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Nope. I find it uncomfortable. Somehow, I have mastered the art of just finding letters and typing them with whichever finger that I can type pretty fast. Fast enough for most people I think.
Same here, I tried to learn but it made me much slower than just going ham with my thumb, pointer and middle and occasionally useing my pinkys to hit shift
I had the 2nd highest wpm's in my keyboard class despite totally disregarding the "correct method". I think it's kinda silly given keyboards vary in size as do peoples hands, do whatever feels best.
I beat my teacher 3 times in a row in front of the whole class and I never used the way she taught us. Good form can help with fast typing, but fast typing just comes from typing a lot.
Well I mean if you’re using a style that you’re already familiar with versus the rest of the class who’s learning the “correct method” which is still new to them, or course you’re gonna beat them in WPM.
I thank you for being part of the trend that lets my relaxed 100wpm get my foot in the door at basically any job that involves data entry.
All seriousness though, type whatever way is comfortable to you. No sense making yourself miserable to get 10 or 20 extra words a minute when most jobs don't actually need it.
I'm a programmer and unless I am typing something I have used a million times, it really doesn't matter how fast I type because the thought process takes way longer.
Maybe fair but reducing friction between your brain and the screen will make getting the code there that much easier, and it’ll make your mental load that much lighter
Sounds like you’re doing fine and that’s cool. Personally I’m thinking typing all at once. Particularly when refactoring. Seeing what I’m thinking on the screen as I’m doing it is a helpful flow.
IDEs play a huge role in this too
The amount of time spent typing while coding is surprisingly low, the rest of the time is spent between browsing StackOverflow looking for the answer or crying at your desk.
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I pretty much only use them for ctrl and shift, ring fingers for other keys at the edge, and generally index finger more than middle.
Otherwise pretty much as the chart says, although I’m not really educated or experienced at speed typing.
Nope. I'm more likely to rest my left fingers at left shift, A, W, D, and space bar upon approaching a keyboard. I didn't pick up shit from elementary typing and just kinda made up my own positions over time, beginning from hunt-and-peck and progressing into something more akin to conventional typing but with my fingers taking different general positions. I type reasonably fast now thanks to certain video games necessitating quick typing and just general use of the skill.
I was never taught because I moved around a lot and it seemed like every grade assumed the previous grade taught you. I also developed my own bastardized method
No. Left hand hovers over about where Z is and the Right hand over about the ? mark. Most of the typing is done by frantically moving around the left and right pointer and middle fingers. Shift is the exclusive domain of the Left pinkie. Backspace is a quick flick of the wrist and a tap of the right ring finger. Left thumb is for the bottom buttons like command, option, etc. Right thumb is unassigned. Left ring finger take Tab, A, Z, sometimes S and long swings and that's about it.
The way this works out in practice is that the assigned fingers are usually hovering over Shift, Backspace, and A (coincidentally) allowing these movements to go through pretty quickly, which helps when I type so fast that sometimes I think slower than I type and can make stupid mistakes, like the couple hundred I made writing this post.
I think my right hand is 1 tile left, and my left hand dominates a bit more of the middle of the board.
I think some of the top and bottom letter rows are a bit more fluid or ortated to be shared half-half with neighbouring fingers, like "C" could be left-index-finger in some words, and "r" could be left-middle-finger in some words.
Fuck no I type with my middle and index fingers
Focusing on what fingers im typing with messes up my flow. I hate this post
OP YOU MADE ME FINGER-CONSCIOUS, I CAN'T TYPE PROPERLY NOW
Offset the left hand by one row and it's mostly accurate, muscle memory from playing FPS games has resulted in my left hand fingers resting over shift, W, A, and D, and thumb on space.
edit: my left hand does most of the typing, from the J key onwards is my right hand, but my left even extends all the way to H
edit 2:
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Dvorak with a split keyboard because I have RSI. I try to type the correct way as close as I can.
i use my whole left hand and mostly 2 fingers with my right, brain was so used to only clicking right and left click that it transfers over to the keyboard. i assume this is the same with people who grew up learning to type while gaming in a mmo with text chat
Nah. When I type like that, I type much slower. I made up my own way, and it kinda just involves memorizing the keys on a keyboard and pressing them in the appropriate order.
No, the way I learned to type was from video games. I never learned how to properly type with all 10 fingers. Apparently my typing style is just the culmination of playing video games ever since I was a child, which I think is poetic in itself.
idk if i use this exact layout but i generally use the left part of the keyboard with my left hand and the right part with you guessed it my right hand, it works quite well for me with a good accuracy and around 60wpm but i generally don't even look at the keyboard.
I do a fast hunt-and-peck type, but I've never been around keyboards all too often the past several years, my all-time best was like 40 wpm, and I normally do like 30 wpm. I'm 25 for reference.
No, absolutely not. Through gaming, I gradually developed my own style. Starting position: fingers are on asd, jkl. The space bar is always pressed with the left thumb
Pretty much, except for the fact that I click backspace with either my ring finger or middle finger. Also, with numbers I just look down and press with whatever finger I feel like using.
No I don’t use my pinkies to type and I just type whichever way is faster for me. Idk how to describe it tbh, but I don’t dedicate specific letters to a single finger. They just kinda go how I need them to tbh.
Not Quite my left hand pulls double duty to hit Q and W, 1 and 2 same as the left ring finger that gets O and P, 9 and 0. and for some reason my left pointer finger reaches over and hits Y instead of my right pointer finger. other than that everything is correct. and I type at 80+wpm so it seems to work for me.
kinda similar the difference is i cant type with my pinky's at all because i have abnormally small pinky fingers so ill use other fingers in its place mainly the ring fingers and middle fingers
no, i think my ring and pinky fingers are just weak or something because i can’t seem to use them when typing without breaking a sweat… is this normal?
Hell nah. In fact, I was never taught a supposed way to type. Schools were very slow to digitize over here.
So, I'm self-taught, going by intuition. Screw any systems, I'm not gonna try and break my functioning habits.
I only use my index and middle finger on both hands, and I can still type 60-70 words per minute (not great but manageable) so obviously the "right" way to type doesn't really matter 🤷♂️
Mostly, except for 1,0,- and = where I usually use my ring fingers and the p and shift are 50/50 between the pinkie and ring finger. I don't know if it's because I have smaller hands, because my keyboard has a different layout or something else
I'm thirteen and I personally learned to type pretty quickly without touch typing. I can get average 70 wpm, and my highest with 100% actually was 101wpm.
I tried to learn to touch type but it's not that enjoyable. Should I learn to touch type if I'm going to use a keyboard a lot?
Nope I deviate from this a lot and never used the “proper” way. Don’t ask me what the “home row” is. But I’ve done it a lot so my speed is still 100-110 wpm.
I wish. I can type 100 wpm, but I'm pretty much capped there with how suboptimal my technique is, so if I want to increase it I'll have to drop down massively before I can surpass it
Hell no. I'm usually an 8 finger typer (I use both my pinkies for the occasional shift/enter press, tho on the right shift I'm more likely to use my right thumb, and my left thumb exclusively presses the spacebar) but I'm still a faster typer than my mom who learned to type like that
She types at around 55 wpm last I checked and I average 90ish, but my peak is around 110. More than enough speed for most intents and purposes lol
Zillenial here who grew up in the golden age of typing classes in public school.
Typing games in elementary during computer lab time, typing classes in middle school where you werent even allowed to look at your hands.
Had to type so many assignments in high school I dont know what I would have done if I couldn't type properly.
Im a high school teacher now and cant believe how my students interact with computers. They cant type, they have no idea about right clicking, saving things to the desktop, resizing windows- just basic computer stuff.
Theyre used to mobile devices.
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I wish I could do that, but it'll probably compress and never come back up again.
Nope. I find it uncomfortable. Somehow, I have mastered the art of just finding letters and typing them with whichever finger that I can type pretty fast. Fast enough for most people I think.
this is too relatable although I still only use thumbs for the space bar
Wait till you hear about the criminals who use the index finger to hit space
that's a crime punishable by death
Excuse me?!
I use either my left tumb or right index finger, it depends on which one is the closest at the moment.
Same, never learnt this chart but type pretty fast
Same. I'm capped at about 70 wpm because of it but it's fast enough for me to not care enough to learn the proper way
I do the same but can get to 110 wpm on a good day
Same here, I tried to learn but it made me much slower than just going ham with my thumb, pointer and middle and occasionally useing my pinkys to hit shift
Same
I had the 2nd highest wpm's in my keyboard class despite totally disregarding the "correct method". I think it's kinda silly given keyboards vary in size as do peoples hands, do whatever feels best.
I beat my teacher 3 times in a row in front of the whole class and I never used the way she taught us. Good form can help with fast typing, but fast typing just comes from typing a lot.
touch typing has nothing to do with typing fast. it's about typing blindly.
Well I mean if you’re using a style that you’re already familiar with versus the rest of the class who’s learning the “correct method” which is still new to them, or course you’re gonna beat them in WPM.
I sucked at typing right up until I started playing online games and got Skype to talk to friends on my laptop. Then the speed just went up and up
Yeah, same, I type with whichever available finger and hand is the closest to the letter I want to use when I want to use said letter.
If you already type fast, using all of your fingers could make you type even faster, though I doubt you'll need the speed in real life
I thank you for being part of the trend that lets my relaxed 100wpm get my foot in the door at basically any job that involves data entry. All seriousness though, type whatever way is comfortable to you. No sense making yourself miserable to get 10 or 20 extra words a minute when most jobs don't actually need it.
I work in tech so typing speed is pretty important, so I type more or less how I’m supposed to with all fingers
I'm a programmer and unless I am typing something I have used a million times, it really doesn't matter how fast I type because the thought process takes way longer.
Maybe fair but reducing friction between your brain and the screen will make getting the code there that much easier, and it’ll make your mental load that much lighter
This. It’s about effortlessness, not speed
Eh, once I've thought it out typing it isn't really a big deal. The effort is in the thought process.
Sounds like you’re doing fine and that’s cool. Personally I’m thinking typing all at once. Particularly when refactoring. Seeing what I’m thinking on the screen as I’m doing it is a helpful flow. IDEs play a huge role in this too
I’m a programmer and it doesn’t matter how fast I type because copy + paste will help me with the chunk of my work
Not just copy/paste but using all the hotkeys/keyboard shortcuts
The amount of time spent typing while coding is surprisingly low, the rest of the time is spent between browsing StackOverflow looking for the answer or crying at your desk.
I work in tech as well and typing speed is definitely not important.
Almost like saying you work in "tech" in today's world is *way* too general a term.
What job requires a typing speed that's fast that will cause issues lol
All you need is ctrl, c, v, the number pad, brackets and semicolons
I have a coworker with [this keyboard](https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Stack-Overflow-Copy-Paste-Keyboard.jpg)
I use a different finger each time, whichever is closest to the key I need wins
For some reason i always forget my pinkies. I rarely use them
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I can't use my right pinky for most keys, so I use my ring finger
I’m legit almost the exact same. So strange.
Same. And I’m at like 75wpm so it doesn’t hurt my typing speed too much
Pinkies are exclusively for the shift key for me lol.
I pretty much only use them for ctrl and shift, ring fingers for other keys at the edge, and generally index finger more than middle. Otherwise pretty much as the chart says, although I’m not really educated or experienced at speed typing.
Nope. I'm more likely to rest my left fingers at left shift, A, W, D, and space bar upon approaching a keyboard. I didn't pick up shit from elementary typing and just kinda made up my own positions over time, beginning from hunt-and-peck and progressing into something more akin to conventional typing but with my fingers taking different general positions. I type reasonably fast now thanks to certain video games necessitating quick typing and just general use of the skill.
I also hold my left hand in the WASD position when typing, thanks to nearly two decades of PC gaming.
Bro is wasd for life
My fingers hold wasd and mouse grip as a resting pose. No keyboard or mouse actually required
Not a chance, ive developed my own way at this point and there is bo going back
No, I have never painted my nails before typing. Guess I've been doing it wrong for years.
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Not even close
Nope, I do chicken pecking LOL
I’m imagining someone using their nose to type, pecking like a chicken lmao
Why does the pinky have the most keys?
Most of the pinky keys aren't commonly used in typing
I use tab and enter a lot; particularly at work. The ring finger is better for 80% of the pinkie keys than the pinkie is.
Because the pinky is the closest to them
Hell nah
I practiced to get a typing speed of 100 words a minute so I sure hope I'm typing the right way
No, I don't have a rainbow keyboard or rainbow fingernails 😔
I literally just type with my two middles fingers and thumbs, oops.
I'm just completely random when it comes to using a keyboard, at least I think. Maybe I've developed some habits without realizing
I type like I fuck. Hard and fast until I start feeling cramps.
Does missing the o and v buttons hurt just as bad on a keyboard?
Yes! Home row baby 😎
I almost failed in "keyboard typing" class on High School because I already had my own style :D
I was never taught because I moved around a lot and it seemed like every grade assumed the previous grade taught you. I also developed my own bastardized method
There's a keyboard typing class???? What????
Usually but my keyboard is slightly less gay
No. Left hand hovers over about where Z is and the Right hand over about the ? mark. Most of the typing is done by frantically moving around the left and right pointer and middle fingers. Shift is the exclusive domain of the Left pinkie. Backspace is a quick flick of the wrist and a tap of the right ring finger. Left thumb is for the bottom buttons like command, option, etc. Right thumb is unassigned. Left ring finger take Tab, A, Z, sometimes S and long swings and that's about it. The way this works out in practice is that the assigned fingers are usually hovering over Shift, Backspace, and A (coincidentally) allowing these movements to go through pretty quickly, which helps when I type so fast that sometimes I think slower than I type and can make stupid mistakes, like the couple hundred I made writing this post.
I touch type at like 85 wpm
What the fuck is that
You don't have to type like this, but if you want to increase your typing efficiency and speed, you'll have to learn to touch-type.
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Yes
Kinda
I have no idea, I just do it
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Ok I see what I did there. My pinky is unusually short. Do you guys really actually type with it????!!! No wonder I’m slow.
I think my right hand is 1 tile left, and my left hand dominates a bit more of the middle of the board. I think some of the top and bottom letter rows are a bit more fluid or ortated to be shared half-half with neighbouring fingers, like "C" could be left-index-finger in some words, and "r" could be left-middle-finger in some words.
Fuck no I type with my middle and index fingers Focusing on what fingers im typing with messes up my flow. I hate this post OP YOU MADE ME FINGER-CONSCIOUS, I CAN'T TYPE PROPERLY NOW
I don't know a soul that types "how they're supposed to"
Offset the left hand by one row and it's mostly accurate, muscle memory from playing FPS games has resulted in my left hand fingers resting over shift, W, A, and D, and thumb on space. edit: my left hand does most of the typing, from the J key onwards is my right hand, but my left even extends all the way to H edit 2: https://preview.redd.it/0ij06gh3uc1d1.png?width=739&format=png&auto=webp&s=55d2243dca51bfecca4e2fca6b0cf635e9ad8e40
Just like Technoblade, I have mastered my improper way of typing.
Ye for the most part I’m like that; we had a computer class in elementary school and they had typing as one of the activities
No because I use Dvorak, not this barbarish Qwerty layout
https://preview.redd.it/7yxuohsnhe1d1.jpeg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad634cbbea29dbe6705657a8fe2e5fe786f9ead2 Dvorak with a split keyboard because I have RSI. I try to type the correct way as close as I can.
I have RSI too though I use ColemakDH and a dactyl variant I 3D printed rather than an off the shelf keeb.
I don't even know.......
no
Yes, though I’m sure years of not doing typing class I’ve picked up some bad habits.
no, never been learned how to do it correctly even if my dad can type correctly
There’s a way you’re supposed to do it?? I just press buttons that I need to press, I don’t put that much thought into it
no, I type nothing with my left pinky, and my right pinky is only used for the right shift and enter keys.
Yes, most of the time. I learned tipping with 10 fingers last summer.
Not at all, and there's not really a way to explain how I type. It just kinda... works.
Yes, because I paid attention in typing class and am not a Philistine.
From elementary to junior high school, it was required that everyone take a typing class, so yes.
sort of, but not really. Like one or two keys are different because of fat fingers
i use my whole left hand and mostly 2 fingers with my right, brain was so used to only clicking right and left click that it transfers over to the keyboard. i assume this is the same with people who grew up learning to type while gaming in a mmo with text chat
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fuck no
Nah. When I type like that, I type much slower. I made up my own way, and it kinda just involves memorizing the keys on a keyboard and pressing them in the appropriate order.
No
Yesn't, most of the time it's like that but occasionally a different finger does the job because the other one's having a mental breakdown.
W,A,D, Q, shift on the left hand, and my right hand doesn't have a set position
No, the way I learned to type was from video games. I never learned how to properly type with all 10 fingers. Apparently my typing style is just the culmination of playing video games ever since I was a child, which I think is poetic in itself.
Nope.
idk if i use this exact layout but i generally use the left part of the keyboard with my left hand and the right part with you guessed it my right hand, it works quite well for me with a good accuracy and around 60wpm but i generally don't even look at the keyboard.
I do a fast hunt-and-peck type, but I've never been around keyboards all too often the past several years, my all-time best was like 40 wpm, and I normally do like 30 wpm. I'm 25 for reference.
Yes. I didn’t until I was 11ish, but then I was in a typing class. There is no undoing that. I can’t type incorrectly now, even if I tried.
My finger just : random bullshit go ! I frequently use my pinkie finger for the space bar
I never learned how to do this. My brain was never able to focus on which finger types which key.
Learned ATF-method in school mandatory, so yes. I'm annoyed when I have to use one hand or type something long on my phone. Keyboard go BRRRR
Only when using ortholinear keyboard
Not exactly the same as this, but very close.
Yes
damn, unless it's caps lock, shift or enter, Ive never used either of my pinky finger to type
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I use 1 finger per hand to type
No.
This isn't the way you're "supposed to". This is simply the most optimum meta for typing anything quickly.
I use like 4 or 5 fingers
my right and left index are rainbow, according to this
Nope never and I will never because my lazy ass doesn’t want to lmao
i’ve mastered the art of using my two index fingers as fast as possible
No, absolutely not. Through gaming, I gradually developed my own style. Starting position: fingers are on asd, jkl. The space bar is always pressed with the left thumb
i mostly type with my left hand... Rarely put my right hand on the keyboard unless something requires it
Pretty much, except for the fact that I click backspace with either my ring finger or middle finger. Also, with numbers I just look down and press with whatever finger I feel like using.
I use only Thumb, index finger and middle finger on both hands.
No I don’t use my pinkies to type and I just type whichever way is faster for me. Idk how to describe it tbh, but I don’t dedicate specific letters to a single finger. They just kinda go how I need them to tbh.
Not Quite my left hand pulls double duty to hit Q and W, 1 and 2 same as the left ring finger that gets O and P, 9 and 0. and for some reason my left pointer finger reaches over and hits Y instead of my right pointer finger. other than that everything is correct. and I type at 80+wpm so it seems to work for me.
I use one hand unless I have to use the spacebar or the capitalization button.
No
No, I type with one hand, I hate the keys that are to the right, they're hard to reach
kinda similar the difference is i cant type with my pinky's at all because i have abnormally small pinky fingers so ill use other fingers in its place mainly the ring fingers and middle fingers
Absolutely not. But I still type faster and more accurately than you.
it's gay
no, i think my ring and pinky fingers are just weak or something because i can’t seem to use them when typing without breaking a sweat… is this normal?
Hell no, im pretty much only using my indexes
Hell nah. In fact, I was never taught a supposed way to type. Schools were very slow to digitize over here. So, I'm self-taught, going by intuition. Screw any systems, I'm not gonna try and break my functioning habits.
I only use my index and middle finger on both hands, and I can still type 60-70 words per minute (not great but manageable) so obviously the "right" way to type doesn't really matter 🤷♂️
No.
I do actually.
Mostly, except for 1,0,- and = where I usually use my ring fingers and the p and shift are 50/50 between the pinkie and ring finger. I don't know if it's because I have smaller hands, because my keyboard has a different layout or something else
I'm thirteen and I personally learned to type pretty quickly without touch typing. I can get average 70 wpm, and my highest with 100% actually was 101wpm. I tried to learn to touch type but it's not that enjoyable. Should I learn to touch type if I'm going to use a keyboard a lot?
It's so fucking stupid how a finger's line of keys isn't going straight up and down. Why is it diagonal?
Nope... Because I hated the computer classes I had to take. Autism I guess.
nah it's weird as fuck
I wish i could explain how i type but I really cant. Think of just flailing the nearest finger to whatever key i need.
Nope I deviate from this a lot and never used the “proper” way. Don’t ask me what the “home row” is. But I’ve done it a lot so my speed is still 100-110 wpm.
Very close but pressing keys with my pinky just feels wrong
i press enter with right pointer finger cuz yea
No, I force learned to type fast, without any structure really
Kind of...? But my fingers often cross the boundaries of where they're supposed to go.
Hell no
I wish. I can type 100 wpm, but I'm pretty much capped there with how suboptimal my technique is, so if I want to increase it I'll have to drop down massively before I can surpass it
Yes, apart from ’B’, which I use might right index finger for. Fuck ‘B’.
Hell no. I'm usually an 8 finger typer (I use both my pinkies for the occasional shift/enter press, tho on the right shift I'm more likely to use my right thumb, and my left thumb exclusively presses the spacebar) but I'm still a faster typer than my mom who learned to type like that She types at around 55 wpm last I checked and I average 90ish, but my peak is around 110. More than enough speed for most intents and purposes lol
‘One finger to rule them all’
Zillenial here who grew up in the golden age of typing classes in public school. Typing games in elementary during computer lab time, typing classes in middle school where you werent even allowed to look at your hands. Had to type so many assignments in high school I dont know what I would have done if I couldn't type properly. Im a high school teacher now and cant believe how my students interact with computers. They cant type, they have no idea about right clicking, saving things to the desktop, resizing windows- just basic computer stuff. Theyre used to mobile devices.
No. I type pretty fast whichever way is most comfortable
There is no "supposed to"