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12813325, do you type without looking at the keys?
Posted by Deadzombie, Wed Dec-31-69 07:00 PM
i know a nigga that uses two hands to press cmd+c.

could you imagine??

Poll question: do you type without looking at the keys?

Poll result (27 votes)
yes. i'm a whole human. (25 votes)Vote
no. i struggle. (2 votes)Vote

  

12813438, in 6th grade, we were required to take a typing class
Posted by MizClayton, Sat May-23-15 09:45 AM
everyday we were required to put a black box over our hands during the lessons, and if you got caught looking under the box, you failed for the day

enough fails, you failed the class

I was obsessed with keeping my 4.0GPA, so I never looked under that box

so ever since then I never had to look at the keys

it's the way I was taught to type

12813453, WTF is cmd+c ?
Posted by SooperEgo, Sat May-23-15 10:45 AM
12813501, ^^^
Posted by Dstl1, Sat May-23-15 12:53 PM
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12813507, apple nm
Posted by GriftyMcgrift, Sat May-23-15 01:07 PM
12813497, clocked myself at 140 wpm
Posted by initiationofplato, Sat May-23-15 12:36 PM
i used to play an online game as a kid where i honed my typing skills
12813508, i type without looking pretty fast, but my technique is bad
Posted by GriftyMcgrift, Sat May-23-15 01:08 PM
12813518, yeah and ppl act amazed when i type and don't look at my hands.
Posted by StephBMore, Sat May-23-15 01:24 PM
but yeah i think if you didn't take typing, then you have a tendency to second guess yourself and so yeah you would look.
12813550, I do both
Posted by PoppaGeorge, Sat May-23-15 02:46 PM
I never had a formal typing class and basically taught myself on my old Atari 800XL computer by typing in programs day in and out.

These days I catch myself typing without looking at the keys about as much as I do while looking at them.

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12813586, Yeah, was formally trained.
Posted by NoDrawls McGraw, Sat May-23-15 03:51 PM
All high-school seniors were required to take typing and economics when I was coming up so I learned to formally type at 17.

Funny shit, of all the things studied during high school, my typing acumen is the skill I utilize the most in my 30's.
12813587, I'm a millenial, brah
Posted by Amritsar, Sat May-23-15 03:55 PM
12813603, Only when typing numbers or symbols
Posted by Starks dunked on Bulls, Sat May-23-15 05:42 PM