Typing Test.

[cardgame]

What do you use instead of touch typing (home row)?

I just fly out and hit the keys with my hands all over the keyboard. first two fingers on my hands re about all that's used. I used my right pinky for enter, apostrophes; right index for the colon key, I guess, left index for caps lock, left pinky for shift. I don't use my thumbs.

 

[ZeletDude]

78 WPM. 11 errors ---> 67 WPM

 

[sophie]

Never learned to touch type: my right hand flies and works with most of the keyboard and my left hand is static and just hits keys left of 5(ish). I've just learned a lot of patterns of words and put them together as known muscle combinations. Great for straight English but really slow for anything not in normal usage. But I've been doing that for 40 years, so I'm quite happy that I can always easily rattle out more than 50 wpm.

I was like this too, however when I went to college I decided to teach myself how to type properly. After much practice (mostly taking notes in classes), I am finally starting to reach the point where I can type as quickly in this way as I used to be able to in my old manner. More importantly, however, is that I can now type without looking at the keyboard, making copying powerpoint slides and book quotations much quicker for me, so...definitely worth it.

 

[cardgame]

I can type without looking too, all it is is memorizing the position of the keys.

 

[Elrohir]

117, with two errors, for an adjusted score of 115 wpm. I've done better, but not bad.

 

[sophie]

I can type without looking too, all it is is memorizing the position of the keys.

I just feel like if you actually put the time in to learn how to type properly, it's really going to pay for itself in the long run; especially if you are typing often like I am.

 

[dwaxe]

84 adjusted to 81.

 

[Kennigit]

Astronaut paragraph I got like 69 with 6 errors.

But since that one was bs and had I swear like 20 quotation marks and -- (those throw me for a loop), I did rules of Baseball and got 86 with 3 errors.

Normally I get ~80 on typing tests.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

132 wpm