Do you type exactly as you were taught?

[Shell Beau]

My typing teacher would cringe at how I type.

[Wapsie B]

1. WHAT DO YOU MEAN?

I THINK YOU TYPE JUST FINE. :P

[Bertha Venation]

2. No, simply because I don't have to hit the keys that hard.

:)

[Droopy]

3. Nope

Bad posture and index fingers only. I do pretty good despite it, however. I can probably type faster now than I could when I was doing it the "right" way back in high school.

[Shell Beau]

6. Me too. I feel like my version makes me faster.

[redqueen]

4. Yep.

It was drilled into me... I doubt I could type any other way if I tried.

I probably type around 80-90 wpm though so I guess it works.

[InvisibleTouch]

5. Pretty much...

...except that I don't keep my wrists up. My high school keyboarding teacher never minded, but one day we had a sub who got on my case about it. Well :P :P to her! :)

Before formal education in typing, I did the one-finger thing, and was pretty damn fast - faster than most people are with all 10. I'm probably faster now with 10 than I was with 1, and I don't have to look down at the keyboard, so that's a big advantage. Have never measured my typing speed, but I'm often faster than my old slow computer can keep up with. Then I have to sit and wait for the screen to catch up.

[Deja Q]

7. I don't touch type. I hunt and peck with astonishing speed.

It's like sex except I'm actually doing this - faster than Al Bundy too, and for typing it's usually better to be faster... :rofl:

[Iggo]

25. Off topic...

...a question about yer sig pic.

Howcome the guy from The Warriors and the guy from Singin' In The Rain are lookin' up while the chick from Grease is looking down?

[Iggo]

26. Oops, wrong place.

[Deja Q]

35. And the answer you have been seeking:

Because there's a nekkid bloke in front of 'em all.

:rofl:

[Iggo]

41. Oh that's funny! (n/t)

:rofl:

[vard28]

8. I do

I also went to business school right out of high school 'cause I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with my life and I didn't want to waste my parents' money going to college until I figured out what I wanted to do/study, so I did a LOT of typing. Plus, I'm really competitive, and we always had our wpm/accuracy scores out there for everyone to see and I hate to lose. :rofl:

The kids at school where I work (especially 6th graders) like to stand around and watch me type 'cause I am so fast. Most of them hate keyboarding class, so I tell 'em to do like I did and make a contest out of it to tell me who has the fastest wpm and best accuracy. It makes it a little more fun for them that way too.

[Shell Beau]

46. I like watching my mom type. She does about 145 per minute.

She is a court reporter though and types depositions a lot for attorneys so she has to be fast. She actually types her own way. She is missing the tip of her middle finger so she has to improvise.

[nickgutierrez]

9. Neither of my typing teachers could be bothered to get out of their seats.

At least, not long enough to actually care about any kind of form.

The first one (7th grade) went so far as to remove all the letters from his keyboards, except for the f and the j, so he didn't have to worry about going around making sure people didn't stare at the keys while they typed. The other one (9th) just had us turn in a piece of paper with the assignment typed out on it, which we soon figured out we could accomplish by typing the line once, then copy+paste the required other two times.

[Shell Beau]

10. Computers mess it all up.

Typwrites show your screw ups. Correction tape was a joke. There was no real backspacing.

My teacher had eyes like a hawk. You so much as look away from your keys once... She didn't mess around.

[NJmaverick]

11. I was taught on the early electric typewriters

what I was taught was designed for those machines and for reading hand written words and putting them to type. What I do know is use a computer. That means mistakes are easy to correct as using spell check or hitting the back space key (as opposed to white out or that correct ribbon). I can't remember the last time I wrote somethng by hand and then typed it up. Thanks to working with computers and years on message boards my typing speeds have increase 5 or 10 times. So I can put words to type much faster than I could write, plus it's much easier to correct and move things with a computer. So like you, my style is not what I was taught, but it works for what I do today.

[busybl]

12. you're joking right?

I use 3 fingers on eahc hand. and btw, I HATE typing!

[BrklynLiberal]

13. Pretty much.

Since I have been working with computers and key boards for so long, it just comes easy....lots of practice.
However, not perfect. The pressure is off with PCs...when you can go back and correct.

[Adsos Letter]

14. ...taught?...

:wtf:

[Fire Walk With Me]

15. No; that would require my typing teacher to be present.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

16. Typing was a nine week course that I took in the 7th grade...

it was BORING!!!

[XemaSab]

17. Hunt + Peck

= Win. :D

[DarkTirade]

18. For the most part, yeah.

I'm sure it's not EXACTLY, but it's pretty gorram close.

[pokerfan]

19. No

For one reason, I learned on a manual. For another reason, I broke a finger twenty-some years ago that never fully healed so that had an affect on my fingering.

[blogslut]

20. Nope

I was never taught. I started out as a two-fingered hunter and pecker and now I am a master multi-fingered hunter pecker.

[bobd0]

21. We had a really excellent typing teacher.

We learned on manual and the "new" electric typewriters.

I break several rules now including but not limited to; using the thumb and finger of the same hand for space bar and character, I look at the keyboard when I need to type numbers, I don't sit properly.

[SeattleGirl]

22. No. I learned to type on a manual typewriter. These days, I don't

have to pound the keys like I did then.

(And yes, I guess that means I'm no spring chicken any longer. :cry: )

[Shell Beau]

47. Well that goes for me as well. I learned on one of those

machines too. My school just wasn't ready to use the computers for typing. I think it would do some good to still use them. Mistakes were obvious. We only got to use correction tape towards the end of the semester. And even then, mistakes were obvious.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

23. Yes I do.

Took one semester in high school on a *&^%$#damn manual typewriter. YUCK.

At home I typed on an IBM Executive. My mother was a legal secretary for my dad, and that's what she had. I had another big heavy IBM that I took with me to college. My roommates were horrified -- I was serious about studying if I typed my own papers!!

Took another semester in college where we used Selectrics.

I could jam up an IBM real fast. Then they invented the Selectric with the type ball. That one doesn't jam. It just burps out a hyphen when you go too fast.

I got my first computer in 1985 and was printing on tractor feed paper on a huge noisy Diablo printer at my job. That sucked.

I think the fastest I have done on a typing test on a computer was something like 115 wpm while backspacing and correcting my work!

I did almost 100 wpm once on a Selectric back in the olden days.

Mom made me take typing in high school. She knew I would be good at it because I'm coordinated. I started taking piano lessons when I was five years old and took 12 years of piano and 8 years of violin lessons.

I come from a long line of letter writers. My grandma typed with four fingers on an old Royal manual (yuck). She addressed her letters to "Dearest Children" and put two carbons in (she had 3 children).

Mom used an IBM Executive she got in 1955 which had variable spacing in 32nds of an inch.

And I use e-mail and computers. I can type faster than I can think. :D

[Enthusiast]

24. Was never taught.

I'm hunt and peck all the way. And I do pretty well, if I do say so myself.

[Iggo]

27. Oh, hell no.

But in fairness I didn't type that way back then, either. Which is why I failed Typing.

[azmouse]

28. I taught myself in the early '90s using a computer typing program.

I'm not fast, only about 35-40 WPM but at least I can touch type.

[rcrush]

29. I type leaning back in my chair with my feet up on the desk.

Sometimes I just use the On Screen Keyboard cause I'm so lazy.

[Lyric]

30. Nah, I didn't take a formal keyboarding class.

I started to, but then I moved to Virginia 3 weeks into the school year and they didn't offer it as a class option down there, so I gave it up. I type mostly with my two index fingers and my thumbs, but I have the keyboard pretty much memorized now, so I don't even have to look anymore while I'm typing.

[I Have A Dream]

31. Yes. It works for me.

I'm a programmer, and Typing is one of the most valuable classes that I took during high school.

I haven't changed any of the rules since they work well for me.

[Left Is Write]

32. I touch type, except on my cell phone.

[Skittles]

33. yes

being taught by an old English woman who would rap my knuckles with a bamboo stick if they weren't on the keys correctly, along with military training, ensure I type not only correctly but f***ing FAST

[RoyGBiv]

34. I type exactly as I was taught ...

... and my teacher is very pleased with the results.

Of course, I taught myself to type, so maybe that's why.

I'm sure a typing teacher would have a few words.

[undeterred]

36. I was too cool to take typing in high school

and I knew I wasn't going to be a secretary. Obviously I went to High School before computers were part of life.

[Turbineguy]

37. I learned from Columbus

Find a key and land on it.

:rofl:

:groan:

[NV Whino]

38. Pretty much

Only I'm better these days. Thank god for computers.

My typing teacher gave me a passing grade only because he didn't want to see me again. I had to promise that I wasn't going to be a secretary to get the passing grade.

[Kutjara]

39. I touch-type the letters and basic punctuation, but...

...somehow my brain will not let me do the same with the number-key row. For some reason, it thinks that's too far for my fingers to reach, so I slow down when typing numbers or "$#@&" style symbols.

[tammywammy]

40. Yes

I type approximately 80 wpm and almost never look at the keyboard. I do backspace while I type if I enter in a wrong letter.

The guys at work are amazed when they talk to me while I'm looking at them and typing. I had my first typing course when I was like 8 or 9 I think, in elementary school (so approx 1988/89).

[grannylib]

42. I was never taught...I spent a year overseas when I was in 8th grade,

which is when we took typing; my parents got confused and thought we started languages that year, so they hired a Spanish tutor for me (my class in England all being on their third year of French, and my school didn't offer Spanish) so I came home a year ahead of everyone in Spanish and never did learn to type properly.
I've learned to do it as well as I need to...but I'll never catch up to daughter Sarahbellum...she types over 100 wpm with, like, ZERO errors...she sounds like a whole flock of pigeons pecking at the keys...sheesh.

[backscatter712]

43. Sort of...

I deliberately skipped typing class back when I was in junior high because of the teacher's reputation, but I got a few pointers. Today, I type with all my fingers, I have the keyboard layout memorized, and I can clock a good 80-90 wpm.

[grasswire]

44. touch typing is an invaluable skill

I don't have to think about letters or words or fingers or anything. I think, and the words appear. The ability for that stream of consciousness to rapidly appear on a screen or a paper is quite a human accomplishment, I think.

I, too, would say that touch typing was the most important class I ever took in school.

[grannylib]

45. My dad addressed a letter to me once all in caps, and forgot to take

the caps lock off when he typed the zip code, so it came out looking like swearing *lol*