Do you touch typing?
By anetteh
@anetteh (3590)
Sweden
May 26, 2009 10:13pm CST
When I write here in mylot or in other places I use the touch writing method. I learned that in school for about 25 years ago. I then went to classes to be a type writer for an office. However, in that time we did not have computers to type on we used typerwriter. But those are no longer in use. And by the time I was ended the shcool I never had the chance to use those typewriters, becouse of the invention of computers and we the office secretery were not needed as before.
I worked as a cleaner in the hospital for some time and then I got in to school again to become an economy for factoryes. But then I got divorced and had to support two kids so I got the diploma for a assistance nurse and today I do not use my touch writing so much at work. So to keep up with the speed of my writing I use mylot...
Mylot is god for a lot of things. It helps me keep the speed of my writing, and I do not need to look at the keyboard when writing.
So, how about you, do you touch write, do you have the skills of touch writing and type fast and let the fingers dance on the keyboard.
Mylot is god for a lot of things. It helps me keep the speed of my writing, and I do not need to look at the keyboard when writing.
So, how about you, do you touch write, do you have the skills of touch writing and type fast and let the fingers dance on the keyboard.2 people like this
10 responses
@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
28 May 09
Some twenty years ago I enrolled in dyna-typing or touch typing and that is where I got this touch typing skill. I've enhanced this skill through constant practice and when I started working. I think learning touch typing is a must especially to those who want to be fast typist. It will really help in accomplishing more typing and computer jobs.
@anetteh (3590)
• Sweden
28 May 09
hi salonga, Touch typing fast is great. You can do work mor faster and you actually can write lot more than if you do not have the skills of the keyboard in your head. And I have trouble and get frustraded when I sit with someone who use forfingers when writing...then I go away, cant watch it
@drumm1n (499)
• India
27 May 09
ohh..yeah!..well i dint really realise i had this ability to type without looking at the keyboard untill once while i was doing an assignment , the electricity went and i kept typing! i mean i could see the keys but not clearly!But now im like crazy fast on a keyboard!haha i wish they had type-o-thons! that would really be something id be the kelly slater of typing!(kelly slater is a pro surfer for those of you who dont know!! )
@dreamr802 (985)
• United States
27 May 09
My mom was a secretary before I was born so when I was younger and we got our first computer she bought me Mario teaches typing. that was the best game ever. It taught me how to type and I never look down at the keyboard. I type on average about 70 words/minute. I love typing. If I could find a job where all I did was type I would so happy.
@anetteh (3590)
• Sweden
28 May 09
I had to learn for my self at school whith text books and a peace of paper with the keyboard on for a electric typewriter, there was no computer in that time,. I still have that peace of paper in my head. But then, the keyboard have changes some times so you have to learn something new from time to time...lucky thought it do not happen to often.
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
27 May 09
I do type very fast with only tapping the keys very quickly. I've done those WPM tests and they have said that I can type up to 75 WPM. Ofcourse when I am thinking about what to say the speed of my typing isn't nearly as fast. I've never used a typewriter but I know I have seen one. I think in music class in elementary school there was a typewriter, but as for why we had one in music class I'm not sure. Then again I was young so I'm not sure if that's true or not.
Happy Typing! Mylot is great for so many different things.
@anetteh (3590)
• Sweden
27 May 09
In college I had to write a lots of rapports to the teachers in different courses I intended. So tryping fast was my goal so I could do lots of rapports in one day. Now, I am glad I did, this makes typing responses here in mylot a hole lot faster than if I only would as many others use the forfingers...
@AltheGreat2430 (2716)
• Philippines
27 May 09
Yes, I do touch type whenever I'm required. I have an encoding job and I am required to type fast with a very high accuracy. As of now my typing skill is at 60-70 words per minute. The fastest that I did is 74 words per minute with a 100% accuracy. I uploaded the screen shot of it.
@manleyjoe (1597)
• United States
27 May 09
I also took the typing class in high school only it was about 50 years ago and we just started using the electric typewriter, our class still had the manual ones. I went into the Army and was using it again when I was becoming a radio operator, teletype entry clerk. Then when I got sick and missed a lot of class, had to learn Morse code, I got transferred to the personnel school and again I was using the typewriter.
I guess what I am saying is I use the touch type in most of my typing and stuff. After 20 years at the typing and stuff I find it to be pretty easy. What is not easy is keeping my responses short. I start to explain something and seem to go on and on. maybe I should try and write a book or something.
@anetteh (3590)
• Sweden
27 May 09
Touch typing is easier to make the responses longer...I know that my self. I do the same. I have a little secret, I do not like to sit beside some one using the forfinger when typing. That makes me so frustraded so I have to go away for not take over the keyboard...
@kriszelunka (557)
• Australia
27 May 09
All of my jobs have involved using computers and typing, so I am a relatively fast typist, and always touch type. I don't even need to think about which fingers should be hitting which letters - it just happens automatically because I've been doing it for so long.
I'm usually up at around 80wpm (words per minute), though if I'm typing dictation, it's normally slower as I have to constantly stop to recheck what the person has said.
@anetteh (3590)
• Sweden
27 May 09
Yes, touch writing with the skills really are automatically and you do not think when typing. I gather that when you write you also like me feel when you tye a wrong word. I can even feel I am on the wrong letter before I see the wrong word on the screen....
@snowy22315 (182184)
• United States
27 May 09
By touch typing if you mean not having to look at the keyboard when you type i do that. i can find many things that I can do while I type. I guess there are many things you can do while you are typing. I usually am watching TV at the time when I am typing. Thre are alot of things that can be done and if you touch type you can do it.
@anetteh (3590)
• Sweden
27 May 09
I do not watch tv when I am online...But I can listen to musc and I look at the screen and not the keyboard...
But I can talk with my son and look at him if he wants to talk to me for some reason. I also look out the window to see the happenings outside...Still typing...lots of words in short time.
But I can listen to musc and I look at the screen and not the keyboard...But I can talk with my son and look at him if he wants to talk to me for some reason. I also look out the window to see the happenings outside...Still typing...lots of words in short time.
