# Test your toucnj typing abiluty...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 22, 2006, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698 "2006-06-22T11:27:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2006, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/1 "2006-06-22T11:27:23Z")
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
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### Author:  [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2006, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/2 "2006-06-22T11:30:47Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2006, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/3 "2006-06-22T11:31:03Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Hokkaido\_Brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokkaido_Brit)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2006, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/4 "2006-06-22T12:03:32Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2006, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/5 "2006-06-22T12:12:28Z")
I’vw necer not lookesd at the keys. I;m amazws I’,m doimf this well ! I startes oyt as ajunt ans peck sort.
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### Author:  [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2006, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/6 "2006-06-22T12:14:00Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2006, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/7 "2006-06-22T12:22:27Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2006, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/8 "2006-06-22T12:28:53Z")
Maru had a lirrle lamv. iu’s fleebe was whiye as snpw
hmm i’ve got some way to go.
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### Author:  [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2006, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/9 "2006-06-22T12:33:58Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2006, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/10 "2006-06-22T12:40:55Z")
I’m a hard core touch typist. The [keyboard I use here at work](http://www.daskeyboard.com) 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](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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!)
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### Author:  [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2006, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/11 "2006-06-22T12:48:02Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2006, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/12 "2006-06-22T12:50:11Z")
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. 🙂
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### Author:  [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2006, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/13 "2006-06-22T12:59:05Z")
> [@Revenant Threshold](#):
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> Alright, typing, typing…it’s pretty damn hard to actually think of something to type whewn you’re doing this, isn’t it?
Well, whatever you do, don’t think about monkeys!
…you did just now picture a monkey in your head, didn’t you? 😃
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### Author:  [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2006, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/14 "2006-06-22T13:08:10Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2006, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/15 "2006-06-22T13:14:53Z")
Are you kidding?
You people see what I come up with even when I’m _looking_ at they keys!
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### Author:  [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2006, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/16 "2006-06-22T13:20:45Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2006, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/17 "2006-06-22T13:24:45Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2006, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/18 "2006-06-22T13:26:47Z")
The quidkc brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
Hey, that wasn’t bad. :dubious:
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### Author:  [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2006, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/19 "2006-06-22T13:31:11Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Green\_Means\_Go](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Means_Go)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/20 "2006-06-22T14:38:57Z")
Well I would sauy the dacrt that I misrtyoed mu passwoerd 3 rimes pronablt means I will nor to well art this.
Hmm…
NOPE!
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