I don't know what all the fuss is.. I do not homerow touch-type and occasionally have to look at the keyboard and I can do 90 wpm easily. I can't imagine that actually learning to type rather than only using the index finger of my left hand with my right is any slower...

This is hard to follow. I wish I could see the whole "paragraph" at one time instead of it jumping every two lines. Too confusing. Granted, I type best when I'm totally zoned out off of the screen and real life. When I was in lectures I'd type my notes with my eyes closed.

That's what I was trying to argue for. ;o

Also I was complaining about the same thing, Kame. xD That's why I'd prefer a free-type thing that just makes sure you aren't typing the same thing over and over and are actually typing words.

I used to type out song-lyrics in real-time. That'd be a way to type out something that is real words without having to look at it them on a screen. All you'd need is a word processor.

Yeah. Anything <130 is 'really fast' for QWERTY. But pretty laughable on Dvorak. I used to use the Dvorak key setup when I used to transcribe for a professor emeritus who visited our school, I remember averaging around 190-200.

Interesting factoids:

• the word 'typewriter' is the longest English word able to be written from a single row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
  
• the typewriters' mechanical method of hammering keys onto paper is the result of the QWERTY layout. Key placement was constructed to minimise the hammers locking or crossing paths.
  
• QWERTY layout has over 3000 words that can be typed by the 'left' hand alone. And only 300 that can be typed by the 'right' hand only.
  
• 'minimum' is a 'right handed' word. Using your left hand to hit any of those keys would be epic fail.
  

Out of three tries. I'm slow.

I originally wasn't going to post in here under the assumption everyone would just be pointing at the old thread ...

I agree with Farty. I've done another typing test, not sure if it's the same as this one, which also does the "page of words at a time", and I always pause for a moment when it switches. And I'm used to correcting my own errors, sometimes after I finish typing the word, so not being able to screws me up a bit too.

Personally, I don't know how I type. I assume it's pretty similar to "standard", though, from what I've seen. Just lazier and accomodating of my particular finger lengths and whathaveyou.

This.

the problem is that Dvoraks never caught on =/

I found the problem with my typing. I had moved from a laptop to a regular ergonomic. I am still used to the laptop, and when I get the money I'll get a keyboard with really flat keys.

There can only be one.

Touch Typing:
Two-finger:


I usually use two-finger, like Farty and DTBK, and only recently started touchtyping, so yeah.

I use a pretty odd keyboard. The Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 v1.0. Lol whatthefux who names a keyboard that.

The most interesting aspect is the split, as the number "6" is supposed to be typed with the right hand, but in this arrangement it is put on the left side. This design causes problems on some games where keys like "Y" and "N" are used to create cyber cores and nexuses. But I love the music "play/pause" button because it actually works with most music programs and doesn't require that it's the top program. Volume and mute are also helpful. Still no clue what "Zoom" does.

Ew, how can you only use two fingers to type? It's so... weird. I mess up so much more when I only use two fingers.

I have a non-ergonomic keyboard that has the play, stop, fast forward. I use it so often. It has a few buttons I never use. I can't type on anything but a flat keyboard. I do type very oddly. I can type normally with my left hand but I use my right index finger only. Comes from playing the piano I guess. Chords on the left, and single notes on the right.

First Try:
You reached 456 points, so you achieved position 934 of 279509 on the ranking list


You type 632 characters per minute
You have 113 correct words and
you have 6 wrong words

Second Try:
You reached 509 points, so you achieved position 324 of 279605 on the ranking list


You type 658 characters per minute
You have 121 correct words and
you have 1 wrong words



I was the fastest typer in my school, I have never met someone who can type faster than me, though I have heard about them. Keep in mind the lady who won Guiness didn't use QWERTY, I believe, but some other more efficient keyboard. The highest score I can ever remember having is 128wpm with 99% accuracy. I have never heard of this keystroke per minute thing though, link me to a test?

I used to use two fingers (hunt-and-peck) ... How I type is basically a variant of that where I use the closest finger to the key I want to type next (hunt and peck, using additional fingers). Left hand I basically use all of my fingers (some significantly more than others, though). It seems that with my right hand I only use my index finger for keys, I'll use my ring finger to hit the keys in the top right corner (basckspace, -, = [, ], \, sometimes p, etc.), and my pinky for shift. Now if I type for a while, I will probably find that it is a little more complicated than that (as I said earlier, every time I find trends in how I type they end up being wrong)...


Also you can just free type into this and then just add the wrong words and correct words together ... You wont find accuracy and your placement will be tremendously low, but you can ignore the crap. xD
Also I had a typing class in jr. high and I remember my WPM peaking at around 160, and always above 130 when speed-testing. :\ I used to often say (due to popular conversation between people I guess) "I have no idea how much I can bench press, but I can type faster than my body weight in words-per-minute.".

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Sep 5 2011, 7:30 pm by FaRTy1billion.

Here's the old topic. It links to a typing test of actually paragraphs.

Here's the other typing test.

Haha, I'm the reverse of that. I use almost all the fingers on my right hand to reach most of the keys on the keyboard (maybe a little over half), and then only the index finger on my left hand to hit keys on that side of the keyboard.

Go back to the first page and compare me and inf's score.

I got one more incorrect word and 30-40 more characters. Inf got in like the 3k's, i got in like the 5k's.

Wtfux

Ranking is based on points. He got many more points than you. Points definitely seems to take into account errors on words, and I would guess it probably takes into account the difficulty of words, with more difficult words having both more characters as well as higher point scores. I typoed 'mountain' quite a few times for some reason, and there's also India and America with capitals which will undoubtedly have higher points than the other words on average.

Further to Cardinal's interesting factoids:
stewardesses is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.