Can you touch-type?

[BatmanNate]

Yes, unless i'm at a unix terminal and then I have to look at the wierd characters.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

What does touch typing have to do with speed? I mostly peck at slow speeds but never look at the keyboard.

 

[evilsaint]

If only they could make a standalone keyboard that worked as well as a low-profile lappy keyboard, but with everything in the same places. Maybe it's just me, but aside from strictly long-winded sentences/paragraphs (or posts ), I have to make use of the Home/End keys and a few others to keep up the total speed of whatever i'm typing.

Anybody else have this problem? Cliffs : Home/End/Symbols are completely natural on a regular keyboard, but purely letters and punctuation are just as natural on a laptop?

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: evilsaint
If only they could make a standalone keyboard that worked as well as a low-profile lappy keyboard, but with everything in the same places. Maybe it's just me, but aside from strictly long-winded sentences/paragraphs (or posts ), I have to make use of the Home/End keys and a few others to keep up the total speed of whatever i'm typing.

Anybody else have this problem? Cliffs : Home/End/Symbols are completely natural on a regular keyboard, but purely letters and punctuation are just as natural on a laptop?

I'm having trouble understanding this...how can typing very quickly make you use the home/end keys? Letters are always inserted AT the cursor, so moving the cursor around would seem to break up your sentence...

 

[JDrake]

Originally posted by: evilsaint
If only they could make a standalone keyboard that worked as well as a low-profile lappy keyboard, but with everything in the same places. Maybe it's just me, but aside from strictly long-winded sentences/paragraphs (or posts ), I have to make use of the Home/End keys and a few others to keep up the total speed of whatever i'm typing.

Anybody else have this problem? Cliffs : Home/End/Symbols are completely natural on a regular keyboard, but purely letters and punctuation are just as natural on a laptop?

HOME AND END KEYS FTFW, yessssssssssssss
That's one of the reasons I HATE macs, pressing home/end doesn't go to the beginning/end of a line :frown:
it slows me down uberly

 

[arcenite]

Yes. 60+ (~80). Though I have serious trouble if the j key and the f key are not notched. We have a keyboard at work where I believe it is the K key and the D key are notched. It drives me crazy.

 

[Koing]

Yes.

I used Mavis Beacon when I was 15 to learn. Such a wise investment of my time!

Koing

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: arcenite
Yes. 60+ (~80). Though I have serious trouble if the j key and the f key are not notched. We have a keyboard at work where I believe it is the K key and the D key are notched. It drives me crazy.

Old Mac keyboards...I remember that

I too need the F and J to be notched.

 

[BoomerD]

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[jadinolf]

I use the H&P system.

Works great.

 

[CraigRT]

I can type while looking at someone else and having a conversation with them...

 

[ts3433]

I've never learned formally (i.e., through Mavis Beacon or through a class), but I can touch-type at about 80 wpm.

 

[Swanny]

We're computer geeks. Yes, I think we can touch-type.

 

[fatpat268]

I type around 75WPM... 80 on a good day.