How efficient of a typer are you?

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Do you use the control key when you are typing? Well, if you don't, you should! I have recently started trying to use the control key whenever I can to delete or space over whole words instead of just one character at a time. I have also started to incorporate the end home and delete keys as much as I can. Why not?

Also, what other keyboard shortcuts do you use?

Extremely efficient.	12
Very efficient.	14
Efficient.	25
Average.	10
Below average.	5
Slow.	3
Very slow.	2
I can't even touch type. (Wow, really??)	1
Sheep can't type, silly, we have hooves :P	4

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shuggy-chan

11 years ago

iz a aWesoMe typers

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Fahizzle_Mizzle

9 years ago

Maybe not

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Aleks85

11 years ago

East Side Typers.

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BlackDays

11 years ago

My thumbs move faster than lightning

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  11 years ago
  
  You use the space key a lot then?
  
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  - BlackDays
    
    11 years ago
    
    Haha I am a space cadet. I only use my phone really. I'm hardly ever on the actual computer.But I type like a 5 year old. Not very well
    
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    - Anonymous Post Author
      
      11 years ago
      
      That totally does not count. :P
      
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      - BlackDays
        
        11 years ago
        
        Nothing I do counts. I'm used to it :(
        
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        Anonymous Post Author
        
        11 years ago
        
        Aw, sorry for making you feel left out.
        
        If it helps, I think your comments on here count!
        
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Uzzie101

11 years ago

63 words per minute without looking at the keys.

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Gena45

11 years ago

i have a desk job in which I'm typing all the time, so I've had a lot of time to practice! I'd say I'm extremely efficient.

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Who_Fan4Life

11 years ago

I type efficiently, in a what would be a very non-efficient manner.

I have developed a consistency because I have been typing the same way since I was about 7 or 8. Goes way back to when I was in 4th or 5th grade.

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howaminotmyself

11 years ago

Work would take too long and I wouldn't get much done if I didn't use shortcuts.

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anonimity

11 years ago

156 types per minute and I'll mostly use all the keys except the F ones

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Justsomejerk

11 years ago

I had to paint all the keys on my keyboard black so I stopped "pecking". I'm getting better but I've never had to type before so it's not easy for me.

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Cuntsiclestick

11 years ago

I suck at typing. Im slowly improving though.

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dappled

11 years ago

In my job, I have to be. The only time I hold back is when I demo things because it breaks up the demo to be asked every ten seconds, "How did you do that?"

The ones people ask about most is selecting a whole paragraph (or half a paragraph) with a keystroke, navigating to the start of a paragraph, moving back and forward through time with what you typed so you can bring a single sentence you deleted a few minutes ago and resurrect it, changing font size, displaying the windows desktop, using menus, navigating a hierarchy. They're the simple ones, but often the ones people are impressed by. If anyone uses an application with IntelliSense, that's where all the really fun stuff is. It's scary how arcane it seems now to have to type every word in full.

If anyone wants to learn, just unplug your mouse for a month. You soon pick it up when you have to. Although to be fair, there are some that work in conjunction with the mouse too.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  11 years ago
  
  You sound much more advanced with your keyboard skills than I am with mine. How do you do the paragraph thing, if you don't mind me asking that is? :P
  
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  - dappled
    
    11 years ago
    
    Hehe, sure. If you're in the middle of a paragraph, Ctrl+Shift+Up selects everything from the cursor to the start of the paragraph, and Ctrl+Shift+Down everything to the end. However, Ctrl+Up moves to the start of the paragraph so if you type:
    
    Ctrl+Up then Ctrl+Shift+Down, you get the whole paragraph. Or Ctrl+Down then Ctrl+Shift+Up also works, of course. I do it so quickly it looks like one keystroke (it's pretty easy, to be honest. After the first keypress all you do is also press Shift as well and swap the cursor).
    
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    - Anonymous Post Author
      
      11 years ago
      
      That is a neat little trick, thanks for sharing :)
      
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- Captain_Kegstand
  
  11 years ago
  
  My boss at my old job took my mouse for a week to teach me how to better use the keyboard. It pissed me off for the entire week! lolz
  
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  - dappled
    
    11 years ago
    
    Hehe, I don't think I'd want to be forced not to have a mouse. I'd probably hide a wireless one under the desk and use it on my legs >:)
    
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    - Captain_Kegstand
      
      11 years ago
      
      Lolz use it against the bottom of the desk or something crazy like that!
      
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      - dappled
        
        11 years ago
        
        OOh, you could glue a mouse-mat to the underside of your desk and grip the mouse with your knees! Not only would your secret be safe, you'd get huge thigh muscles.
        
        And you could tell women you can control a mouse-pointer with the power of your mind.
        
        Not that that's what I'd do *cough*
        
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        Captain_Kegstand
        
        11 years ago
        
        Id tell her my penis is so dexterous that I can control the mouse with that.
        
        Never mind, no I would never use that line. It would be funny though!
        
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sograceful

11 years ago

I'm not super efficient but I'm still fast. It works for me:)

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anti-hero

11 years ago

What is touch type?

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  11 years ago
  
  It's just typing without looking at the keys.
  
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  - anti-hero
    
    11 years ago
    
    Oh I just call that typing. If they look at the keeps I call that pecking.
    
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