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THIS:
http://typingsoft.com/img/asdf.gif

OR THIS:
http://typingsoft.com/img/sdfv.gif

OR:
NONE OF THE ABOVE

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Left hand = A

Right hand = B

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Freak.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I usually do a semi hunt and peck style still, but maybe it's getting closer to the second one, except my pinkies always hover. I think my hands are too small or something to type well.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm not really sure what the question is, but i think my answer is b.

― Germany's Fun-Loving Beer (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

since i've used a keyboard my whole life, i've memorized the keys and type REALLY fast. although, i never really adopted the home key approach. i'm trying to make the transition...

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Sort of a lightning speed hunt and peck. I still have to look at the keyboard, but I'm pretty quick about it. I just downloaded Mario Teaches Typing though, maybe I'll get better.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

no one ever taught me to type, so i never had a method to learn from. i just figured it out by trial and error. i'm pretty good now, i think.

― Germany's Fun-Loving Beer (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

well, that would explain why you don't understand the question.

A = traditional home key method
B = not-so-traditional NASA(?) method

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

C = like a retarded monkey.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

D = pressing K because you can't find C

― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Not quite as atrociously as I write.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

question for ilxors: where and when did you learn to type? was it part of your school curriculum or did you learn from a relative? typewriter or computer keyboard?

― Germany's Fun-Loving Beer (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i learnt method "a" at TAFE when i was 25, not long after finishing my degree. i still can't imagine how much easier writing my honours thesis would have been if i'd learned before i went to uni.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I find I always have to look at the keys, but I think I could type pretty well in the dark - I think looking at my fingers is an instinctive thing.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

my parents bought me a computer when i was five. basically i just memorized the keyboard without realizing it. sort of like learning a language without trying to.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

my parents bought me a computer when i was five.
I hate you.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i had a tandy, a c64, an amiga, a mac, and random PS/2s

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

When you were FIVE????!!!!!???!?!?!?!?

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Best I had at that age was an Atari 2600 from my auntie.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

no NOT all at five. in my tender years, though.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I got kicked out of typing class in tenth grade. From what I remember up until then, though, was to use the home keys and not to pay so much attention to Carol, who sat to my immediate right.

Mrs. Hagstrom was correct about the home keys, but she sure didn't understand the Carol part of the equation.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i use a pointed stick.

― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

(A), learned in high school typing class, 10th grade. (Split school year: one semester Driver's Ed, one semester typing.)

― William Crump (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i learned by messing around on my mom's selectric as a kid. she would let me type school assignments on it.

― Germany's Fun-Loving Beer (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

We had a few-week long typing program in 7th grade. Everyone did it. Or maybe it was just the honors students? Learned a bit through that. Then I took a keyboard course (first level was Keyboarding, then Typing I, then Typing II) freshman year HS (taught by the football coach!), and that's where I became the speed demon that I am today. The course was pretty outdated by the time I took it. We didn't sit at computers but rather old skool typewriters, and had to format shit for envelopes and other secretarial type shite that no one needs to know how to do anymore.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

IMing has made me an even better typist.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

IMing works against me, as i follow no rules of grammar, structure, or linguistic decency of any kind.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

same goes for me cutty

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

looking at the keys and screen like a three headed beast

― kephm, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i started typing/using a computer when I was 10 or so..? they tried to teach me how to type legitimately in high school but I just said fuck it because I could type about 50+wpm w/o the home row technique. I can type about 70wpm now, but I get a shitload of errors and its hard to transcribe every now and again. I also feel Im an eventual carpal tunnel candidate, but only in my index fingers. hehe.

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

where and when did you learn to type?

at home, maybe around 4th or 5th grade. from some random "learn to type" software game on the IBM XT we had.

was it part of your school curriculum or did you learn from a relative?

my mom installed the typing game on our computer & got me to do it every so often, so I guess it's kind of her fault

typewriter or computer keyboard?

computer. don't think I've ever typed on a typewriter in my life.

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Are all kids taught to touch type at school now? Because if they're not, then that's totally stupid.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Kind of the top one, but not really!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Keyboarding was a requirement for graduation at my high school. We not only learned how to type (on computers!), I also learned how to format things on both Word and WordPerfect to the standards and specifications required for business letters, reports, and the like.

I always type in the manner illustrated in (a.). I never look down at the keyboard when I type. I feel like looking down at the keyboard, even when I'm trying to position my fingers, is tantamount to cheating on some major test. I do everything without looking down, from typing out numbers and characters to doing keyboard shortcuts. I'll even do calcuator operations on the ten key without looking down. Um, I must also mention that I've had at least some beginnings of carpal tunnel for almost two years, so....

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 07:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I was taught to touch type like the top picture at middle school for one day (it was some kind of special activity day), but can't do it. I peck at the keys with my index and middle fingers on each hand, never looking up from the keyboard until the end of a sentence.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 07:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i have to look down at the keyboard when i am typing with letters, but not with numbers.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 07:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I type faster than you would think possible (about 30wpm after corrections) with just one finger - well, my left hand takes care of the shift key, and occasionally helps out on the far left, but it doesn't coordinate well with the right so the letters end up out of order. I don't suppose I will ever take the trouble to learn to do it properly. I don't have to look at the keyboard much, but I do glance at it some.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I was taught to touch type for a whole year at school, and I still couldn't do it properly. But since I've been on the internet, I just seemed to have picked it up. I guess it's a case of not learning how to do it until you really need to...

― jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 08:37 (twenty-one years ago)

We needed to take a basic keyboarding course in my high school as well. I did it in the 9th grade. Possibly the only true 'skill' I ever learned and appreciated from my high school years. I type fairly fast (70ish wpm), and use the HOME method (A). I'm glad most computers have the little bumps on the F and J keys so I can find them quickly. I don't look a the keyboard unless I'm using odd characters (and I'm still getting used to the difference between North American and UK keyboards, what with the " @ and £ symbol confusion...)

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)

typing at my school (on typewriters) was *totally* just for the "thick" kids, the ones (OK, the girls) who were going to work in offices.

IRC was basically where i learnt to type, i tend to heave my fingers on the home keys, but use index and middle fingers for too many the keys (also left index finger for Y, because i'm left handed), i generally look at the keyboard most of the time.

also, no one bigging up Mavis Beacon??

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Mavis Beacon rocks! She failed, however, to teach me typing, but that's more because I was rebelling at my mom's insistence that I learn the proper way.

I no longer look at the keyboard most of the time and can type pretty fast now, though I don't really use my little fingers for much.

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)

A - i was did typing at school and a course after i left school but was useless at picking it up in both instances. When i was a student i got pretty fast looking at my fingers until one day i realised i was typing while looking at the screen. I'm a pretty fast touch typist now, haven't taken a test in a long time but i'd guess i was about 50-60wpm

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 09:17 (twenty-one years ago)

typing at my school (on typewriters) was *totally* just for the "thick" kids

"I moved here from Canada and they think I'm sloooow, eh?"

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i used a program called "fingers for window" which taught me to er.. touch type.

it was really good too.

can anyone here use one of those speed phoentic/chordal keyboards?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I type mainly with my right hand, the left just does the keys to the far left of the keyboard.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

typing at my school (on typewriters) was *totally* just for the "thick" kids

carsmile OTM. i wasn't allowed typing as an option, since i took extra science, or something else for the 'smart kid track'.

i used to be terrible, and had to look at the keyboard. so i could type emails very quickly, but typing things from documents or notes took ages. somehow, in the last three years, i've gotten very quick, and can type without looking at the keyboard very much. although it's still pretty ugly. i also don't use my pinkies very much, if at all. i've had two people compliment me on my typing speed in the last month.

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't actually understand what the two pictures at the beginning of this thread are about.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

jel. i already explained that. HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF HOME KEYS??!?!

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

A = traditional home key method
B = not-so-traditional NASA(?) method

what is there not to understand? there are traditional methods are typing which are taught in formal typing classes. these are two of those methods. considering you don't know what those are, i'd say you fall under C (NONE OF THE ABOVE.)

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, sorry I just skimmed through the thread. It's a bad habit.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm wondering whether this 'typing tuition at school is just for thick girls' thing has changed now. Once, typing was just for secretaries and writers, but most people type these days. Surely some think-tank can calculate some spurious figure about how many billions of pounds are being lost to the world economy every year as a result of slow, mistake-ridden typing?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Like Dee & oops, I had to take a Keyboard class in middle school, though I think emailing in college (and uh, writing papers then & in high school) perfected my typing.

I type like A.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Just tried typing with the B method - seems to be some kind of joke played on typing innocents - it makes no sense to me.
I learned A in highschool typing class (on electric typewriters even). Not a lot of 'thick' kids in the class - a divide btwn those headed for, er, 'office work', those who thought it'd be an easy credit, and nerds like me whose hunt-and-peck typing wasn't cutting the mustard re: typing up stories, papers, etc. Email and irc have only honed these skills ridiculously. One day I intend to type as fast as I think, fingers of fury and such.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i really dont type either way, the home row can suck it.

i took a typing class in high school and i sucked, but i did eventually learn to type quickly from aim and emails.

mavis beacon was a thorn in my side

― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

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