Comments on Profile Post by belac555

What did you first use? QWERTZ or AZERTY? Or some other thing that I don't remember/know? :P

How do you mean?

I just type i dont use a mothod but i type REALLY fast the way i type so learning QWERTY is just annoying

The next question is: how fast? ;)
Although I guess a more appropriate question to ask would be: what method do you use? Or is it subconscious? :P

Probably the latter but my WPM is usually upwards of 60

What do you mean with "learning QWERTY"?

I have never typed that way but my mtoher is making me learn it
she says it will be beneficial even tho i type faster the old way i type

What do you mean with old way and new way?

The old way i type is just moving my fingers around to type the new way (for me) is QWERTY and i absolutly hate it

I still have no clue what you mean... don't you still have to move your fingers around??

Did you previously use Dvorak?

Okay, here's a question that should be easier to answer: in the old way, how many fingers do you use?

1.yes but with QWERTY your fingers stay on certain keys and you only move them when you need to type other keys
2.No i have never used any type of special typing.
3.I used just my 2 index fingers it seems weird but i have used it so much i have gotten really good at it

Yay, you answered the question! :D
You can't be nearly as fast using just two fingers than using 10, though, on big keyboards, so enjoy being able to type more quickly. :)

Yeah changing is a bit weird, but eventually you'll manage and improve greatly! If you can do 60 WPM with just two fingers, I think that you will be really quick when you learn to use more fingers. :)

@607: I actually feel like I don't use all 10 fingers... :P I don't think either pinky gets used much, and I'm not sure if I use both thumbs for the space bar... Still, 7 > 2 by a great margin. :P

Heh, yeah, I guess maybe not all 10. :P I don't use my left thumb on iPad and I don't use my pinkies there either, but I think I probably do use all on a regular keyboard. But maybe I don't use the left thumb there either, I should check! (I did just realise that on iPad I press Shift using my right thumb, that's interesting)

Huh no, today I do use my right pinky for Shift. :P

After some testing, it seems that I use even less fingers than I thought I did... :P

I don't appear to use my left pinky at all, nor my right pinky. My right finger doesn't appear to be used either, only sometimes when I press enter or backspace, but those times I mostly pressed them with my middle finger as well (two fingers at the same time... :P). I also don't think I use my right thumb much or at all for the space bar...

So it seems that for my left hand, the tasks are divided much more fairly; between 4 fingers. For my right hand, 2 fingers have to do everything. :P Do mind that I exclusively use the left shift, but still... My left hand probably - actually, I can confirm this to be true :P - goes quite far to the right, taking over keys that officially your right hand should do.

These weird habits probably have to do with that I have never properly learned to type - I learned everything by myself - and that I am left handed. Oh and maybe also because I use the mouse with my right hand, and play games with my left hand, so it's already used to covering a wider area.

This conversation made me think about trying to learn the Colemak keyboard layout. I'm still not sure, but I might just do it...

I use my left pinky for the shift button, but not for anything else and only use my right pinky if using the numpad, backspace, enter, or arrow keys. I also don't use my ring fingers at all. We were always taught to use this "home row" method but I always find that difficult because I learned my own way of typing at a very young age.

Huh, that's interesting, Tom! I hadn't heard of a new keyboard layout.

There are more than you think, actually! I went googling for Dvorak, read that Colemak was better, googled for that, read that Workman was better, googled for that, read that another weird layout (which had 4 different versions, even...) was better, googled that, and came to the conclusion that probably practically Colemak is best, because of it relative well-knownness and it keeping ZXCV where they are in QWERTY. :P

Still not sure whether I'll change, though. :P

I read 'you' is awkward to type in Colemak (and it does feel so, but I can't know how easy it would be once I got used to it), which does occur a lot in English.

I won't, there's no reason to. My fingers never hurt from typing, and I can type absurdly fast.