Two-finger typing vs. Touch typing

[DanielScocco]

How many of you use two fingers to type, and how many use all the fingers with the touch typing method (without looking at the keyboard)?

I am still migrating to touch typing (I use around 3 fingers from each hand). I am pretty fast with it anyway, but I am definitely looking forward to learn touch typing.

Here is a website where you can go to test your typing speed:

http://speedtest.10-fast-fingers.com/

My record so far is 359 points, which translates into 476 characters per minute.

[InternetG33k]

How about another option for the poll -

"A combo of the two"

Because that would be my answer.

BTW, nice link - I just scored 269 characters or 47 words per minute (201 points).

[Farfield]

I learned to type with ten fingers and without looking at highschool. I didn't know that was called 'touch typing' in English

Back than I really didn't know if I would ever need it but now I am so happy that I took that course. I just don't think about the typing anymore, and I can look at something else than the keyboard (like, well, the screen for instance)

[Klepto]

Actually, I use all my fingers while looking down. But I guess it counts as touch typing. XD
On my first try I got 253 points, 59 words a minute.

I guess that's good. *shrugs*

[Bob]

321 points, 410 characters per minute, 74 words per minute :P

But that's offtopic. I think I'd manage better with touch typing. I ROFL (Rolling On Floor Laughing) when my father starts typing with two fingers

[Ramoney]

And bringing up the rear with 233 characters per minute is - Me!

[Who?]

I've been touch typing since middle school, when I was addicted to Warcraft III's online play. I had to get my words out quickly while watching the screen, or I wouldn't be able to taunt and micromanage a battle at the same time!

I'm almost ashamed of why I learend to type the way I do. Before my several years of instruction at the hands of video games, I typed with two fingers and my gaze flitting nervously between the monitor and the keyboard.

I'm scoring consistently in the high 90s on that test. The biggest thing holding me back, in this case, is that I have to think abotu what I want to type to toss in the box there. I keep getting words out of order because they make more sense in grammatical terms. But that doesn't matter to the machine, nor does it matter when you get an entre line of words wrong because, apparently, it didn't pick up the space between two words and you don't notice until they're all already red.

Ah, well. Practice would make perfect, but somehow, practicing just to get a high score on that seems...off. My best was 2900-something and I'm happy enough with that.

[DanielScocco]

Guess I am with the minority.

Well I don't really just use 2 fingers, more like 3 from each hand, so I guess I am half way through.

[Ali]

On my first try I got:

368 points
You type 463 characters per minute (86 words per minute)
You have 86 correct words and
you have 0 wrong words

I do touch type, though like Who? this is not due to any dedicated attempt to learn to do so properly, but instead the natural result of a wasted youth on online games ;-) I used to be very into a small online text-based game (a MUD for those who know what one is) and ended up able to touch type after a few years of playing that...

Ali

[Nigel Harrison]

I touch type, but the critical measure is the speed of typing compared with thinking. I believe the average thinking speed is around 40 wpm, so if you type at least that fast, you're keeping up with your brain.