Poll: How many of you hunt and peck on the keyboard
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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:
Once I am used to a keyboard, I don't need to look at the keys.
SO true, and so sad. Keyboard layout would definitely be a factor in choosing my next keyboard (if that is ever needed, mine is probably 10+ years old and still doing fine). The biggest problem however: My left hand going CLAW when ever I concentrate on something else than typing*. And I havent even played a FPS in like 5 years... DAMN YOU COUNTERSTRIKE! * Counted 3 times it happened during the typing and pausing of above message :( Update: CRAP, did it again, as I posted the message! /me makes note not to make CLAW.
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It depends. Letters and commonly used characters, no. Less common characters (~, !, %, ^, & among others), yes.
I can type without looking at the keyboard at all. I couldn't hunt and peck for the less commonly used characters even if I wanted to, because I'm often typing with English keyboard layout on German keyboards. Reason: on the German keyboard layout, the position of the brackets sucks, especially '{' requires a quite unnatural hand position (right-Alt + 7).
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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.
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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."
I guess it really is that bad! I guess it also means that keyboards last a lot longer than I previously thought they did.
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Gone by so fast you don't hear the noise until it's already passed?
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Dalek Dave wrote:
all my fingers but still need to sneak a peek occasionally.
:thumbsup: Oh wait what are we talking about again? :-D
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i cant type worth a **** :)
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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 touch type on the keyboard and the number pad. I have noticed that very often programmers who complain a lot about having to type "long" (meaningful) variable names are not able to type well. There are, of course exceptions. ;) :)
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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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.
Luckily, I am an elite typist and very very fast typing the normall keyboard and the 10pad. I don't ever look at the keyboard. That's good, because as much as I've tried, I'm still a very very poor programmer. X| I need those extra seconds to think. My dad is a hunt and pecker, but he just plays games. So, basically, the only letters he really knows on the keyboard is his name. He's really good at those letters and pretty bad with any letters that aren't in his name. LOL.
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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.
We hired a secretary once who said that she was a typist, but she was just a hunt 'n pecker. :cool:
WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.
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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.
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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.
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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.
/sigh/ Thanks for the English lesson. Here's one in return: What variants are there of "*unt and **ck", and how could it be typoed?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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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.
To the people who wish to improve on their typist skills... I heavily recommend the game "Typing of the dead". It's a mod of "House of the dead". Instead of shooting the zombies, you need to "type" them away. Hell, even if typing speed isn't important to you, you should still download it for the fun factor :)
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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.
My typing speed is slow, but completely error-free. I would like to think that the net effect of it is on par with that of the lightning-fast-but-error-prone typists I have worked with. I like to make each keystroke count! After all, a fast typing speed is more the hallmark of a good data-entry clerk than that of a good programmer.
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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.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)Intellisense has killed my WPM typing speed. I used to be much faster.
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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'm a peeking pecker I still peck and peek, but I only peek about every 5 keystrokes. Not exactly warp speed but passable.
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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.
Net Speed 37 WPM Gross Speed 43 WPM Accuracy 97% Time Elapsed 01:21 Thats an average. Usually its faster. Espessially if I don't have to have to read from what is going on the screen and it comes directly from the brain.
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Shows you how much I care about the surveys.
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
