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My father gave me a computer in 1992 when I was 4 (why?) so I began typing long before I knew there was a proper way. Neither of my parents were ever good at ty
by simonsarris 16y ago
My father gave me a computer in 1992 when I was 4 (why?) so I began typing long before I knew there was a proper way. Neither of my parents were ever good at typing, and still use hunt-and-peck even today.
I remember when I was young, maybe 6 or 7 showing my uncle that I could type without having to look at the keys, and while I use all 10 fingers, my hand position is nowhere near the typical touch-typing one.
Usually my left hand comes at the keyboard perpendicular and my right one comes in at a 45 degree angle, so my hands are like:
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on the keys. My left hand stays mostly stationary, occasionally extending the first digit, while my right hand moves left and right slightly as I go.
So considering this, which option on the above poll should I be pressing? I use all 10 fingers, and don't look at the keyboard to calibrate myself, so I technically do touch type, but I have never used the JF nibs to get my position and certainly don't maintain the traditional touch typing posture. (the fingers on the home row thing)
- makmanalp 16y agoSame with the hunt and peck. With the hand angles too. I usually anchor my left pinkie on the ctrl key (which is why laptops that switch fn and ctrl annoy the crap out of me) but I find that sometimes that left hand drifts off of the ctrl but I keep typing fine. And then it sits back on there when I'm done. Touch typing doesn't really take into account key-modifiers like shift / alt / ctrl, tab, f-keys, insert / delete or even home / end / pageup / pagedown which all come up very often during coding or doing stuff in the commandline or in your favourite editor.