# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/61 "2006-06-23T00:21:51Z")
I’m not vert good at it eiter… I can pretty mich touch-type, but only when I don’t notice I’m doing so. Onc eI know I;n not looking, I get very conscious of it. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/62 "2006-06-23T00:29:57Z")
I learned to type years ago in junior high, my problem is that my brain tends to go faster than my fingers and I start combining two words into one. this happens most when the last letter of one word is teh same first letter of the next word. I am slso guessing somewhere I typed the wword “the” wrong, I hit the “e” before teh “h”. After reading what I typed, I sometimes mess up my capitalization, hitting the letter key before I hit the shift key. And I messed up “the” twice. ---
**Author:** ![Meleemancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@Meleemancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meleemancer)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/63 "2006-06-23T00:55:50Z")
Oh no, I forgot about numbers. Let’s see how this goes. The current year is 2005. The speed of light is 2.9_10_9 m/s. In 1402 Cloumbus sailed the ocean blue. Rome fell in 476 AD. Pi is roughly 3.141592. * * * Well, that wasn’t awful, but not exactly good either. At least the farthest error was missing the caret by two keys. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/64 "2006-06-23T00:58:36Z")
Sometimes when I’m typing notes for my work, I’ll close my eyes. That always gives the guys I work with a laugh, to see me typing away with my eyes closed. Right now my eyes aren’t closed, but I’m looking at the ceiling above my monitor. How’d I do? * * * Not too bad when all’s said and done. ---
**Author:** ![Fetchund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Fetchund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fetchund)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/65 "2006-06-23T01:16:56Z")
Well. I already know that I neeed to look at he keygoardm beddcasue foiur of ny fingers are com[;ete;uy nerveless. I stray off the home keys and dom’t know it unto; I ;ool at the screen at least. I can’t even find the gacksp[ace keyu tp correct the mistakes! (How can you all do this without automatically reacting to correct the mistakes???) ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/66 "2006-06-23T01:20:11Z")
Nowd os the ti,e fpr a;; fppd mrn tp cpm,e tp the aid of theor cpunmtru. . . . . So much for Army clerk typist school. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/67 "2006-06-23T01:33:47Z")
I used to freak out my roommates by looking at them to listen to them while continuing to type. My 9th grade typing class was easily one of the most valuable classes I ever took. I only cheated to type the number in this post, and to backspace on “post”, because I knew I’d screwed up. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/68 "2006-06-23T02:36:52Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Moses supposes his toeses are roses, but Moses supposes erroneously. > > Next. Moses he knowses his toeses aren’t roses, as Moses supposes his toeses to be. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/69 "2006-06-23T02:58:31Z")
The wuick brown fox jumeed over the lazoy dog. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/70 "2006-06-23T03:02:12Z")
Og upi tr trs;;u s ypivj yu[ody. upi ;; gohitr piy jpe oy od yjsy O yu[rf yjod honnrtodj piy "\_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/71 "2006-06-23T04:35:00Z")
Looking at the keys confuses me. I type pretty fast and make a few mistakes, but I don’t look at the keys. Goes bakc to typing class in the 8th grade. Of course, I type a lot anyway, so I get lots of practice. ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/72 "2006-06-23T04:50:54Z")
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the strengtht to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of the people I had to kill because they pissed me off. The quick brown fox joumped over the lazy dog. ===== Okay, not perfect. The typing, niether. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/73 "2006-06-23T05:21:28Z")
I learned how to type in Grade Ten…not brave enough to try for numbers without looking…on honest-to-God electric typewriters. I recall that it was a favoured pastime to set a pen with the end resting on the T striker and launch it when the teacher’s back was turned. I was never very quick back then, but the basics seem to have taken. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/74 "2006-06-23T07:14:26Z")
Bear dow, Arizona Bear down, rd and blue Bear down, Arizona Hit 'em hard, let 'em know who’s who Bear down, Arizona Bear Down, red nad blue, Go! Go! Wildcats Go! Arizona, Bear Down. Three errors. Not bad, but I’m surprised: I used to be better. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/75 "2006-06-23T08:34:47Z")
It amazes me that so many of our touch-typists don’t know that the sentence is: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” The other way, it’s missing an s… Corrected about 4 typos in this post. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/76 "2006-06-23T08:54:11Z")
Oh, fine. “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” There. That covers the alphabet. Hmm…3+3=6. 1-5=-3. $2.50+$6.00=$8.50. 20\*5=100. My email address is R014nd0rz@ba1@h()7mai1.c0m. (Obvioulsy, it isn’t.) Ninjas attack in the night. That’s about all I got. I could try some symbols NOT on the number keys, but I doub tthat would work too well. Maybe coding? _Italic_ **BOLD** nderline…I hope. Let’s find out. Hmm. 1-5 != -3, so I missed something there; I think I was going for 4 instead of 5. I wrote “obvioulsy” and “doub tthat” instead of “obviously” and “doubt that”, and I missed the first ‘u’ in “underline” (my brain must’ve gotten mixed up when I typed the coding). I don’t look at the keyboard when I type, and I can’t always look at the screen given what I do, but I usually check back at some point before I finish to catch any egregious errors. ---
**Author:** ![cabdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@cabdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cabdude)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/77 "2006-06-23T09:18:24Z")
I work om a computrt a;; day and I cam;t tyoe to save ,t life. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slip\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f475e1/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slip\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slip_1)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/78 "2006-06-23T11:12:38Z")
Interesting thread. It’s a little challenging not to look at the screen and catch your keystroking in your peripheral vision. I took typing in the ninth grade. It was the most useful class I took in high school. I usually type notes when I talk with patients, and I have the keyboard in my lap while I’m listening ot them. So I rarely look at the keyboard. I also type on my laptop without looking at it - since I’m usually reading while I type. I looked away from the screen for the last part, so guess I’m still doing pretty well. Can type about 80wpm on a good day, 60 on a post-call day. ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Venom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@Lady\_Venom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Venom)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/79 "2006-06-23T17:26:30Z")
> [@One And Only Wanderers](#): > > Maru had a lirrle lamv. iu’s fleebe was whiye as snpw Okay, that made me laugh VERY hard. I touch type all day long at wrok, so normally it’s not a problem for me. Hmm, one mistake, not bad. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698/80 "2006-06-23T19:27:36Z")
> [@Lady Venom](#): > > I touch type all day long at wrok, so normally it’s not a problem for me. Go **Lady V** … You so totally **wrok**! (I think I’m gonna start using that around the office…) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-toucnj-typing-abiluty/361698.md?page=5)