Type-to-Learn

[freshnesschronic]

Does most every dwellar know how to type? Like the standard way, and could probably type at least 40 wpm at 85% accuracy.
The dude next to me (I'm at the library) keeps banging away at the keys and he is shaking the table kind of. He has his fingers elevated and consistently looks down to find the keys. I feel everyone in college should at least know how to type, I learned in the 5th grade!!
LEARN TO TYPE DUDE GAH

[Shawnee123]

I agree, fresh. Back in my HS days, you had to elect to take typing (no computers back then!) but it was recommended especially for those planning to attend college. Like many other things, once you get the basics down you just get faster. The basketball player who shoots and follows through correctly will almost always blow the unconventional but great shooter out of the water, eventually.

I didn't even really use my typing much until I bought my first computer, but am thankful for the poor made fun of Mrs Bair who taught me to type.

[Trilby]

Do they even teach typing anymore?? As a class in school? Or is it "computer skillz"?

A nun taught us at my HS. I hated that class but I'm glad I took it.

[ferret88]

Originally Posted by Brianna

Do they even teach typing anymore??

I think they call it "keyboarding" around here.

[glatt]

I suck at typing. I wasn't able to take it in high school for scheduling reasons. I figured it didn't matter, because even though we were one of the first families in my town to have a computer, I never realized how widespread they would become.

Anyway, my technique is all screwed up. I use about 4-6 fingers when I type, and have to look at the keyboard to find the keys. Whne I try to type fast, I am very inaccurate.

[Flint]

Originally Posted by Brianna

Do they even teach typing anymore?? As a class in school? Or is it "computer skillz"?

It's called "keyboarding" now.

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Sounds like my last date.

That wasn't my finger.

Originally Posted by Flint

It's called "keyboarding" now.

Keyboarding has been outlawed by Congress, hasn't it?

[bbro]

I never took typing. I took computer classes instead. I taught myself how. I think I do a pretty good job considering.

[Clodfobble]

We had a class called "Microcomputer Applications" (which I'm pretty sure was required) that included six weeks of typing. Honestly, the skill was really only honed because of all the papers I had to type throughout high school and college. I type about 70-75 WPM, but I don't use the correct fingers.

[freshnesschronic]

In my prime in high school programming classes I could type at 110 wpm with over 90% accuracy.



I have degraded into an excellent typer.... who relies on spell check through right click (or automatically quick-fix in Word!).

Clod do you do look like this?


edit: I just took a typing test at www.typingtest.com and here are my results. Check yours!
Net Speed: 89 WPM
(words/minute)
Accuracy: 93%
Gross Speed: 95 WPM
(words/minute)

[HungLikeJesus]

Clodfobble, you mean you have another set of fingers just for typing?

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by freshnesschronic

Clod do you do look like this?

Well no, for one thing I could never type the letter G or H if I did.

I generally don't use my pinkies at all. Watching myself type (which totally screws up the flow, it's really hard to do,) it looks like I shift my hands over whenever necessary so that the third fingers can pick up the pinky keys. All the rest are generally standard, with the exception that if my hands have shifted outward to grab a pinky key, everything else shifts over too, so that I will use the second fingers to hit any third-finger keys, etc. until I have reason to shift back to the middle. I only use my right thumb for the space bar, and only the left-side shift and CTRL keys--which I've just noticed are the only two things I do use my left pinky for. As far as I can tell I never use my right pinky.

[busterb]

Learners site.

[monster]

No. I can type damn fast but I mostly look at the keyboard (ask anyone from the chatroom gang) and use about six fingers. I keep practicing touch typing, but I'm just way faster the other way. When i was at school, typing class was only taken by those not likely to go to uni and who at best would hope to be secretaries. I didn't learn to type so I could never be a secretary. I took computers or something like that instead. Way back then there was no internet and they were sloooooooow so no need for speed. And all reports had to be hand-written. You weren't even allowed to use typewriters ('cause your mum could've done it for you). Handwriting was the main check against plagiarism.

[monster]

good site btw buster.