Typing Techniques

[oz]

Just wondering which typing technique that you all use most often on your computers?

For more information about each of these typing styles, see this wikipedia page:

Typing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Note that I didn't include Thumbing as a choice since it is used mainly with very small portable devices.

[gruven]

I am a full-on touch typist. I never look at the keyboard, and type about 100wpm.

Comes in handy while watching a movie or typing in the dark while wife is asleep on the couch.

[techieMoe]

Touch typist here, since about the third or fourth grade. Mavis Beacon got me started.

[hazel]

Neither. I use one finger only. When I was at work, my boss once reproached me for this and said that I should at least use both hands as it would make me look more professional. I pointed out to him that I could type faster with one finger than he did with two. I was the fastest one-finger typist in the library.

[Lazydog]

I voted Search and Peck but it's more peck then search as i know where most of the keys are and I'm good at it. .

[elija]

I couldn't vote for any of those. When I type it looks kind of like I'm engaged in unarmed combat with an octopus. Well it does when the speed increases anyway

[techieMoe]

I couldn't vote for any of those. When I type it looks kind of like I'm engaged in unarmed combat with an octopus. Well it does when the speed increases anyway

That nearly made me spit my gum onto the screen. Oh the mental pictures I'll have now. Haha.

[oz]

When I type it looks kind of like I'm engaged in unarmed combat with an octopus.

If that's the case, I'd imagine the octopus usually wins:

YouTube - Awesome Octopus Animation

[elija]

If that's the case, I'd imagine the octopus usually wins:

YouTube - Awesome Octopus Animation

You've seen the results of my typing right? Of course the octopus wins!!

Awesome animation by the way

Sorry techiemoe, hope you missed the screen

[nopycckn]

I use touch typing, but never read the standard way of doing things. I use the home keys, but my fingers are wrong for some (non-home-key-keys). The center of the keyboard, I use standard I believe. The sides and the numbers/punctuation/parentheses/braces/brackets/etc I just use what's comfortable - but in a standard way in the sense that I never change how I do it. I don't type extremely fast, not 100 wpm. I used software that tests typing speed, downloaded from cnet, and it gave me an "expert" ranking - but I only hit about 65 wpm. I hardly use my little fingers at all. I use them for caps lock/shift/;:/'"/enter. Even when I use tab, I use my left ring finger. I've never really read a standard typing tutorial. When I was in junior high, I typed at 40+ wpm, and I never used a computer other than at school. I believe I used my little fingers then, because it was taught. But I never memorized it and now my typing speeds are better. I've wondered recently if learning the standard way would increase my speeds. I am very comfortable with things the way they are, though - I have everything memorized, don't need to look at the keyboard, and have been doing it this way for years.