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The Universal Call · 01-18-2007, 09:36 PM

*cough cough* Chat-program *cough cough*

I'm serious. I used to spend my days in a trivia-room at IRC in my younger days (maybe three years ago, when I was 14-15) and unless you adapted to typing like a God you wouldn't score any points - ever. At least not when there were other people playing

Yes, I started out looking at the keyboard, trying to recall how long it took me to figure out touch-typing I am getting a rough number of 2 weeks (I'm almost a natural, amazing). When looking through this thread I see that the second reply offered a link claiming how to learn you touch-typing in a mere 2 weeks. It shouldn't take longer than that, it's not hard, really (I'm generalizing this, yeah, but it's still somewhat relevant) and I would surely have pulled it off sooner too, unless I hadn't actually been *that* inspired to learn it (I was new at chatting, and new at the chatroom, my wish for touch-typing wasn't at all that big in the beginning).

Being both someone that plays and writes on the computer this is my layout:
Left pinky at shift, ringfinger at a, middlefinger at w, index finger at d, and my thumb at the space. When writing my right hand is somewhat free, and only the index, middle, and ring- finger take part in the writing (when playing this hand is obviously used by the mouse).

As told by the others in this thread (and pretty selfdeclarant) this is a great skill too learn - if one is the kind of person that uses a computer regularly. However, I digress, back to my first argument - a chatprogram can really aid you! If you got a favorite place to spend your typing days; I would go there, and chat away. Also, you can challenge yourself. Closing one's eyes when writing something and pressing enter has the somewhat amusing effect that if you wrote wrong you will be harrassed for it by your friends, and if you did it correctly- you learned something.

Anyway, I frown at myself considering this is a rather unnecessary input in your thread, considering you've probably already resorted to one of the given links in this thread.

01-18-2007, 09:36 PM	#9 (permalink)
The Universal Call Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Sweden Posts: 82	cough cough Chat-program cough cough I'm serious. I used to spend my days in a trivia-room at IRC in my younger days (maybe three years ago, when I was 14-15) and unless you adapted to typing like a God you wouldn't score any points - ever. At least not when there were other people playing Yes, I started out looking at the keyboard, trying to recall how long it took me to figure out touch-typing I am getting a rough number of 2 weeks (I'm almost a natural, amazing). When looking through this thread I see that the second reply offered a link claiming how to learn you touch-typing in a mere 2 weeks. It shouldn't take longer than that, it's not hard, really (I'm generalizing this, yeah, but it's still somewhat relevant) and I would surely have pulled it off sooner too, unless I hadn't actually been that inspired to learn it (I was new at chatting, and new at the chatroom, my wish for touch-typing wasn't at all that big in the beginning). Being both someone that plays and writes on the computer this is my layout: Left pinky at shift, ringfinger at a, middlefinger at w, index finger at d, and my thumb at the space. When writing my right hand is somewhat free, and only the index, middle, and ring- finger take part in the writing (when playing this hand is obviously used by the mouse). As told by the others in this thread (and pretty selfdeclarant) this is a great skill too learn - if one is the kind of person that uses a computer regularly. However, I digress, back to my first argument - a chatprogram can really aid you! If you got a favorite place to spend your typing days; I would go there, and chat away. Also, you can challenge yourself. Closing one's eyes when writing something and pressing enter has the somewhat amusing effect that if you wrote wrong you will be harrassed for it by your friends, and if you did it correctly- you learned something. Anyway, I frown at myself considering this is a rather unnecessary input in your thread, considering you've probably already resorted to one of the given links in this thread. Last edited by The Universal Call; 01-18-2007 at 09:39 PM. Reason: (clarification)