Typing
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How fast and how accurate are you at striking your keyboards ? How did you learn typing ? How many fingers are you using ? I am an average typist, and would like to improve my skills, but I didn't find any good tool/app to do so. Any recommendation ? Maybe the first step would be to switch to Das Keayboard Ultimate...
Rage wrote:
How fast and how accurate are you at striking your keyboards ?
Very fast and accurate when playing Half Life 2 deathmatch :) reaonable fast the rest of the time though. Accuracy us my probvlem - I use lot s of different keyboards and the accuracy foes down depending one hwic one i use and how lng for!
Rage wrote:
How did you learn typing ?
i have ben using computers since 1977 so it sort of comes with the territory. I have taught myself to touch type (more or less) by simply looking at which fingers you are meant to use, then using them while looking at the screen, and starting off slowly. It is frustrating at first as you make lots of mistakes - but if you keep it up in everyday typing, it soon becomes natural. (although I don't tend to touch type when coding - too many shifts required - why hasn't someone done a coders keyboard where teh freuqently used programming keys are unshifted? Didn't the BBC computer keyboard do that?
Rage wrote:
How many fingers are you using ?
8 fingers, two thumbs although when coding, probably six fingers and the thumbs.
Rage wrote:
. Any recommendation ?
There used to be a "mavis Beacon teaches typing" that we used at work for the staff - they liked it apparently - I never used it.
Rage wrote:
Maybe the first step would be to switch to Das Keayboard Ultimate... Quote Selected Text
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How fast and how accurate are you at striking your keyboards ? How did you learn typing ? How many fingers are you using ? I am an average typist, and would like to improve my skills, but I didn't find any good tool/app to do so. Any recommendation ? Maybe the first step would be to switch to Das Keayboard Ultimate...
I guess I am average, although some 13 years ago I went through army teleprinterist training at which point I was pretty fast. Anyway, I find my typing skills useful only when I write text. For coding, I spend far more time figuring how to work around limitations of various frameworks I use to improve my productivity ;P
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How fast and how accurate are you at striking your keyboards ? How did you learn typing ? How many fingers are you using ? I am an average typist, and would like to improve my skills, but I didn't find any good tool/app to do so. Any recommendation ? Maybe the first step would be to switch to Das Keayboard Ultimate...
I'm a touch-typist. I learnt typing when I was around 10-11.. Initially using guide books and my grand dad's ancient typewriter - which didn't get me very far, then shortly after, when we got our first computer (Aaah.. Windows 3.1) using some kind of typing software that was installed in it - I think it was called Typing Tutor. It was a handy skill to have for earning pocket money, not to mention looking cool in computer class. I haven't checked recently, but back then I could do up to 45-50WPM with ~97% accuracy. Probably not as good anymore.
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How fast and how accurate are you at striking your keyboards ? How did you learn typing ? How many fingers are you using ? I am an average typist, and would like to improve my skills, but I didn't find any good tool/app to do so. Any recommendation ? Maybe the first step would be to switch to Das Keayboard Ultimate...
Rage wrote:
How fast and how accurate are you at striking your keyboards ?
Don't know about fast; I strive more for accurate.
Rage wrote:
How did you learn typing ?
In high school, on a manual typewriter with the letters blacked out. You learned the position of the letters and typed with all fingers; thumbs are used only for the space bar. What skills are you trying to improve? Speed? Accuracy? Focus first on accuracy and then on speed. As for how to improve, find a book or magazine article you like and retype it. Then you are concentrating on the act of typing, not on composing what your written thoughts should be. Tim
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How fast and how accurate are you at striking your keyboards ? How did you learn typing ? How many fingers are you using ? I am an average typist, and would like to improve my skills, but I didn't find any good tool/app to do so. Any recommendation ? Maybe the first step would be to switch to Das Keayboard Ultimate...
I’m using 4 fingers and in the most cases I need to watch the keyboard while typing. I also very heavily use the mouse to extend that in one of my previous companies I had been asked from some sales guy if “I’m really a programmer”, “Cause the programmers don’t use a mouse!”. Anyway in our profession the typing speed is irrelevant productivity wise. My only regret is that I can’t type without staring at the keyboard – this would save me a lot of annoying little errors.
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How fast and how accurate are you at striking your keyboards ? How did you learn typing ? How many fingers are you using ? I am an average typist, and would like to improve my skills, but I didn't find any good tool/app to do so. Any recommendation ? Maybe the first step would be to switch to Das Keayboard Ultimate...
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How fast and how accurate are you at striking your keyboards ? How did you learn typing ? How many fingers are you using ? I am an average typist, and would like to improve my skills, but I didn't find any good tool/app to do so. Any recommendation ? Maybe the first step would be to switch to Das Keayboard Ultimate...
20 wpm (words per minute).... all are right 60 wpm...mostly spell mistakes Truth is truth we have to accept it....
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How fast and how accurate are you at striking your keyboards ? How did you learn typing ? How many fingers are you using ? I am an average typist, and would like to improve my skills, but I didn't find any good tool/app to do so. Any recommendation ? Maybe the first step would be to switch to Das Keayboard Ultimate...
I taught myself how to type and I found that as I became a professional programmer I just naturally became able to type faster and faster. However, most programmers I know are hunt and peck. While you may be just as good of a programmer, when non-technical people see a programmer one-fingering his or her keyboard it does not inspire confidence. Also, when someone ambushes me in my cube or office it always disturbs them for me to look them in the eyes while we are still talking and I am still typing away. Of course, they can't see the fact that I usually come back and fix the mess I made after they left!
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I went through school before typing was commonplace for anyone but aspiring secretaries. I never learned to type, and as a result I use three-four fingers.
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001When I was in high school they updated the computer labs to 486s, but the only software they put on it was Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. So I took typing class and sat in the same spot in the back of the class every day where I installed and happily coded in Turbo Pascal.
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How fast and how accurate are you at striking your keyboards ? How did you learn typing ? How many fingers are you using ? I am an average typist, and would like to improve my skills, but I didn't find any good tool/app to do so. Any recommendation ? Maybe the first step would be to switch to Das Keayboard Ultimate...
Ah... the good ole days of typing. I believe the young ones call it "keyboarding" these days. At least that's what my kids call it. I learned to type in high school (a long, long time ago) on a manual, non-electric type writer. (Anyone remember those? Hated it when the keys kept getting stuck together because you went too fast). Anyway, I now type at about 75 to 80 words per minute using both hands, all fingers, with very few mistakes. I like to amaze my friends with my ability to type about as fast as they talk. (yeah, I have no life...)
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How fast and how accurate are you at striking your keyboards ? How did you learn typing ? How many fingers are you using ? I am an average typist, and would like to improve my skills, but I didn't find any good tool/app to do so. Any recommendation ? Maybe the first step would be to switch to Das Keayboard Ultimate...
I type fast - about 100 words per minute.
It's time for a new sig. Seriously.
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I taught myself how to type and I found that as I became a professional programmer I just naturally became able to type faster and faster. However, most programmers I know are hunt and peck. While you may be just as good of a programmer, when non-technical people see a programmer one-fingering his or her keyboard it does not inspire confidence. Also, when someone ambushes me in my cube or office it always disturbs them for me to look them in the eyes while we are still talking and I am still typing away. Of course, they can't see the fact that I usually come back and fix the mess I made after they left!
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. I also do Android Programming as I find it a refreshing break from the MS. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me
Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
Also, when someone ambushes me in my cube or office it always disturbs them for me to look them in the eyes while we are still talking and I am still typing away.
I once did that, only they could see my screen so I wrote: "I am being too bloody clever!" The old dear laughed :)
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I type fast - about 100 words per minute.
It's time for a new sig. Seriously.
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Easy: 01 10 11 Using 10 fingers you can count from 0 to 1023
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Easy: 01 10 11 Using 10 fingers you can count from 0 to 1023
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I type fast - about 100 words per minute.
It's time for a new sig. Seriously.
Is the word "a" ?
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How fast and how accurate are you at striking your keyboards ? How did you learn typing ? How many fingers are you using ? I am an average typist, and would like to improve my skills, but I didn't find any good tool/app to do so. Any recommendation ? Maybe the first step would be to switch to Das Keayboard Ultimate...
Two to three. My boss once said that if I could touch type, I'd be a real terror.
