Move your entire hand over.

But what if some of us type at like 130 with 99% accuracy already? *shows off*

Interesting. I took a few typing tests and find that I type between 70 and 80 wpm, but with (I knew this part) about four times more errors than is acceptable (4-8/min).

Oh, pff. That's totally different. D:
My keyboard teacher in Middle School decided that I didn't have to do anything in the class ( though I had to stay, as it was mandatory ) , because she knew I already typed faster than any of the other kids there, and I haven't taken lessons.
I can type in close to an "ordinary" manner through muscle memory.
65wpm? That's slow.
I use my middle/ring fingers for shift, and my index for slash. But I'm weird.

I just type with whatever finger happens to be closest to the key I want at the moment, for the most part. Exceptions mostly being when it would take a digit far from where I'm used to it being ( i.e., ring finger stays near backspace ) . It works out fairly well ( 90-120 wpm typical, and I can maintain 130 if I want to ) .

Sounds sort of like what I do, except my left hand is pretty anemic and I usually only use the index finger on it (I should probably work on fixing this, since whenever something stays on the left side of the keyboard I slow way down). I use my index and middle fingers on the right hand, plus right thumb for space. I generally start getting errors because I am not very exact so I either move over a row or column and start typing transposed or I land in the middle of two keys.

QWERTY is probably a better layout for me since the alternation between keyboard sides lets me get away with only one finger on the left hand.

What?

Myself, I use the qwerty thing, just because I don't see any point to switching. I have a fine keyboard right now. Why buy a new one?

Lol, you guys are totally lying about your WPM, journalists and such don't even type that fast, 80 is pushing it, but 120? Psh..

In the keyboarding class they made everyone do in the first couple of years of school, the record WPM was about 70... So you might be wrong there, Falk.

Then again, the "words" were very simple ones like "cat", so it might be artificially high.

Yeah, try doing a test where you're typing a college paper out with plenty of punctuation and such.

http://www.typeonline.co.uk/typingspeed.php
I just ran through a tester, I did 103 WPM without mistakes with QWERTY. I think I'm fine . EDIT: Took it again, I made a mistake but corrected it and got 103 again. Yay me.
Ezday, try that test. Cheeze, same.

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I took Centreri's testing thingy and got 93WPM using QWERTY. Am I fine too?

When I took the alphanumeric one: http://typeonline.co.uk/typingspeed_alpha_numeric.php?
I only got 60, and one mistake. Ouch.

I did that test from Google. I got 65 wpm with 1 mistake.

What does buying a keyboard have to do with using a dvorak format? >.>
Either your information is poor, or the tests they're taking are twice as hard as ours. ;o
97wpm, one mistake. I've been lifting weights/exercising a couple hours ago, which leaves my fingers sore, and I just got back from a grocery store ( at 26 degrees outside ) .

edit: hay, I just realized that rhymed!

71 wpm, and one mistake because apparently I can't read stupid British words Although that test lets you go back and correct your errors, which I did from time to time.

It does, but that decreases your wpm. I liked it because it was hard. And I've trumped everyone so far .

No real reason for me to switch from QWERTY.

I always thought that >60 wpm was an accomplishment, and had no Idea that I could type over it

Excuses, excuses..

Your speed was: 94wpm.

Congratulations! You made no mistakes, practice does make perfect.

In the breathless stillness of a tropical afternoon, when the air was hot and heavy, and the sky brazen and cloudless, the shadow of the Malabar lay solitary on the surface of the glittering sea. The sun - who rose on the left hand every morning a blazing ball, to move slowly through the unbearable blue, until he sank fiery red in mingling glories of sky and ocean to the right hand - had just got low enough to peep beneath the awning that covered the poop-deck, and awaken a young man, in an undress military uniform who was dozing on a coil of rope.

I think I make too many mistakes- so it makes my wpm considerable lower for what I really type.

Hah, I found a flaw in that system. Lookie lookie!

Speaking of buying new keyboards...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinesis_(keyboard)