Should I stop how I'm typing now or continue?

Ryu Hitokiri · 03-25-2007, 02:27 AM

Well in school they always teach you to type with the home position and how certain fingers touch certain keys and only those fingers. I have my own way of typing that is so much faster to me and I've been doing it for a couple years now. Everyone at school is amazed at how fast I type. I'm 15 years old and I was wondering, should I get used to using the home position again, or do whatever works for me?

Trizoy · 03-25-2007, 02:45 AM

Get a dvorak keyboard and you will be able to go much faster.

The original keyboards were designed to be the most Inneffieceint, that is the qwerty keyboard. It was made to be inneffiecint so old type writers would not get the swing arms all tied up.

The dvorak keyboard has the most used keys in the center of the keyboard, thus allows much higher typing speeds.

But on your questions, follow what you know, and tell your typing teacher you are effiecient at your way... and don't wish to learn theirs.

It is simply a different way, not better not worse.

Enjoihcky24/7 · 03-25-2007, 03:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ryu Hitokiri

Well in school they always teach you to type with the home position and how certain fingers touch certain keys and only those fingers. I have my own way of typing that is so much faster to me and I've been doing it for a couple years now. Everyone at school is amazed at how fast I type. I'm 15 years old and I was wondering, should I get used to using the home position again, or do whatever works for me?

It depends does your way work if you are looking at the screen and not your fingers? Or maybe if you are looking at a hand-written paper you need to type up? I personally don't quite use home row keys but I am close to using them.

Jonyboy · 03-25-2007, 04:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trizoy

Get a dvorak keyboard and you will be able to go much faster.

The original keyboards were designed to be the most Inneffieceint, that is the qwerty keyboard. It was made to be inneffiecint so old type writers would not get the swing arms all tied up.

The dvorak keyboard has the most used keys in the center of the keyboard, thus allows much higher typing speeds.

But on your questions, follow what you know, and tell your typing teacher you are effiecient at your way... and don't wish to learn theirs.

It is simply a different way, not better not worse.

The qwerty keyboard wasn't made to be ineficiant, it was made so that the most used keys would be seperate to keep the most used sqing arms seperate, and so obviously less jams.

One example of this is that when you type you type a key at one end of the heyboard and then the other.

cryption · 03-25-2007, 04:32 PM

you want to get crazy?

Bradan · 03-25-2007, 04:46 PM

and i thought that one microsoft ergonomic-humped keyboard was silly

PohTayToez · 03-25-2007, 06:46 PM

How do you type, out of curiosity?

Also, I've thought about learning a dvorak keyboard, but I'm afraid that I'll get so used to it that I'll have problems with a qwerty... which are everywhere.

X24 · 03-25-2007, 07:31 PM

well i type a little under 110 wpm on a qwerty keyboard, so i'm pretty sure that a dvorak keyboard wouldn't improve my speed by a whole lot.

Jonyboy · 03-25-2007, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by X24

well i type a little under 110 wpm on a qwerty keyboard, so i'm pretty sure that a dvorak keyboard wouldn't improve my speed by a whole lot.

I can only do 35 WPM, lol

http://www.typeonline.co.uk/typingspeed.php?

Ryu Hitokiri · 03-26-2007, 02:36 AM

I dunno like I just type with my fingers that are closest to the key I want to press depending on how my hands are hovered over the keyboard. And I don't look at the keyboard at all. It's really weird like my left hand is basically home position but my right hand is all over the place.

03-25-2007, 02:27 AM	#1 (permalink)
Ryu Hitokiri Bronze Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 65	Should I stop how I'm typing now or continue? Well in school they always teach you to type with the home position and how certain fingers touch certain keys and only those fingers. I have my own way of typing that is so much faster to me and I've been doing it for a couple years now. Everyone at school is amazed at how fast I type. I'm 15 years old and I was wondering, should I get used to using the home position again, or do whatever works for me? __________________ Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 SP 2 Intel Pentium 4 Prescott 3.06GHz - Zalman CNPS 9700 LED AUGSBURG-G3 GV Seagate Barracuda 200GB SATA HD 7200RPM Maxtor 160GB SATA HD 7200RPM 1GB DDR PC3200 200MHz VisionTek Radeon 9250 256MB PCI 240MHz Corsair HX520W SLI Modular PSU Proview 19" LCD Flat Panel Logitech G5 USB

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Trizoy VIP Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Campbell, Ca Posts: 4,650	Get a dvorak keyboard and you will be able to go much faster. The original keyboards were designed to be the most Inneffieceint, that is the qwerty keyboard. It was made to be inneffiecint so old type writers would not get the swing arms all tied up. The dvorak keyboard has the most used keys in the center of the keyboard, thus allows much higher typing speeds. But on your questions, follow what you know, and tell your typing teacher you are effiecient at your way... and don't wish to learn theirs. It is simply a different way, not better not worse. __________________ 01100110 01100001 01110010 01110100

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PohTayToez Diamond Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Illinois Age: 19 Posts: 2,541	How do you type, out of curiosity? Also, I've thought about learning a dvorak keyboard, but I'm afraid that I'll get so used to it that I'll have problems with a qwerty... which are everywhere. __________________ Desktop / Laptop ASUS A8N-E / Compaq Presario v6420us AMD Athlon 3200+ @ 2.50Ghz / AMD Athlon X2 TK-53 @ 1.70Ghz MSI GeForce 7800GT / GeForce Go 6150 2 x 512MB DDR / 2 x 1GB DDR2 250GB SATA II / 80GB 5400RPM SATA 2 x DVD Burner / 8X DVD±R/RW

03-25-2007, 07:31 PM	#8 (permalink)
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03-26-2007, 02:36 AM	#10 (permalink)
Ryu Hitokiri Bronze Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 65	I dunno like I just type with my fingers that are closest to the key I want to press depending on how my hands are hovered over the keyboard. And I don't look at the keyboard at all. It's really weird like my left hand is basically home position but my right hand is all over the place. __________________ Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 SP 2 Intel Pentium 4 Prescott 3.06GHz - Zalman CNPS 9700 LED AUGSBURG-G3 GV Seagate Barracuda 200GB SATA HD 7200RPM Maxtor 160GB SATA HD 7200RPM 1GB DDR PC3200 200MHz VisionTek Radeon 9250 256MB PCI 240MHz Corsair HX520W SLI Modular PSU Proview 19" LCD Flat Panel Logitech G5 USB

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