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Correcting Poor Typing Technique?
An anonymous reader writes "When beginning to use keyboards I did not pay much attention to touch typing technique. Instead, I eventually achieved decent rates by simply doing what felt natural to me. These days my qwerty typing speed is in the range of 90-110 WPM, probably more toward the lower end. While this isn't too shabby, I feel some awkwardness in my technique (such as not using my little and ring fingers when I really should). Has anyone been in a similar situation, wanted to fix it, and actually done so? What do you reckon is the best way to fix half-broken typing? Touch training sessions? Should I switch to Dvorak and pretty much learn typing from scratch, but properly this time?"
"Honey, could you come figure out why my wireless isn't connecting?"
"Sure, let me just try re-entering the WPA key and OH MY GOD WHY CAN I NOT TYPE QUERTY ANYMORE?!"
Have fun with that.
Go voice, you won't regret it. Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all.
Whether Dvorak is superior in terms of speed or number of errors may be a toss-up, but as someone who first did hunt-and-peck, then learned to touch-type QWERTY, then relearned to touch-type Dvorak, my experience is that Dvorak is definitely more comfortable than QWERTY.
Besides, feelings of smug superiority can't be properly quantified in those studies.
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I wonder what the avg typing rate is with this ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
2-3 wpm, depending on how fast you can move your penis and how long/hard you can sustain an erection.
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I don't see any reason to touch type, I hunt and peck fast enough.
Doing it the right way is very important. Well, that's what a typing teacher I had back in high school used to tell me, anyway. She'd give me bad grades because I pressed certain keys differently than I was "supposed" to. For whatever reason, despite this, I still typed much faster than she did.
not much, just being forced to manually insert line breaks into my comment
Due knot worry about yore typing skills. Soon wheel awl use voice input and jesters!
Throughput will bee increased and spelling airs will disappear.
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Well he forgot to mention he also took woodshop. Didn't do as well there and left his pinkies on the table.
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