what is the best method to learn how to type properly?

[Wuming]

i am not using more than 4 fingers right now. trying to type with all my fingers on the keyboard slows me to a crawl.

what method will be good but not too slow?

 

[TwoFace]

IRC, and trying to keep up with threads in OT in "the rush hour"

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[Hawk]

That one typing program with the woman in the front? I don't know! Whatever method is fast for you is good enough. =)

 

[Double Trouble]

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is not a bad start. The excersizes are a little lame, but it works. I know several people that have used it that now type pretty well -- no more hunt and peck

 

[Wah]

I second IRC. Its gooood practice.

 

[Smbu]

I took a class in high school to learn how to type. We used some of those old Macs w/the tiny built in monitor. I've never really tried out those typing programs aside from the one in the class, which, I don't remember the name of. It seems to have worked pretty well though, as I can type pretty fast and I don't need to look at the keyboard, like a few ppl I know.

 

[Missus]

Practice....

 

[thEnEuRoMancER]

Isn't there a quite new game in which you have to kill zombies by typing the letters displayed on their chests? What was its name again

 

[Emulex]

just keep typing, it will eventually become second nature..

 

[Z24]

Hahah... memories...

Back in grade 5 or 6, we had this wonderful program called "Fastype". It was run on a network of 10 or 12 XT's with CGA displays hooked to a 286 server with a 10meg hard drive I believe. It was running some version of Novell Netware.

The best part is that the sample stuff you had to type was stored in plaintext files. Well, using my trusty superuser account (it's great when you know more about the computers in grade 6 than the teacher does) we tinkered with text files.

Thinking back, I almost feel bad. It probably cost somebody a whole lot of money because they had to get a schoolboard "computer expert" to fix it.

It was, however, very hard to not piss myself laughing when everybody "discovered" the new things they had to type.

But anyway....


EDIT: Oh yeah, "Fastype"... I believe it is still out there, and in a newer format. That's how I learned, and on a good day, I can type 100WPM

 

[Wuming]

wow! thanks guys! i think i will irc, icq, and use posting on AT as a chance to learn typing, not to mention play "the typing of the dead"!