Typing with two fingers?

[MSTK]

Personally I think it is hard and very inefficient. It also slows me down from 90 wpm to about 30. Yet recently I had heard from some people on the internet saying that people actually do this, and they type faster while doing it?!

This is really hard!! ARGH! It takes all mmy will power from using my other fingers.

Give it a try.

 

[Caranamrta]

I type with two fingers, my sister types with 10. We type with nearly the same speed.

 

[Rammstein]

I used to type with 2 or maybe 4, but last winter I got fed up with it and set my mind on typing with 8. That worked, I switched in about 3 weeks. I wrote very fast before, now I'm supersonic.

 

[Silverflame]

If you type with two fingers, you have to look at the keyboard. If you type the "official" way, like I do, then I can keep staring at the screen and actually see what I type.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I use the official way, mostly, but I don't memorize which finger hits which key. I generally keep the left hand on the left side of the keyboard and the right hand on the right side of the keyboard.

 

[King Alexander]

8, the "official way". I guess, playing piano helps!

 

[zurichuk]

i think i use the official way and sometimes i'm merrily typing away reasonably fast and accurate without needing to look at the keyboard.... until i suddenly think about it and then the errors start

 

[Halcyon]

The "normal" two-handed way, though with the left hand shifted left one key, such that the index finger goes on the D and not F, and the little finger on shift. Seems to work. Whatever you're used to, I suppose..

Trying to type with only two fingers takes an effort of will, though. One always ends up using the spacebar with a thumb, or hitting A with the ring finger, etc. I think I'll keep my way for now.

 

[Wolfe Tone]

I use nearly all of my fingers when typing although my left little finger doesn't get much to do most of the time

 

[Vinaes]

8, though i keep my thumbs(on of them at least) at my sensitive screen(Lab-top mouse)

 

[Persia_Immortal]

I tpye with all my fingers

 

[Akka]

I type with six fingers : I use the three in the center of each hand. I don't use the thumbs (except, sometimes, for the spacebar), and I use the smallest finger only for Shift.

 

[Vanadorn]

7 fingers. The thumb, pointer and middle finger on both hands, and the pinky on the right hand (just for whacking the return key).

I had owned a computer since I was 11, and learned to type on it whatever way worked for me. By the time I took a typing class at age 14, the bad habits were firmly ingrained. I have no set poisition, my hands flying all over the keyboard. Sometimes I have excellent speed and accuracy, and other times I just suck.

My 1 cent

 

[JohnRM]

8 finger official...

 

[classical_hero]

8, the "official way". I guess, playing piano helps!

I know it definitely help playing an instrument, like the piano. It also helps when the moer you practice the better you get. BTW, I use the 8 finger method since that was the way I was taught. An interesting side note. When peolple type, do they look down at the keys while they type and check the spelling after, or do people watch the screen to see what they are typing, or is a bit of both? For me it is a bit of both because I an not to good typing without looking fully just yet.

 

[Guildenstern]

I type in a way similar to Vanadorn. My right hand crosses the center of the keyboard fairly often. For example, in "often", I hit the F with my right index finger, and the T with my right middle finger. Hell, in "index", I hit the X with my right index finger!

I use my right pinky for backspace, enter, and apostrophe; aside from that, I just use three fingers on each hand, plus thumbs on the space bar. I tend to look at the keyboard while I type, but I don't have to. Looking at the keyboard increases my accuracy and speed; I have a decent memory and I don't lose my place even though I can't see the screen when I'm looking down.

I don't know what my actual speed is, though. I tend to impress people in chatrooms with long sentences that they weren't expecting in the intervening time.

 

[Syterion]

I am typing this the offivial way withot looking at the jeyboarf. It's hard ti do eithout memoricinf whiere the keys are snd not npormakky using the other fingers. But from now on, I plan ro on;y type withoug looking at the keyboars and usinf a;; fingers and not editinh my mistakes untul I can dp it peoficiently.

 

[CruddyLeper]

I was taught the traditional way, using a manual typewriter at first and then electrics.

For the first 3 weeks my fingers were sore - but that bit of pain was well worth it.

 

[Qitai]

Never notice, but I think similar to Akka, 6 fingers mostly.

Somehow, over the years, the fingers move themselves to the key piece without me thinking at all now. If some one ask me where each key piece is at, I probably would not be able to answer that. But if you give me an keyboard without labels and ask me to type, I can probably still type without problem.

 

[Dann]

4 fingers max + left thumb. Reasonably fast.

Never learned to type the official way. We have plenty of young, pretty secretaries.