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First of all, what's touch-typing? 0 0%
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I sure can 7 70.00%
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Only up to a certain point, before I then have to look down on my keyboard 1 10.00%
Only up to a certain point, before I then have to look down on my keyboard
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I used to but I've since lost the skill 0 0%
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Old 08-06-2023, 01:39 PM #1
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I certainly can.
Ditto. I've typed too much and for so long that I wouldn't even have the time to start looking down at the keyboard anymore. I've been touch-typing for at-least a good 10 years.
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I cant look at my keyboard ....touch typing all the way
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Ditto. I've typed too much and for so long that I wouldn't even have the time to start looking down at the keyboard anymore. I've been touch-typing for at-least a good 10 years.
Were you taught or is it a skill you picked up and taught yourself? I was taught at school with covered hands a teacher with a ruler who used to lift our chin if we tried to look down.
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Were you taught or is it a skill you picked up and taught yourself? I was taught at school with covered hands a teacher with a ruler who used to lift our chin if we tried to look down.
It's just a little-something I picked up along the way. When you write as much as I do you kinda get used to it.
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I can type quickly with my two pointers I've always wondered what the point of TT is.
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I can type quickly with my two pointers I've always wondered what the point of TT is.
This. I can type pretty fast and accurately but I have to look at the keyboard.
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I mentioned this before somewhere but I learnt to touch-type by playing the PC version of Call of Duty ( in the dark using Mouse/ Keyboard to control everything )


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Not at all
Remember doing the lessons at school I guess it didn’t stick
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True touch typing is fairly rare today (using the home keys etc). Most people type fast and without looking but not using the traditional way of typing that I was taught at school.

I miss the days of Wordperfect 5.1 DOS where everything was controlled by the keyboard and no mouse in site
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I've had the same typing skills for 50 years and it's not fast

I did my first dissertation at uni on a real typewriter, which was certainly an experience. I always thought it was a bit weird that we have the keyboard layout we have because more straightforward layouts caused the hammers to stick together, so it was a method of slowing people down
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I've had the same typing skills for 50 years and it's not fast

I did my first dissertation at uni on a real typewriter, which was certainly an experience. I always thought it was a bit weird that we have the keyboard layout we have because more straightforward layouts caused the hammers to stick together, so it was a method of slowing people down
How many dissertations did you do? Were you one of those students who did two-year Masters after undergraduate after Masters after thesis after PhD?
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i had to do a dissertation for my original degree and then one for my Masters
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It's just a little-something I picked up along the way. When you write as much as I do you kinda get used to it.
If you learned to type from the base keys you'd be quicker still.

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Never could, even at school, once they put the cover on the typewriter that was it.
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Ah. Were you able to write it up fairly quickly once you'd done the bulk of your research?
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I can type without looking at the keyboard, I can't "properly" tough-type (proper fingers hitting proper keys etc.). I'd day I use 5 fingers (2 left hand, three right hand) plus my right thumb for the space bar. I'm well jelly of people who can use all 8 fingers.
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True touch typing is fairly rare today (using the home keys etc). Most people type fast and without looking but not using the traditional way of typing that I was taught at school.

I miss the days of Wordperfect 5.1 DOS where everything was controlled by the keyboard and no mouse in site
I managed to **** up my PC last week and even GUI safe mode wouldn't work so I had to boot into safe mode command prompt to run a repair (works like old DOS) and I had an absolute blast! The nostalgia!

When you had to get SoundBlaster and the mouse running using a .bat file just to play a game, so you got to feel like you'd played a little hacking minigame before you even started. Good times.
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School. The teacher used to tape paper on the typewriter and you had to put your hands on the keys under the paper. I can't imagine how many times I've typed 'the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'.

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School. The teacher used to tape paper on the typewriter and you had to put your hands on the keys under the paper. I can't imagine how many times I've typed 'the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'.
Lol. Sounds like it was quite a kinaesthetically vigorous school.
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