how fast can you type? how did you learn? (4 Viewers)

[mrzeidan1]

Wooo 71wpm with 98% accuracy

Ye general computer use mainly...

 

[_dhj_]

learnt touch typing in year 4

though I don't know how fast I'm right now... prolly 60+

 

[Forbidden.]

I type faster now thanks to Counter-Strike ...

 

[Collin]

I can type upto 80wpm at about 80-90%, but I don't use the correct touch-type method. My fingers initiate on the correct ASDF JKL; position, but as soon as I start typing, my right hand slides one-key across such that I type keys like O, L and ; all with my middle finger. Very bad habit that's developed over the years - if I kick my right hand into line then my wpm would probably dip down into the 50-60 wpm range, but with higher accuracy.

 

[Steam]

I got 102 words a minute on typingtest.com

 

[Steam]

I type faster now thanks to Counter-Strike ...

I play cs and it made my typing really inaccurate lol.

I used to play rooooonscape which made me a fast typer.
Also in year 3 i used this ancient software on a mac called "TTTAPS"

 

[Uncle]

I play cs and it made my typing really inaccurate lol.

I used to play rooooonscape which made me a fast typer.
Also in year 3 i used this ancient software on a mac called "TTTAPS"

nice thread bump moron.

p.s. runescape is a shit game along its kin of world of warcraft and other mmorpg

 

[Omie Jay]

when we got our first computer (2000, i was in yr5) it came with a free typing program, Typingmaster.
Mum made me practice it every weekend, eventually i did it because it was fun.

Now i can type at around 60-70 wpm without looking at the keyboard.

 

[ehtefaz.hedayet]

i can roughly estimate about 50 - 55 wpm, i practiced thanks to msn.

 

[lala2]

Epic bump much? I can't believe I was on this board three years ago!

 

[youngminii]

Oh man I haven't tested my typing speed in ages!

Okay so I just did a typing test on FreeTypingGame.net - Free typing games online, fun and lesson based keyboarding games including home row! and I got 138wpm (no mistakes, touch typing), although I do recall being faster before.. Maybe I'll do a few more and see how fast I can get
Damn I was really enjoying the story that I was typing

Hoorah for years of online addiction

 

[Aquawhite]

Woah. That's insanely fast!!! You should request to do your HSC on the computer for that speed. I can type a little faster than I can type as well, but I'm only up to about 60-65 wpm at the moment. I could type faster when I was younger.... I don't know what happened.

 

[klaris]

I learnt to type when I was around ten and they had just gotten computers at school and we had just got a pc. I liked to make up stories but I hated writing them down as it made my fingers sore so I taught myself how to type. To this day I still have a very unorthodox way of typing and I don't do it in any 'traditional' way with 'home keys' and touch typing or anything. I can type fast without looking and most people's jaw literally drop when I'm on the school's pc's or in a public library usually followed by a "I didn't know anyone could ever type that fast!"

In constrast, when I first took IT and we had to type a lotta stuff up my teacher would simutaneously be amazed and cringe at how I type.

 

[Omie Jay]

Oh man I haven't tested my typing speed in ages!

Okay so I just did a typing test on FreeTypingGame.net - Free typing games online, fun and lesson based keyboarding games including home row! and I got 138wpm (no mistakes, touch typing), although I do recall being faster before.. Maybe I'll do a few more and see how fast I can get
Damn I was really enjoying the story that I was typing

Hoorah for years of online addiction

i did the free typing test, i got 95 wpm with 2 errors, so my calculated speed is 85wpm (i did #26 classic tales, 1 min test).

 

[Aquawhite]

I learnt to type when I was around ten and they had just gotten computers at school and we had just got a pc. I liked to make up stories but I hated writing them down as it made my fingers sore so I taught myself how to type. To this day I still have a very unorthodox way of typing and I don't do it in any 'traditional' way with 'home keys' and touch typing or anything. I can type fast without looking and most people's jaw literally drop when I'm on the school's pc's or in a public library usually followed by a "I didn't know anyone could ever type that fast!"

In constrast, when I first took IT and we had to type a lotta stuff up my teacher would simutaneously be amazed and cringe at how I type.

Well, show us. Do the test.

i did the free typing test, i got 95 wpm with 2 errors, so my calculated speed is 85wpm (i did #26 classic tales, 1 min test).

You and youngminii are inhumane. I have only ever really gotten up to 80wpm and that was crazy typing.

 

[youngminii]

Tbh I never considered myself fast, I just considered everyone else to be slow.
If that makes sense
I dunno, we had a computer as far back as I can remember (I saw a video of me when I was 3 and I was playing a drawing game on the computer with my brother lol) so I was always fast in my memory

I learnt to touch type before my school began to teach us typing

 

[Omie Jay]

You and youngminii are inhumane. I have only ever really gotten up to 80wpm and that was crazy typing.

...thats without looking at the keyboard =]

 

[Aquawhite]

Looking at the keyboard makes it slower for me some days. I can't see the keyboard now because of the queer lighting scene I've got happening at my friends' place.

 

[youngminii]

Nah man, looking at the keyboard makes you slower as you learn to type faster. Especially in typing tests where you're copying words off the screen.

 

[Omie Jay]

yea, but making a mistake in those typing tests really put me off, lol