Poll: How many of you hunt and peck on the keyboard
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Last time I measured it, I clocked in at 104wpm... But that was years ago, so I dunno if I've gotten faster or slower since then... For coding, though, I've become VERY reliant on Intellisense, so I actually code incredibly slowly if I have to do it in a normal text editor. When I code, the only complete words I type are new class names... Everything else is tab-completed.
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Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)Ian Shlasko wrote:
Last time I measured it, I clocked in at 104wpm... But that was years ago
I met people who could do numbers in the 90's but never over 100. I wonder what your error count was back then. 104 WPM with few errors is damn impressive. :)
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Agreed. This one[^] was one of a kind. :)
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On the number pad I can bang in pages of numbers in seconds, never look and even know when I have mis-keyed. That is called Practice.
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yep, I'm about the same, I can do most alpha characters while looking at the screen, but I still find myself looking down a the keyboard a lot. I've a laptop at home with a different keyboard than the one I work on at home, so special characters need to be hunted down. There's a guy in the office here who got a new keyboard recently to match the keyboard on his home laptop. :)
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Oh, I hunt and peck big time with my laptop at home (hardly use it).
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Dalek Dave wrote:
never look and even know when I have mis-keyed.
Impressive.
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Just watch any Accountant/Bookkeeper/Ledger Clerk, they can all do it, and yes, in full flow it is quite impressive. I remember when I started and watched my first boss do it, I was determined to emulate her.
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Only class in high school worth anything, Personal Typing. That was on an IBM Selectric[^], so that shows how long ago. I have seen two finger typist zip through typing a letter/report in no time. I have worked with programmers that were hunt and peck and they did okay.
djj55 wrote:
That was on an IBM Selectric
Saw the pic and it brought back memories. :)
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I can type about 65 words a minute with very few mistakes. This doesn't really mean anything while coding. However, my typing speed, over time, cuts down on my actual coding time. Are there any of you coders out there that don't know how to type? I knew this awesome programmer (was my first mentor) who couldn't type to save his life but he could hunt and peck pretty damn fast. :)
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I've not heard this phrase before but it made me laugh :laugh:
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Definitely the biblical method for me.
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You might be thinking of the missionary method.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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I can type about 65 words a minute with very few mistakes. This doesn't really mean anything while coding. However, my typing speed, over time, cuts down on my actual coding time. Are there any of you coders out there that don't know how to type? I knew this awesome programmer (was my first mentor) who couldn't type to save his life but he could hunt and peck pretty damn fast. :)
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
I hope I read the subject line right. Are you sure you didn't typo?
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You might be thinking of the missionary method.
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Ian Shlasko wrote:
Last time I measured it, I clocked in at 104wpm... But that was years ago
I met people who could do numbers in the 90's but never over 100. I wonder what your error count was back then. 104 WPM with few errors is damn impressive. :)
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
Well, it was with one of those "Test your typing speed" things, so I don't know how accurate it was. Oddly, though, I don't typo very often... Well, not individual letters. I'm more likely to typo an entire word with a completely-valid different word... Like in that previous sentence, I almost typoed "entire" with "entirely"... And then in THAT sentence, "typed" instead of "typoed"... Can yield pretty funny results sometimes.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
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I can type about 65 words a minute with very few mistakes. This doesn't really mean anything while coding. However, my typing speed, over time, cuts down on my actual coding time. Are there any of you coders out there that don't know how to type? I knew this awesome programmer (was my first mentor) who couldn't type to save his life but he could hunt and peck pretty damn fast. :)
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
I am a self learned typist. I can type without constantly looking at my keyboard, but I have like a two-sometimes-three-and-a-half-plus-one-fingers kind of typing style ;p I'm not an ultra fast typist, but I've seen slower :)
It's an OO world.
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Hear a peck there a peck everywhere a peck peck. They're everywhere but as you say a good one is indeed rare.
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I can type about 65 words a minute with very few mistakes. This doesn't really mean anything while coding. However, my typing speed, over time, cuts down on my actual coding time. Are there any of you coders out there that don't know how to type? I knew this awesome programmer (was my first mentor) who couldn't type to save his life but he could hunt and peck pretty damn fast. :)
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
I enter all my code in binary, so all I need are the 1 and 0 keys.
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I can type about 65 words a minute with very few mistakes. This doesn't really mean anything while coding. However, my typing speed, over time, cuts down on my actual coding time. Are there any of you coders out there that don't know how to type? I knew this awesome programmer (was my first mentor) who couldn't type to save his life but he could hunt and peck pretty damn fast. :)
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
Id Is there any other way? That's my main reason for hating pop up dialog boxes, huge chunks of code and email have been unintentionally typed into dialog boxes.:mad: Anyone recall the scene in Wall-E where the giant TYP-E robot is typing hunt and peck style on a keyboard using 2 fingers? http://www.the-leaping-lamp.com/wall-e-characters-other-robots.html[^]
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I hope I read the subject line right. Are you sure you didn't typo?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
I didn't typo. Hunt = to find or search and Peck = to peck at the keys like a chicken pecking for grain.
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
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I can type about 65 words a minute with very few mistakes. This doesn't really mean anything while coding. However, my typing speed, over time, cuts down on my actual coding time. Are there any of you coders out there that don't know how to type? I knew this awesome programmer (was my first mentor) who couldn't type to save his life but he could hunt and peck pretty damn fast. :)
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
I can get around 45 words per minute apparently, although I'm not sure how much that actually helps with coding, since it has a load of symbols thrown in which severely slows me down. And when I do just bash out reams of code my hands start to cramp from constantly reaching over to the shift keys.
My current favourite phrase: I've seen better!
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Once I am used to a keyboard, I don't need to look at the keys. Getting used to the keyboard takes a while though - even a slight movement (or reduction in key travel) will cause me real pain! My major problem is that I still type faster than my fingers can move, so I transpose letters a lot: Hence why I have problems spelling the word "the". I nearly always get the 'e' key pressed too early... :sigh: I'm not looking forward to it, but I need to get a new keyboard in a couple of months as this one is getting a bit worn.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
but I need to get a new keyboard in a couple of months as this one is getting a bit worn.
It can't be that bad, I've seen somebody using a keyboard so worn that the shift and space keys almost had holes in, and that's no lie. The keyboard looked to be at least 10 years old and it was probably older. I'm actually surprised that the keys still worked now that I think about it, unless they were so used to to them they moved the keys from their old board to a new one.
My current favourite phrase: I've seen better!
-SK Genius
Source Indexing and Symbol Servers Vehicle Simulation Demo - Mostly Works
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OriginalGriff wrote:
but I need to get a new keyboard in a couple of months as this one is getting a bit worn.
It can't be that bad, I've seen somebody using a keyboard so worn that the shift and space keys almost had holes in, and that's no lie. The keyboard looked to be at least 10 years old and it was probably older. I'm actually surprised that the keys still worked now that I think about it, unless they were so used to to them they moved the keys from their old board to a new one.
My current favourite phrase: I've seen better!
-SK Genius
Source Indexing and Symbol Servers Vehicle Simulation Demo - Mostly Works
This one is older than ten years! It's the first PS/2 keyboard I bought so probably from the early 90s, and it's been apart for cleaning more times than I want to think about. (I used to not mind eating, drinking, smoking and playing doom on it - sometimes all together). The key tops are in good shape, excepting the index markers which I have worn to nothing, it's the springs that are getting weak... That and it looks like I still, smoke, drink and eat over it :laugh:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
