anyone learn to touchtype?

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im typing this out using touchtyping method ive learnt using mavis beacon teaches typing. ive just mapped out the alphabets so far, learing the shift cap next. it's a little bit hard to shift cap because my dexterity isn't brilliant and using my ring and small finger is difficult. my speed has dropped from 50wpm (pecking method) to 10wpm using this method but i need to keep at this so i can improve to 80-90wpm using 4 fingers. also correct typing will save my index fingers from developing arthritis early.

i wanted to learn to type for a long time but always assumed that it will take a very long time to learn but surprisingly it took me just 4 hours to map out the keys in my mind so i can type without looking. so i know have the skills to practice independently.
 
I don't touch type to any recognised standard I don't imagine but after years of using a PC it's rare I have to look at the keyboard.
 
At a guess, a higher number than average on a forum like this can touch type.

I've done typing tests before and get around 90wpm with high accuracy.

If you're learning to type for work then I would suggest you look at improving your grammar too, typing quickly is no real benefit if it reads like a text message.
 
Never set out to learn to touch type but I've used a keyboard so much in my life that I realised one day that I could actually do it. I did an online test a few months ago - got about 60wpm with 2 mistakes.
 
I started out learning to touch type, but then (as with many things) ended up putting my own experience-based slant on it.

So while I do return often to the "home keys" position, while typing my hands fly around all over the place.

Speed is about 79wpm.
 
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When we do things a lot muscle memory kicks in. Typing is like playing a musical instrument. You just flow between the screen and the keyboard.
 
When using a proper keyboard i rarely look at it, but when I'm on my laptop I have to use my eyes to direct my hands.
 
Same as above, I rarely need to look at the keyboard just from many years using it, but it's not any standard of touch typing. I'm much quicker typing from my head too, rather than copying something out like those wpm tests
 
I spent a couple of years learning to touch type back in school (about 25 years ago*), and whilst I got quite good at doing it properly, a couple of decades of bad habits has meant that I'm no longer doing it properly to the standard, but fast and don't have to look at the keyboard most of the time.

*Suddenly I feel very old .
 
I can't imagine touch typing is much of an issue for most people who grew up around computers, had to use them from GCSEs onwards, university and beyond so it's kind of a second nature at this point. Good on you for learning if you want to do it but practice really is the best method.
 
I have learnt to type by pecking at the keys using my two index fingers, I dont think it's very wise to do this because. Because you're moving your ands around a lot and have your hands hovering over the keyboard it leads you to bash into the keys which will give your arthritis very quickly.

I remember a while back my index finger (left click mouse finger) was really sore a while back and I couldn't press the mouse with my index finger for 4 days. I developed RSI on it and had to adapt using middle finger temporarily which was really awkward. Most of us here are probably 20-30. I was using computers fr the last 16 years, I presume after 16 mores years of pecking at keyboards the index fingers will get knackered.
 
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