Are you a good typist?

[rwsmith]

I'm not going to bother..

If I say so myself, I am faster than blazes. The reason I'm not going to test though is that using several different computers with with different keyboards makes me have about 120% errors. Also, stupid Windows and the internet get clogged up so I'm typing and nothing is showing on the screen until I dook around with it and half of what I typed suddenly appears and the cursor is somewhere that it wasn't. Too dang frustrating.

I was that way with my Cad program, too, being that it finally became a very fast program after several iterations. The word used by my boss was 'incredible'. When I trained it was on a mainframe and everybody complained because I kept overloading the system and locked it up. When they came out with individual 'Pentium' computers.....stand back..

PS. Everybody else in the world used Autocad, but Microcadam/Helix blew it out of the water in speed. It wasn't as pretty, but it was fast and had a lot of mathematical capability so offsets, etc. weren't 'approximate'. And rather that set up scale, everything was drawn full size and the scale was applied to the printout. It was funny working on a huge tract of land full size. It made good use of the 'zoom' feature.

 

[Broke Hoss]

49 wpm/3 errors/corrected to 46.

I took typing in Jr high....failed it. The teacher thought I was just messing around at first, but finally realized I had a form of dyslexia. I was using the right fingers, but on the wrong hand.

Uncle Sam thought I needed another try at it....I got Honor Grad in the class. Which of course made me permanent blotter clerk on the MP desk.

 

[snuffy51]

I took one semester of typing way back in high school but the teacher (she) wasn't much older than us. 'Bout all I learned was to type leg, knee and thigh without looking at the keyboard.

 

[Whitwabit]

Had to type 35 words a minute I think it was in the service and I could do somewhere around 50-55 words .. the fastest I ever saw was a guy (Nick named speedy ) that had been a typist for over 24 years and was timed several times at over 100 words with 3 mistakes .. he would consistently out type a 100 wpm teletype machine going faster then it could type ..

Daughter types around 60 to 70 wpm in the job she does ..

now with these rough old hands I just pick and scratch .. maybe 15 to 20 wpm if I was to practice a little .. record I think is over 200 wpm .. now that is very fast .. someone with very nimble fingers ..

 

[hittman77]

56 wpm - 1 mistake = 55. Never tested myself before .... I would have guessed 25 to 30!

 

[JohnRippert]

Back in high school I got up to 40wpm in typing class using all fingers. These days I am a 4 finger typist, index and middle finger of each hand.

Mom was a medical transcription typist for many years and averaged 120wpm.

 

[STCM(SW)]

I use MTF! And I'm pretty fast....

 

[chief38]

I am a terrible typist - never learned the correct way. I make many mistakes however I usually try and correct them - even to the point of editing my post after it's submitted. I am however strong in the Math department

 

[Grayfox]

I tried it, failed miserably. Got 21 wpm, but it seems that somewhere right at the beginning I accidentally hit the caps key. My adjusted score was 0.

I type by the Bible method.
Seek and ye shall find.

 

[rwsmith]

You are missing...

I took one semester of typing way back in high school but the teacher (she) wasn't much older than us. 'Bout all I learned was to type leg, knee and thigh without looking at the keyboard.

You are missing some words. But it reminds of a teacher who was short stuff but was built like a brick battleship. We always wrote up high on the chalkboard so she would have to reach to erase it. She never asked us to erase the board for her. If she did we would have made an exuse.

PS She wasn't built quite as much as the teacher we referred to as 'Elsie'.

 

[rwsmith]

Well, your are ....

77 with 76 mistakes. I am bad. 2 fingered typer.

Well, you are twice as fast as a one fingered typer.

 

[BigBoy99]

Lets see, Speed minus errors equals typing speed. Do negative numbers mean anything?

 

[Targets Guy]

One of the smartest things I did was take typing in high school. It has served me well over the years; college, the Air Force, and gun blogs.

I peaked at 125 words per minute.

 

[pmosley]

eye tipe gud

 

[wingriderz]

No me very bad just look at all me edited post. And still aren't right.

 

[sousana]

77wpm, but all the time working on EMR's, if I'm slow, I'd never get home.

 

[31FordA]

I think I do pretty good for only using two fingers. My typing style is more "search and destroy" than "hunt and peck" since I tend to slam the keys. In high school I had to take a semester of typing and earned an "unsatisfactory". I never would've guessed how much typing was in my future.

 

[soFlaNative]

Negatory...