Poll: How many of you hunt and peck on the keyboard
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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.
BardCoder wrote:
My typing speed is slow, but completely error-free.
I find this hard to believe.
BardCoder wrote:
a fast typing speed is more the hallmark of a good data-entry clerk than that of a good programmer.
Not entirely a true statement. Most programmers (not all) probably learned how to type before they took up programming. Also, I was not making a comparison between being a good programmer and typing speed. Your slow typing prowess has been forgiven. ;)
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GenJerDan wrote:
3 Fingers. 45+ wpm.
Impressive.
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My typing teacher was a drop-dead gorgeous blonde who wore miniskirts and sat on the edge of my desk telling me how her husband was always on the road. Didn't learn any typing whatsoever.
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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:
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I still use the PS2 HP keyboard that came with my first PC back in '99. It just feels like home. I took it apart a few weeks ago and cleaned it. Now it's just like new again. Even the Ctrl, X, C V, and A look like new after 12 years.
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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 learned to type eons ago back in the days of manual type writers. Its one of the reasons I now bang and the keys and annoy my coworkers. I've gotten used to looking at what I type, not what I'm typing from, so I'm not accurate anymore. Had to make 2 corrections already to this text. Ok, 3, just caught another.
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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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90+ wpm on alpha, and I can type one thing while talking about a different thing. Gotta look on numbers and punctuation. Best if I'm using a single kind of keyboard continuously. Less good if I have to switch up.
Curious...how did you clock your WPM speed? I need to clock mine and was wondering how you did it?
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BardCoder wrote:
My typing speed is slow, but completely error-free.
I find this hard to believe.
BardCoder wrote:
a fast typing speed is more the hallmark of a good data-entry clerk than that of a good programmer.
Not entirely a true statement. Most programmers (not all) probably learned how to type before they took up programming. Also, I was not making a comparison between being a good programmer and typing speed. Your slow typing prowess has been forgiven. ;)
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
Slacker007 wrote:
Most programmers (not all) probably learned how to type before they took up programming.
Thank you. :) I had no interest in typing until I discovered programming. Then it became necessary to acquire some typing skill. At that point, it was too late for me to go back and master touch-typing. And it still does not interest me: I would rather be learning a new programming language or just plain coding! I have noticed, however, that my typing is much faster when I write code than when I write English. It is as if my typing is specialized to go along with my chosen profession. Semicolons, brackets, and camel-casing are built into my technique!
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Hunt and Peck. Is there another way?
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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.
Hunt and Peck with 40 years experience. Learned to type on an ASR-33 Teletype. My hand size is (was) big enough to span the entire (uppercase only) ASR-33 keyboard with one hand, leaving the other to point at the line of code I was typing. Computer time was precious back then so you had to write your programs out before you could key them in. Later, as a professional programmer, I'd get yelled at for typing in my own programs. You were expected to write your programs longhand on coding sheets for the keypunching staff to enter. (You mean I get to debug their typos as well as my own?) Many a time I'd be keying in my programs and stop, realizing that what I had written had no chance of working (What had I been smoking? And could I get more?) But now I am a two handed typist (my hand cannot span a 101 key keyboard) with eyes firmly fixed on the keyboard.
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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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Definitely practice, practice, practice. I had a friend who asked me what the trick was to 10-key and he could not believe it was merely practice. I never did convince him. :laugh:
Just think of it as evolution in action.
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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.
Most typing test subtract from your final score for any errors, so I presume that was his NET score. (No .NET jokes, please.)
Just think of it as evolution in action.
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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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Definitely do not count on a run-of-the-mill keyboard bought now to last that long. Keyboards are cheap now-- and I mean that in both senses of the word. Keyboards in the Nineties cost around US$125 and were worth it. If you want one that will last, expect to pay that much or more in today's dollars.
Just think of it as evolution in action.
