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Kaiba You're Not Me Neoholic total posts: 10922 since: Apr 2003	Dec 10, 12 at 7:44pm ^ Touch Typing or Search-And-Jab?
	Log in to remove this advertisement Do you touch-type or do have to look at the keyboard, search for the desired key each time, and jab it? I've touch-typed since I took Keyboarding Sophomore year of High School. Which was about...5 years ago. I have to say, I'm very happy I took that class, because touch-typing is the best thing evar. Before that, I search-and-jab'd it up. I was actually pretty quick with it. But no matter how fast I could have been that way, it can't compare to not having to look at the keyboard. <3 -------------------
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Polarity Spill blood on fire high on "N" total posts: 737 since: Aug 2010	Dec 10, 12 at 9:01pm ^ re: Touch Typing or Search-And-Jab?
	It really depends. If I find myself constantly bleeping up, I'll look at the keyboard. if not, I'll just touch type like nearly everybody else on the internet. -------------------
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sneekyweezel cubs pubs & bubs high on "N" total posts: 840 since: Mar 2012	Dec 10, 12 at 9:12pm ^ re: Touch Typing or Search-And-Jab?
	Nope i guess i just search and jab, cauz it doesn't really matter though unless you're a secretary or a stenographer. ------------------- sneekyweezel's★channel
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Chaos Team This is CT's CT Legendary Seeker total posts: 16422 since: Dec 2009	Dec 10, 12 at 9:12pm ^ re: Touch Typing or Search-And-Jab?
	I look at the keyboard to find my first key and then I look at the screen from there. I don't have the whole asdfjkl; home key type with certain fingers for certain keys method that actual good typists have, but I get the job done pretty quickly. :L In my 3 years at Neo I've learned to type just by memorizing the keyboard, I don't really know. xD
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Quierta R.I.P. Ethna :( <3 (moderator) Loungin' total posts: 17968 neopoints: 453 since: Aug 2007	Dec 10, 12 at 9:20pm ^ re: Touch Typing or Search-And-Jab?
	I touch type but I don't do it the 'right way.' There's a special way you have to lay your hands on the keyboard but I don't do that. My fingers just hit whatever they're closest to. I don't even use my pinkies for anything, or my ring fingers... still, I clock in at 100+WPM so I don't have a problem with it. ------------------- This is Jeffrey the Dragon. He likes anime.
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Lesley Pro_04 #prayforboston (moderator) (neocrs) NeoWiki Best Practices and Help NeoWiki Community and Strategy NeoWiki Discussion, Suggestions and Feedback NeoWiki Requests and Planning Sports wiki super pokemon total posts: 9095 neopoints: 24356 GameGrep pts: 254 since: Jun 2004	Dec 10, 12 at 9:34pm ^ re: Touch Typing or Search-And-Jab?
	Damn Quierta, that's a little more than twice the typing speed that I've been clocked at! My WPM is in the range of 45-50! I go with touch typing, but I'll search for the right keys if I start to screw my typing up and/or lining up my fingers on the wrong keys, which does happen from time to time. ------------------- Proving the misperceptions of Asperger's Syndrome wrong to people since 1985, and will continue to do so as long as I live. And I NEVER give up OR quit when I'm faced with adversity!
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John234MKWii Once again, congratulations. Hooked on Neo total posts: 4265 since: Jul 2012	Dec 10, 12 at 10:39pm ^ re: Touch Typing or Search-And-Jab?
	The keyboards are always buttons, but there is a touch pad, so touch typing. ------------------- I don't understand how Super Mario can smash blocks with his head but dies when he touches a turtle..
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Crusad3r Insert witty comment. (moderator) MapleStory [PC] total posts: 5045 since: Apr 2006	Dec 10, 12 at 10:43pm ^ re: Touch Typing or Search-And-Jab?
	I touch type, but not the right way either. my left pinky doesn't do anything except hit the "a" and left shift, which is technically wrong. Oh well. ------------------- Maplestory Forum
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hiigaran Sajuuk awaits beyond the Gate of Balcora Elite Seeker total posts: 32106 since: Dec 2005	Dec 10, 12 at 11:16pm ^ re: Touch Typing or Search-And-Jab?
	i do a mix of both. usually i start out looking at the keyboard, but then once i get going, i dont bother with looking anymore. considering im chained to my computer voluntarily for most of the day, my WPM is at quierta-levels : -------------------
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Mouldy Cheese Mathematical! (moderator) Pokémon X & Y since: Feb 2004	Dec 10, 12 at 11:19pm ^ re: Touch Typing or Search-And-Jab?
	I have a kind of...combination of the two. I don't perfectly touch type, and to be honest I'm not entirely sure how to (nor am I overly keen to learn) but I can type quickly and without having to look at the keyboard. I don't tend to use my little fingers aside from the occasional "a" tap. ------------------- _KCCO Books & Lit \| Pokemon X&Y \| Ramblings
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walnuts 'Back off, man. I'm a scientist' True Addiction total posts: 19313 neopoints: 381 since: May 2008	Dec 10, 12 at 11:22pm ^ re: Touch Typing or Search-And-Jab?
	Mix of the two really, although I've never found the need as a web programmer to need to type at 100+ WPM yet, so yeah, the need isn't there for me to learn otherwise. ------------------- 'I don't know mercy, but I know pain. Sometimes I share it with the likes of you'
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jbh Seeketh Maximus total posts: 5475 since: Dec 2005	Dec 10, 12 at 11:25pm ^ re: Touch Typing or Search-And-Jab?
	Touch typing, but like Quierta said. Not the "right way"... Nothing meant to the OP, I'm glad you benefited from it. But the thought of taking a class to use a keyboard correctly baffles me... It's been a while since I've taken a test but my WPM was pretty high, around the late 80s-early 90s I believe. quote John234MKWii The keyboards are always buttons, but there is a touch pad, so touch typing. Touch typing is the ability to type without having to look down at the keys ------------------- I will be here after dark, under streetlights.
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Lyonnais E Unum Pluribus Neolithic since: Mar 2009	Dec 10, 12 at 11:31pm ^ re: Touch Typing or Search-And-Jab?
	I used to be able to type as fast as Quierta, but I'm seriously out of practice. I don't remember the last time I had to actually type that fast. If I'm writing an essay, or typing a post I normally stop every couple of lines as my brain processes what I'm writing down or something. And I seriously never look at my keyboard either when I'm typing so I don't think this search-and-jab concept applies to me. Learned it in Middle School in a class where we had to keep our backs straight, and our mouths shut. Literally no one talked in that class... was quite impressive actually but it was uncomfortable. Showed me how to type correctly though. And when does anyone need to be able to type 100 WPM? Seriously? ------------------- [ Alameda Anchors ] _{"He prefers Thursdays when he is with you..." - Amsey}
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hiigaran Sajuuk awaits beyond the Gate of Balcora Elite Seeker total posts: 32106 since: Dec 2005	Dec 10, 12 at 11:33pm ^ re: Touch Typing or Search-And-Jab?
	of course they do! that way they can be doing what walnuts is doing, and finish coding faster. the faster you finish, the more free time you have! EDIT: or you just do it to increase your e-peen faster...like me! -------------------
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Superwalnut Heisenberg Two much Neo total posts: 2455 since: Jan 2010	Dec 11, 12 at 12:03am ^ re: Touch Typing or Search-And-Jab?
	Hai Kaiba. And yeah, I search and jab, but I can manage 60ish words per minute. Pretty good. ------------------- I'M A BLOWFISH! BLOWFISH! YEEEAAAH! BLOWFISHIN' THIS UP!
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