# Test your toucnj typing abiluty... **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/41 "2006-06-22T18:14:26Z")
I’m forricvle ay tounf ttypinf. I can hunt and peck at about 70 wpm though. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/42 "2006-06-22T18:22:52Z")
I don’t reallty touvch tupe, I jabe ,u own method with which I giess is’n’t very goof! I do OK when I can look once ona while and fo back and fixe what I see if wrinf :o ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/43 "2006-06-22T18:22:48Z")
These are the dasn that tjwep anbes. The sad thing about this is the fact that my job is more or less solely typing. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/44 "2006-06-22T18:26:24Z")
Going with the first thing toat comes to mind: In AD 2101 War was beginning What happen Spmebody set up us the bomb We get signal Waht Main screen turn on Its you How are you gentlemen All your base are belong to us You are on the way to destruction What you say Uoy have no chance to survice make your time Ha ha ha ha Captain Take off every zig You know what you diing Move zig For great justice Looking back, not to bad I guess. Though it is a little disturbing the first thing that came to mind to type was the Zero Wing intro. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/45 "2006-06-22T18:31:12Z")
Oh and why are all the Google ads about travel to Sweden? ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/46 "2006-06-22T18:31:54Z")
My main problem with touch typing is that I go bwtween a standard keyboard at owork and use a smaller laptop keyboard at home. This makes my fingers feel fatter and it takes me a while to acclimate. [Looks] Hey, that’s not too bad! ---
**Author:** ![Dob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/47 "2006-06-22T18:33:08Z")
Strange that I hardly every look at my keyboard anymore anyway. What I have a problem with would be using the numbers on top of the keyboard. If I did that it would be horrible!! Just horrible! But I think I did okya with eyes closed and typing. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/48 "2006-06-22T18:33:41Z")
> [@Lord Il Palazzo](#): > > Oh and why are all the Google ads about travel to Sweden? I don’t know, but the same ads were showing up in the blowjob thread, too… :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Stainz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stainz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stainz)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/49 "2006-06-22T20:07:05Z")
Twinkle tinkle little star … how I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, likea diamond in the sky. Twinkle twinkle little star. how I wonder what you are. Hmmm not bad - what I lose in accuracy, I make up for in speed. I blame most of my typos on the new keyboard that my hubby got me - he loves it because it lights up so I can type at night (not that I ever do) - I hate it because the keys are sticky. I HAVE to touchtype - the oils in my fingers make all of the letters rub off my keyboard anyway. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/50 "2006-06-22T20:18:26Z")
damnit kytheriea, I was going th do the quick brown fox thing. now I guess I’ll just ramble poitlessly about nothing. Oh well, I guess I couldn’t really expect to be first. I wonder how long I should go on witn this. Hopefully this is wnough of a sample ---
**Author:** ![Clockwork\_And\_Candy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b782af/32.png) [@Clockwork\_And\_Candy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clockwork_And_Candy)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/51 "2006-06-22T20:31:16Z")
I’m typing all of this without looking once at my keyboard. Ha, this is easy. Mavis Beacon is my bitch, yo! ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/52 "2006-06-22T20:34:38Z")
Since “quick” has been done… Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Not as fast as I used to be, but pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/53 "2006-06-22T20:55:07Z")
Once upon a midnight dreary, While I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I pondered, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping As of someone gently rapping Rapping at my chamber door. “'Tis some visitor,” I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door, “Only this and nothing more.” Well, aside from very likely having screwed up the poem, I seem to be able to do it pretty well. Does it count if I feel mistakes and erase them without looking? ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/54 "2006-06-22T22:00:02Z")
pack my box with five dozen liquor jusgs Mr. Jock, TV quiiz Ph.D., bags few lynx XV quick nymphs beg fjord waltz ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/55 "2006-06-22T22:02:02Z")
Typing typing typing. I’m usually pretty good, I’m a touch typist and my speed is 100 words per minute. I seem to be doing OK. Up, still doing, oh, hang on, that was supposed to be Yup. OK, perhaps not 100% accuracy then. Blah blah blah blah. Actually, it’s quite hard to think of something to say, isn’t it? Heh. ---
**Author:** ![tashabot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tashabot/32/6250_2.png) [@tashabot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tashabot)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/56 "2006-06-22T22:32:29Z")
I learned how to touch type by using AOL instant messenger. I currently tuype 120 wpm at almost perfect accuracy. My boss shits himself every time he sees me tuype. Type is one word I have issues typing. Weird. Two mistakes. Both type. Same mistake, even. Hm. ~Tasha ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/57 "2006-06-22T22:48:19Z")
It’s really not very hard to do this. what’s even more fascinating is i am typing with only five fingers. (my left shift key is broken, and I can’t alwaus be bothered to fumble around and get it just right so it activates.) ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/58 "2006-06-22T23:18:14Z")
I am the very model of a modern major general. I think that I was unsurprised by this the last time we tried it. I can even touch the numbers: 84 is seventy four. On looking: so close! ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/59 "2006-06-22T23:49:13Z")
I never learned to type correctly…that is, using the whole dfoutr-dingers on one hand on certain keys and the other four on other keys. Still, apparently I can do a decent enough job of typing. And apparently, I’ve done it often enough to havbe a physical membory of where the keys are. Huh. (Seems my index and ring fingers do most of the work though…) ---
**Author:** ![some\_white\_dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@some\_white\_dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/some_white_dude)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/60 "2006-06-23T00:21:39Z")
Lovely Rita, meter maid Lovely Rita , meter maid Lovely Riota, meter maid Nothing can come between us When it gets dark I tow your heart away Standing by a parking meter When I caught a glimpsee of Rita Filling in a ticket in a little white book Not too bad. A couple of mistakes. I found I was kind of guessing on some keys. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698.md?page=4)