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Learn to type god *(&*&!

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Windy City Flyer wrote:Learn to type god dammit!

I can type....I just type differently than you, what are you some kind of typing racist?

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I type 120 wpm but I hate myself because I cannot correct a mistake; I only capitalize using my right pinky, and it leads to bad form and if I type a lot, that finger always gets sore from being perched up in the air all the time instead of resting on the ";" key. Sucks. Can't break it.

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Maclowery wrote:I type 120 wpm but I hate myself because I cannot correct a mistake; I only capitalize using my right pinky, and it leads to bad form and if I type a lot, that finger always gets sore from being perched up in the air all the time instead of resting on the ";" key. Sucks. Can't break it.
you left handed?

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Yep. My right pinky is weak and useless. other right hand fingers seem to be fine; I also dont use the pinky on the mouse either. It just is out there dangling. I hate it. I need to do pinky exercises to train it or something.

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Maclowery wrote:Yep. My right pinky is weak and useless. other right hand fingers seem to be fine; I also dont use the pinky on the mouse either. It just is out there dangling. I hate it. I need to do pinky exercises to train it or something.
I have noticed right handed people use the left shift and vise versa. I don't think 120 is bad AT ALL.

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I basically use just my index fingers and thumbs to type, though I type pretty quickly. People are pretty surprised that I can type as quickly as I do using just those. I guess I do it that way because I never took a formal typing class back in school. I sort of taught myself to type from a very young age playing computer games with text parser interfaces; if you couldn't type out a command both quick enough and spelled correctly, you'd "die" in the game. Though as a result of this, I only recently learned how to type without looking at the keyboard.

My father is one of those "hunt-and-peck" types. If he's ever looking at something online or typing a document when I'm around, it drives me nuts. He can put all of our computers together from scratch(he's an Electronics Engineer) and fix any sort of problem with them that you could think of, but the man can't even type normally, haha.

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Yeah I've seen some very fast hunter/peckers.

Yep, 120 is fast; I am happy enough with the speed, it just ends up getting me a sore pinky if I type a paper or have a long conversation or soemthing.

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Guilty.

I have gotten pretty good at it too. I only had one short typing class in high school and never really picked up the proper way. As soon as the class was over I went right back to pecking. The only time it really hurt me was when I was in college and had to type a really long paper. Over the years I have evolved into a hybrid pecking/typing person. Since I have done so much typing I pretty much know where all the letters are so I peck but without looking at the keyboard.

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Cronos69 wrote:I basically use just my index fingers and thumbs to type,
Thumbs? That seems awkward, but if it works ....

Are you going to let Windy City Flyer talk to you that way?

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