Don't look down

[The Jamie Star Scenario]

I was just wondering how good you guys are at touch typing. Really, I'm pretty bad at it; my right hand tends to totally dominate nearly all the time often moving into-what should be-the left hands domain. And my ring finger is generally forgotten. It feels so unnatural to type with it for me.

I honestly do think it makes me a less efficient typist than I should be considering I have been using computers for about 15 years now at least. I didn't really learn to be able to type without looking until I was about 13 if I recall. And even now I feel like I still don't know exactly where the keys are on the keyboard relative to f and j so sometimes I loss my place and I just end up writing rubbish. So I'm going to see if I can find some sort of program to teach me how to be a better typist, any tips?

Anyway, how good a touch typist are you? How did you learn, do you have your own way or do you stick strictly to always having you fingers for left: gfdsa, right: hjkl; ?

[Rye]

Okay, this is me typing without looking down at all. I tend to make spelling errors a lot before i EDIT THEM anyway, sothis probably won't be super pretty. I'm not terrible st it. I probably type a bit too much for my own good! Tiom uch computer time, I guess. Okay, I guess I'll end this post about now. Let's see the carnage!

[Croyles]

Okay, this is me typing without looking down at all. I tend to make spelling errors a lot before i EDIT THEM anyway, sothis probably won't be super pretty. I'm not terrible st it. I probably type a bit too much for my own good! Tiom uch computer time, I guess. Okay, I guess I'll end this post about now. Let's see the carnage!

that was hardly any carnage there at all. i think im usually pretty good at typing without looking but i hardly ever do i9t so im probably out of practice. oh yeah and this is me doing it now.

[xXsarahXx]

challange accepted. this me not looking at the keyboard at all (honestly) I used to be a secretary so you get used to where the keys are and if i do get things wrong i can tell the position of the correct key by looking at what key i did actually press.

My right hand does dominate my left though.

[Marky Tee]

cant do it

[Momiji]

This isn't so hard for me. I can correct any mistakes I may make without having to look, as I type.

[Breine]

I don't really notice whether or not I look down on the keyboard when I'm typing.. Hmm, I think I mostly don't look down, but then sometimes have a quick look just to see what my fingers actually are doing down there.

[Raistlin]

I'm pretty good at typing without looking down, as I usually don't look down when I type anyway. Also, I can correct my mistakes without looking. I don't type traditionally, though, as I basically taught myself to type.

[Old Manus]

I don't know how long I've been able to touch type. I remember just one day I realised that I just wasn't looking at the keyboard anymore :S

[oddler]

Yeah, I was pretty much the same way, Old Manus. And I just go back and edit without looking like Momiji. I just recently got any good at typing symbols and such without looking like ~ and | just because I don't use them that often. But whatev.

Now if I go and type without spopping something it loosk pretty bad.

(SPOILER)(Now if I go and type without stopping sometimes it looks pretty bad.) Funny how I meant to type sometimes and something came out instead.

[blackmage_nuke]

I never really noticed if I touch type or not but now that I think about it I can type pretty quickly with only a few quick glances at the keyboard, usually when I start typing after a pause to orientate my hands or when Im using uncommon punctuation marks. If I try to type without looking at the keyboard at all I do alright too. For me it wasnt really a case of "learning" how to touch type, Its just that alot of typing has allowed me to be able to touch type. So just sit in front of a computer screen for a couple more years and you'll get the hang of it.

[Crimson]

I suck at it.

[Psychotic]

I peck at the keyboard because I don't know where any of the keys are. It took me about 9 minutes to type this post. Pretty good going.

[Levian]

No point in looking at the keyboard, my lumpy hands are in the way so I can't see what letter I'm hoovering over anyway. I don't do touch though, my pointy fingers do all the hard work.

[Jiro]

I don't touch type, but I don't look at the keys. My mother likes to call me spider fingers because my hands move kinda weird when I type (obviously the must look like spiders or something). I mostly type with the first two fingers on each hand and use my right thumb to space. Left pinky is shift, and anything else usually takes a bit of effort and a glance at the keyboard. This post is far bigger than I intended it to be.