How Many Touch Type To Post?

[TinCup]

Use SwiftKey on my phone, so just tap once and then 'draw' each word on the keyboard
Laptop is hunting with 3 or 4 fingers not really looking at screen

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

My first touch typing layout was QWERTY, but that gets my fingers and wrists sore sometimes, so I learned Dvorak, but Dvorak has some key placements that don't make sense for modern language so I ran a bunch of my forum posts through a heat map and switched my most used keys to better positions.
Now I'm typing in QWERTY again just in case I need it for a job, but I can always pick up my custom layout pretty quickly if I want to.
When I had an iPad Mini the keyboard was small enough I could touch type with one hand, which was kind of nice.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Touch typing. It's folprooof. The quik bruin fox jmped over the lasyy black god.

 

[homesteader]

I learned to touch type on an IBM Selectric in a typing class in college back in the '80s. I don't set any records, but can easily do 40 WPM. I hate having to type out text messages on a phone. Texting is the most cumbersome method of communication, short of semaphore flags.

 

[briarbuck]

I @m a p%ett) g00d typer.,!

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

I touch type. Learned it in school. I rarely post on forums with a phone or tablet. I prefer typing on a keyboard computer. It's much faster.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

True story, my middle school typing teacher had three thumbs, the extra one sort of jutted out from one of the normal thumbs. The irony. I didn’t absorb anything in that class, the cruel kids we were always hiding the paper before class and I had a knack for using a pencil in a stealth way to make the electric typewriter beep nonstop to drive her crazy.

 

[docrameous]

Touch typing is where you learn to type on a keyboard without looking at it, usually by taking a course and often by teaching yourself. The rest of the typing world hunts and pecks each letter with index or other fingers, or in the case of many cell phone posters, type with the thumbs. What's your method? I touch type, learned during the first period during one semester in high school, I think freshman or sophomore year.

Touch type if I am on my computer. If I am on my iPad, it is more hunt and peck on the software keyboard.

 

[pappymac]

I had one of those cheapie Smith-Corona portable typewriters in the plastic case at home, and I took typing my first year of high school. We learned on those huge Underwood manuals that are battleship grey colored.

Many, many years later, I worked as a Type Setter, using mini-computer equipment before the adoption of the mouse. Later we turned to QuarkXPress on Macs. At one point, out of the nine typesetters where I was working, I was turning out 22-30% of the daily volume of work by myself.

But of all the typing speed tests I ever took, it seemed that I almost always came out at 69WPM.

(By the way, I've also worked as a Compositor, that's someone who sets lead type in a composing stick by hand for letterpress printing.)

I’m with you. Learned on the old Underwood manual boat anchors. Got up to 36 words a minute before I finished the class. When I became a military journalist, I got up to 45 on a manual and 68 on the Selectric. After we went computerized I got fast. Was doing 96 a minute when I retired.

 

[anotherbob]

Touch typing is where you learn to type on a keyboard without looking at it, usually by taking a course and often by teaching yourself. The rest of the typing world hunts and pecks each letter with index or other fingers, or in the case of many cell phone posters, type with the thumbs. What's your method? I touch type, learned during the first period during one semester in high school, I think freshman or sophomore year.

I always touch type. I highly recommend learning it to anyone. It starts off really tricky and awkward but soon it is like you've always been doing it. Though my words per minute isn't good enough to be somebodies secretary, good thing I don't work with computers anymore.

 

[magicpiper]

Touch type here. Self taught. My older brother took typing In high school and scared with the suck factor of the class. I avoided taking it. I just started typing comfortably and became quite fast. Type writers were dying out and computers were becoming more prevalent when I went off to college. Typing on a computer just seemed easier than on an electric type writer.

 

[bnichols23]

Not me. Hunt/Peck on keyboards, muscle memory on keypads.

 

[davek]

I type with all my fingers... OK fast, I guess.

I learned on a typing tutor once I'd had a PC for a while (MS DOS days) and got sick of using two fingers. Since all my typing was bulletin boards (prehistoric forums), stuff I was composing myself, etc., I never had a source I was looking at to type from.

So, I type comfortably. I'd rather type than write. But I look at my fingers.