Poll: Engineers/Hackers, can you touch type?
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I noticed that many of my hacker/programmer friends don't ten finger touch type. How many of you can?
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#2yes I can.
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#3My father gave me a computer in 1992 when I was 4 (why?) so I began typing long before I knew there was a proper way. Neither of my parents were ever good at typing, and still use hunt-and-peck even today.
I remember when I was young, maybe 6 or 7 showing my uncle that I could type without having to look at the keys, and while I use all 10 fingers, my hand position is nowhere near the typical touch-typing one.
Usually my left hand comes at the keyboard perpendicular and my right one comes in at a 45 degree angle, so my hands are like:
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on the keys. My left hand stays mostly stationary, occasionally extending the first digit, while my right hand moves left and right slightly as I go.So considering this, which option on the above poll should I be pressing? I use all 10 fingers, and don't look at the keyboard to calibrate myself, so I technically do touch type, but I have never used the JF nibs to get my position and certainly don't maintain the traditional touch typing posture. (the fingers on the home row thing)
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#5I couldn't untill I switched to the dvorak layout. To not even be able to look at the key caps forced me to learn to touch type.
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#6I can and do but not the proper way with my hands in the right spots
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#7Yes I can, but only in the past few months did I learn. I used to use all of my fingers but my hands sort of danced around the keyboard and I would have to look down to check alignment every so often. I learned to touch type qwerty for 3 months, then switched to programmer dvorak a month ago. I wish I had stuck with touch typing when I first learned it in middle school.
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#8I have a weird, hybrid way of typing. I don't have to look at the keys to know where to type, but I don't fully use all ten of my fingers. I type without using my pinky fingers, except to use them to press the shift keys.
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#10I was thinking you were asking if we could type on a touch screen :-)