Touch typist or hunt and peck?
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Touch. I suffered through the teasing of being the only boy who chose to do high school typing as an elective unit. I learnt to type using old typewriters that had the mechanical levers – my pinkie finger has never been as strong as it was that year!
Now, I’ve had the last laugh over those who teased me – I knew typing and computers were the future! 🙂
I did a year of typing in high school. It helped me avoid metal work and wood work. I’m hopeless at that kind of thing.
I still keep an eye on the keyboard a lot of the time but I do remember the basics and can hunt and peck much faster than most. 🙂
Touch typing is like riding a bike. Even when you haven’t touched a keyboard in years you never seem to forget where the keys are.
Gypsy, I’m glad I don’t forget where the keys are. As my eyesight continues to deteriorate and the letters slowly get rubbed off the keys I’m relying on that memory more and more. Of course onece my memory starts to go I’m in big trouble. 🙂
As someone who’s on the computer literally all day – it’d be bad bad news if I couldn’t touch type. It frustrates me now to even sit and watch someone who is using the ol’ “hunt and peck”.
More touch than hunt and peek. Although I do still look at the keyboard at times. But I am getting better, and starting my blog has really increased my skills. My kids think I am fast. I would also like to invite you to my site. I am doing a prayer chain for my mom. I would like for you to join us. Thank you and may God bless you!
Touch. Perhaps the most valuable class I took in high school was typing. Now I just need to be able to do the same on my phone. I’m getting close!
fff jjj its a ghost that lives in the back of my mind, every time I sit down to type.
I’m a touchy hunter and pecker.
Regardless of your current typing ability, it is possible to more than DOUBLE your effective typing speed and reduce the number of mistakes that you make (and the time/keystrokes needed to correct them).
You can do this by learning typing shorthand.
Think of ‘tv’ (2 characters) for example. We all know that the full English word for that is ‘television’ (10 characters). Now anyone who would read ‘tv’ would automatically know that what is being referred to is in fact ‘television’. How about we look at an abbreviation that may be less widely recognized like ‘IBM’ for example? That abbreviation actually stands for ‘International Business Machines’ (in case you didn’t know). A three (3) character abbreviation (IBM) is used to replace thirty-three (33) characters. That’s a 92% savings.
With shorthand typing, it’s possible to uniquely identify words and phrases that we all type on a regular basis and develop shorthand abbreviations for them. Then we can type the abbreviations and have a software program automatically replace the abbreviations with the expanded words/phrases that they represent. Correctly spelled and capitalized. This will save a significant number of keystrokes and time.
I would like to invite you to check out my website (www.typeless.biz) and see how it’s possible to actually do LESS typing and to produce more output in less time. Also, you can lessen the likelihood of ever developing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome which can put ALL of you typing out of commission for a long time.
Thanks
Touch if I am focused…
Hunt and peck if I am driving too…
lol
Just kidding! 🙂
Gib
I’m very much touch typing, but i’ve developed a special style in that I rarely use my pinkie. I’m still pretty good in that I think I can get about 50-60WPM with around 98% accuracy.
I’m in the middle. I started learning touch type at an early age (due to my mother’s insistence) through an interactive CD program, but abandoned the program soon after I started, finding it too frustrating. Over the next few years I taught myself to type using the “hunt-and-peck” method, which I soon integrated with my touch-typing knowledge and my memorization of the placement of the keys on the keyboard. It’s become a helpful, efficient way to type.
BigDadGib, I’ve seen people do stranger things while driving. 🙂
Ben, it sounds like we’re on the same wavelength. While I can’t claim to be quite as accurate as you I do pretty well with my own style taht sits between hunt and peck and touch typing.
Thanks for dropping in Gigi. When I was at school I did a year of typing class. Back then there wasn’t too much need for typing but it got me out of another class that I didn’t want to join.
Like you, I’ve put some of the knowledge from that learning together with my own style.
It’s not pretty but it works for me. 🙂