According to google that’s the global average and yeah that tracks. I never learned how to type “proper”, I have a method where I use my thumb, pointer, and middle finger, rather than all 5 on each hand, with my pointer fingers doing most of the work.
Freeform/Hybrid: Using a mix of touch typing and visual searching. People usually develop this naturally for maximum comfort.
According to google.
I’ve always been jelly of people who can do perfect touch typing with all 10 fingers.
We have typing enjoyers here? HELL YEAG! It’s been a while since I practiced but I was somewhere between 90-105 WPM iirc. Honestly I don’t really want to get much better with QWERTY, maybe 120 WPM would be a good goal, but I think it’s much better to learn an alternate layout, there are a bunch of layouts that are very new and have better ergonomics and stats once you learn it. I was learning a NRTS-HAEI layout called Lucens which is a custom version of Gallium iirc that I found on the Alt Keyboard Layouts Discord server. I still have it setup on my PC with Kanata (layout customizer software) but it has been a while since I used it.
I’ve always been jelly of people who can do perfect touch typing with all 10 fingers.
You can learn! It’s not that hard to learn proper touch typing, I remember having kinda the same type of typing you describe and years ago just decided to properly learn it, tho I usually only use my left thumb, not the right one and it’s something I have to get better at.
98 in bed on my laptop, 145 at my desk.
I was the nerd in school who naturally learned their own touch typing before the school really started teaching it at all. I use only 6 fingers for the letters, then right pinky is dedicated to shift work, and left thumb is dedicated to spacebar work. Right thumb and left pinky are totally idle (except left pinky will get Ctrl when I’m jumping through text).
Interestingly, I think my fingers actually have overlapping domains, so if my left index is nearby, it’ll hit the d key first, but if it’s been busy typing t or y then my middle finger will do it instead.
Very rarely am I thinking up words fast enough to want to type that fast. Maybe only if I’m in a very intense, fast chat with someone.
After 3 tries I seemed to plateau around 120 wpm. I feel like my bottleneck was focus, I would misread or skip words, and then get stuck trying to fix the mistake. I think I used to be faster when I was in middle school and they made us use the “Type to Learn” game. But the speed isn’t that relevant in adult life.
Idk anymore since I have to type out each letter on a touchscreen like a sloth.
I switched out my silent smooth MS Sidewinder X4 for Bad…uhhh Red Dragon Uranus 87 Pro. Each has it’s own feel and tactile experience. I enjoyed the X4 for it’s silent and slick feel. After over 10 years of heavy strokes and hard pounding it is showing some scuffing.
The Uranus 87 Pro has a much more tactile feel. Each pound sounds satisfying and consistent no matter how hard and fast you stroke on it. I also love the wavy colors and texture at times over the smooth silent. Though might not be as household friendly as every stroke has this muted “pat pat pat” real ASMR. Not so noticable with sensory filling headphones but those in the other room might hear your sustained activity.
I did 3 pages and got up to 44 wpm. (35, 38, 44) It’s good site for practicing muscle memory and anticipating your own brain-physical delays.
I usually average 175ish on my desktop keyboard with about the same accuracy, but this is what I can do on my laptop
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gamertypist using typing.com vs real typist using monkeytype.That’s nutz! Really I bow down to your fastest finger and ultra instinct brain-body connection. How much time did you spend in the
? Truly impressed. Don’t burn out!A little over 20 years of just casual use and later being a software engineer, I never really sat down and went “I’m going to practice typing for 30 minutes” I just naturally got better with time because I type so much. They did have those typing classes in grade school back in the early 2000s that everyone had to do, but I was already fairly decent at typing by the time we had to do those… but it did teach me how to properly position my hands on the home row because at that point I was still touch typing.
Ngl that’s wild, I plateau at around 100wpm and have never been able to get much past that.
I guess this is one benefit I got out of all those years of social isolation during my childhood and becoming a software engineer, I can argue with liberals and do it with speed!
i fucking hate .com bubble domains like “typing.com” “pets.com” “pooping.com”. anyway my top speed on a good day is around 120 wpm and it sucks because i cannot go further. my muscle memory has been limited to a shitty made-up style of 8 finger typing, and re-training it will just kill my productivity. my keyboard is also fucked (some key caps have popped out/been split in half) but that affects me less than the shitty typing style.
Congrats bby. I found on the 1 min test if I concentrate I can hit 50 wpm
I’m an old fart. Back in my day we had computer lab and they taught us touch typing in middle school
if you wanted to be extremely online it was qwerty or bustI’m old too and I’ve been around qwerty my whole life it’s just I never learned touch, hybrid for me.
75 while laying in bed, think I can get to around 90 if I’m set up properly
I can do 90-100 touch typing, but the real (completely arbitrary and made up by me) measure of typing skill is how fast you can type after removing all keycaps. I got around 50.
Around 75, but it depends. If I’m going something I’m familiar with, it can go a little higher. If I’m copying from a sheet of paper, it could be slower. Tests rarely reflect real world typing. At work I can hit 200-250 with macros. I get people watching me and they’re just like “what the actual fuck are you even doing”. Like they had no idea you could use a computer like that. I’ve had people sit there and literally tell me a program is only meant to be used this one way. And the way I do it, they say it won’t work. And then it does. One person called it voodoo.
macros is such a sick idea tbh, like bootleg stenography
What do you mean by macros? Do you have shortcuts for like specific words or phrases you use commonly or something like that?
Yes, basically. Without getting into the very specific software used, there are shortcuts within the program and whatnot that can be used to use it more fluidly and most people just type one letter at a time because that’s how they were taught, by people who learned to type on typewriters. (To be fair, while I first typed on a computer keyboard, I went through three typewriters before my first computer.)
Wow neat!
Wipes per minute?
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you’ll probably work through that plateau some day. it’s great to learn how to do, cool to see someone making the effort to go back and pick that up.
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Both of my hands float tbh but I’ve been typing on computers since I was a kid, I got an F on form and an A in everything else when I had to take typing lessons in elementary school.
I’m trying to touch type this out now and it’s super slow.
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I typically float around 60. I feel faster than that but I make a lot of mistakes.
Every single apostrophe on a regional keyboard where they aren’t really used is like
Ü BACKSPACE * BACKSPACE '
Anglos would rather introduce some eldritch cursed not-character than just type out “I am”
