>6 days into touch typing training >can type without looking into keyboard now >70 wpm average, 102 wpm peak >introduce capitalization, punctuations, dashes, and the occassional symbols >drop to 30 wpm
hey guys, I've reached my typing speed when I first started without homerow! I think the real achievement here is that I could type without looking at the keyboard now. However, I am having a lot of trouble with the things listed above.
Here's a list of common problems that I face: > punctuations such as , . ? ! ' ; : > capital letters tend to slow me down also I only use left shift > symbols like * % $ #
I still have to hunt and peck the symbols and punctuation. A long way to go indeed still excited about my progress, I think I could reach my 65 wpm average with common punctuation and symbol by the end of this week.
>typing.io/ interesting! i will be checking it out! thanks for the recommendation.
Kayden Martinez
no prob. i keep meaning to do this. one month of forcing myself to type correctly, and i'd be much more efficient for the rest of my life. hard to unlearn many years of muscle memory, though
Juan Parker
>mfw I can type at ~120 wpm and I only use my thumbs and my index fingers
kek
Camden Sanders
for me, there wasn't much of a muscle memory since i literally look at my keyboard and press a key with my index. I had nothing to lose and everything to gain. For most people that replied to my past threads, they dont need it since they do 90+ wpm with their own techniques.
Isaiah Mitchell
also, keybr.com This one has some nice graphing of weakness and tracking too.
Robert Rivera
this is like the fifth time I've seen somebody mention they're only just recently learning to touch type here What the fuck is happening How old are you people
Eli Carter
I do about 75-80, but that's only because I make a lot of mistakes. I only use my index and middle fingers. Don't have to look, but it's still inefficient as fuck. I'll eventually do it.
Josiah Carter
I type with pretty much every finger on my left hand and just my index finger ( and sometimes my ring finger or pinky to hit right shift/enter) and I type at 120-130wpm
Homerow is for retards, QWERTY when used in english heavily favors the left side of the keyboard.
fantastic! there are a lot of people that encourages me to learn colemak or dvorak since I was there already trying to learn a layout. But I persisted with qwerty, you might want to consider their suggestions.
a lot of people seemed to got used with their thumb and indexes
OP is kintama. See how slow I type. its comically bad
Josiah Perez
>tfw been touch typing for ages but I feel slow as hell, I get like 85 peak and usually am close to 70
and I'm loads slower when coding
we had typing classes while I was in school and my dad bought me Mavis Beacon as a kid, but I didn't really bother really only stopped looking at the keyboard once I started using IRC often
it's also a bunch easier for me to type if I'm not looking at the screen/any indication of what I'm typing, but that doesn't really help when doing typing tests
my left hand uses each finger fairly equally, while my right hand is almost completely dominated by my middle and index fingers when typing
Jonathan Sullivan
>Not learning to touch type by entering "pepperoni pizza" a thousand times in Age of Empires before you learnt what copy and paste is
Henry Ross
>people who have to learn touch typing in 2017 How old are you? I learned this when I was 11-13 years old just by using my computer a lot.
Easton Roberts
>can type without looking into keyboard now isn't that everyone ? I had my first computer at 6 and i don't remember ever needing to look at the keyboard to type. And i learn about touch typing a couple of years ago so i don't think it's related.
Ryder Ortiz
Nice. I recently started touch typing and I reached a comfortably 40-50 wpm in qwerty. It's kinda fun to do it, but now I'm falling into the alternative layout meme and started to seriously consider switching.
Dvorak it's my primary option since it's the one with the most support from the meme layouts. I considered Colemark, but if I was going to pick a layout that was not widely supported, I might as well make one from scratch that suited my tastes.
Liam Nelson
>not setting up a macro on an old controller and setting it to type it continuously until you release a button
