# can tou type with your eyes closed?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tou-type-with-your-eyes-closed/300133
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 19, 2005, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tou-type-with-your-eyes-closed/300133 "2005-04-19T21:40:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2005, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tou-type-with-your-eyes-closed/300133/1 "2005-04-19T21:40:47Z")
can tou type with your eyes closed?
I am currently ty[ionmg with my eytes closed.
Mpt isomg yjr ni,[s tjat tpicj ty[osts ise eotjer.
I typeds the title with my eyes closed too.
It’a a little hit and miss so far.
But each time I look tp see wjhay O#ve ty[ed ot ;ppls pl/
Spttu. yjod eo;; [ptonre;s hry v;pdrf/ niy O cpui.
I’ll try that again: Wghix sill pfobablg get closed, but I couldn’t resist. I hope it doesn’t because this is fun. And Id love to see how well my fellow dopers do.
You can look at the first letter i you want.
But not any others. Boy I’m doing better than I thought!
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2005, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tou-type-with-your-eyes-closed/300133/2 "2005-04-19T21:41:54Z")
Yes, I can type with my eyes closed, as I’m doing right now. Comes from good visualization and a good typing teacher in high school.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tou-type-with-your-eyes-closed/300133/3 "2005-04-19T21:49:56Z")
Well suire, if you formally learned to type. but whar if you learned by yourself uing computers, like most internert users. And you have to go at fill speed too for this thiread. ision backspace only as you would normally use it (if you maknow you made a mistake)
Damn I’m gfood?
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Roscoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Roscoe)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2005, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tou-type-with-your-eyes-closed/300133/4 "2005-04-19T21:50:30Z")
Hmm, I dont know buy I’kll habe a go. Done think I’m soinf veru well but i sure is fun!
(well, better than I thought it would be, but I think the answers no!)
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Roscoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Roscoe)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2005, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tou-type-with-your-eyes-closed/300133/5 "2005-04-19T21:51:47Z")
And like, you Lobsanf I’ve jhas no dormal traininf. Obviouslu.
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### Author:  [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2005, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tou-type-with-your-eyes-closed/300133/6 "2005-04-19T21:52:46Z")
I can type with my eyes closed. I can also type while I’m having a conversation with someone. (What I’m typing has nothing to do with the conversation.) People are always freaked out by this.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tou-type-with-your-eyes-closed/300133/7 "2005-04-19T21:55:29Z")
I do what missbunnt does, but I am flancin at the keyboard every now and then and going slower than usua;/
I like some of the words that come out.
I’ve also apparently got the exclamation mark and the qiestion makre miced up in my heads.
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2005, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tou-type-with-your-eyes-closed/300133/8 "2005-04-19T21:56:47Z")
Yes. I can type with my eyes closed. I’m doing it now.
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### Author:  [@BelZarak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BelZarak)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2005, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tou-type-with-your-eyes-closed/300133/9 "2005-04-19T21:56:59Z")
I’m not sure if I can type with my eyes closed or not I’m sure I can at least type a bit with my eyes closed, as I am doing right now., the issue comes with trying to post wit my eyes closed. I’m not sure i can find the Post button without looking. I guess i’ll give in and look whne i go to actually hit post.
-belz
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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2005, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tou-type-with-your-eyes-closed/300133/10 "2005-04-19T21:57:11Z")
I can type with my eyes closed, I think. I am dong it now, so it is hard to say whether I am succeeding. Self-taught typist, typing at my normal speed. I will probably be entirely embarassed when I open my eyes.
Or, not so much. Cool.
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### Author:  [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2005, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tou-type-with-your-eyes-closed/300133/11 "2005-04-19T21:58:18Z")
> [@Lobsang](#):
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> I do what missbunnt does.
I am not a cake! 🙂
(Typed with my eyes closed.) I do admit that I can easily type with my eyes closed, but I have to peek to type any of those top-row symbols.
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### Author:  [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2005, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tou-type-with-your-eyes-closed/300133/12 "2005-04-19T22:02:36Z")
I am trying to type with my eyes closed right now. How an I doing\>
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### Author:  [@lightingtool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lightingtool)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2005, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tou-type-with-your-eyes-closed/300133/13 "2005-04-19T22:02:57Z")
This will br really badf. I can barely tupe with my eyes open. Let’s see what else I can fo. Tyhis is easier than I thought, if I’;m typingh what IU think I[m typing. We shall see. Fun idean here, lkovsang.
(Eyes open)
Wow, for some reason I just couldn’t get your name right, **Lobsang**. Sorry about that.
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### Author:  [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2005, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tou-type-with-your-eyes-closed/300133/14 "2005-04-19T22:05:12Z")
With all the typos I make, you would think I always had my eyes closed…
(I’ll be damned…typed that with my eyes closed and did better than when my eyes are open.)
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### Author:  [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2005, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tou-type-with-your-eyes-closed/300133/15 "2005-04-19T22:05:45Z")
I have no idea. Let’s see…
Hunh! Lookit that!
OK , tryinf aain. Am I still doinf OK?
Ahh. Damn G key.
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### Author:  [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tou-type-with-your-eyes-closed/300133/16 "2005-04-19T22:06:39Z")
Yes I can type with my eyes closed, but it goes a bit slower than usual, and it kind of drives me nuts to so it. I learned to touch type in high school, but I still tend to look at the keys when I type, a lot. I still tupe a lot faster than I did before though.
_opens eyes_ Hmm, not bad, only two mistakes. That wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I have trouble with special characters and numbers though–numbers because I don’t use them much and never really learned where they are intuitively, and special characters because I never learned them at all.
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### Author:  [@JohnM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnM)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2005, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tou-type-with-your-eyes-closed/300133/17 "2005-04-19T22:07:43Z")
Yes, I can type with my eyes closed, but I took a real typing class back in high school and the lessons stuck. Now when it comes to any puncutaition other than periods and semicolons, I’d be in real trouble, because I almost always have to glance at the keyboard for those. And yes, this post was typed sans eyes (not really without eyes, but with them closed, anyway). Huh, I guess my fingers know where the parens are, too.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2005, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tou-type-with-your-eyes-closed/300133/18 "2005-04-19T22:09:31Z")
> [@lightingtool](#):
>
> This will br really badf. I can barely tupe with my eyes open. Let’s see what else I can fo. Tyhis is easier than I thought, if I’;m typingh what IU think I[m typing. We shall see. Fun idean here, lkovsang.
>
> (Eyes open)
> Wow, for some reason I just couldn’t get your name right, **Lobsang**. Sorry about that.
No [problem\> I like it, looks kinda russian.
I’s post a smilet but I fear I might destrot the works network trying to do so!
wjen I dsaidf I flance. Hlance. I was talking about when I’m talking and typing at work. I slow own a bit an but I still do well. Some od my workmates can’t type with their etes oipen. the biggest problem is peressing two keys at once.
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### Author:  [@gruver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gruver)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2005, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tou-type-with-your-eyes-closed/300133/19 "2005-04-19T22:10:57Z")
i;m trying it right nowe.
hoe id i t going?
i think i kind of suck at this
i’m opening my eyes afeer eache line. it is intersting tosee what i get right and wroing
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### Author:  [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tou-type-with-your-eyes-closed/300133/20 "2005-04-19T22:14:11Z")
Aew tiu kiddubf\> I axn barelt rypo whily looking at tje leys!
(Are you kidding? I can barely type while looking at the keys!)
Never learned touch typing – foolishly taught myself my own lame “system” when I was a teenager. I can type about 40-45 wpm when I’m just composing my own text, which is fortunately most of the time, but transcribing is a bitch.)
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