Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men were created equal.
There’s some of the Gettysburg Address, I hope.
:::looks at screen:::: Hmmm, not bad! I did backspace and correct as I went, but I didn’t look at the screen or keyboard any of those times, I just recognized I’d probably hit a bad key.
The default beavior of the camera is “fixed behind”. THis means that the camera will always try to keep its position behind the character’s bac.
From a game manual sitting on my desk. I did pretty good. Corrected a few mistakes without looking. It’s habit.
OK I am going to give this a shot also. I am sure my coworkers are wondering why I am typing while staring at the ceiling. Bot it is very dusty up there.
THis is kind of fun. I don’t think I’m typing mych slower than I usually do.
Now I want to rearrange the letters on my keyboard too!
The panalphabetic sentence that I tend to prefer to use is “Pack my box with ten doxen liquor juhs”. It’s natural-sounding and a nice change from the typical quick brown fox.
Typing was part of my computer applications class in high school, although I didn’t learn to touch-type then; only to use my fingers on the correct keys. I still have the bad habit of looking at the keyboard while I type, although it’s pretty clear that by the time of this exercise it’s mostly unnecessary.
What really did i for me was not that tuping class, of course, but my later infatuation with mcultiplayer computer games. If you don’t type quickly to convey needed invormation, you were toast before the days of YeamSpeak and Ventrilo. So I naturally learned “proper” youch-typinh through practice there and my prior knowledge.
One other thing that amuses me sometimes is that the ‘m’ and ‘n’ keys are worn entirely off myu keyboard, so it’s funny to watch people who hunt-and-peck try to figure them out when they have to use my computer.
I also type with my keyboard under the desk. It used to really freak one of my managers out. “You’re typing on air!” Wow, I have a lot of crap in my buce. I really need to clean this place up.
Okay, looking now. Hee. Cube, not buce. What’s a buce, anyway? Obviously, I still need to look at the screen while typing.
(while looking) Naturally, I remembered after the fact that the number of jugs is five dozen and that the pangram really doesn’t work without that. There are enough v’s in the rest of the post that it’s fine though.
It was also difficult to compose the post on the fly without being able to go back and rewrite for clarity or style. I guess I do that a lot.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
Hey, I did it!
Moses supposes his toeses are roses, but Moses supposes erroneously.
Next.
I used to be quite good at this. Before the PjD stared, I had a fairly good gig as a secretary. Hell, I’m a secretary again now, but on a part toime basis to earn some money iuntil I get a real job.
Hmmm, not bad. PjD should be PhD, and toime isn’t me attempting to type in a New Jersey accent, I swear!
You mean people still look at their keyboards when they type?
OK, I admit - I look at the screen. Because I do make an awful lot of typos - my hands aren’t as coordinated as I’d like them to be. So I see the mistake on screen, then back up & correct (unless I miss it, which happens too often).
But I only look at the keyboard to find characters I rarely use - my fingers/brain actually do know where all the letters & numbers (on the 10-key keypad, not the top row) are.
BTW – by real job I mean a job with a contract, rather than just the casual secretarial gig I’m doing within the group at the moment.
One of my problems is that I do Unix typing so much that I tend to default a number of psellings to their close unix dquivalents - like typing “passwd” instead of “passed”. I mean, they’re only off by one letter and the letters a beszide eadch other.
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There - this whole thing was typed blind. How did I do ?
Hmm. Looks like I have a tendency to miss keytops… I don’t usually look at the keys while I’m typing but I do stare at the screen for letter-by-letter feedback.
I’m pretty sure that I’ll type this out perfectly. I’m just that damn good. In fact, I could probablytype on like this for quite a while with my eyes closed with a minimum of mistakes.
Okay, so I missed a space. Sue me.
the quick greon fox jumeped over the lazy fdosa
the quick boown fox jumpweds over the lazre sogfaa’
the quixck vbewon fox jumpwsd ove thw laze sogfa
I was trying to type:
the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs
I can’t do it - I always look at the key board and I still ahve to correct mistakes 
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
I started my first job as a typist at age 15 so I should be pretty good at this. 
I’m pretty accustomed to touch typing. On eof my colleagues likes to complain when she comes into my office while I’m typing something up. It freaks her out that I’ll keep tping even as I turn around to talk to her. I suspect this one has gone a bit awry, because I do have trouble with the apostrophe and the semicolon and the return key unless I look. I know where they are but my laptop;s keyboard is so small that sometimes my fingers over stretch in the effort to get to those punctuation keys.
Now looking…hmmm. Not too bad. Like others, I did do some automatic backspacing to correct without looking, because I knew I’d made a mistake.
If I go slowly and look at the screen as I go, I can be mostly mistale free. But if I try to spee dup wothout looking to atht screen or the keyboarf, it gets very sloppe
I’m current;y llooking at the creen while I touch-type.
Now, I’m not looking at the keyboard OR the screen.
… that’s not how it was supposed to work out.
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