There's a poll going around to see how many people can touch-type. I figured this would also be interesting to know
Poll: How fast do you type?
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#2I honestly have no idea how fast I type these days. And it varies by domain, what device I'm typing on, etc.
But, FWIW, when I was taking "keyboarding" in college back in the early 90's, I was somewhere in the 80-90wpm range.
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#3I'm not sure of my WPM, but I'm fairly certain my brain is the bottleneck. I am still a bit slow on my special characters though.
Re: Poll: How fast do you type?
#4I honestly have no idea how fast I type these days. And it varies by domain, what device I'm typing on, etc. But, FWIW, when I was taking "keyboarding" in college back in the early 90's, I was somewhere in the 80-90wpm range.
http://play.typeracer.com/
That's a fun game to play when you're really bored. It also feels nice when, after a couple of rounds, it asks you to fill a captcha because it thinks your speed is so high you must be cheating :)
For me my speed varies by what I'm actually doing: typing code, writing emails/comments have different speeds.
Actually, now that I think of it, it's difficult to measure the speed of typing code since a lot of programming involves editing existing code as opposed to just banging out line after line of new code.
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#5I was lucky enough to start "Talking Fingers" class in 2nd grade! I got a 90 WPM in Typeracer.
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#6Somewhere between 10 and 100 WPM, depending on whether I am programming, writing a blog entry, typing loosely flowing thoughts, or copying the words on the screen in front of me.
Oddly enough, I never really type the proper way. I do some sort of hunt and peck using primarily my middle and index fingers for typing, with only the occasional thumb, ring, or pinky finger. If I grew up typing how you're supposed to type I might be a little faster, but usually the brain is the bottleneck for me.
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#7I type ~100 wpm with essentially two fingers. I do use my thumb for the spacebar and my middle fingers for ~4 specific edge keys, but otherwise it's all index all the time.
I have a hairbrained theory that this has helped me avoid carpal tunnel because it forces my hands to move around a lot more, rather than hover in one specific position. I have no data whatsoever to back this up.
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#890-100 range for me
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#9The last official test I did, a couple years ago, stated just over 100wpm..however just last year I had a data entry job which required some SERIOUS typing speed. New employees would get introuble if they couldn't keep up with the others (who, most of which, had been there since before I was even BORN!). I can feel I've definitely gone up since that summer
Re: Poll: How fast do you type?
#10I type ~100 wpm with essentially two fingers. I do use my thumb for the spacebar and my middle fingers for ~4 specific edge keys, but otherwise it's all index all the time. I have a hairbrained theory that this has helped me avoid carpal tunnel because it forces my hands to move around a lot more, rather than hover in one specific position. I have no data whatsoever to back this up.
Yep, I do the same thing essentially. I can't quite get to 100 WPM, but I'm in the high 80's and most people remark how fast I type. Heh.
Never learned to touch type the "right" way...
Not sure I'd want to...