How do you type?
By muscare
@muscare (3068)
Australia
April 29, 2007 7:52am CST
While spending hours myLotting, do you use all your fingers while typing, or are you like me, a two finger banger. If so do you use your two index fingers? I use the index finger on my right hand, and the middle finger on my left. Strange, I know but that's how I do it.How about you?
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@gramskaren (661)
• United States
29 Apr 07
I use all of my fingers to type so much faster. Hubby does the one finger deal. Sure helps to be able to type with all of fingers cause can get a lot more discussions answered that way. You will need to practice and do that way.
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@beaniegdi (1964)
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29 Apr 07
I'm very lucky as I can touch type, which I learned at school. It means I can type without looking at the keyboard and use all my fingers. It has helped me a lot to be able to do this as it makes typing and using a computer faster.
You can learn to do this for free here:
http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/
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@beetel_jack (800)
• India
29 Apr 07
Hi muscare, the topic you choose is interesting, i used all my fingers while typing most probably don't have to search the alphabets in the keyboard now. Actually 5 years back, i have taken a coaching in typing, as we know the keyboard of typing and computer's keyboard is similar. It is due to this that my typing speed is fast now but the used to index finger is very less.
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@muscare (3068)
• Australia
30 Apr 07
I think I know now where most of the letters are, although every now and then I have to stop and search for a less used letter.I'm not a quick two finger typer, though I think I'd be even slower using more fingers and then having to go back and fix all the typos!
@easy888 (10405)
• Australia
29 Apr 07
Hello,muscare,I tyy to type with both hands with five fingers,but it seems that i do not get use to this type of tyoing method.Most of the time,I just type with three or four fingers.May be that is the reason why i do not a quick typewriter, i can only type 40 words per minute with alot of typos.lol.
@darkness01 (1300)
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29 Apr 07
Im a fairly good typer and use both hands to type and for most of the time i dont look at the keyboard whilst typing. Been using a keyboard though for many hours each day for the last few years so speed increases the more i use it.
@simple_joy1587 (232)
• Philippines
29 Apr 07
I used my ten fingers because it has it's own function... even though i'm not that fast to type atleast i can exercise my fingers...
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
5 May 07
The best thing I ever did was to learn to touch type at college and get my RSA in typing, it has benefitted me so much through life, and it has helped me so much and it comes in handy especially for Mylot! So I have a good speed when it comes to typing, and thus don't need to look at the keyboard when typing.
@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
30 Apr 07
I used all of my fingers to type, and I can type about 100 words a minute. I tend to hit the space bar with my left thumb, and when I need to use the touch pad on my laptop, I use my left index finger. When I have to use a computer with a mouse, I'm totally lost. LOL
@franxexces (1096)
• Philippines
2 May 07
I guess yes because we have this typing tests ins school every week.
@gizmo528 (731)
• United States
29 Apr 07
I love to type so I'm able to type with all of my fingers and not have to look at the keyboard. It's not the hard to learn but it does take alot of practice. I have several family members that do the two finger typing thing so you're not alone out there.
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