4.42 first go.
8.37 after several tries. I really should learn to type.
First try, 4.26. And I didn’t even feel like I was trying too hard.
Next try, 3.67.
9.99 seconds. I thought that was pretty good until I read some of these scores. Damn.
Two finger typing only, 12 seconds. The times listed are amazing. How about backwards? In first grade we learned the alphabet song in reverse as well so to this day I can say it backwards as fast as forward. Typing it was 12 seconds as well.
6.00s on the first try.
5.06 first try.
3.71 second try. Sometimes I forget which is x and which is z.
2.70 on my desktop keyboard.
6.34 on first try, 4.77 by my third, but I seem to have stalled out around there. My best out of ten or so tries is 4.64.
Laptop keyboard 7.83 seconds.
I think I can do better on regular keyboard.
4.37 on my first try. 3.8 with a few practice runs.
I find it easier looking at the screen than at the keyboard - since I used to do data entry for work and didn’t look at the keyboard while working. It throws me off.
5.69 first try. Was able to get it down to 4.82 with a bit of practice …
5.06 on the first go, wonder what I can get this down to with some practise…
3.85 on about try #20. That’s enough for now.
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A two-fingered 9.44 seconds on my first attempt. 8.16 on my second.
3.44 after a bit more practise.
first try - 4.64
best - 3.86
I got 6.6 the first time, with no errors. I got worse each time I tried it!
Me too. My first go was about 5.7 seconds, but on the third or fourth try I was down to 4.65s by looking at the screen and pretending I was touch typing some gobbledygook word that just happened to be A-Z. With some practice I suppose I could get it down to under 4. It’s still unnatural, but less so.
My Mom was trained as a secretary in her youth, and when I was 11 years old she taught me to touch type the way she learned: on a manual mechanical typewriter where I had to type “copy”, to reproduce a typed sheet of text verbatim with no visible errors (no Wite-Out). In other words, I could get away with making a lowercase O or A into an E but if I ever typed “walkign” it was time to rip the page out and start the page all over again.
I had all day to do this (being at home alone in the summer), but I had to finish that page (a new one every day) by the time she got home from work.
With that kind of incentive I learned to touch type very accurately pretty quickly… And also to enter into a frame of mind where I just looked at the text and typed it without actually reading and processing the text as words.
Muscle memory and a large vocabulary being what it is, typing completely nonsense words is difficult, especially on a QWERTY keyboard where the layout of the letters A-Z is awkward by design.