Just wondering how well all of you can type.

I'm not too bad at typing and average between 30-40wpm myself. I'm sure there's many of you who can do much better though.

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On that scale I would be a good typist(by speed) but I employee a much modified hunt and peck while looking method. I use all of like four fingers, my right index, my left index, left middle, and left ring. Go figure.

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I've topped out at ~110 wpm. That was several years ago now, though. I think I'm probablyd down around 80 or 90 these days.

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what's amazing to me is how quickly all the people now attending the schools I went to can type. I mean, it's not really a surprise, but it's still interesting to see the difference in computer labs between when I was going to school there and now.

I have my own bad habits. For instance I only use my left pinky on the shift key. This means that my ring finger becomes the pinky on my left hand as I type a capital A, Q, or Z. I've never adapted my right pinky for the shift key. This probably hinders my performance somewhat too.

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In middle school I came out to be 32 wpm for the typing class. I haven't checked my speed out since but I'm pretty sure it's much quicker now.

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I mostly type with 5 fingers (although I've been known to use all 8). why 5? because my left ring finger was severely broken around the time I started typing a lot. Even after surgery and a couple of screws, it's still bent sideways. doesn't work right for typing.

Actually, I do the same thing. I also type the z key exclusively with my ring finger. I don't find it the least bit hindering

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I think I got good at it only by doing it so much. My way of typing definitely not standard. In fact, I just recently trained myself to use more than just my index finger on my left hand.

I think I generally type in the 80-100 range. When I'm typing around 100 wpm I make mistakes and so the stopping to correct takes up some type (for example I typed "takdes" in the sentence above). I touchtype with 10 fingers but I never really learned by numbers so I'm still a little hazy on them.

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I spend a typical 40 hr workweek behind a keyboard, so by now ya'd think I could do it in my sleep...

Learned in high school (secondary school for you overseas types) at parental insistence (it turned out to be a good thing). Actually learned on a typewriter with a carriage return lever and a bell and all that stuff...even had blank keys to keep you from looking at your fingers...well, at least it works for the letters, just couldn't get past that hurdle for the second row of keys up, so it's eyeballs to fingernails when it's time to type a number or three...

Heck, I still remember how to count off and backspace to center a title on a typed page...take that, Mr. Gates!!!

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I've been learning to use the number pad off to the side. It just seems easier, even while mixing letters and numbers.

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No..no..no

I don't mean like that! :P

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Is this even a question? Im perfect in every way. :-)

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Im a pretty quick I suposed. I recently realized that I don't have to look down at all as well. In our SPS(society of physics students) room, a couple of the guys are putting some computers together, and one of the keyboards was really dirty, so they had taken off all the keys to clean them. They decided that they liked it that way, so they left it. I went to use it the first time a few days ago, and I was surprised that once I got started, I had no problem with it.

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I must be missing the "Eddited for speeling" comment on this post. :P

I type well enough. My fingers are occasionally dislexic or add letters if I don't concentrate, and I've never been too much better than 30 wpm (and I just had to look at the numbers like Charlie does--I never liked that part either). I'm glad I'm a decent typist, though, with the need to type papers and such. It was required in High School before you could take any other computer classes. I'm just surprised at how many of my fellow grad students don't know how to type. (Though it was fun to type a response to an e-mail while I was talking to one such person. She thought I was making a point. I don't think I was, but you never know. )

I type the same way, that is, I can locate Q and Z easier with my ring finger. But when I type a lowercase A, I use my pinky; when I type an uppercase A, I use my [left] pinky on the shift key and I use my [left] ring finger to type A. Also, I use my right ring finger to type P. I only use my right pinky finger for the right shift (which I tend to use only when I type special character at the tope of the keyboard, e.g., @, %, #, ^, etc.)

I type about 67-70 wpm (with notable mistakes) and about 57-60 wpm accurately.

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man, after hours of master of orion 2, I;'m typing with 3 fingers. That game is evil on the mouse finger.

I type as fast as I can think

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I just tried it out and I did about 80 words in a minute. I could probably go faster. The fact that I can touch type at all really impresses my friends.

Are they... erm... Old?

Let's see, I can type around 50-60 wpm, but I use the number pad on the side.

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45 wpm when not typing sentences but overtyping a random word list. Probably in a fluent text it isd faster. I can type blind, but sometimes I only look at the keys, it depends (75% of the time I look at the keys, and then I do it whole the time). This last sentence is typed blind . During chatting, I often type blind.

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Heh. . . in 8th grade, me and my buddies all took a typing class for lack of anything else we could take at the time. The teacher ended up sitting us in alphabetical order. Me being a "B", I ended up right in front of her desk. They all ended up in or near the back, and pretty much goofed off the entire semester.

Unable to do anything fun, I ended up becoming the best typist in 8th grade that year. . . Even got an award at the year-end ceremony. Good thing I was kinda popular, as I'm not sure I would have survived the embarrassment otherwise. . . Little did I know how much I'd use those skills as a grown-up!

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I've tested at somewhere around 35wpm, sustained maximum, if I'm warmed up, but because of the short measuring times on the (online) test, I'm suspicious of the residuals. I have a feeling I'm closer to 20wpm in reality, when you factor in composition and error-correction time.

I rarely have to look at the keyboard anymore, unless I'm on a standard straight. I'm most comfortable on an ergonomic (which I use both at home and at work.)

Either way, being a programmer, there's no real pressure for me to improve much beyond my composition speed. Fast touch-typing is a handy bonus, but by no means a pre-requisite in my field.

I'm entirely self-taught, and so I have the usual bad habits. My hands tend to roam a bit further away from the home keys than standard, and I only use my pinky fingers for (either) shift, caps lock, ctrl, and enter. I use my ring finger for all other outer keys, except the tilde and backspace, where I use my middle fingers' greater reach.

In my school district typing class was mandatory for all students which turned out to be a good thing. They also felt that many other subjects should be mandatory as well - in Grade 8 they had a course which was one half-semester of each of the following: foods, sewing, woodwork and metalwork. All students had to take it so boys had a half-semester of sewing and the girls had to do metalwork.

I learned that I hated sewing.

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