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  • R Rage

    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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    Single Step Debugger
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    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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    • R Rage

      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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      Jacquers
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      I never learned how to type properly, but using intellisense in vs you never really type full words anyway. The biggest bottleneck in programming is getting the ideas in my head into the pc. It would be great if it could read my mind! (sometimes...)

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      • R Rage

        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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        Ennis Ray Lynch Jr
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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!

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        • R Rage

          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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          koolprasad2003
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          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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          • R realJSOP

            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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            When 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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            • R Rage

              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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              NickPace
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              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...)

              -NP Never underestimate the creativity of the end-user.

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              • R Rage

                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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                Rajesh R Subramanian
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                I type fast - about 100 words per minute.

                It's time for a new sig. Seriously.

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                • E Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

                  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

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                  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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                  • R Rajesh R Subramanian

                    I type fast - about 100 words per minute.

                    It's time for a new sig. Seriously.

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                    Rage
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                    100 WPM is truly amazing. Without errors ?

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                      Dalek Dave wrote:

                      I only have two forefingers.

                      Then how do you count to three? //L

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                      Russell Jones
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                      Easy: 01 10 11 Using 10 fingers you can count from 0 to 1023

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                      • R Russell Jones

                        Easy: 01 10 11 Using 10 fingers you can count from 0 to 1023

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                        Oh. My. Religious Mythical figure. ...you just brought geekiness to an entirely new level. 5. //L

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                        • R Rajesh R Subramanian

                          I type fast - about 100 words per minute.

                          It's time for a new sig. Seriously.

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                          hairy_hats
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                          Is the word "a" ?

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                          • R Rage

                            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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                            Member 4194593
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                            Two to three. My boss once said that if I could touch type, I'd be a real terror.

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                            • R Rage

                              100 WPM is truly amazing. Without errors ?

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                              Rajesh R Subramanian
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                              Last time I checked, I had about 97% accuracy.

                              It's time for a new sig. Seriously.

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                                Is the word "a" ?

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                                Rajesh R Subramanian
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                                viaducting wrote:

                                Is the word "a" ?

                                More complex than that - take the test yourself[^].

                                It's time for a new sig. Seriously.

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                                • R Rajesh R Subramanian

                                  Last time I checked, I had about 97% accuracy.

                                  It's time for a new sig. Seriously.

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                                  Rage
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                                  And how did you learn ?

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                                    Did you look at the Dvorak keyboard? Aparently the typing speed record is held by someone using a Dvorak. There are drivers available for the programmer Dvorak layout here[^] and just this morning I ordered a couple of sets of Programmer Dvorak keyboard stickers here[^]. The first link has a link to a basic course in Dvorak. I might be harping on a bit about this now, since I haven't used a Dvorak keyboard myself yet, so i'm just going to leave it at that. :-D

                                    Pete

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                                    Rage
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                                    Wow, Pete, you are the first real person I see who really wants to give Dvorak a try. Good luck !

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                                    • R Rage

                                      And how did you learn ?

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                                      Rajesh R Subramanian
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                                      I went to a typing class and did the first exam in about 3 months. It went very well and I scored first class, and then went for the second round and scored first as well. Somehow, it was my thing. I remember participating on a thread on this some time back in the past: http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/2025708/I-did-a-hundred.aspx[^] (the screenshot I uploaded is gone now though).

                                      It's time for a new sig. Seriously.

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                                        I went to a typing class and did the first exam in about 3 months. It went very well and I scored first class, and then went for the second round and scored first as well. Somehow, it was my thing. I remember participating on a thread on this some time back in the past: http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/2025708/I-did-a-hundred.aspx[^] (the screenshot I uploaded is gone now though).

                                        It's time for a new sig. Seriously.

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                                        Rage
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                                        This is truly amazing. The second amazing thing is you guys ability to find threads posted years ago which hits exactly the subject. I don't remember what I wrote last week...

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                                        • R Rage

                                          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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                                          Lost User
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                                          I use both hands. never learned typing though. Try using both hands, start with two fingers of left hand for left sight keyboard two fingers of right hand for right sight keyboard use any thumb for space bar. this will help a lot while typing. you can just go to that level after some time, without learning any sort of typing. And it is very fast way.

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