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Writing four nuanced paragraphs because it takes you a few seconds is much less desirable than short notes.
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Not OP but I pivot my wrists and use my ring fingers. I always found it difficult to reach and press keys with my pinkie. Small hands, I guess? Does anyone else do this?
> I always found it difficult to I used to find it difficult to a lot of things, until I practiced enough to be able to do them, which is usually what that predicate implies. It's like people that say they have to use one foot for the brake pedal and the other for the accelerator because they find it difficult to use one for both.
It happens I just needed to hear this. Have had a recent challenge I ran out of steam on and the suggestion of focusing on correctness not speed to achieve speed really helps. Beat Saber, I am back! (I am actually serious. It’s my quick upper-body-emphasis cardio, and running out of motivation due to a wall impacts my health! I play it with additional constraints, which I relaxed to get through maxed out challenges.…
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I'm sorry for any undue snark here, but what do you mean by "proper" typing test and what do you think I meant in the OP by 1 minute tests? There are a plethora of online tests available that measure this with good accuracy and of course I have taken several. This is with <1% errors I am speaking of. I generally have very low errors. In addition, by late highschool, I had to pass a typing test for a computer class I…
A proper typing test will reduce your WPM for each mistake. It's not a raw counting of keys pressed in 60s.
Wow, Today I Learned that every commenter on HN types over 100 wpm (which is probably around 2-3 standard deviations faster than the mean). Here I thought I was fast at 70. I picked up a bad early habit of not using my right ring and pinky fingers, so I unfortunately only use 8 fingers. My typing is still faster than my thinking, though so I've never felt the need to race any faster.
> Plot twist: I don't type "correctly" at all. My fingers just go wherever they want. It's like anarchist typing. My left pinky probably hasn't touched the 'A' key in months, but somehow I'm still in the 99.5 percentile. Turns out the "proper way" is just a suggestion. Like following PEP 8 or using semicolons in JavaScript. Sure, it's nice, but if your way works better, who cares? This is super interesting - I have t…
It is my guess that everyone in the thread with "Hey, I don't type normally either and my speed is just fine" comments are likely staring at the keyboard when they type. All two-finger typists I've personally witnessed, even the extremely prolific Roger Ebert, couldn't effectively transcribe a printed document with their learned typing style. If you never have to type something you're reading, I'm sure unique typing…
Although I'm not a programmer, I type 126 wpm as a legal admin. At the beginning, it was an asset. I find though that it enables my fingers to keep up with my mind - what the author writes about - but that this can be a real flaw in the business world. Writing four nuanced paragraphs because it takes you a few seconds is much less desirable than short notes.
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Opposite experience: I hated the school class and I remember some frustrating tools which, if you made an error, counted any reflexive backspace and corrected letter as two additional errors... What really turned me into a touch-typist was all the arguing I did over dial-up internet the next summer.
same on both. On dial-up; I learned to touch type so I could insult my opponent after killing them, but before they re-spawned and could attack me again in a video game.
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atrophy? if you're not using your pinkies, how are you hitting shift/enter or other keys like [,],=,/,\? (that's an actual question, not trying to escape the punctuation)
Not OP but I pivot my wrists and use my ring fingers. I always found it difficult to reach and press keys with my pinkie. Small hands, I guess? Does anyone else do this?