Typing properly.

I decided to learn how to type properly today, for no real reason except for the fact that I've been using a computer long enough that I should be able. What about the rest of you?

I do well most of the time with my typing, save for when I'm in IRC. Then things just get... bad.

I've noticed that I actually type faster and become more accurate when I don't look at the keyboard or screen ... weird. I have friends who get freaked out by it, because I'll be talking to them (face to face) and typing at the same time :smile:

personally i type better my way, but would love to learn proper typing procedures.. my daughter-in-law can type circles around me in shear WPM.. it always amazes me to watch a real pro at the keyboard.

i cannot seem to type with out my eyes, in spite of the fact that i know where the damned keys are :sad:

i do recommend www.iespell.com for anyone using inet explorer

Damn pirate!

(Most of the time I type properly. Except when to spite people, then I TYAP LIEK DIS!!!111)

Gaming has tought me to rest my left on hand on shift/a/w/d instead of the homerow. It works well enough.

u fewls, ! 4m t3h 1337 40l n00b.

Well, I can type properly, but sometimes I choose to be a moron :biggrin: .

Fewls >:]

I type fast enough my way, lol, although I wish I had voice recognition technology.

I don't like to type properly; I like short aliases like : ASAP, OMG , LMAO, WTF (that I discovered recently) , RTFM... I'm still wondering what OMGR means...

although I wish I had voice recognition technology.

...no you don't, trust me lol. (it's not that great unless you speak loud and clear and pronunciate a certain way, unless they've come out with some tool that made you sound out words for it to synch up to).

there is/was a star trek demo with voice recognition technology.. it was imperfect, but it was cool, considering it was about 5 years ago when i downloaded it and tried it out :smile:

Bridge Commander is supposed to have voice recognition but for some reason they dont tell you how to activate it. Its just listed in the features on the back of the box.

"Call red alert just like Captain Picard does!"

I don't touch type in the official home keys style way, but I've never had trouble typing fast enough. I agree with Crono that it seems that I type faster when I don't look at the keyboard, and especially so when I'm actually paying attention to something else at the time.

Yer same, I just move my hands all over the shop on the keyboard, dont put my index fingers on the f and j buttons like your meant to...

I just think it looks more professional, it looks good on your cv. :smile:

tuoch typnig is for lusres!1 i alwas tyep liek thiss.

I can type shi\\\ort sentences without lookin ar rhe keyboard but after some time it becaomes very hilariopus.

It's actually really easy to type properly if you already know where all the keys are. I'm not very fast yet though.

I use a home row base, but then it's total free-for-all. I kinda do a semi-normal bit on the outer sides of each hand, but in the middle, it all depends where my hand is as to how 'correct' I am. I also only use the right shift - never the left, unless I'm doing a keyboard shortcut. :razz: works well for me, though.

Who is typing with the unspecified limb? :biggrin:

I always use the Left shift, never the right. And I kinda just hover over the keyboard and go with the flow... I hated learning that official home-row crap. I could never do that for some reason. I don't need to look at the keyboard when typing, but it helps (I go faster when I do).

I think what caused me to use the home row base despite my half-logical/half-random keypressing beyond that was my middle school typing units in the computer class - I'd get the teacher upset if I didn't do it right, but if you start your fingers out there it looks surprisingly convincing, at least to the untrained eye... aka, the teacher. :razz: :smile:

I ignored all my touch-typing lessons and did things my own way. Mainly it's the same, but I hit numbers differently and I make ample use of the backspace. Even without looking I know when I mistype and I have worked in the backspace button so well that I can type rather fast with few errors for someone with such poor posture and hand pains.

i can look at the screen and type at the same time perfectly. i guess i know exactly where the keys are (yes and characters too..) does that make me weird? :razz:

-BB

I usually type with the middle and ring finger of either hand.

Or my penis.

oh yah you guyz are lookin at the fastest 2 finger typer in the world omfg i can type so fast its not even funny haha.... well i play games alot and i have memorized were every key is on the keyboard... so i can be in pitch dark and typ like really fast...

Cassius said:
I usually type with the middle and ring finger of either hand.

Or my penis.

just use all three at once and youll be faster than lag.

hah

i still need to look at the keyboard, and when i do i can type quite fast. (compared to not very long ago). i sort of know where all the keys are, but that doesn't help much unless i'm looking. which kind of sucks in-game. :sad:

Does somebody not have very good hand eye coordination lol. Just kidding. I sort of realized I don't really 'know' where the keys are, such as if you asked me to find certain key's I'd pause for a moment and look. Its gotten to the point that I don't really know what I'm typing, but my fingers do. It's really hard to explain, but I can see the words in my head as I type them on the keyboard. Not not literally, but I can imagine them easily as if I were writing them on paper. I can get going pretty fast if I know exactly what I'm going to say.

Cool, do you also have tiny voices in your head telling you to stay home and clean the gun?

No .... they moved out last week, worst tennent I've ever had.

Also, how can a voice be tiny? It isn't a physical entity. It's magnitude are waves which means it's measured by volume. I'm sure Tracer will come along to say the same thing I did, but with a more complex explination lol.

Crono said:
No .... they moved out last week, worst tennent I've ever had.

Also, how can a voice be tiny? It isn't a physical entity. It's magnitude are waves which means it's measured by volume. I'm sure Tracer will come along to say the same thing I did, but with a more complex explination lol.

Ha! not this time. I just get so damn excited when someone asks a science question. I can't help it. :rolleyes:

i should learn to type... and spell, but iv gotten into the habbat of text. so i try and keep all messages under 160 letters.
126

i suld lrn 2 typ an spel but gotn in da habat o txt.so i try an keep msg under 160 le8rs.
88

one stays on the phone, one stays on the net. :smile:

Death To lag? said:
oh yah you guyz are lookin at the fastest 2 finger typer in the world omfg i can type so fast its not even funny haha.... well i play games alot and i have memorized were every key is on the keyboard... so i can be in pitch dark and typ like really fast...

It doesn't count if all that comes out is gibberish.

omg wkjdfsjfndsk cj skfnd sjklfnds pgjifspe mvjfdios jvipofd nvjfdi ovmxdklvmjkd onbjvfd njvfbiod nbjvkdx nvijfd snbjvfi snbjfids onbjifds pye onbjvfids nvujbiodz njklmkcxvnvbm,cnvbiodfoijgo djgoid jonvmcnb lx vxl xn lxo sonjfsvsdoifj dsoi wtf stfu

See, I typed all that in 5 seconds. :razz:

My keyboard beeps at me if I try to do that.

lol this is weird, but im with crono on this one - i type faster and more efficiently when im not looking at my hands or the screen.

My keyboard beeps at me if I try to do that.

It's as if it's crying...

Probably time to upgrade your 486SX if it's doing that Cash :razz:

Leperous said:
Probably time to upgrade your 486SX if it's doing that Cash :razz:

I had the DX series and they ... well, didnt upgrade much. I think I had like 99Mhz :biggrin:

? posted by Death To lag?
oh yah you guyz are lookin at the fastest 2 finger typer in the world omfg i can type so fast its not even funny haha.... well i play games alot and i have memorized were every key is on the keyboard... so i can be in pitch dark and typ like really fast...

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It doesn't count if all that comes out is gibberish.

omg wkjdfsjfndsk cj skfnd sjklfnds pgjifspe mvjfdios jvipofd nvjfdi ovmxdklvmjkd onbjvfd njvfbiod nbjvkdx nvijfd snbjvfi snbjfids onbjifds pye onbjvfids nvujbiodz njklmkcxvnvbm,cnvbiodfoijgo djgoid jonvmcnb lx vxl xn lxo sonjfsvsdoifj dsoi wtf stfu

See, I typed all that in 5 seconds.

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awail.... if you can read it.... then i guess that means i can typ fast haha

It's a laptop thing

? posted by Death To lag?
oh yah you guyz are lookin at the fastest 2 finger typer in the world omfg i can type so fast its not even funny haha.... well i play games alot and i have memorized were every key is on the keyboard... so i can be in pitch dark and typ like really fast...

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It doesn't count if all that comes out is gibberish.

omg wkjdfsjfndsk cj skfnd sjklfnds pgjifspe mvjfdios jvipofd nvjfdi ovmxdklvmjkd onbjvfd njvfbiod nbjvkdx nvijfd snbjvfi snbjfids onbjifds pye onbjvfids nvujbiodz njklmkcxvnvbm,cnvbiodfoijgo djgoid jonvmcnb lx vxl xn lxo sonjfsvsdoifj dsoi wtf stfu

See, I typed all that in 5 seconds.

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awail.... if you can read it.... then i guess that means i can typ fast haha

Yes you can type fast, but you still look like a complete moron with an IQ less than or equal to some kind of brick.

I hate to be a killjoy, but I don't think a brick can have an IQ :rolleyes:

:razz: Point taken, but typing entirely in
lowercase sentences littered with grammatical/spelling errors is still
equivalent to making bonds with Satan.

Ok, I'll agree with that one.

:razz: Point taken, but typing entirely in
lowercase sentences littered with grammatical/spelling errors is still
equivalent to making bonds with Satan.

Are you saying Death signed Satan's book of bad-grammar with blood?

But seriously, Death, you can't type very well if it's as unreadable as it is (and it is). It takes about twice as long to read your meagerly short posts as it does to write a page (10pt, single spaced lol)

oh, i posted wrong.. 2 instead 3 :rolleyes: