genesis 1:1 and stop when you get to Revelation :)
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Being a poor typist is definitely holding me back as a developer -- and my typing skill are fairly poor -- yikes. I just tested myself on-line to discover I average about 29 words a minute. Does anyone have a touch-typing training source they can recommend? Is there training software that is worth it?
Here's a fairly good online typing test: http://www.careerstep.com/site/page=typingtest[^] It times your for one minute then scores the correct words. I did ok: 88 Gross Words per minute 76 Net Words per minute 75 correct words
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Buy a Microsoft Natural Keyboard. You have to learn to type properly with one of those. regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
Googling << MATIAS 508 >> reveals that the low-learning-curve Matias technology for one-hand-keyboarding is now available for $99USD, and indeed now from the US site www.enablemart.com. Still theorizing, I would need to put my right hand on the keyboard in order to get at the ()'s and {}'s. Since normally the right is my mouse-hand, this would be a switch. However for those long paragraphs of commentary of course the 508 ALLOWS you to use both hands on the keyboard. In the normal case where typing is only occasional, this would be nice, I theorize. Has anyone ever TRIED a Matias keyboard ? pg--az
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I tried to learn how to touch-type a while back and found it didn't really help much, even taking into the account that I wasn't very good at it. Typing code is not the same as typing in English (or whatever), there are just so many punctuation marks and other stuff that requires the SHIFT key. I do pretty well with 4-5 fingers; I kinda know where all the keys are rather than having to keep my fingers locked in a home position. As a musician (saxophonist), I just think of it as being like learning how to play an instrument :-)
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I think this is a matter of a longer time. If you want to know why it should be better to type with all 10 figers without looking at the keyboard you need at least 1 year of practise. Only patience and belief. Of course, it is somtethig else to type as a writer of common text and to write as a programmer - it is harder to get familiar with those "strange keys". Anyway, You should take into account, that the time is not everything you will spare if you will learn to write with all 10 fingers. Human brain is amazing thing and you can do much more complicated things with your hand that you can imagine. ;) Only patience, everything would be ok then. Michal >:)
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Being a poor typist is definitely holding me back as a developer -- and my typing skill are fairly poor -- yikes. I just tested myself on-line to discover I average about 29 words a minute. Does anyone have a touch-typing training source they can recommend? Is there training software that is worth it?