I’ve recently started trying to improve my typing speed, which has probably been held back by my somewhat unconventional typing style. Formal touch typing was never a part of my education, and while years of computer use eventually led to me being able to type without looking, I’m probably not as efficient as I could be.

Can you touch type - and with proper form? QWERTY, DVORAK or other layout?

  • AmidFuror@fedia.io
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    3 days ago

    I learned to touch type on QWERTY in middle school. I do it mostly conventionally except for some reason I never really used the right shift key. That locked in, amd I still don’t. I just spread my fingers wide to capitalize letters on the left side.

    For a data entry job I was taught to 10-key as well. It doesn’t take long to learn, but it can save a ton of time.

    • paraplu@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      A data entry job made me abandon 10-key.

      I hated not having access to a backspace, and I was already close to being able to touch type on the number line.

      I have no idea if it was actually faster, but it was close enough.

    • stinerman@feddit.onlineEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      I learned to touch type on QWERTY in middle school. I do it mostly conventionally except for some reason I never really used the right shift key.

      Same! Not sure how that came to be? Perhaps because right shift is too far away compared to left?

      • AmidFuror@fedia.io
        01·
        3 days ago

        Maybe we were taught the left side first. And it worked well enough we never engaged the right.