Thread: Do You Touch-Type or Hunt-and-Peck

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Touch type. I knew I wanted to be a writer, and writers had to type their manuscripts (this was late '50s/early '60s), so I decided to learn to type. Like Chimensch, I was in a time and place where typing class was strictly for girls, so I borrowed a couple of the school's typing books for the summer, I had a typewriter of my own by then, and I taught myself. It's been a very useful skill.

Rich

Touch type. I took a class in high school in the late eighties. Although, my fingers move quicker than my mind sometimes; so although I'm fairly fast at typing, my right pinky finger has worn a hole in the backspace button of any keyboard I've had!!

Chris L

I touch type at about 70 wpm, though it varies depending on what I'm typing. I learned it by myself over the course of about a week when I was all of about 9 or 10 volunteering at City Hall for the City Manager. He gave me several legal pads of notes with people's names and their phone numbers (in horrible handwriting I might add) and asked me to put it all into Word. After hunting and pecking for about 2 days and several hours straight, I forced myself to learn how to touch type. It's not exactly the way they teach you in the classes, as I tend to reach over and push buttons with either hand depending on what I'm typing.

i touch type. (where i live it's generally called "keyboarding" to type without looking). as a software engineer i am typing about 85% of any given day. as such i'm picky about the keyboard i use, i like these:
http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.c...81_2041_475317

as they tend to suit my keyboarding style well. depending on how much coffee i've had i can type up to 125wpm with few enough mistakes that Intellisense can keep up with me.

Originally Posted by jockeys

i touch type. (where i live it's generally called "keyboarding" to type without looking). as a software engineer i am typing about 85% of any given day. as such i'm picky about the keyboard i use, i like these:
http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.c...81_2041_475317

as they tend to suit my keyboarding style well. depending on how much coffee i've had i can type up to 125wpm with few enough mistakes that Intellisense can keep up with me.

That's way faster than me. I can burst up to 95 wpm for a little bit. Intellisense ... so that makes you a programmer?

Originally Posted by jockeys

i touch type. (where i live it's generally called "keyboarding" to type without looking). as a software engineer i am typing about 85% of any given day. as such i'm picky about the keyboard i use, i like these:
http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.c...81_2041_475317

as they tend to suit my keyboarding style well. depending on how much coffee i've had i can type up to 125wpm with few enough mistakes that Intellisense can keep up with me.

I was thinking about getting a DAS, but I liked the feel of scissor keys so much. How is that one, Jockeys?

Originally Posted by clrobert60

Touch-type - I learned on a manual in HS way back when. I took the class because it was full of girls!

Ditto.

Jordan

Originally Posted by Chimensch

That's way faster than me. I can burst up to 95 wpm for a little bit. Intellisense ... so that makes you a programmer?

yep. software engineer in particular, but i try to spend as much time actually coding as possible, because it's so much fun.

Originally Posted by holli4pirating

I was thinking about getting a DAS, but I liked the feel of scissor keys so much. How is that one, Jockeys?

i'll preface by saying i absolutely hate membrane keyboards, they are too mushy. i like the DAS because you can actually tell when you hit a key a lot better than with most other keyboards. that way i don't have to look at the keyboard OR the screen. for instance, i didn't look at this paragraph of my post at all while typing it, despite typing at full speed.

TT here. Used a Mac program to learn.

I have fooled with Dvorak but I have several people that share the same computer at home so I switch to an ergo board at work. Which makes me a little faster that a regular keyboard.

Also I do a lot of brief typing so there is most of it.