Whenever you're typing (on the keyboard, of course) do you use the Touch Typing Method or the Hunt and Peck Method? There's no shame in whatever you normally do. For me, I normally do Hunt and Peck, but I'm really fast at it though! I can do Touch Typing if I try hard enough.

 

 

Rock on!

I do it one key at a time. Does that sound like Hunt and Peck to you? Just wondering.

I do it one key at a time. Does that sound like Hunt and Peck to you? Just wondering.

I believe so. It's basically this: If you always start off with your fingers on the Home Row (ASDF...JKL;), then that's Touch Typing. Any method of typing otherwise is called the Hunt and Peck Method, regardless if they are different ways of typing. So both 'One Key @ a Time' AND 'Using whichever fingers you feel are needed to type the buttons' are both Hunt and Peck Method. The site I was reading about Hunt and Peck was talking like it was the worst thing on the planet. And so I wanted to see if you guys and girls said otherwise. I completely disagree with that site.Rock on!

I do a bit of each. I look at the keyboard at the beginig of a sentence, but stop looking for the rest of it  So yeah, I have my fingers on ASDF while I'm not looking.

Edited January 26, 20169 yr by Xamtehwt MC (Trece)

I believe so. It's basically this: If you always start off with your fingers on the Home Row (ASDF...JKL;), then that's Touch Typing. Any method of typing otherwise is called the Hunt and Peck Method, regardless if they are different ways of typing. So both 'One Key @ a Time' AND 'Using whichever fingers you feel are needed to type the buttons' are both Hunt and Peck Method. The site I was reading about Hunt and Peck was talking like it was the worst thing on the planet. And so I wanted to see if you guys and girls said otherwise. I completely disagree with that site.Rock on!

Oh, okay. Just making sure.

i'd say i hunt and peck. i feel like i do it quick enough to where it's still efficient. 

 

it's efficient enough for me at least.

I do the touch.

Edited January 26, 20169 yr by KingdomHearts3

I do a strange combo. I did practice using the home row for a bit but it never really sunk in. Right now on my iPad I'm doing one key at a time but on my computer I use kinda a combination.

Hmmm. . .

 

On the keyboard, I'm the touch and type due to taking computer class in middle school which teaches touch typing. That was in 7th grade. in 8th grade, I have gotten a little more better. And by entry to High school, I become a fluent typer.

 

On phones, (including phabets), I hunt and peck and slide gesture with my thumbs obviously. I never owned a tablet, so I don't know how I will react to typing on it.

I do touch type. It actually drives my mother insane the way I type, because I use stupid things like caps lock for single capital letters and keep my hands in weird places lol

On a standard computer keyboard, I do touch typing all the way. It's so ingrained into my mind I get messed up when I have to type something with anything other than a standard QWERTY keyboard (so like, digital keyboards in some games or certain apps). However, I'm really bad at using the number row, so if I need to type numerals I'll look at the keys.

 

Side note: My 3000th post! Only took me 6 years and a few days.

Touch typing. I had to take a class in high school due to apparently flunking some kind of computer proficiency exam (ironically I'm now in IT support so suck on that high school) and the first half of the semester was spent learning how to type properly. For a time my typing speed actually decreased, since I'd gotten fairly speedy at hunt and peck. Then I got more comfortable with the proper way, and I eventually learned to type faster than I ever did with hunt and peck, so... maybe I owe high school an apology. I actually cruise at around 70-80 wpm, which I thought was impressive until I consistently ran into people who can comfortably type at almost double that speed. I blame the tiny fingers on my tiny hands because I'm so tiny.

I do touch type. It actually drives my mother insane the way I type, because I use stupid things like caps lock for single capital letters and keep my hands in weird places lol

I can relate on that 'keep my hands in weird places' bit. When I start a sentence, everything is all fine and dandy, but anything more than a sentence [for essays and stuff] and my fingers lose sense of the home row and things start turning ugly pretty quickly.

 

Touch typing. I had to take a class in high school due to apparently flunking some kind of computer proficiency exam (ironically I'm now in IT support so suck on that high school) and the first half of the semester was spent learning how to type properly. For a time my typing speed actually decreased, since I'd gotten fairly speedy at hunt and peck. Then I got more comfortable with the proper way, and I eventually learned to type faster than I ever did with hunt and peck, so... maybe I owe high school an apology. I actually cruise at around 70-80 wpm, which I thought was impressive until I consistently ran into people who can comfortably type at almost double that speed. I blame the tiny fingers on my tiny hands because I'm so tiny.

The last part of your post made my day

 

I'm a touch typer 90% of the time. The other 10% is me looking back down at the keyboard to re-center my fingers that have somehow managed to declare the zxcv and hjkl keys as the 'home row.'