[links] Link salad is the keeper of the keys, it will put your mind at ease

[jaylake]

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Comments

[aiela]

The typing thing is interesting to me. I type 90+ and while I could get the top row, and probably the second, I'm pretty sure I'd have to pretend to type something to figure out the bottom or punctuation.

I had a typing teacher tell me once that she found that kids that learned to read "whole word" instead of phonetically did better at typing because your brain focused on typing the word, rather than the letters. Of course, that was in 1988, who knows what's changed since then.

[dr_phil_physics]

The typing thing makes sense. I've been doing a lot of "typing" on the virtual keyboard of a Kindle Fire HD and transitioning to a keyboard requires thought, since normally the comma isn't to the left if the space bar.

Way back in Neanderthal times, when I took typing class the typewriters we had had no markings on the keys. That way you couldn't cheat by looking down. Previously I could type very fast with one finger -- maybe 60-80 wpm. Touch typing was slow at first. Eventually I got to 100-120 wpm, though thank goodness for computers which make correcting errors so much easier. (grin)

Dr. Phil

[jaylake]

As it happens, when I was a little more mentally focused than I am these days, I was a two-fingered typist who could produce about 65 wpm (corrected) with just my index fingers.