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How many fingers do you use by typing. I can with 10 but still find it easier to type just with 2. I guess I should improve myself

P.S. Typo

[This message has been edited by Sash (edited 02-26-2001).]

I use 10 fingers and type pretty poorly. Harlan Ellison only uses 4 and types 180 words/min. You figure it out

I type just as poorly with 2 as with 10. They don`t call me club fingers for nothing. I earn my title every day.

Well, I always use at least 4 fingers and both thumbs, for a total of 6. If I take a stupid typing test where I gota type somebody elses stuff, I can hit about 30-45 WPM, but if it's my own thoughts I go well over 75 or so, go figger, heh. Just type, it'll work out!

Your pal, -doc-

i use six fingers when i type... thumb through middle finger on each hand.

and i type very, very fast.... that's what you get for wasting fourteen years of your life infront of a monitor.

cheers.mikey.milker

The only one I don't use is my left thumb. What a waste.

I make use of all 10... pinkies for shift, ctrl, and enter....thumb for alt and the space bar, type pretty fast (never measured WPM..) but I use the backspace key a *lot*.

I use all 10. I type very fast. I also do a adding machine just as fast. My uncle owned a business supply place here all my life and gave all the kids type writters and adding machine and wow did
we love the cash registers he gave us for playing store! So I started early but that made it hard
taking typing in school and having to unlearn the wrong way I had taught myself.

~Save the drama for your mama~

I never really thought about it until now, and I have to watch myself as I type this to figure it out... okay, I use 6 I think. Index through ring finger on each hand... only using my right index for hitting the space bar, and only using my right ring finger for hitting the shift key. Oh, and I type very fast.



[This message has been edited by Human Shield (edited 02-26-2001).]

I am not really sure, so I am trying to think of it now as I type this... It seems I am not using the right hand smaller finger at all, and so far I have not use the left hand thumb either. I guess that make a total of eight.

As for how fast, I am not sure, but I think I type fast enough. While in the army, we were learning typewriting, and had a program that measured how fast you could type the whole alphabet. I remember that I "won" our internal competition with a record time of 1.70 seconds. Beat that if you can! Oh, and that's the swedish alphabet with the extra three letters. Need I mention that we were often rather bored, and had to amuse ourselves the best way we could :P (which also included many many hours playing minesweeper. I am still quite proud of having been able to finish the easiest level in one second )

edit: I just read DG's post and realise that I too use the right pinkie for enter. So I guess that makes nine.



[This message has been edited by ZOX (edited 02-26-2001).]

I use all ten when I type. I actually almost flunked keyboarding in HS because I couldn't type without looking at my fingers. Now I hardly ever look at them. The only strange thing I do is I only use the left shift key. I can also type very fast.

i have absolutely no idea how many fingers i use to wtype. lemme watch as i am doing this...well, it seems i use, on my left hand, everything but the pinky, and on my right hand, i don't use the pinky or the ring finger (except i do use the ring finger to hit ' for some reason--and that's all).

and i clock around 120 or so.

hmm... i seem to use all 10 no.... all 9. well, both of my thumbs cover the space bar. I type kinda fast and the backspace is my bes' friend. and if i think to hard about what i am typing i cant.

I use the middle finger and thumb on my right hand and the index, middle and ring fingers on my left hand. I use the little finger on my left hand to operate the shift key. I think I type about 80 wpm. I actually took typing lessons when I was young and when I was in the Navy, but they didn't take.

I was a hunt-&-pecker for years till I got one of the original MS Natural keyboards. Two weeks later I was typing with all 10 digits. I now have the MS Natural Internet keyboards (the ones with the blue buttons at the top) on all desktops and servers except my laptop. My wife, who worked in a law firm typing legal docs for 20 years, is amazed that I can type faster than she can. I owe it to Microsoft, believe it or not.

Pat Richard
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I use all ten of my fingers when I type, I type really really fast too, as with Mikey it comes from wasting your youth away behind a monitor.

he heheh he he

You said "pecker."

Well, let's see...

I'll be. It appears that I only type with my nose. (and tounge to hit the spacebar.)

(why am i saying this? i'm hoping it will make someone laugh. if it's a bad joke, dont tell me, i dont want to know. more seriously, i use all but my left thumb when i type.)

I am currently typing stuff to figure out how I type it looks like I type with all my fingers except my left thumb and I only use the right shift but I do use my left pinky sometimes so that comes to a total of nine fingers this is a run on sentence but I am typing very fast currently.

As a side note, I never use the num pad. I use the numbers at the top of the keyboard. Am I the only person who does this?

Taught to type with 10 in the Signals (army) many moons ago, didn't have a lot of choice having to listen to Morse code and type out code blocks....yuk.....
Now I'm down to 2 and sometimes with just the right index, but I'm still pretty fast....

<edit>typo</edit>


[This message has been edited by Phil (edited 02-27-2001).]

To be perfectly honest, I don't think I have EVER touched the num pad EVER. Just so I can say I did ...


::51231486321025:: ... there we go, seriously I think that was the first time I've ever used it.

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I use the number pad all the time -- just not very often during 'normal' typing. Anything in PS requiring numbers is typed with the number pad.

I type with 3 fingers with both hands... I'm not a good typer, I rarely use the numero pad, as well as the Home, End, P up/Down buttonz... I pree the Enter button a lot, like other people, methinkz..

Should we learn to type fast? Is it necessary? I use the mouse a lot.. no mouse, no fun..

i use my fingers and toes...

nah really i type with all of my two hands...

i'm clocked around 70 on a good day...that's just typing from memory, typing from paper i'm about 50-60....

-j

netmosisdotcalm n. - from latin netmosisusdotuscalmus - fuck it all.

i use all 11 of my fingers.

~Aaron

I use two paws and four claws. It is very hard to type with claws.



[This message has been edited by Wolfen (edited 03-01-2001).]

Hmm, I don't know about this. I got this wierd quirk of using pretty much random fingers. I mostly use my index and middle on both hands but I seem to hover over the keyboard. 'Cus of that, I might stick out the odd pinkie or such to hit a key.

i use 8.. not sure if that's the right way.. but who cares anyway.. i still type fast.. i guess..

Anyone try a Dvorak keyboard? From what I've read, most people get up to 120 wmp with no errors after only a week. I found one that is qwerty/dvorak swithable and an seriously thinking about it. Or I could just pop my keys and re-map.

Any experiences with Dvorak?

I have never done it before, please let me fire it up )

yep, its funny how history works.
a quick lesson for those who dont know - back when there were typewriters, them typists were going so fast that they jammed all the keys.
so then, some guy arranged the keys so that the most comonly used letters were all spread out on the keyboard, and presto - no jammed keys.
in case any of you havent noticed, that really isnt much of an issue anymore!
http://www.dvortyboards.com

That be the one, buncha. Looks like I be gettin' it within the next month.

what the heck would you do that to your keybord 4?????

I dont think i would be able to stand the change....

Geez, thats like the weirdest looking thing I've ever seen. I sorta always wondered what the difference would be if they just left the keys going in alphanumerical order. Instead of "qwer" it would be "abcd". I could see where putting the more used keys would be thought of, but once you get used to where they are, whats the difference, I know on one of my calculators, we have letters on it, and its in order and its pretty easy to type ...

I use all 10 at one time or another but I can't always guarantee where they'll go! I got an "A" in highschool typing class because I fixed the typewriters when they broke. Better mechanic than typist although I do about 35-40. I'm pretty sure using the Dvorty keyboard would result in apoplexia. (try typing *that* word fast).

You must see my grandpa, he writes 1 word per day, very fast.........
and he uses his 10 fingers!

I use all 10 fingers, i program a lot so I'm pretty slow(40ish) but i have good accuracy and know where all the weird symbols are. My biggest problem is putting my fingers on the wrong keys cause I'm still kinda used to putting my middle fingers(old mac layout) on the little nub instead of my pointers(pc, new mac) even though I've been using the "new" keyboards for like 2 years now.

Well, I use all ten fingers and type about 100 WPM on a good day, 80 - 90 if i'm lazy. I took typing eighth through tenth grade so I've been at it for a while.

FYI, there's a really cool game out called Typing of the Dead that's similar to house of the dead, except that you type instead of using a gun. Check it out
here

It's a pretty big download though, but the game is really fun. I'm waiting for the retail version so I can pick one up.