Can you Type without looking at the keyboard!!??!!  

Lets hope so, i too wish to learn the art soon. but when ever i try, the words look like some other langauge altogether!! there are few alphabets that i can type without looking at the keyboard but not without looking at the keyboard at all.

Yup, I can... I learned not to look in my keyboard 'coz my teacher in typing during my highschool days hit my hands when she saw me typing with my eyes on the keyboard...(hehehe)You'll learn them...just keep on trying...However, inorder to learn typing without looking,you must acquaint yourself with the proper hands-on/keying.

Like Ganesh, I've been typing for well over 10 years, and I had a great start: typing dictation. Its definitely something you need to practice, but considering how much we do online there are always opportunities. I found it handy to have a 'map' of the keyboard just beside the monitor to refer to. Start slow, and before you know it you'll be gaining speed.

It's not hard to type without looking at keyboard if you practice for about a monthe, but you need to compel yourself not to look at the keyboard, but you may think.

yes i can type without looking at keyboard .exactly .i'm doing it right now .hehehe but i cant type number !

Yes I can type without looking at the keyboard also, but when it comes to the numbers I have to look for some reason, I guess not feeling that confident.

I can type without looking at the keyboard, but I find myself looking at the screen to make sure I don't make any mistakes. When it comes to numbers, I do best with the number keypad. I don't do well with the numbers above the letters. I guess because at work, that is all we use are the ones on the number keypad.

Same here. So unless my intended readers can understand Old High Martian, I look at the keys. I DO, however, try to type as fast as I can.... ;o)

Maggiepie

Its the same with me too, if i type without looking at the keyboard it looks like some new kind of inscription! but i woul;f lobr rto lrat hier to tupe ( Oh, that is : But i would love to learn to type!) I bet you are not as bad as me, lol

Oh never mind you know what the truth is, dont you. Hummm.. male Eg!! You know that you are equally good at everything that your husband is good at so be happy. I too can type certain words without looking at the keyboard but not type without looking at them for long.

Eg = EGO! Spell check :)

I too am trying my best to learn to type without looking at the keyboard but the problem is that i dont use all mt fingure like tghey want us to practise in the typing tutor! but i am kind of comfortable typing my way, guess i need to change myself if i want to learn!

Typing games help a lot, actually. I learnt how to type without looking at the keyboard by playing such games, and when you're in an IRC chatroom answering trivia questions, you sometimes don't have the time to look at the keyboard before you can press Enter.

I'd recommend Typer Shark as a beginner's guide. Hope that helps!

Oh my God Anne, i too cannot use my thumb and the little finger at all. No matter how much i try to practise it is a waste for me , i always end up typing the three finger. Sure, if i do find something that would help people like us who use three finger to type i would definately share it with all of you.

Then i am exactly opposite of what you are, cause i can type a few keys without looking at the keyboard and the major part of it i need to look at the keyboard and type!! But i am tying to learn as soon as possible so that it helps me in my future.

I guess we are on the same boat then, i too am looking for a nice typing tutor online to practice. I had downloaded two of tem but they were not the one's that i wanted so i uninstalled it. Dont worry if we really want to do something we can sure do it!!

Hi divinchris, by typing tutor i meant typing tutor software,lol. Oh may be thats the reason i hate chatting. When i was in school we also had the software to practice after school but then who on earth wanted to practice. now that i am intrested i am not getting the software download free.

It is nice to be able to type without looking at the keyboard as one can type faster that ways and can also spell check when there is a mistake not like me type first and then search for mistakes, it is time consuming

I used to type. At the beginnig it it was not easy so i buy a software which used me a lot, the software is 'Dactylo' and for now I can type 9 or 10 words per second.

Yes I can type on a keyboard without looking. But their are limitation. My typing speed is only 34 letter per minute and my accuracy is only 96%. When you apply to a typing job they required to type 100letter speed per minutes. Thats tough for me you know.And Im not good in numbers. Which is better to practice the upper key set on your keyboard. Or the number keys on your right? Beside your mouse.

I can type without looking at the keyboard. I like doing this at work because you can stare at people while you type and freak them out which is fun lol. Helps me get through my day anyway. I dont have a clue how I learnt how to do this, it just happened over night. All I remember is my college tutor saying wow you can touch type and I thought...hmmm I can can't I!
The other advantages of me being able to touch type is being able to take phone messages alot faster and accurately.

I am sure that it must be really helping you, when i was taught in school i was not intrested in learning we also had the faclity to learn after school if we wanted to but who had the time then! now i have the time an the inclination to learn and so i will learn and achieve what i want to.