How Many Fingers Do you Type With? - Page 10
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writer22816
United States5775 Posts
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b0lt
United States786 Posts
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FiWiFaKi
Canada9858 Posts
On April 21 2014 10:28 obesechicken13 wrote: Shouldn't you use a poll that correlates the user's fingers to their wpm directly? I thought about it, but it's not very effective. Way too many polls for each category, and people tend to vote in more than one poll, or vote in the wrong poll, and it just wouldn't give a very accurate measure either. Plus when I made the thread, I didn't expect this thread to get so big, and therefore I didn't expect 500 people to vote - thinking the sample size would be smaller. ^^ | ||
Weasel-
Canada1552 Posts
Also that typing test is really hard because I have to type somebody else's words. When typing out this post I typed at least 4x faster than on that typing test, and with only one error vs 20 or so for the entire paragraph. | ||
itkovian
United States1763 Posts
I thought I typed with all eight of my fingers, but after doing the test, and trying out a little bit on my own, I found my right pinky is pretty idle, that little slacker. He's mostly camping shift and return, not much else | ||
Ragoo
Germany2773 Posts
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PVJ
Hungary5051 Posts
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c0ldfusion
United States8292 Posts
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kaztah
Norway1221 Posts
From that I got around 100 wpm and 96%ish accuracy. I'm surprised how many people actually have +120, considering that's pretty much what their live updated scoreboard consist of. I have no idea how many fingers I use thought, since I have no idea how I'm supposed to notice that when typing is all muscle memory for now. But I would guess around 5~ | ||
c0ldfusion
United States8292 Posts
If I really force myself to focus on typing I can hit over 90. But by then my fingers are quite tired and there is no way I can't keep this up for an extended period of time. ::Shrugs:: Maybe my techniques are all wrong. In either case, this my normal typing speed of 70-80 WPM is certainly not a bottleneck of my writing productivity on the computer. Unless one spends a considerable amount of time taking dictation, I can't imagine this would be a practical limitation for anyone here. | ||
phosphorylation
United States2935 Posts
I am a classically trained pianist - maybe that helps; also have around 300 APM on broodwar (maybe we should correlate APM with WPM) | ||
YourGoodFriend
United States2197 Posts
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Najda
United States3765 Posts
I'm surprised more people here use 3 left fingers and 4 right fingers. My left hand is much more proficient at typing since it spends so much more time on the keyboard due to gaming, though especially hotkeys in Starcraft/DotA. Do you people play DotA/LoL with just 3 fingers as well? | ||
Kon-Tiki
United States402 Posts
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iamho
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pebble444
Italy2477 Posts
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rudimentalfeelthelov
Finland268 Posts
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Sn0_Man
Tebellong44238 Posts
On April 22 2014 05:40 rudimentalfeelthelov wrote: I type only with my index fingers and left thumb for space button and I can write well above 100 words per minute. If you classify "I" as a word for the purpose of "words per minute" then I believe you | ||
Xapti
Canada2473 Posts
It seems quite strange that people would use both their pinky fingers in typing. One pinky seems maybe reasonable, but both seems strange. I'm thinking that many people didn't read the post entirely. I certainly use my pinky fingers but not for typing any letters. On standard layout keyboards it seems kinda inefficient to use pinky fingers for typing letters; the letters A, and P are used too often, and pinky fingers are generally rather weak and always short. Maybe a different physical layout and/or key layout, but standard grid QWERTY doesn't look like it works well. How do you guys type the word HELP? (or any word consisting of successive P's and L's) you type both (L&P) letters with the pinky? aside from seeming awkward, it seems slow and inefficient | ||
Sn0_Man
Tebellong44238 Posts
PS qwerty sucks ass but thats how everybody learns and its too much work to completely relearn typing hell half the people in this thread don't even type properly in the first place such as yourself (not flaming, just fact). Me neither tbh. And L is definitely a ring-finger button. Put ur hands on home row lol. The only letter your right pinky touches is "p" although it also does a ton of punctuation. | ||
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