Typing
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Easy: 01 10 11 Using 10 fingers you can count from 0 to 1023
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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...
Back in the day, I learned to type on a VAX VMS system - where they unlocked the typing tutor app over the lunch hour. I can almost entirely type without having to look at the keyboard, although sometimes I do have to think about what finger to use to get a specific key. Especially the top row. When it comes to striking the keyboard - I generally hit it every time (but am careful not to abuse the poor thing). When it comes to accurately hitting specific keys, however ...
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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...
When did I learn typing? Back in summer school in Jr High School. It was hell. In that class, the typewriters did not have the letters on the keys. You had to look up a board where the keyboard arrangement was posted in the front of the auditorium. I think I got my first case of hives then. Later on, when as a freshman in college, with some practice, it would take at least four hours to type up a two page English paper (after I had written it out long hand). I guess I just needed more practice. Later in my college life, I got much better. I could whip out a 10 page term paper in one day. Then came computers and text editors. Correcting mistakes was much easier. Then came word processors, like MS Word. Now I can easily add special effects (fonts, etc.). Ah, the trials we have to go through to get to where we are.
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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 was taught one handed touch typing in 1993. Despite being out of practice I stall use three or four fingers most of the time. The last time I tested myself (around 2000) I could still do about 25 wpm with 92% accuracy. In '93 right after the class I was rated at 34wpm and 97% accuracy The biggest problem is the newer "ergonomic" keyboards are worse than useless for one handed use. We are taught to use "FGHJ" as our home keys. Additionally, the ideal situation is have a trackball just below the space bar and the buttons offset just above the home keys we use although the buttons being either side of the trackball is also doable if not quite as efficient.
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I was taught one handed touch typing in 1993. Despite being out of practice I stall use three or four fingers most of the time. The last time I tested myself (around 2000) I could still do about 25 wpm with 92% accuracy. In '93 right after the class I was rated at 34wpm and 97% accuracy The biggest problem is the newer "ergonomic" keyboards are worse than useless for one handed use. We are taught to use "FGHJ" as our home keys. Additionally, the ideal situation is have a trackball just below the space bar and the buttons offset just above the home keys we use although the buttons being either side of the trackball is also doable if not quite as efficient.
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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...
Faster typing is using backspace key faster. It's only one key which you need to know ;)
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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...
Pretty fast, about 70WPM, always finding someone who types faster, or maybe just louder, than me. Typing games, Math Blaster, Typing Master, Typing Tutor, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing (recommended, less than $10 at best buy). Typing class was mandatory in the 8th grade. To pass you had to accurately type a letter using the selectric and manual typewriters. I use pretty much all my fingers, but my right pinky gets stuck sometimes from punching brick walls too many times. Of course I don't punch brick walls anymore. It's been weeks! I'm intrigued by the Dvorak. Thanks for the other posters who brought it up. My post is basically an accurate answer to your question. Boring, but accurate.
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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.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001Good to know I'm not the only programmer who never learned to type properly! In my case I'd written dozens of stories on the computer before they started typing lessons at school (around gr. 3), and by then I was too comfortable with my own way to see the point in switching to theirs. But I'm pretty fast for a hunt-and-pecker :)
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Easy: 01 10 11 Using 10 fingers you can count from 0 to 1023
Sweet... :)
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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...
Back in the day... I learned on a manual typwriter in high school; while walking to school uphill both ways in snow storms. "fff jjj ddd kkk sss lll aaa ;;; ". :laugh: You needed to pound those keys! I'm still told I type "loudly"... My kids used Mavis Beacon program, seemed to work for them. I've lost the ability to type accurately unless I'm looking at the screen. Bad for touch typist, you need to instead look at what you're typing from...
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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 am an OK touch typist, I can't make my fingers move fast enough to type at the lightning speed that the secretaries can do. When programming, I usually don't need great speed as the ideas usually don't flow much faster than I can type. :)
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.