I can type without looking at the keyboard

[Humodour]

When typing I use the three middle fingers of my left hand and the pointer and the middle from my right hand. The strange thing is that I never use my left thumb, even though it's effectively resting on the space bar the whole time I type. Also, I only look at the screen to correct typos, which may happen during the writing (if I notice the typos right after making them), or only after the writing. I'm very fast with the fingers I do use, I just don't use that many fingers in typing.

 

 

I am typign this using my peripheral vision and muscle memory. Going well so far. I think it's acutally what I do all the time, only looking down if I make a mistake.

 

2 out of n ain't too bad.

[Deraldin]

When typing I use the three middle fingers of my left hand and the pointer and the middle from my right hand. The strange thing is that I never use my left thumb, even though it's effectively resting on the space bar the whole time I type. Also, I only look at the screen to correct typos, which may happen during the writing (if I notice the typos right after making them), or only after the writing. I'm very fast with the fingers I do use, I just don't use that many fingers in typing.

 

I'm trying to figure out just which fingers I do use when typing. It looks like while typing this paragraph that I use mainly my index and middle fingers of each hand. The ring fingers are used mainly for things like shift, enter and backspace. My left ring finger is also used for the A key.

[Daaave]

A lot of the time I'll start typing perfectly without looking at the keyboard without realising I'm doing it. As soon as it clicks in that I am though everything goes to pot and my typing resembles that of an angry pig on speed. Or something like that anyway. Dear God I fail at coming up with decent metaphors.

 

Either way though, it goes rubbish for some reason as soon as I notice what I'm doing and I have to go back to looking at the keyboard. Quite strange really.

[Leferd]

Das Keyboard.

 

Personally, I prefer to mate my 45 wpm to the IBM Model M.

[Humodour]

Das Keyboard.

 

Personally, I prefer to mate my 45 wpm to the IBM Model M.

 

Let see which of my fingers I actually use. Oh it looks like all of them. I big breakthrough from 4 years ago when I could only sort of touch-type with one hand. Amazing how it developed without conscious effort.

 

What's more amazing is that every mistake I DO make without touch-typing, I correct with touch-typing (backspace and such without looking down). Actually, I think I blame touch-typing for my sometimes incoherent sentences - missing words, misspelling, etc. Yeah. I blame touch-typing.

 

All of this was written with touch-typing. I can't believe how much I rule.

[Tigranes]

I did that when I was ten, Krezack.

 

Now go and cry in the flashfloods.

 

[Humodour]

Shut up, I'm busy revelling in my awesomeness.

Edited January 12, 2008 by Krezack

[Guest The Architect]

I find I've gotten myself into a habit of looking at the keyboard when I'm typing most of the time, even though I'm familiar with where the keys are. I haven't made any attempt to change that habit.