Touch Typing Techniques

If your typing speed on a keyboard is comparable to your typing speed on a phone, it sounds like you might have a lot to gain from learning touch typing, look it up. I was in your same situation not long ago

I learned to touch-type QWERTY in high school. 20 years later, I learned to touch-type Colemak, and eventually got up to the same speed. For a while, I couldn't really touch-type QWERTY. But gradually I regained the ability. It still helps for me to be looking at the keyboard, so that I have a different context to go with the different layout. But I am still using 10 fingers when typing QWERTY.

I used QWERTY with two fingers and could not get myself to to touchtype with all fingers. Switching to DVORAK helped retrain. I use two finger (looking at the keyboad) typing on QWERTY and ten finger (blind) on DVORAK.

I touch type. It's the result of almost 30 years behind a keyboard but I don't think what I do is the "right" way

i just set my keyboard like this and i can no longer touch type

i just realized that i may be a fast typist, but i use only 4 fingers. Left pinky for shift, ctrl,alt, left index for left letters, right middle finger for right letters, right thumb for space(sometimes left). I can type with a descent speed in two languages(English, Bulgarian) and i can even mix em and still type pretty fast. But i look at the keyboard pretty often and i my backspace key is the most clean one. This blog post has inspired me to just load KTouch and practice(KDE 4 came with a fas

Didn't have a computer till I went to university(grew up poor in a developing world). I am pretty fast without touch typing and I move my hand all around the keyboard. I also feel it when I happen to strike an incorrect key. Currently I look at keyboard occasionally when I make a mistake, but I think I have got an idea as to which keys are where. Its almost touch typing except I never start with the "home" position and yet manage to almost touch type. I believe as we type more and

I did enough computer stuff before kindergarten that I could type very quickly without looking at the keyboard or thought. I did hunt and peck initially, but as I used a computer more it just got faster. When I think of any character I immediately know where on the keyboard it is. This is even if I can't see the keyboard, since the layout of any local area is uncommon enough to quickly and automatically orient. My kindergarten had a class where they wanted to teach touch typing. They did it

i guess the secret is learning blind typing and always use the same layout like querty/dvorak/colemak

Similar case for me!I was never trained in typing, but after years of "hunt and peck" typing, I just intuitively learned where keys are and started instinctively learning patterns for how to type words after lots and lots of IRC as a teen. I orient my hands around the keyboard and put my fingers into position to type words in the most efficient method subconsciously. This works for me because I can type over 120WPM with no wrist pain.Something about IRC encourages people to type