Is it normal that i type very fast on a keyboard?

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I fast type even when I am writing this, however I am a slow typer on a phone. Sure fast typing can annoy a few people around me when I am using the family computer in my house but I have been doing this for ages and this is a habit that I have and I cannot help but to fast type while writing things on my computer. It might also have annoying sounds while doing it but I can totally understand that. Oh and legends have it that I am fast typing on this website too. :)

Is my habit ever normal?

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  • bbrown95
    3 years ago

    I used to be like that, a fast typist on the computer (though I've never really learned to do it the "correct" way; I type with my two index fingers, thumb, and occasionally my little finger) and slow on the phone because it was a different layout. Now, with swipe (except for when they update and reset the whole thing, and make it ten times worse 🙄), I use that and am pretty fast.

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  • BleedingPain
    3 years ago

    My typing is horrendously slow. I had to take 2 keyboard classes in middle school (which was comprised 50% learning to type and speed, and 50% navigating a mac circa 2007-2008) then a keyboarding class in highschool which was less trying speed, and more how to do functional stuff with microsoft office and composing emails and cover letters.

    My typing is so bad because the home row positioning just doesnt come naturally for me. My hands cant do that and instead my brain makes me want to punch the keys individually with pointers and occasional middle fingers and thumbs.

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  • thepuppet
    3 years ago

    yea same, didnt have a phone for a long time but i used laptop more than my peers throughout school

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  • geek_god_101
    3 years ago

    I used to type 120 words per minute in my programming days. I am down to 6- words per minute now but I can still crank it out.

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  • Tommythecaty
    3 years ago

    Keyboard Tourette’s!

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  • Mini69
    3 years ago

    People who touch type can do so incredibly fast, perhaps as much as 60 words a minute, or more if they do it all the time. In the days of type writers, before we had computers, typing was a subject you could learn in school or college. I had to do it for 1 lesson a week at secondary school, it was a compulsory subject for girls in my school in the first year. After first year you had the option, so I dropped it. But I had to do it again when I went to college, because I was forced into doing a secretarial course. So my speed is reasonably good, probably about 25 to 30 words a minute.

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    • olderdude-xx
      3 years ago

      Actually, secretaries back in the day of typewriters often could do 120 words per minute, or more.

      You would not ever be hired at 60 words a minute; typically you had to be above 90 words per minute to be hired into any job. The best jobs often required a minimum of 100 or 110 words per minute.

      You were allowed up to 2 mistakes a single spaced page.

      Edited to add: When I was in high-school "basic" typing was a required semester long class (I believe Grade 10); and we trained on both manual and electric typewriters (alternating every week). I believe I got up to about 60 words a minute.

      "Advanced Typing" was an elective course for Grade 11 or 12, and people intending to work in offices as secretaries (or similar) took it. They almost always could do at least 100 words per minute when they graduated within the allowed mistake per page limit.

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      • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
        3 years ago

        i remember on letterman one time they put this teenage girl who was supposedly the fastest texter in the world up against some old dude who was the fastest morse code tapper in the world

        the morse code dude smoked the girl

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    • GaelicPotato
      3 years ago

      I'd hate to break it to you but 30 wpm is kinda really slow, unless you're talking about mobile.

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      • Mini69
        3 years ago

        Yeah it probably is, but typing was never a subject I enjoyed. I wasn’t that great at it, but the fact I was forced to learn does at least mean I can touch type, all be it quite slowly. In modern times when we all have to use computers it’s a handy skill to have. Maybe I’m a bit faster than that I don’t know, I don’t ever time myself. But when I see people who are not good at typing I definitely know I can do it quicker.

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        • GaelicPotato
          3 years ago

          I grew up typing being born in 1994, so its probably relevant to the average speed of my age as we grew up with it. Its crazy how you guys used to have typing courses.

          I know 30wpm is definitely faster than my mother and sister though. Definitely.

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          • Mini69
            3 years ago

            Being born late 60’s I grew up in the 70’s and early 80’s. In my school, being a girl I had to do typing at secondary school in the first year. The boys didn’t have to, they got to do swimming when we were typing, which was so unfair. Alternatively they could choose to do typing with us girls, there were hardly any that did, I think there were 2 in my year, but they both were then allowed to drop it half way through the year and do the swimming instead. We didn’t get an option, I think they thought because we were female, we were all going to work in offices as typists and secretaries. Boys didn’t usually do that sort of work so they did naked swimming because it was supposed to be character building. Of course once computers arrived on the scene things would have been different. These days everyone needs to be able to use a keyboard. Plus we have laws these days that prevent girls being discriminated against like we were.

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            • GaelicPotato
              3 years ago

              That's actually really interesting. My dad was born in '56 and I love hearing stories about his childhood.

              Sociological changes in generations is fascinating.

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  • [Old Memory]
    3 years ago

    I can type almost nearly but not quite at full capacity as fast as I think, which is super helpful when typing something out, although it's been years since I've used a keyboard on a regular basis

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    • Somenormie
      3 years ago

      Ah I see the more that I use the keyboard the more it improves the way that I type, I always wondered why my typing on a phone is slow ( that is something I still question. )

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      • [Old Memory]
        3 years ago

        Swype helps me, I'd say I'm at 80% keyboard speed on Swype

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        • Somenormie
          3 years ago

          That is pretty impressive.

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