Can you touch type?

[Batcher]

Poll added. No AndyW option as this isn't General.

I can touch type on both UK and German keyboards. I just kind of picked it up - no formal lessons or anything.

I was on holiday in Paris a few years ago and had to send an email from the hotel internet cafe. Took me ages to compose using a German keyboard.

I've been using keyboards for 30-odd years and always meant to learn to touch type but still battering it out with two fingers and looking at the keyboard

[SimonMac]

Yes I can, no idea how I picked it up, I just did!

[unixman]

I was on holiday in Paris a few years ago and had to send an email from the hotel internet cafe. Took me ages to compose using a German keyboard.

I've been using keyboards for 30-odd years and always meant to learn to touch type but still battering it out with two fingers and looking at the keyboard

Not sure how many fingers I was using in non-touch mode. Definitely more than 2, maybe 6. I am still faster like that, for the time being.

[unixman]

fr4ffr4f.

Yes, learned from a book, typing on a Tatung Einstein, back in the mid 80s.

Which was handy when typing on a PC with a different keyboard layout.



Most odd when using a MAC kb, which has those little knobbly marker things on the middle finger keys, not the first finger keys.

Wonder how much time I have spent looking at the keyboard vs. someone who learned TT in the 80s. Dragon 32 FTW.

[FiveTimes]

I bit the bullet because constantly looking at the keyboard is mentally tiring. TT seems to make your work flow better. Definitely a boon for emails. I am trying to use it on the unix command line too.

Touch type on the command line isn't as important as tab expand, or searching through your command history.

[unixman]

Touch type on the command line isn't as important as tab expand, or searching through your command history.

It is also (great avatar BTW) a pain due to all the special characters.

I could type faster than the Dragon 32 could cope with.

Are you talking about an emulator? I typed like a storm on that nice (for the time/price) keyboard. Don't recall any missed characters. In the MESS emulator it is a different story - missed characters everywhere.

Did you have a TATUNG PIPE

[FJ1200]

Yes. Of course ... sometimes. Er - No..

Well sometimes I can. I hate it when I've been typing for ages then look up and found it's in the middle of a totally different paragraph!

Wifey is an audio and touch typist - learned at school in the early 80s. She can be holding 2 conversations with me and the kids, working out what to have for dinner AND type fast without dropping a letter. It's SO humiliating. She also does it do show off. Especially when I try to put her off by tickling her neck. Still says the DOS version of WordPerfect was the best WP she's ever used.