QWERTY Proficiency

My little sister asked me how long it took to get to the point when I didnt have to look at the keyboard anymore, I honestly dont remember. Can any of you say exactly when it was that you stopped sucking at typing?

My little sister asked me how long it took to get to the point when I didnt have to look at the keyboard anymore, I honestly dont remember. Can any of you say exactly when it was that you stopped sucking at typing?

Jehuty08

Just a few minutes ago.

I still look at the keyboard. I am majoring n computer science. I don't know if I should be worried.Vadislav

Im sure you'll do fine :D

I do type without looking most of the time, I glance down a lot though.

Sucking? The entirety of the 90's was me playing my beloved edutainment games on PC which consisted of typing games. Typing arcade, basketball typing, cowboy shooting-type typing, and then there was the typing at school. And then there was me typing my dad's reports while sitting in his office chair as his way of teaching me discipline and perseverance and most importantly, typing.

I prefer the abc keyboard...

well i kinda learned my junior year in HS, but i still had to look at the keyboard. id say it was at the end of senior year and during the summer where i pretty much learned the keys. though i still look at the keyboard for certain letters:P

Those typing games sucked. I hated them so much. I think I got most proficient when I started playing Starcraft when I was a kid. No voice chat, and I'd be talking to like four friends in different games and channels using the whisper command. Just so much typing involved it would take way too long to hunt and peck.

That and writing since I was in sixth grade. I'm so lazy these days the only writing I want to do is at a keyboard because the ol' pen and paper tires out my hand and the words don't come out nearly as fast.

Took me a few months I guess. I had to take typing in Junior High though.

Ehhh...somewhere in middle school or early high school I think. That said I still glance over to see where all the special character keys are.gameguy6700

I always look at the keyboard, despite the fact that I have taken a few computer classes.

Just a few minutes ago.

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Engrish_Major

Clearly, you need more practice.

I always look at the keyboard, despite the fact that I have taken a few computer classes.

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Just a few minutes ago.

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Gorillanator

Clearly, you need more practice.

Lol, I never noticed that. Nice catch.:lol:

In about a week after it dawned on me I might need to be able to back up some of the claims I'd made in a CV. I can't remember the name of the tutorial program, but it was the Typing of the Dead marathons which really did the trick.jimmyjammer69

We had some kind of children's software called "Paws Party".

I can type without looking at the keyboard easily for only letters. I have to look for like half of the symbols though. I'm also pretty slow at using a number pad.

Also, I only use the left shift button and push down the space bar with my left hand.

I took a typing class for a quarter of 6th grade, and I learned how to type just from that. I memorized the layout of the keyboard pretty quickly, and the rest is just practice from using the computer so much I guess lol.

I have been using computers for as long as I can remember so I only need to look at the keyboard to find the starting letter.

I don't need to look at the keyboard but I can't type properly in the dark either, I need to have the keyoard in my field of vision but I don't have to look down on it, edit: actually nevermind I tried it with my eyes and got it pefect so... Probably took about five years, I honestly have no idea, it's kinda important to not look down all the time when you're playing online games and since I'vep layed way too much it just came naturally after a while.

Probably some time around the seventh or eighth grade when I had to take a typing class.

a long long time ago.... maybe like 12-13 years ago, when i was like 6 years old

I learned when I was 10 or 11 I think. I used some Typing Tutor program for a bit but eventually wound up teaching myself.

I guess I was in the 10th grade I believe when I took a typing class. Didn't use it much until I got a PC and then it took some time to get back into the swing of things. I still look at the keyboard on occasion, but rarely do nowadays.