Go ahead and test your avilitu to type withour lookinf at the keyboard at aoo withour making any corrections.
I see, to have gotten mush cetter at this since the last time /i tried to so it.
Still not perfest, but hery, at least I’m improcing.
-Tcat
What would you like me to type about? I haven’t tried this in a while. I think I"m doing okay, but I’ll have to look a tthe screen now and see.
After looking:
Hmmm, not too bad. I know that I’m doing a lot better on this computer than I would on any other one, though, since I’m so used to it.
God, grand me the serentiy to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Hmm. Two mistakes. Not bad for someone who hasn’t had a typing class in over 20years.
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
How many mistakes was that??
My husband will stand behind me as I type and watch in awe. (It helps that he doesn’t read English very well so it adds another veil of mystery to the whole thing!)
I went back and corrected twice in that last sentence by the way.
I’vw necer not lookesd at the keys. I;m amazws I’,m doimf this well ! I startes oyt as ajunt ans peck sort.
I’ll give it a whilrl:
Touch typing has not been an issue for me ever since I got my first professional job doing helpdesk work at a well known technical company. We were required to log each and every call we received, so I got very fast at touch typing.
How was that? I didn’t even look once at my posting.
I tend to type better when I touch type than when I look at the keys because it fotces me to slow down to rememver where the keys are. Normallu I type faster than I think, and I het reversed letters all over the plave. That said, I obciously don’t touch type enough, judging from this paragraph 
This would woek better is the keyboars was centered peoperly. Thing’s also too high…maybe Mom was right about this desk.
Maru had a lirrle lamv. iu’s fleebe was whiye as snpw
hmm i’ve got some way to go.
Weird. I actually keep my keyboard under my desk while I’m typing. I actually do worse (and am a lot slower) when I look at the keys.
I’m a hard core touch typist. The keyboard I use here at work doesn’t even have anything printed on the keys. Not even for the punctuation or function keys.
And at home, I have an IBM Model M keyboard that I first got in 1988, where I removed the keycaps for cleaning a few weeks ago (it’s incredible the scum that can build up on a keyboard over nearly 18 years of use) and then put back in a completely random way. (I should take a picture of it!)
I can keep this up for wuite a while without making too many mistakes. But I see that there are plenty of Dopers who can kick my sorry butt. Still, considering my touch ruping technique sucks ass, I don’t do too badly.
Alright, typing, typing…it’s pretty damn hard to actually think of something to type whewn you’re doing this, isn’t it?
Hmm…only one mistake, and I knew i’d made it when I did it. So not too bad. 
Well, whatever you do, don’t think about monkeys!
…you did just now picture a monkey in your head, didn’t you? 
Quick wafting zephyrs vex bold Jim. This is a practice sentence I remember from a typing class I took in the tenth grade. That was thrity-six years ago. I am so freakin’ old!
How’d I do?
Are you kidding?
You people see what I come up with even when I’m looking at they keys!
I’m far from hardcore when it comes to touch-typing, but I taught myself to do it back in the mid-late 80s when I discovered I’d picked up enough speed (and had stopped typing ENTIRELY IN CAPS – hey, it was the 80s, Nettiquette was still in its embryonic stage) and wanted to see if I could shake the hunt-and-peck. I did eventually, and picked up still more speed in the process. (On a good day I’ll hit just shy of 100WPM. Not spectacular, but respectable enough to get the job done well enough) Being self-taught though means that my typing style would probably send any proper keyboarding teacher running for the yard stick. I’m not a home-row type of guy and the keys my fingers hit are probably not the same keys teachers expect them to hit. I don’t particularly care though – as long as it gets the job done I don’t really care about “proper” style.
I was always told that when you’re trying to get rid of your hiccups, try not to think of a opolar bear with blue eyes. Or was it when you’re trying to ward off a sneeze? Not sure now. eitehr way, it never worked for me.
Those sentences were typed w/o looking at keyboard or screen. I taught myself to touch type in law school because I would type up my handwritten notes at night and touch typing was so much faster than hunt & peck. A couple mistakes- eh, I can live with it.
The quidkc brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
Hey, that wasn’t bad. :dubious:
I do a lot of typing, but I find that my tuping has actually deteriorated over the years. I used to type 70 wmp with very few mistakes, but it seems like now I’m probably typing 50 wom or so with many more mistakes. My touch-typing “form” has never beeen good, (I don’t keep my fingers properly positioned on lthe “home row”), and my fingers simply aren’t as nimble as they used to be.
Well I would sauy the dacrt that I misrtyoed mu passwoerd 3 rimes pronablt means I will nor to well art this.
Hmm…
NOPE!