How many of you are 'traditional' typers?

[fustercluck]

Was wondering how many people are the traditional keyboardists (Which would be left hand on asdf and space and right hand on jkl; and space)

I never learned the traditional way and have been faking my way along for about 15 years now. Although I'm a fast typer, i'm sure I'd be better off the traditional way. I'm trying to learn it now, not sure if I can undo my keyboarding habits though. Am trying the goodtyping.com site right now since I couldn't seem to find any good software.

 

[LS21]

i dont use my right pinkie so my whole right hand is unorthodox.... still 120wpm accuracy-corrected though

 

[irishScott]

I kinda 3/4 learned the traditional method when I was in elementary school. Now I start at the standard "home keys", but I pretty much improvise/do what feels right from there.

 

[TallBill]

Traditional, I was learned it

 

[IGBT]

..is the qwerty keyboard the best way to go or are there other type keyboards?

 

[coldmeat]

I was typing a reply to describe how I type, but while I was typing it I realized that I don't type the way I thought I did. I type with basically 2 or 3 fingers on each hand, and use my left hand for some keys on the right and vice versa, depending on the word I am typing.

 

[Maximilian]

I learned the traditional way in school but since its a bunch of BS i just use my two index fingers. Im a pretty fast typer.

 

[Jeff7]

Dvorak is supposedly better; QWERTY was supposedly designed to slow typsts down so that they wouldn't jam up typewriters so much.



I'm kind of a traditional typist; I rely partly on the little nubs on the J and F keys to keep my hands oriented on the keyboard. I seem to know the keyboard well enough that I can almost always pick up on mistakes as soon as they're made, and backspace the right # of keys without having to really watch the screen.

My backspace key tends to get a lot of use; I often try to type words out of sequence.

"Backspace" - tried to type "back" and "space" at the same time. Result: bspk
"screen" - scenr
"type words" - tywop e
With all the screwups and backspacing, I max out somewhere around 50WPM, regardless of if I'm typing from my head, or typing from a document. My sister can manage something like 110-120WPM on a consistent basis.

I also notice that letters near the center, like t, y, g, h, and b tend to get hit by whichever finger happens to be closer.

 

[jagec]

Traditional, with the very occassional change-up. For example, I never use the right shift bar, so I type a capital A with my left pinky and left ring fingers.

 

[Ika]

Originally posted by: jagec
Traditional, with the very occassional change-up. For example, I never use the right shift bar, so I type a capital A with my left pinky and left ring fingers.

Exactly the same. I mostly only hit space with my left thumb, and I use my right hand for b (which makes for awkward typing on split keyboards). I also never use right shift, EXCEPT when I need to do a question mark - then I'd move my right hand down to use my right ring to shift and right index to ?.

 

[Scouzer]

I type with only my middle two fingers. Still manage about 80wpm...

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: jagec
Traditional, with the very occassional change-up. For example, I never use the right shift bar, so I type a capital A with my left pinky and left ring fingers.

I'm pretty much the same, but with the opposite hand. I capital L with my right pinky and right middle. I never use left shift.

 

[Nocturnal]

I use all fingers and learned the traiditional way.

 

[Ricemarine]

Originally learned the traditional way. The problem was that my right hand tended to stop using its pinky finger and so my right hand tends to glide around the keyboard now. I can type 140+ wpm though. If I wanted to be error-free, at least 110 wpm.

 

[Howard]

home row

 

[newnameman]

Originally posted by: Ricemarine
Originally learned the traditional way. The problem was that my right hand tended to stop using its pinky finger and so my right hand tends to glide around the keyboard now. I can type 140+ wpm though. If I wanted to be error-free, at least 110 wpm.

I use one finger of hand only, but I type at 250+ wpm though.

 

[Kadarin]

Not only did I learn the traditional method, but I did so on a manual typewriter.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Kadarin
Not only did I learn the traditional method, but I did so on a manual typewriter.

Ah yes, my grandfather had one of those. I might have been 6 when I first saw it, maybe younger; I just loved watching all the mechanisms in that thing doing whatever they had to do.

GI Joe and Transformers? Nah, those were stupid. A typewriter? Now that was interesting.

 

[LongCoolMother]

I only type with my index fingers. weird....

 

[xSauronx]

i dont use my pinkies. i used to type pretty well/accurate (not great, maybe 70 or 80wpm, but good enough) until i started back to school. between my laptop and various keyboards at school, i get thrown off when i switch where im typing and have been doing horrible.

i keep opening a typing tutor so i can learn to type properly, but after a few minutes i always say "ah, fuck it"

 

[grrl]

More or less traditional, and I was taught on a typewriter.

 

[yelo333]

Traditional, but I use Dvorak most of the time. I can type on either layout equally fast.

 

[Linflas]

Kind of traditional since learned typing on a manual typewriter in high school. Like other posters have said is true for them I do not use my pinkies correctly.

 

[boomerang]

I was taught the traditional way. But there was a spread of many decades between that time and when I actually needed the skills. I can type without looking at the keyboard a whole lot, but I'm not super fast or accurate.

I've had co-workers who had to look (seemingly search) for every key and typed so slow that I just wanted to scream. I had a friend at work who actually hit the caps lock for every capital letter and then unlocked it to continue typing. I tried to explain the function of the Shift key but met a lot of resistance.

 

[Tim]

I learned traditional when I was very young. I took typing classes in high school every year for an easy A. I type about 140+ gwpm depending on the context. Number and symbols slow me down a bit.