Depends how well i know the words. If it's long words that i use often (cant think of any of the top of my head) i tend to use 6 fingers and touch type for a breif moment (no little fingers or thumbs) and if i dont know the word its usually 2-3 fingers and search and destroy method
How many fingers do you type with?
I'm gonna type this and try to observe how many I type with. Okay, let me keep typing a little longer just to see. Hmm.... based on my observations here, it seems I type with only about 5 fingers total. Both thumbs, both index fingers, and my right ring finger for pushing enter and shift. I'm also told that I type really really fast. People are especially amazed by the fact that I type so quickly and don't do it properly. Mad skills, man.
" @Lind_L_Taylor said:I also mostly use those microsoft ergonomic keyboards. Less strain on my hands. Except when I'm on my Mac. I don't have any problems hauling ass on the Macbook Pro laptop either."@Bucketdeth said:I completely agree. In 5th and 6th grade we had to take mandatory classes. I still, as I previously posted, only use three fingers now, but in the classes I was pretty decent. If anything, the classes helped me to improve my speed and memorize where each key is. I am not looking at the screen as I type this. I think I make more typos than the average non-chicken pecker, and therefore have to backspace more, but I type rather fast, so I don't mind for the most part. I also have extra patience for it all when I am on a forum, because I like making no typos (who does?) and proofread my posts a couple of times or so before I send them. ""Take a class! I took a class back & it still took 2.5 years to get the speed up. I don't think I could handle just chicken pecking with a couple of fingers. Learning to type on a keyboard sort of reminds me of learning how to play a musical instrument. "On my right hand I usually only use my thumb for the space bar, my index finger and the middle finger and on the left hand I only use my index finger, I have never noticed how retarded that is, and I should learn how to type properly, any advice on a good program for this?
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Hmmm, I guess I use my right thumb for spaces & the left thumb isn't used at all. So I use 9 fingers.
Actually, I don't really know. I'm typing a longer message to try and figure it out and it looks like about 7-8 fingers.
my thumbs get the least attention, but If one hand is occupied, the entire other hand is helping with the typing XD
"@Spike94 said:" @Lind_L_Taylor said:I also mostly use those microsoft ergonomic keyboards. Less strain on my hands. Except when I'm on my Mac. I don't have any problems hauling ass on the Macbook Pro laptop either.Hmmm, I guess I use my right thumb for spaces & the left thumb isn't used at all. So I use 9 fingers.""@Bucketdeth said:I completely agree. In 5th and 6th grade we had to take mandatory classes. I still, as I previously posted, only use three fingers now, but in the classes I was pretty decent. If anything, the classes helped me to improve my speed and memorize where each key is. I am not looking at the screen as I type this. I think I make more typos than the average non-chicken pecker, and therefore have to backspace more, but I type rather fast, so I don't mind for the most part. I also have extra patience for it all when I am on a forum, because I like making no typos (who does?) and proofread my posts a couple of times or so before I send them. ""Take a class! I took a class back & it still took 2.5 years to get the speed up. I don't think I could handle just chicken pecking with a couple of fingers. Learning to type on a keyboard sort of reminds me of learning how to play a musical instrument. "On my right hand I usually only use my thumb for the space bar, my index finger and the middle finger and on the left hand I only use my index finger, I have never noticed how retarded that is, and I should learn how to type properly, any advice on a good program for this?
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Ah, I see. All but the right thumb, eh? I think the fingers I use is somewat similar, but maybe a few less: I made an error, I do use more than three fingers. I use my left thumb to space sometimes, sometimes use my middle fingers, and sometimes use my right ring finger for the backspace.
* types something to figure out how many* I think about 6 my index fingers my middle fingers and my thumbs. i don't type the way it was taught to me in school because its slow the way i type i can get about 70 words a minute.
EDIT: The way i was taught in school is slow for me but I type really well doing it my way because its much easier for me to not mess up when i just hover my hands over the keyboard instead of trying to strech my fingers over it.
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