I’m in my mid-20s, and I taught myself to type using only my index and middle fingers (plus thumb for space bar). Had about 80 wpm, but made quite a few errors.
A few years ago, I swapped to Colemak and took that opportunity to finally learn to touch-type. Now I’m at 95 wpm with much better accuracy, and I don’t need to look anymore. Feels way more comfortable to type too.
On mobile, I still use QWERTY and type with my thumbs. I can do that reasonably well with my eyes closed, considering the complete lack of tactile feedback.
Turner orr ep3ll chk3cker and typed this sentence with my eyrs floser. (“Turned off spell checker and typed this sentence with my eyes closed.”)
I worked with a dude that insisted his speed was insane and when we tested him and took errors into account, the actual WPM was more like 15.
E: anybody who doubts this, please recall that a word is five character average, so 80 words per minute, including shift, capitals, punctuation, numerals, means this person is hitting over 400+ Keys a minute… 7 Keys a second. Ain’t going to happen with two fingers lmao… You can put your fingers on a desk, no keyboard, and you wouldn’t be able to strike the desk 400+ times a minute with your fingertips. Pure delusion.
Idk exactly how the wpm calculation worked or if/how it accounted for errors. I just used those typing speed test websites, but I don’t remember which. I know it would’ve been all lowercase, no numbers, and no punctuation, in a short, 30-60s burst. So I’m sure if you tested me under stricter conditions, my real speed would’ve been much lower.
And I used both my hands, so 4 fingers, making it less than 2 presses per finger per second which seems reasonable.
For my 95wpm, I tested my speed using the same conditions on monkeytype. But I did it again just now (30s, capitalization, punctuation, numbers) and got 73. I never bothered to learning numbers or symbols. Sorry, didn’t mean to mislead lol.
It’s at the upper end of what is physically possible, but it is possible. It would look pretty weird watching someone do it, I imagine. This is basically what high end Starcraft players are doing, except with a mouse added in.
StarCraft players have tons of different input styles, but most of them use almost every single finger. They’re also not typing words, they’re spamming the keyboard equivalent of arpeggios.
I’m in my mid-20s, and I taught myself to type using only my index and middle fingers (plus thumb for space bar). Had about 80 wpm, but made quite a few errors.
A few years ago, I swapped to Colemak and took that opportunity to finally learn to touch-type. Now I’m at 95 wpm with much better accuracy, and I don’t need to look anymore. Feels way more comfortable to type too.
On mobile, I still use QWERTY and type with my thumbs. I can do that reasonably well with my eyes closed, considering the complete lack of tactile feedback.
Turner orr ep3ll chk3cker and typed this sentence with my eyrs floser. (“Turned off spell checker and typed this sentence with my eyes closed.”)
Dude you’re not hitting 80 WPM with pokey-poke
I worked with a dude that insisted his speed was insane and when we tested him and took errors into account, the actual WPM was more like 15.
E: anybody who doubts this, please recall that a word is five character average, so 80 words per minute, including shift, capitals, punctuation, numerals, means this person is hitting over 400+ Keys a minute… 7 Keys a second. Ain’t going to happen with two fingers lmao… You can put your fingers on a desk, no keyboard, and you wouldn’t be able to strike the desk 400+ times a minute with your fingertips. Pure delusion.
Idk exactly how the wpm calculation worked or if/how it accounted for errors. I just used those typing speed test websites, but I don’t remember which. I know it would’ve been all lowercase, no numbers, and no punctuation, in a short, 30-60s burst. So I’m sure if you tested me under stricter conditions, my real speed would’ve been much lower.
And I used both my hands, so 4 fingers, making it less than 2 presses per finger per second which seems reasonable.
For my 95wpm, I tested my speed using the same conditions on monkeytype. But I did it again just now (30s, capitalization, punctuation, numbers) and got 73. I never bothered to learning numbers or symbols. Sorry, didn’t mean to mislead lol.
It’s at the upper end of what is physically possible, but it is possible. It would look pretty weird watching someone do it, I imagine. This is basically what high end Starcraft players are doing, except with a mouse added in.
It’s not possible, period.
StarCraft players have tons of different input styles, but most of them use almost every single finger. They’re also not typing words, they’re spamming the keyboard equivalent of arpeggios.
Your index finger isn’t what you use to point?
Maybe his Index is on the left hand and his pointer on the right
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Mb, pointer and middle finger. I’ve corrected it.
No need for a correction. I was genuinely curious.
Lmao yhat was a pretty good attempt to be fair.
Whoa, only one error
80 wpm with index fingers is pure fantasy. At least you admitted it was “with errors”.
I can use my big toe to type 10,000 wpm with errors by holding the key down.