[Redway]

Can you?

[AnnieK]

I certainly can.

[Niamh.]

ish

[Redway]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

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.

[Cherie]

I cant look at my keyboard ....touch typing all the way

[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by Redway

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.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

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.

[Oliver_W]

I can type quickly with my two pointers I've always wondered what the point of TT is.

[Kate!]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

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.

[Zizu]

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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[thesheriff443]

Not at all
Remember doing the lessons at school I guess it didn’t stick

[AnnieK]

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

[bots]

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

[Redway]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

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?

[bots]

i had to do a dissertation for my original degree and then one for my Masters

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Redway

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.

90 wpm, me.

[smudgie]

No.
Never could, even at school, once they put the cover on the typewriter that was it.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

i had to do a dissertation for my original degree and then one for my Masters

Ah. Were you able to write it up fairly quickly once you'd done the bulk of your research?

Originally Posted by Livia

If you learned to type from the base keys you'd be quicker still.

90 wpm, me.

When did you learn from t'base-key?

[user104658]

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.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

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.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Redway

Ah. Were you able to write it up fairly quickly once you'd done the bulk of your research?


When did you learn from t'base-key?

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'.

[Redway]

Edit: delete (wrong thread).

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Livia

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.