POLL: can you type without looking?

Kevin007 · Post by **Kevin007** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 10:14 pm

Well, can you type without looking? Or do you hunt-and-peck every key?

NAiLs · Post by **NAiLs** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 10:17 pm

Yup... I've been typing for uhh... almost 9 years now. Been using computers for ... 12 years, so it was "hunt-and-peck" back then.

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 10:32 pm

I don't have the perfect hand form on the keyboard, but I pretty well know where all the keys are....only took me like a couple of weeks after having my first computer to figure that one out.

Kevin007 · Post by **Kevin007** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 12:56 am

I can typing completely without looking, really there is not reason to look heh.

Tim Burton · Post by **Tim Burton** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 1:27 am

Yes, learned in 6th grade.

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 7:54 am

Can do... But only when i'm not paying attention! If I try then I have to look or for some reason i become dyslexic, lol

I look most of the time as for work I need to have good spelling!

(Nate is a spelling freak!)

Kevin007 · Post by **Kevin007** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:49 am

I hate it when people spell things wrong, but I can't look. If I did there would no point.

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:31 am

kenc51 wrote:Can do... But only when i'm not paying attention! If I try then I have to look or for some reason i become dyslexic, lol

I look most of the time as for work I need to have good spelling!

(Nate is a spelling freak!)

Oooooh, Nate's a Type A personality freak, lol

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:48 am

To clear things up... I do the news posts for Nate, Plus type alot in work...

I usually have to look when using the shift key etc.

: edited for spelling mistake

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Zelig · Post by **Zelig** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:49 am

I type on the Dvorak layout, but my keys are still arranged in the standard qwerty layout, so looking at my keyboard doesn't do me much good.

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:53 am

kenc51 wrote:To clear things up... I do the news post for Nate, Plus type alot in work...

I usually have to look when using the shift key etc.

Oh ok, now that makes more sense, lol. I'm going to have to improve on my typing because the job I'll be undertaking after college requires command lines be used (to program routers, send ARP requests, tap into DHCP servers, etc), and we all know that command-driven OS's like DOS and some others are exacting on spelling, otherwise the commands won't go through.

Yuriman · Post by **Yuriman** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 12:03 pm

Kevin, you know me.

Mr. 150 WPM on a good day.

bubba · Post by **bubba** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 1:32 pm

some stuff I can type with out looking, but the stuff like numbers and stuff some of the those I have to look on.

now when it comes to autocad comands, no looky-looky there. been doing that for over 14 years... started in the bad boy days of dos

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 2:20 pm

ahhhhh, command-line CAD, rofl, oh crap that brings me back to when I was in second grade

Sovereign · Post by **Sovereign** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 3:54 pm

I can generally type about 50-60 words per minute with error correction (if I screw up I hit Delete to go back). Have to for school, took a typing class in summer school.

NAiLs · Post by **NAiLs** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:25 pm

Yuriman wrote:Kevin, you know me.

Mr. 150 WPM on a good day.

I used to type upwards of 110-120WPM a few years back. Then the lazyness of internet came into play and my typing skills went downhill kinda. I can still type around 50-70WPM without a problem, but that's a huge decline from 110!

gvblake22 · Post by **gvblake22** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 4:41 pm

killswitch83 wrote:ahhhhh, command-line CAD, rofl, oh crap that brings me back to when I was in second grade

Well, even the newest versions of AutoCAD have a command line based UI as well as the ever popular GUI. When I use CAD I only use the command line unless there is a function I want to use but don't know the command, then I have to bring up the toolbar and hunt for the button

But as far as typing, I can prettymuch get it all without looking.

Kevin007 · Post by **Kevin007** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:26 pm

Yuriman wrote:Kevin, you know me.

Mr. 150 WPM on a good day.

Woah, it is like we are twins or something

. I might be able to type about that, I don't know, but I can sure type fast.

some stuff I can type with out looking, but the stuff like numbers and stuff some of the those I have to look on.

now when it comes to autocad comands, no looky-looky there. been doing that for over 14 years... started in the bad boy days of dos Laughing

numbers are the hardest to learn. Well, actually the symbols are like "$" and "#"...took me a long time.

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:32 pm

Zelig wrote:I type on the Dvorak layout, but my keys are still arranged in the standard qwerty layout, so looking at my keyboard doesn't do me much good.

That's just crazy!!

Are Dvorak layout keyboards hard to get? Or are you soo good at typing you NEVER look. lol

Kevin007 · Post by **Kevin007** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:35 pm

they are supposed to be easier.

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