Does anyone actually type these days?

[bamboo]

Just a quick round up of how people produce copy on their computers.

• Do you two finger type, as I do ?
• Do you type properly. As I am learning to do ?
• Use speech recognition. As I am learning to do ?

The reason for asking is that I just done a couple of test articles about 500 words long using my current 'two finger skills' and it takes me almost as long to correct them as type them .

[grantglendinnin]

It seems to be a generation thing IMO. I'm yet to meet a 30+ yr old that can touch-type. My mother was a typewriter 20-odd years ago and could type 'til the cows come home. Then the 'Qwerty' setup became the norm and she's back to two-finger typing (at best!), haha. I'm the only one that can type with more than 2 fingers in the office, coincidentally I'm also the youngest

A friend from Orkney tried to use speech recognition software for an online game and it couldn't recognise his speech, LOL.

[jont]

type 'til the cows come home. Then the 'Qwerty' setup became the norm and she's back to two-finger

I thought all the cows were too lazy to go home

[jont]

The question should be who can still write using pen and paper? Blimey this that hard work nowadays!

[leehack]

The hardest part of that is finding them both!

[TraceyHand]

I can type proficiently.
Only downside is that I am noticing my handwriting is getting worse and worse.
I've made a (belated) New Years Resolution to handwrite more actually as I'm getting concerned at the state of my own writing.
I deliberately use notepads/excess overprinted paper/scrap paper now for things I would have once done in Notepad/Word.
More wasteful, paperwise, I suppose but I consider it to be a good cause (and I do shred/recycle!)

[malbro]

My wife learned to type many years ago at college, she can still touch type and does regularly on her laptop, but for me its just two fingers even though I spend most days working at a keyboard.

[Cheapprices4u]

i personally dont touch type but i do you most fingers

as in i useabout 3 or so on each hand to type but not in teh correct manner ther all over the place but it gets the job done

handwriting was always bad but i find due to filling in documents all the time i use black and write in capital

must stop it if im going to help my kids at school

[NormanRouxel]

I'm not sure how I type so I'm watching as I do this.

Dammit - it's just the two index fingers most of the time!!!

However, I can unerringly hit #~;)[]{}$&, etc without looking down.

[Donna Kempster]

Do you type properly. As I am learning to do ?

Don't know how you are learning, but my eldest is dyslexic (why did they make that such a hard word to learn?) and he is learning to type using Englishtype senior (recommended by his tutor). He's already 90+% accurate and he's only been doing it a week or so. I was a poor 80%! D

[Kirk]

i useabout 3 or so on each hand to type but not in teh correct manner ther all over the place but it gets the job done

I do that, too! I thought I was the pioneer of the three finger method....

[jont]

I can unerringly hit #~;)[]{}$&, etc without looking down.

I have mastered the location of the "back delete" button with my typing skills

[pinbrook]

does anyone else find the garmin sat nav incredibly difficult to use as it doesn't use qwerty? letters are in alpha order - it drives me mad

and no i can bearly use pen and paper any longer
just looked to see how many fingers i use, - its 2, i would have sworn it was more if i had had to put money on it. Sadly i was taught to touch type.

[leehack]

Tom Tom man myself, but you get the choice of keyboard, are you sure you have no choice?

[pinbrook]

but you get the choice of keyboard, are you sure you have no choice?

never occured to me to look