Thread: Qwerty Keyboard Question

What do you mean? Don't use QWERTY because you use something like DVORAK? Or don't position your hands correctly for touch typing*?

*efficient touch typing anyway

I was taught with the standard asdf - jkl; positioning and though my typing speed doesn't really allow for my hands to lay on those keys very often, it's still the main position for me and the way I've typed from the start many years ago.

^^ me too.

i just kinda press whatever key with whatever finger that is not busy

Yes, I learned the "correct" way of touch-typing in high school, and have done it that way since then. I'm not the fastest typer in the world, but I'm pretty good.

My key-fingers (for lack of a better term) are pretty consistent. I hit the 'b' with my left index finger and the 'n' with my right index, and everything else just follows from there. Here's hoping I meant the index finger, anyway.

Either way I've never been taught anything 'professional' about touch typing. I just do it a lot, I'm on QWERTY and I type 120WPM+. I think DVORAK is probably a heap of crap.

Originally Posted by Waite

i just kinda press whatever key with whatever finger that is not busy
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Yup, same here. I want to learn how to touch type though, I just can't be bothered.

Originally Posted by Kaniaz

My key-fingers (for lack of a better term) are pretty consistent. I hit the 'b' with my left index finger and the 'n' with my right index, and everything else just follows from there. Here's hoping I meant the index finger, anyway.

Either way I've never been taught anything 'professional' about touch typing. I just do it a lot, I'm on QWERTY and I type 120WPM+. I think DVORAK is probably a heap of crap.
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120 WPM, holy crap! Anyways, I use the regular QWERTY keyboard, and can type 50ish wpm without any numbers, but I could never get the numbers good no matter how hard I try (and I'm too lazy to try that hard). My typing quality isn't that great though, and I make more errors than I should.

Also, what's DVORAK?

Thanks to spongebob typing (lol 7 and up) I type 80 WPM w/o looking at the keyboard using consisten keyboarding fingers.

My original typing teacher was a moron. When I was like 10, she made us keep our fingers on the homerow, and then try and touch other keys. If we even raised our hands slightly, she would get pissed.

Luckily Nikelodeon knows what they're doing!

DVORAK is an altered keyboard layout. It's rearranged so that more frequently used letters are closer to the home position, and less-used keys aren't. Really, that doesn't speed most people's typing up much, but one serious benefit is that there are one-handed DVORAK layouts, designed so you can type fairly fast with only one hand on the keyboard, freeing your other hand up, which rocks for gaming and such.

I switch between DVORAK and QWERTY, but I get good speeds at both.
DVORAK typically is faster for me--I've been practicing more lately to get used to it (I only switched a few months ago), and every week I'm getting faster. Currently at about 110 WPM with DVORAK, but only in basic emails and such--if I'm going to need to use characters like :, ;, [], ?, etc, it's better to use QWERTY because I'm more used to the positioning, and it isn't as hard to hit those keys.

All in all, though,
DVORAK- 110
QWERTY- 90

My fingers are never on the keyboard expect for when im typing, and even then, they just go to whatever key i need to press, so I don't really have a method or system.

I type 120WPMish as well, and I use QWERTY.

I type b with my left index finger and n with my right, the rest follows from that, like Kaniaz.

I'm so used to QWERTY now that I use it without thinking. Around 80wpm. Yay me!

QWERTY all teh way!!!

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I can't touch type. I just use my first and middle fingers mostly. I seem to press backspace with my 4th finger and thumbs for spacebar. Oh and my little finger presses shift sometimes I think!

I can type reasonably fast without making mistakes. It takes me a lot longer to think of what I want to say than to type it though.

I use a modified version. I start off on the home row and my left hand mainly follows that convention. My right hand goes all over the keyboard hitting whatever key I need it to on either side. I type between 60 and 80 WPM depending on accuracy and if I am familiar with what I'm typing or thinking it up etc. I can break 100 WPM if i'm typing my thoughts (i.e. like a chat) and get really into what I'm talking about though.

Originally Posted by Leixor

I use a modified version. I start off on the home row and my left hand mainly follows that convention. My right hand goes all over the keyboard hitting whatever key I need it to on either side. I type between 60 and 80 WPM depending on accuracy and if I am familiar with what I'm typing or thinking it up etc. I can break 100 WPM if i'm typing my thoughts (i.e. like a chat) and get really into what I'm talking about though.
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Does anyone know of a free program you cna get online to find out how many words per minute you can type? Id like to know ive never taken one of those tests

In school I had to learn the "proper" home row style of typing nonsense. It's completely useless and I hate it. Actually, I mostly just hate it because I hate "All The Right Type", which was the program they used all throughout school to teach that crap. Like, how freakin' hard is it to figure out, right? Put your hands here, do it like this, BAM. Done. You know how. Now it's just practise. Which reminds me how much I hated "Computers" class in high school. That class was USELESS. ALL we did was learn to effing type. Just like we'd already done a million times through grades 3-8. Of course by then I was already a proficient typer in my own method, so I just typed it like I do now and eventually failed the class. (not because I couldn't type, but just 'cause I never did anything I was supposed to because that class was crap)

Anyway, the way I do it is some messed up thing where my hands just kind of rest haphazardly on keyboard until they need to start punching in letters 'n' such. Although my thumbs default to the space bar and my pinkies default to the shift keys.

Originally Posted by megabenman

Thanks to spongebob typing...
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*Falls out of his chair and dies from laughing

Originally Posted by TheNocturnalGent

Does anyone know of a free program you cna get online to find out how many words per minute you can type? Id like to know ive never taken one of those tests
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http://www.typeonline.co.uk/typingspeed.php

Though those typing tests arn't too accurate, it works best for long(er) pieces of text. This should give you somewhat of an idea though.

Originally Posted by Mark75

In school I had to learn the "proper" home row style of typing nonsense. It's completely useless and I hate it. Actually, I mostly just hate it because I hate "All The Right Type", which was the program they used all throughout school to teach that crap. Like, how freakin' hard is it to figure out, right? Put your hands here, do it like this, BAM. Done. You know how. Now it's just practise. Which reminds me how much I hated "Computers" class in high school. That class was USELESS. ALL we did was learn to effing type. Just like we'd already done a million times through grades 3-8. Of course by then I was already a proficient typer in my own method, so I just typed it like I do now and eventually failed the class. (not because I couldn't type, but just 'cause I never did anything I was supposed to because that class was crap)

Anyway, the way I do it is some messed up thing where my hands just kind of rest haphazardly on keyboard until they need to start punching in letters 'n' such. Although my thumbs default to the space bar and my pinkies default to the shift keys.


*Falls out of his chair and dies from laughing [/b]

Lol I know how you feel. I'm in my freshman year of high school (ahhh) and I took a buisness class. All we are learning to do is type and use wordperfect. Uggh. Yeah, we have to use all the right type too. It's such a shitty program. Just cause you don't need high def FPS graphics for a typing program doesn't mean you need to make it bare minimum so it can run on windows 95 glitchlessly (is that a word?)

And as I said before, thanks to spongebob typing, I don't need typing lessons. I'm 2x as fast as the second fastest person in my class, who types a measly 40 WPM while LOOKING at the keyboard.

I use my two pointer fingures lol and i can type fast just make loads of mistakes lol + as you can see my spelling sucks lol

Yeah I was taught the standard way by use of Home Row Keys on a qwerty keyboard. I've been typing for several years and it's all touch. I think I'm probably just at average when it comes to speed probably around 60-65wpm. Im also good in 10key touch I think like 12000 ksph.