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Can you touch type? (lemmy.world)

I've recently started trying to improve my typing speed, which has probably been held back by my somewhat unconventional typing style. Formal touch typing was never a part of my education, and while years of computer use eventually led to me being able to type without looking, I'm probably not as efficient as I could be.

Can you touch type - and with proper form? QWERTY, DVORAK or other layout?

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[-] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

I was never able to touch type up through middle of high school despite typing papers and taking formal typing courses. Once I got into online PC gaming and also programming I got good at touch typing very fast. Is typing a skill you use daily? Natural practice beats forced if you already have the fundamentals down. QWERTY for me.

[-] electrotabby@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

Same. I tried really hard to learn it but gave up in frustration. 5ish years with plenty of computer use later I suddenly found myself typing without looking.

[-] OmniLotus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Canary (Angle Mod) layout. Form is quite proper with alternating shift however still learning so only hitting 60 WPM with punctuation on.

[-] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My laptops keyboard is completely black, with no letters on it. So even if i look down, its like staring into void lol

I type azerty

[-] remon@ani.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, ever since we learned it in middle school. QWERTZ

[-] nomecks@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 month ago

I don't use all the right fingers but can type 80+ wpm, so you can be plenty efficient with enough practice.

[-] Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Yup, I can type about 90-100 wpm on a QWERTY keyboard if it's normal conversational English. Probably half that if it's something that contains a lot of long technical words. The thing that got me over the hump with getting good at typing was a game called QWERTY Warriors. It was a Flash-based web game that I was playing like 20 years ago, so I don't know if it's around anymore, but it was a tower defense game where you had to defeat enemies by typing the word underneath them. It was a pretty painless way to practice touch-typing.

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