Typing technique and speeds

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I’m now questioning why I spent the time to learn touch type when someone can type 90wpm+ with two fingers

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It’s a scam :frowning: i spent a lot of time learning and practicing but still slower than my 4 finger method

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Thanks for appreciating :sweat_smile:. Can do a bit better on a MacBook Air:

It’s definitely not a scam but like many other hard things in life, it takes a lot of patience and time to get decent at it and much more to get very fast. It also makes logical sense that if you can control and use more of your fingers at a time, should be faster to get at those keys.

I had access to computers at a young age but no one to teach me so I ended up learning to type myself but didn’t have access to a proper typing tutor. It was mostly typing up newspaper articles and some medical information pamphlets a family member had. But due to this silly practice, got better and better and even won all the typing competitions during my school years. I tried touch-typing few times but didn’t have the patience to go through with it and hated being slow and inaccurate while committing to it.

But lately have come to appreciate the way I type which makes me lean towards sticking with it for the rest of my life because I think it has a few benefits:

  • This is a personal wild theory, but I think it’s easier to get injuries like RSI touch-typing than whatever it is I’m doing. At least, the ones I know who touch-type got it much sooner and I’m still fine AFAICT. I did quite a lot of typing during the heydays of work and I was usually bad at taking breaks in between my flow state sessions. Though, who knows, will have to see in the long run.
  • It’s easier for me to adapt or switch between different QWERTY keyboards (like the Apple one and mechanical ones) doing my thing while I generally see it’s harder for touch-typers to adapt. They end up usually preferring one type of keyboard and some of them go to the extremes with new layouts or even building custom ones.
  • Saves me money :joy: and probably a lot of trouble cause I know those highly ergonomic, curved keyboards and split keyboards can never work while I type like this. Not only that, once you’re used to such layouts, gotta carry it around everywhere for the above reason.

@moderators would probably make a nice separate discussion, so consider splitting this and above messages into a new topic or merging if it already exists.