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

Since this is a forum where we communicate by typing, and some of the posts are truly voluminous, I was wondering who touch-types and who hunts-and-pecks. If you touch type, how did you learn?

Hunt and peck here.

Originally Posted by JMS

Hunt and peck here.

Please answer select an answer on the poll page.

I'm a pecker....er, rather, I hunt and peck. Drives nmy wife nuts, but I'm actually remarkably fast with my method.

Originally Posted by Chimensch

Please answer select an answer on the poll page.

Done, done, done!

You forgot voice input! Some people swear by it. I have a decent microphone on order so I might try it out sometime.

Originally Posted by Rajagra

You forgot voice input! Some people swear by it. I have a decent microphone on order so I might try it out sometime.

...not to mention the hand-write-with-stylus-and-convert-to-text option. I have heard that the voice input is getting a lot better and stylus conversion is hit or miss (depending on your handwriting).

I touch-type..though not in the fashion of the computer-nerds
I just learnt it succesively when as I used the computer more and more to write..at first by chatting and MSN etc. but nowdays more through writing papers,essays and thesises (what's the plural of thesis anyway?) and what ever..

Originally Posted by holli4pirating

...not to mention the hand-write-with-stylus-and-convert-to-text option. I have heard that the voice input is getting a lot better and stylus conversion is hit or miss (depending on your handwriting).

At one time I had a Palm Pilot. It had its own "alphabet" which was surprisingly easy to learn -- simplified versions of the regular letters. Overall I found a simple little notebook and planner (pocket sized from Day-Timer) to be much more convenient. But the Palm Pilot's text input was remarkably effective.

Typing was a required class for me..think around 1993-1995. Very happy i took that class.

My typing has gone downhill since then, we were not allowed to make spelling mistakes.