I never learned how to formally touch type. I seemed more adept than what seems average, based on your impression. As a programmer by trade, my father also knew the importance of me learning how to type, so when I was around ten or eleven he set out in getting me on board with a typing program. I thought it was boring and didn’t last very long. By the time I got to the end of high school, what with me having learned touch-typing through brute force from my habit of writing essays for fun in my spare time, let alone for homework, I could type between forty and fifty wpm.
Now, five years later, I can type between fifty and sixty wpm. Since then, my father than others remark they’re impressed by how fast I can type. People seem to think I know about computers, because I must use them lots, because I type fast. However, I only know how to type. I’ve tested my ability multiple times by closing my eyes while I type, and I think I’m able to type just as fast. Typing with my eyes closed produces an error rate that’s as good as when I have my eyes open, so that’s seems a valid test that I’m touch-typing for real, at all. I think my biggest problem now is my error rate. I think my biggest problem now might be my error rate, and making mistakes. Do you think it would be worth it for me to by training with a formal touch-typing training program or game now, or am I good? For the record, I don’t think I’ll end up in a career where build software, but I wouldn’t be surprised if I spend most of my time on the job behind a keyboard.
I never learned how to formally touch type. I seemed more adept than what seems average, based on your impression. As a programmer by trade, my father also knew the importance of me learning how to type, so when I was around ten or eleven he set out in getting me on board with a typing program. I thought it was boring and didn’t last very long. By the time I got to the end of high school, what with me having learned touch-typing through brute force from my habit of writing essays for fun in my spare time, let alone for homework, I could type between forty and fifty wpm.
Now, five years later, I can type between fifty and sixty wpm. Since then, my father than others remark they’re impressed by how fast I can type. People seem to think I know about computers, because I must use them lots, because I type fast. However, I only know how to type. I’ve tested my ability multiple times by closing my eyes while I type, and I think I’m able to type just as fast. Typing with my eyes closed produces an error rate that’s as good as when I have my eyes open, so that’s seems a valid test that I’m touch-typing for real, at all. I think my biggest problem now is my error rate. I think my biggest problem now might be my error rate, and making mistakes. Do you think it would be worth it for me to by training with a formal touch-typing training program or game now, or am I good? For the record, I don’t think I’ll end up in a career where build software, but I wouldn’t be surprised if I spend most of my time on the job behind a keyboard.