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Title: which type
Post by: McGiver on January 03, 2007, 05:02:04 PM
i am curious to know how many people here have to look at the keyboard as they type like i do.
Title: Re: which type
Post by: Litigious on January 03, 2007, 05:08:43 PM
I have to.
Title: Re: which type
Post by: Graelwyn on January 03, 2007, 05:14:38 PM
I dont really need to anymore most of the time, but then I have been a chat freak for so many years now. I know the positions of the keys by heart mostly.
Title: Re: which type
Post by: El on January 03, 2007, 05:20:35 PM
Combo.  I can kinda not look when I'm not thinking about it.
Title: Re: which type
Post by: McGiver on January 03, 2007, 05:21:54 PM
I dont really need to anymore most of the time, but then I have been a chat freak for so many years now. I know the positions of the keys by heart mostly.
try our drunken chat saturdays!
Title: Re: which type
Post by: Lurk Hurk Gurk on January 03, 2007, 05:38:56 PM
I look once in a while, typing most letters without doing so.
Title: Re: which type
Post by: Graelwyn on January 03, 2007, 06:10:58 PM
I dont really need to anymore most of the time, but then I have been a chat freak for so many years now. I know the positions of the keys by heart mostly.
try our drunken chat saturdays!

I absolutely plan on it, although I tend to take a while to loosen up :green: I looked in the chatroom earlier, but was empty. I talk mostly on msn these days.
Title: Re: which type
Post by: McGiver on January 03, 2007, 06:12:41 PM
I dont really need to anymore most of the time, but then I have been a chat freak for so many years now. I know the positions of the keys by heart mostly.
try our drunken chat saturdays!

I absolutely plan on it, although I tend to take a while to loosen up :green: I looked in the chatroom earlier, but was empty. I talk mostly on msn these days.
our drunken chat saturdays used to be popular before the holidays.  maybe we can rekindle its popularity.
also it is a free for all like the forums; unmoderated.
Title: Re: which type
Post by: Scrapheap on January 03, 2007, 09:42:48 PM
I have to hunt and peck too, touch typing is too difficult for me yet.
Title: Re: which type
Post by: purposefulinsanity on January 04, 2007, 04:53:26 AM
I tend to not look mostly, but I voted for combo because sometimes I have to look when using Dunc's keyboard cos its a different size to mine and that throws me off.
Title: Re: which type
Post by: duncvis on January 04, 2007, 06:06:04 AM
Combo. I have big fingers, so tend to glance at the keyboard from time to time to correct my positioning and retype stuff when i've hit two keys at once (which is often).
Title: Re: which type
Post by: DirtDawg on January 04, 2007, 06:42:05 AM
 
I do both, probably more watching. Kind of like Dunc said, though, I get out of position too easily. Words seem to come out of my brain in pulses. I tend to pause and then blast a pulse of letter combos, not necessarily whole words. When I'm "on it", I can actually type fairly quickly that way, for an old fart. It may be from trying to play guitar.
Title: Re: which type
Post by: odeon on January 04, 2007, 04:10:38 PM
I do both, but I probably look at the keyboard more than I look at the screen even though I don't have to--I know where the keys are. I'm pretty fast but I can sort of misplace my hands, in which case I have too take a peek. :green:
Title: Re: which type
Post by: QuirkyCarla on January 05, 2007, 02:25:24 PM
I mostly type without looking. I do look at the number keys though.
Title: Re: which type
Post by: Nomaken on January 07, 2007, 03:27:44 AM
I don't know how to type.  If I was asked, I would have to say no, I don't.  I hunt and peck.  But I don't look when I hunt and peck.  I use I use my index fingers primarily, thumbs to space, right ring finger to backspace and shift and enter, and occasionally left ring finger to smack the big keys on the left.  But I go REALLY fast. 
Title: Re: which type
Post by: renaeden on March 08, 2017, 04:42:39 AM
I use my left index finger and my right middle finger to type and yes, I do have to look at the keyboard all the time. Except for the backspace key. I don't look for that!

Kayleigh types without looking at the keyboard but she does use the backspace key a fair bit.
Title: Re: which type
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 08, 2017, 05:34:08 AM
  I use my right index finger and left middle finger, and I look at the keyboard almost the entire time.  :tard:
Title: Re: which type
Post by: Fun With Matches on March 08, 2017, 09:03:37 AM
I can type fast without looking, on a proper keyboard.

On a stupid touchpad keyboard, hmm, I don't look either. But I make mistakes more often.
Title: Re: which type
Post by: Lestat on March 08, 2017, 05:51:23 PM
I voted assuming it was when dating. Oops. But when typing on a keyboard, the only time I have to look is when the keyboard accidentally gets shifted over to the side a bit so the keys aren't where my fingers expect them to be, so I have to briefly look to position the keyboard back again and then go back to touch typing. I didn't have to look to type this for instance. I can sort of see my fingers moving in my peripheral vision but only that there are fingers and there is motion going on.
Title: Re: which type
Post by: Icequeen on March 08, 2017, 07:32:57 PM
I really don't look. I might peek with stuff in the v and x area because my keypad is crapping out ...I have to beat on it just right. :zoinks:
Title: Re: which type
Post by: odeon on March 09, 2017, 01:19:43 AM
With modern offices, you have to look when you type so you don't hit the wrong keyboard. :P
Title: Re: which type
Post by: renaeden on March 09, 2017, 02:46:02 AM
Most of the guys in my class put me to shame because they are so fast at typing. It's almost embarrassing for me to type in front of the teachers.

I am older than all the other students and the only female in my class. :-\
Title: Re: which type
Post by: Lestat on March 09, 2017, 03:10:25 PM
Which means your the most gorgeous one in the class ren, so take that as a comforting factor. None of the rest are sexy as hell or presumably have that  stare that sends shivers up and down my spine :P

Even if there were other females in your class, I'm pretty sure you'd outclass them all by a million miles :) *squeezes teh renster*
Title: Re: which type
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 09, 2017, 04:32:48 PM
Most of the guys in my class put me to shame because they are so fast at typing. It's almost embarrassing for me to type in front of the teachers.

I am older than all the other students and the only female in my class. :-\

Last summer PA looked astonished as he realized I was typing without looking.  The C (Average) in that class, Office Machines, kept me off the Deans List by .048 of a grade point.  Damn right I'm going to type in revenge.
Title: Re: which type
Post by: renaeden on March 09, 2017, 11:05:21 PM
Which means your the most gorgeous one in the class ren, so take that as a comforting factor. None of the rest are sexy as hell or presumably have that  stare that sends shivers up and down my spine :P

Even if there were other females in your class, I'm pretty sure you'd outclass them all by a million miles :) *squeezes teh renster*
Thanks Lestat. So far I am doing ok. I want Certificate III!

And speaking of my stare, I managed to scare one of the teachers with it. She said it looked as though I was staring through the computer. I said not to worry, it's my resting bitch face. :D
Title: Re: which type
Post by: odeon on March 10, 2017, 12:40:35 AM
Some of my colleagues are ridiculously fast at typing.
Title: Re: which type
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 10, 2017, 11:21:48 AM
The PR is a one-finger typist.  She uses Caps Lock when she needs to capitalize a letter. 
Title: Re: which type
Post by: Lestat on March 10, 2017, 02:23:27 PM
Makes sense with one arm working perfectly and the other having trouble.

And thats hilarious ren. But..but...he didn't find it hawt thought?!? he obviously has no sense of taste whatsoever:P I certainly find your 'resting bitch face' rather captivating :)
Title: Re: which type
Post by: renaeden on March 10, 2017, 08:10:16 PM
The teacher was female. She's a substitute for another teacher and she doesn't know much about the advanced features of Excel, which is what she is meant to be teaching us. Quite funny.
Title: Re: which type
Post by: Lestat on March 11, 2017, 07:07:17 AM
When I touch type I do it pretty damn fast. Nobody has ever commented on it but thats probably because I'm generally in another room when I'm using the/a computer. The one I am using now is in a nice closely confined soundproofed room.

Although this is using a standard PC keyboard. I HATE the keyboards   built into laptops, and the mousepads. Everything is in the wrong damn place.
Title: Re: which type
Post by: odeon on March 11, 2017, 07:18:57 AM
Try switching from a Swedish keyboard to a UK keyboard. Took me a while to get used to.
Title: Re: which type
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 11, 2017, 10:14:30 AM
Just to compare, here's an Urdu keyboard:

http://qurango.com/images/urdu/6.gif
Title: Re: which type
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 11, 2017, 10:39:34 AM
Some of my colleagues are ridiculously fast at typing.

  I've never seen my brother typing, but apparently he's fast enough to impress his co-workers.
   He learned in high school and kept up the skill.  I have never gotten past hunt-and-peck.  :tard: