Do you know how to keyboard (type) by touch?

[RoddyVR]

now i'm seriously curious.
can someone tell me how to find out how fast i type?

i would realy love a computer program that would test me.
i'm too lazy to just take a book and type a page from it for 3 mins and see how many words i get. besides i dont know if words like "a" and "I" and "the" count or if its just big words like "politics" and "stewardess"

 

[smalltalk]

Pretty fast I think, though I have no idea at what rate. I also use shortcuts a lot. Having to use a mouse slows things down. On the other hand, I have to look, when typing numbers or go to the num block instead.

Not being able to type at a reasonable speed is yet another barrier to using a computer.

I wonder, how are the Chinese doing it?

Perhaps, some day there will be better ways.
This is by P. Fromherz, Ars-Elecronica 1997

 

[Smaasnekje]

Do you know how to keyboard (type) by touch?

i try, but as you can see there are some few errors....

 

[Zwelgje]

I don't have to look at the keyboard to type and I use 10 fingers.
I think I can get to 200 strokes per minute when I really try but not in english. I tried once and got about 200 strokes/minute in dutch and only 150 in english. Weird eh?

 

[philippe]

i typ very fast looking to it.
But most of the time i just make stupid mistakes
Ued,Of nrbr lqje spekong mot kies

 

[Zwelgje]

Speed test: http://typera.net/

 

[WillJ]

Originally posted by RoddyVR
besides i dont know if words like "a" and "I" and "the" count or if its just big words like "politics" and "stewardess"

In WPM tests, a "word" is every five characters (letters, numbers, symbols, punctuation, and spaces).

 

[nixon]

34 WPM. But but, I'd just like to ***** a little about the test, how are you supposed to keep up typing, when the test itself cracking me up!!

 

[Lord_Vetinari]

I had typing as a class in high school, so I can type rather fast without looking at the keyboard (somwhere in the range of 50-60 wpm)

 

[Archer 007]

Im taking my second typing focused class in school, and I still hunt and peck. Test my WPM with link listed earlier. 32, not too shabby i think.

 

[kring]

That test showed me at 49 WPM.

My typing style depends on what I am doing and my mood. I can do typing by touch; but often use hunt and peck equally well. What was funny during typing class, my teacher refused to believe that I could type fast using the peck method (EDITED: don't need to hunt since I know where the keys are); and when she was watching, I had to use the type by touch method.

I do a multi check spell check. First, I reread the typed item. Then, I spell check by computer' then I reread again. The problem with spell check is that it doesn't catch misspelled words that spell another word (their, there, they're; or diabetic, diatribe for examples.) or if you left a word out (example: not, which can change the meaning of the sentence in a big way) Also, grammar checkers for English miss a lot as well.

EDITED: My official rate is 35-40 wpm.

 

[Silverflame]

Lets see. Took that typera test, and got 64 wpm. Ive done better

Yes I can touch type, and have been doing so since sixth grade. It has always been so natural for me to just type not looking at the keyboard. So I have no idea how you hunt-and-peckers manage it.

 

[Ren]

I got 43wpm in that test. I think my official rating is about 35wpm... I got a certificate last year, I'll find it later and edit this post

 

[WinterRose]

Never tried to learn it... but noticed last year that I have no problems writing finnish when watching elsewhere (to screen, mostly). English is little bit harder, but still goes easily without big typos.

 

[WinterRose]

Originally posted by civ1-addict
Speed test: http://typera.net/

My result from Finnish (classic, 1 min):

Your result was 324 correct keypresses per minute.
Rating: not bad

Approximate words per minute: 324 / 5 = 64
The average result of last 1521266 games is 229 keys/minute.

 

[JonathanValjean]

Originally posted by Mojotronica
1) What is your keyboarding style? 2) I'd say that decent keyboarding skills are almost as important as knowing how to drive, at least in the United States...

1) I use all of my fingers with the home keys as my base.
2) I agree with you, buddy.

 

[JonathanValjean]

Originally posted by WinterRose
Your result was 324 correct keypresses per minute.
Approximate words per minute: 324 / 5 = 64
The average result of last 1521266 games is 229 keys/minute.

Wow, in the English test, I scored 329/5=65. We are extremely close! Thanks for the excellent link to typera.net!

 

[hbdragon88]

I do, it's great. I can laugh at the fools that still type two-fingered as I speed to a fast finish in typing assignments and so on. I was the second fastest typer in my middle school at 69 wpm - outranked by a student named Steven, who hit a stunning 100 wpm in a 1-minute test we all did.

 

[gonzo_for_civ]

It really depends on what I'm typing. I took typing for 6 years(3 in middle school) (3 in high school) and I was the fastest typer EASILY in both. I typed over 100 GWAM in middle and I managed 138 in a 10 page final my senior year in HS>

I also taught myself typing for SEVERAL years on an old DOS program called Typing Tutor, and before that on a program for which I do not know the name. The first keyboard I typed on was so old that you nearly had to beat the key with your fist to register a keystroke, which I guess gave me stamina

Now I program and design webpages, both involving a lot of typing, and writing up summaries, documentations, reports and such. The only drawback to typing so fast is that sometimes when I capitalize something I capitalize a letter or two afterwards. Ending sentences with acronyms often results in typing a > rather than a .

 

[Silverflame]

Originally posted by gonzo_for_civ

Now I program and design webpages, both involving a lot of typing, and writing up summaries, documentations, reports and such. The only drawback to typing so fast is that sometimes when I capitalize something I capitalize a letter or two afterwards. Ending sentences with acronyms often results in typing a > rather than a .

That happens a lot to me, too. Good thing that Microsoft word would automatically correct things such as "THe..." Makes my assignments a lot easier.