Touch typing?

partyatmygaff · 22-07-2011 03:04PM #1

With pretty much every single thing in our lives now involving a computer or keyboard of some sort it's pretty shocking to see that so few people can actually touch type. Even those who think they can touch type get bewildered by the sight of blank keyboards like this.

So the good people of AH, how many of you can actually touch type?

Mr Benevolent · 22-07-2011 03:04PM

I can touch myself if that counts.

On topic, yes I can touch myself. I mean type.

Biggins · 22-07-2011 03:05PM

No

I touch - I type. Yes.

Duggy747 · 22-07-2011 03:05PM

That looks like a good trick to pull on someone. :pac:

In my line of techie work I rarely see keyboards like that. Actually, quite the opposite where there's stickers stuck on with the letters enlarged hugely!

CorkMan · 22-07-2011 03:06PM

No

Yes I can touch type, but I still need to have the keyboard in my view if you know what I mean. I think looking at the screen while still having the keyboard in your view helps.

Richard Hillman · 22-07-2011 03:06PM

No

I can but i do need to take a look down every few seconds

(I touched typed this :cool:)

SEPT 23 1989 · 22-07-2011 03:07PM

I peck at the keyboard

KeithM89_old · 22-07-2011 03:08PM

yUp ican touchtyyype perfe ctly.

kylith · 22-07-2011 03:09PM

No

Yes, I can. I'm constantly surprised that so many people can't. I'm going to teach myself the Dvorak keyboard layout soon

jester77 · 22-07-2011 03:09PM

I've yet to see anyone who can type without touching.... well apart from the dude in Minority Report

srsly78 · 22-07-2011 03:10PM

Get one of those and you will learn pretty fast.

Mars Bar · 22-07-2011 03:13PM

No

Yep I can touch type. I rarely look at the keyboard only to find odd symbols that I wouldn't use that often.

I type and look at my mam when she's talking to me coz it freaks her out.

I'm on a macbook though so if you put a windows keyboard in front of me, I'll make a ton load of mistakes until I get used to it again.

borderlinemeath · 22-07-2011 03:14PM

No

I used to be able to type about 50 words per minute. Thanks to a programme on our first home pc about 17 years ago.

Drives me mad when I see my OH trying to type an email with one forefinger and hunched over the keyboard. I usually ask him to dictate the email to me. It like watching teeth being pulled.

phasers · 22-07-2011 03:15PM

I don't really understand why it's a big deal if you look at the keyboard when you type.

Sometimes I look, sometimes I don't. Takes the same amount of time to type something.

pickarooney · 22-07-2011 03:16PM

mars bar wrote: »

Yep I can touch type. I rarely look at the keyboard only to find odd symbols that I wouldn't use that often.

I type and look at my mam when she's talking to me coz it freaks her out.

I'm on a macbook though so if you put a windows keyboard in front of me, I'll make a ton load of mistakes until I get used to it again.

What's a Windows keyboard?

bigwormbundoran · 22-07-2011 03:18PM

No

I can indeed, theres nothing that drives me up the wall more than when I have to use the mothers nerbook with its tiny keypad and I have to tip away at the keys like some retard, this also occurs with laptops that for some reason during the design process they decided to squeeze in the fecking number pad on the right, thus making all the other keys fractionally smaller, and thus impossible to use!

phasers · 22-07-2011 03:19PM

I typed this without looking to test myself. Seems I can touch type. This is so going on my CV for some reason.

Teyla Emmagan · 22-07-2011 03:21PM

Thanks to the secretarial course my Daddy sent me on when I left school, at one stage I could touch type about 120wpm (accurately!).

It's one of my few skills, so I enjoy boasting about it to people I don't know on the internet. I know you're all impressed.

osullic · 22-07-2011 03:22PM

I can't touch type, I can type like 50 wpm which is crap compared to the missus; she can type 120+ wpm..

Oh well, I manage to get by

Guill · 22-07-2011 03:23PM

Right i set mt fingersd om the kets and srated rypinf abd this is wdar i for.

Right i sey mt fingers on the keys and started typing and this is what i got.

Mr Benevolent · 22-07-2011 03:24PM

pickarooney wrote: »

What's a Windows keyboard?

It's a keyboard used by Windows users, or normal people you prefer.

Kiera · 22-07-2011 03:25PM

No

Yes i can touch type. Learn years ago with mevis beacon.

Naikon · 22-07-2011 03:28PM

No

Yes.

Naikon · 22-07-2011 03:29PM

No

Confab wrote: »

It's a keyboard used by Windows users, or normal people you prefer.

Does not exist.

borderlinemeath · 22-07-2011 03:32PM

No

Kiera wrote: »

Yes i can touch type. Learn years ago with mevis beacon.

That's her. She was the cyber lady who taught me too.

jimthemental · 22-07-2011 03:36PM

I can, but not very well. In my school we had typewriters instead of computers. I'm only 24!

kylith · 22-07-2011 03:37PM

No

Ladies who type; how long are your fingernails? I have to keep mine short or my typing goes to hell. I have no idea how people manage to type with really long nails.

Teyla Emmagan · 22-07-2011 03:40PM

kylith wrote: »

Ladies who type; how long are your fingernails? I have to keep mine short or my typing goes to hell. I have no idea how people manage to type with really long nails.

I agree. Also the sound of someone's witch like talons hitting the keyboard also really creeps me out. Really long nails are invariably gross though.

The stimulation provided by typing also makes your nails grow faster. Oh the irony..

kylith · 22-07-2011 03:42PM

No

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

I agree. Also the sound of someone's witch like talons hitting the keyboard also really creeps me out. Really long nails are invariably gross though.

The stimulation provided by typing also makes your nails grow faster. Oh the irony..

The nail on my right index finger is permanently curved down from the M and N keys.

Teyla Emmagan · 22-07-2011 03:44PM

kylith wrote: »

The nail on my right index finger is permanently curved down from the M and N keys.

Now that is weird Kylith.

phasers · 22-07-2011 03:44PM

My nails are super short, I had fake nails on for a while when I was younger though and I could still type fine with them.

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