# The eyes closed thread:recososted.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eyes-closed-thread-recososted/311376
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 7, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eyes-closed-thread-recososted/311376 "2005-07-07T00:30:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eyes-closed-thread-recososted/311376/1 "2005-07-07T00:30:27Z")
Last time I did this it provided a hgreat deal of fun for many people. Thre idea is to type your entire post with your eyesd clodes.
IAs you can provable yell I am doing this right now. I am using a laptop keyboatd which is harder to use than a standard onre.
I am also doing it with a ges bees and whiskey shos in me… and typing at ‘full speed’.
The rules are// you can open your eytes once you havre gfinished a sentence ,but all typing should be done with eyes closed.
Gire away.
New rule: you can ecxplain stugff with your eyes open, but it has to e in italics.
_for example, the word ‘recososted’ in the title is meant to be ‘revisited’_
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2005, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eyes-closed-thread-recososted/311376/2 "2005-07-07T00:37:58Z")
okl I don’t rraklky jnbiw what tti weurwe tgiyfgg
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### Author:  [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eyes-closed-thread-recososted/311376/3 "2005-07-07T00:39:47Z")
wjst a dripif concept,
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eyes-closed-thread-recososted/311376/4 "2005-07-07T00:44:51Z")
One of the best things about the fitst time i did it was some of the words born ou t of it.
_‘dripif’ for example. and ‘weurwe’ both lovely cute new words_
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### Author:  [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eyes-closed-thread-recososted/311376/5 "2005-07-07T00:44:54Z")
I’ll play.
See, I took a touch typing class in junior high school . I didn’t think it would be that useful at the time, but I wanted to take art and the two were lumped together, for some reason. Now, I’m glad I took it. It’s come in quite handy.
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### Author:  [@klintypooh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/klintypooh)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2005, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eyes-closed-thread-recososted/311376/6 "2005-07-07T00:47:28Z")
NOw this is a rhewad i like
Qonder how it will go?
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### Author:  [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2005, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eyes-closed-thread-recososted/311376/7 "2005-07-07T00:48:58Z")
I took a typing course as well. It was in tenth grade, as I recall, using Smith Corona electrics. One could use the "t’ key to launch a pen clear across the classroom when the teacher’s back was turned.
You’ll note that while I’m doing pretty good here, I wasn’t brave enough to try to find any number keys.
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### Author:  [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eyes-closed-thread-recososted/311376/8 "2005-07-07T00:49:08Z")
Let me try. See I’ve also had a few beers too. This might be fun to see what I come up with. Buzzed and eyes closed and all. Do I dare look? What will I see\> The suspense is killing meQ
_Well, dang! It looks pretty durn normal!_
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### Author:  [@Typically\_Sunday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typically_Sunday)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eyes-closed-thread-recososted/311376/9 "2005-07-07T00:49:53Z")
The last time I tried this I did pretty wekk ibm bytI don’t think I can do as well on my laptop.
Hey, not bad.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eyes-closed-thread-recososted/311376/10 "2005-07-07T00:52:54Z")
Ok . rule three.nO TOUCH TYPISTS!
(ust kidding. it’s more fun when the post ends pu being inmerfect though\< tgat;s wgeb yi get new words)
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### Author:  [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2005, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eyes-closed-thread-recososted/311376/11 "2005-07-07T00:54:26Z")
Today was just a crappy stinking sucky rotten day, and that’s why I’m so glad that I can come hang out at the Dope for a while.
I haven’t opened my eyes yet to look at this post. However, I was a secretary for 23 years prior to starting a new career as a Child Protective Services Investigator, and I type over 150 words per minute by touch, so this shouldn’t be too awful.
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### Author:  [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eyes-closed-thread-recososted/311376/12 "2005-07-07T00:56:45Z")
The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown gogs. 1,2, button my shoe. 3,4, open the door. 4, 5, Pick up sticks. 6,7, Lay 'em straight. 9, 10, a big fat wt hen!
Hmm. Not too bad. Even if my fingers were one over on the number row. 😛
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### Author:  [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2005, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eyes-closed-thread-recososted/311376/13 "2005-07-07T00:59:05Z")
Every once in a while, a thread comes alongf that is both hilarious to read and great fun to post to.
This is not that thread.
😃
Wow! I’;m better than I thought I was,.
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eyes-closed-thread-recososted/311376/14 "2005-07-07T01:03:45Z")
I ught as well give it a try…
Although, I must admit, my typinh looks like I have my eyes closed halg the time when I don;r.
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### Author:  [@Phedre\_no\_Delaunay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phedre_no_Delaunay)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2005, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eyes-closed-thread-recososted/311376/15 "2005-07-07T01:05:32Z")
I’m generally not one to post in this type of thread, but I figured I’d give it a shot this time. How’d I do?
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### Author:  [@Pythian\_Habenero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pythian_Habenero)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2005, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eyes-closed-thread-recososted/311376/16 "2005-07-07T01:12:48Z")
This is pretty amusing. I don’t fancy typing with my eyes closed, as I’m not quite sure what’ll come out when I do, and my backspace-use is compulsive - I actually u… that’s a letter UI, isn’t it. Why is it thete? OK, moving in… on, that is… dammit, I just looked and I hate the word “thete” with a fiery passion. Yet I managed to catch the in/on thing. Odd.
Well, my eyez-clised typing is almost normal, it seems. Oh, and to finishe that sentence up there, I actually caught myself looking twice before I said that, not because I was agraid I’d made an error but because I had just used the backspace key and wanted to know I was at the right place before continuing. And I just used said key twice without looking… let’s see how I did… Wow, that’s scary. Okay, done now.
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### Author:  [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2005, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eyes-closed-thread-recososted/311376/17 "2005-07-07T01:15:50Z")
OKAG yn fiungn to yru is./ wmee err jod i fp/ p a,mm mou nety good.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2005, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eyes-closed-thread-recososted/311376/18 "2005-07-07T01:17:37Z")
Bunsch of nams show offs
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### Author:  [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2005, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eyes-closed-thread-recososted/311376/19 "2005-07-07T01:24:22Z")
I think those of us to o chicken to get LLASIK done should just type without our glassses/contacts. 😃
But, just to be safe, I’m closing them anyway.
What to rype…besides, wow that touch typing in 8th grade really holes up well mumblety mumblety years later, huh?
\*Hey, I’m totally okay with that! I love the space as my brain went “too, dammit, not to” a millisecond too late for my fingers. \*
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### Author:  [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2005, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eyes-closed-thread-recososted/311376/20 "2005-07-07T01:24:29Z")
I think I can do this pretty well, but I guess I’ll find out when I open my eyes.
Damn. I’m good.
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