KEYBOARD TYPING!

[msb.]

I remember like a good 2-5 years ago, I was like omgosh "WOW" people can type without looking at the keyboard... I was like I gurantee I wouldn't be able to do that in the future... and then he hit me, I started to go on the computer alot and then strangely started to type without looking at the keyboard.

I am wondering.

Can you NOT look at your keyboard and type?

If so, what age did you start typing without looking at the keyboard?
(only say the age, if you are happy for others to know)

Not that it is REALLY personal, is it :P?

Reason why I am asking, just wondering if it is a "skill" LOL!

[Hiro]

13/14 LOL.
I've been able to touch-type for a good 3-4years now. My mother helped me too. (:

[Jordy]

I would of been twelve I imagine, it looks like one of them impossible things but it seems such a doddle now.

Can anyone here draw a keyboard with all the letter keys in the correct places (With out looking at a keyboard obv), I can almost do it but I haven't tried in a while.

[msb.]

I would of been twelve I imagine, it looks like one of them impossible things but it seems such a doddle now.

Can anyone here draw a keyboard with all the letter keys in the correct places (With out looking at a keyboard obv), I can almost do it but I haven't tried in a while.
like


abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz?

I made 1 mistake tbh but corrected myself lol (near the m bit)



tbh I thank habbo and msn for it, 1 thing I learnt from them both :) Its great :)

[Swearwolf]

i have certificates in touch typing lol

[msb.]

i have certificates in touch typing lol
was that a joke or seriously, if so how? lol?

[Swearwolf]

at college on my ICT course its mandatory

[mangle]

I know how to do it and have for about 2 years. Guess it just came with going on MSN more and more.

[GommeInc]

I've been touching typing for years! I think Year 7 or 8 I started to properly touch type. It varies though on spelling, on forums I barely put much effort and end up typing the wrong words while in essays or formal letters/emails it comes out reasonably neat :P

[msb.]

tbh we all our quite clever lol.

Touch typing imo is a quite clever skill *not being big headed*


But come on, when I go my class, hardly any1 can do it in my class.

[Decode]

Ive been able to do it since i was about 12 lol. On the F and J key of the keyboard there are little lumps to help you know where your fingers are :P

[mangle]

Probably because they're always outside ;)

[msb.]

Probably because they're always outside ;)
True say lol., meh tbh I wouldn't even most probz know my mates now in like 2-4 years... its life I suppose, people go different collages etc...

[broken]

i can't.... well i can but not fully.

[Smiddy]

I can type sentences perfectly with my eyes closed, it was always fun to do at school because others were learning to touch type but I could already do it, at a quick speed also, so I was typing sentences faster and with my eyes closed :P

I think it's an increasingly common skill though, it's just a case of in the past it being typewriters instead of a PC keyboard.
(ironically I'm typing this with my hands under the newspaper.. and also I think I started when I was about 15?)

[Plank]

I can do it, not sure when I started though.

[cocaine]

yeah but sometimes i make typos but its not that often that it happens :P

like for instance i only made one typing that ^

[Florx]

Yeah, I can.

Also I can touch type and have been able to for about 5 years. Everyone at school is always jelous at the way I can type with two hands, make mistakes (but also know when I have without looking at the screen) and then type sentances really quick with my eyes closed.

Im just like, so what? lmao

[lew!]

I can touch type, I dont need to look but i can trype words etc, BUT if you asked me to draw out the layout of the keyboard, i wont be able to do it, i just know that its there lol

[N-Dubz]

It's a really easy thing to do after a while you get used to doing it and I've known how to do it for about, 2 years now or even longer. I couldn't draw out the layout of the keyboard, I just understand how to do it.

I would call it a skill, but alot of peple can do it.

[Hiro]

I hate people that "woodpeck" the keys...

[Charlie]

Yeah, I can touch type but if it's a dark room so I can't see the keyboard I make a lot of mistakes, weird hey?

I've done those things like typeracer where you have to type out the paragraph to race others to see how fast you are and stuff, I'm kind of good at those but I make a lot of mistakes at the start.

[splatttt]

yearsssss.
i never look at the keyboard :D

[Andys]

I've been able to do it for like 2 years
So since i was about 11

[Axel]

I can touch type easily, and quite fast. I got like 101 WPM on Bebo FTW!

[Rockstar]

well lets see this is what happens when I type without looking at the keyboard so I suppose I can do It I think you just get it as you get more experience on a Keyboard I suppose

[PaintYourTarget]

I can, have been able to since year 7 or 8.
Occasionally I go one letter to the right though and I end up with incoherant letters =[

[drama]

Yeah i can touch type.
My mum gets really freaked out while i talk and look at her while typing really fast, haha :D

[Gangster]

You are on habbox forum.

Just did it :D

Cant remember what age...

[Hitman]

Erm I think I was around 14... or 13, dunno...

Sometimes my dad is talking to me and I'm typing and he thinks I'm not listening... :P

[Hazza]

12, I think. I find it very easy - Practice makes perfect!:P
People at school are like "OMGZ U CAN TYPE FAST WITHOUT LOOKIN" - I dont see it as much of a big deal.

[Judge Judy]

I can as well :)
Started in year 7 or 8, but do some typos at times because I fast.
Also same as special in school people are like "WOAH" etc.
But yeah it's a skill xD

[Plux]

Yes, touch typing grows on you the more you use a computer, so it's inevitable you will get the "skill".

[Technologic]

I can touch type, have been able to do so for about 2 years

[ToxicPaddy]

I can type 77wpm, and can type without looking at the keyboard like I am doing now :)

[Jord]

When I used the comp I started remembering where the keys go Then i didnt need help or w.e

[Alan_Carr]

I've learnt how to do it since i was probs like 12-13
Msn helped alot ;)

[le harry]

it's great when it takes you 10 minutes to type up a draft whilst 2 hours for most people in my class haha

[Herman]

Yes I can touchtype. I'm doing it now! :)

"I am now attempting to touchtype without looking at the screen or keyboard. Let's see..."

Ahh. I probably got it around 11-12 years old.

[Shawnstra]

My mum used to be able to type faster than me, but now I can beat her without seeing the keyboard :P I guess about 12 ish I learnt the ability i'm 14 now.

[Wootzeh]

Been able to touch type for a couple of years. but never really notice it.

[Heart Break Kid]

lol i learnt to type without looking at my keyboard at the age of 8 :P
(noo lie)
i downloaded well uploaded a disk from a computer magazine which helped me learn how to do this and btw
it was a genuine magazine so it was all leagil

[MJJ]

Yeah I can.
I'm not sure at what age though, I never really noticed.

[N!ck]

I'm quite possibly one of the only geeks who can't :(.

[Blinger1]

Habbo helped me touch type. Sad but true!
And we had to do it in Switzerland in I.T !

[Recursion]

This is typing without looking at the keyboard :P (Not touch typing though :()

[Leetzgirl]

what, yeh i can touchtype, how cool is that


I mean i always do it in the darkkkkkkkk

[PaulMacC]

About 12/13

[Teyauna.]

I don't think it's a skill. Once you start going on the computer, you get familiar with the keys and where they are, etc. Then it just becomes like nothing for you to find the keys without looking because you've gotten so familiar with them.

I am able to type without looking ever since I was like 10.

[Smiddy]

I don't think it's a skill. Once you start going on the computer, you get familiar with the keys and where they are, etc. Then it just becomes like nothing for you to find the keys without looking because you've gotten so familiar with them.

I am able to type without looking ever since I was like 10.
That's like saying "Once you start juggling you get familiar with the items you're throwing, where they are and you can do it without looking because you've gotten so familiar to juggling"

[Lubricant]

I can touch type but very slowly if I do. I can nearly type all the letters without looking but that's with only two fingers from each hand.

[Kevin]

Since the start of school 5/6 year old. They diddent print the letters on the keyboards. so you would learn how to touch type quicker. We did alot of work with the keyboard starting off, like diagrams and tests, but it has proven to be a success and i've been able to touch type for a good while now.

[Misawa]

Since I was about 13 or so? So 5 years.

[Camy]

From like 3 years ago when I was 13.

[lPinoy]

Yeah, after a year or two using the computet too much (odear) i learnt to type without looking.

[Nemo]

i have for 3 years now, everyone at school when we do work on the pc is like wow

[camera]

sometimes i look sometimes i dont.

didnt realise when i started to not look

[Captain]

I've been able to do it since I was about 12 maybe. The only reason I can do it is because of Habbo and MSN haha, plenty of people can touch type now though. I love watching the mother struggle to type, it's literally 3 words a minute for her.

[Oleh]

Id say around year 4/5 a person came in and taught us , like what fingers where but i just use 2 fingers for somereason im faster than using both hands , on bebo my typing speed is 60 wpm so that explains it

[RandomManJay]

About 11/12 I would say so about 6/7 years ago

[Malachy]

ive been able to touch type since i was like 10-11 years old. no joke. I didn't get taught or anything its just that I used to go on comp alot and it just came to me really

[flatface]

Lol about 13-14 it's weird how you do it without thinking about it aswell lol.

[Eight.]

I started to type fast and not look at the keyboard around 9/10 years old. In the end you will have a bone sticking out at your hand if you are not comftable.

[iJoe]

I can do it quite well, not amazing really :p I dont type enough really lmao, but I just touch typed this.

The keyboards in school are different to my one at home, this one has quite big keys lol where as in school they are normal

[luke-p]

Yeah I can, it comes in quite handy when typing up c/w on the pc :P Err, think I started doing it without looking when I was 15.

[ideabox]

Ever since I started piano I can go without looking at the keyboard.
Its just because you become accustomed to the rhythm and path of the words that you type.

[You]

i have for 3 years now, everyone at school when we do work on the pc is like wow
Keep dreaming.

[Mythicisation]

No idea when I started to not look at the keyboard when typing, but I've probably been typing since about 11? (I'm 16)

[Davii]

i can do it but i have to watch the screen or i screw up and miss letters out sort of thing or like get wrong letters. i dont do it properly though like with all ther differant fingers i use like 3 on left hand and only index finger on right hand.

[Dentafrice]

Well since where I live, when in elementary/middle school, one of our main IT grades was touch-typing.

It really developed our skill, I can type without looking at the keyboard easy. I can usually type from 90-110 WPM.

[msb.]

12, I think. I find it very easy - Practice makes perfect!:P
People at school are like "OMGZ U CAN TYPE FAST WITHOUT LOOKIN" - I dont see it as much of a big deal.

-makes longer-

it is like a big deal to me anyways, it is like knowing the periodic table of the top of my head lol.

[whoooosh]

No idea how old i was ive done it for quite a while though

[:Liam]

When i did my OCR unit thing we had to do touch typing training I did alright i got like 50 words per minute touch typing. One person in our class got 120 per minute touch typing i was like :O

[msb.]

When i did my OCR unit thing we had to do touch typing training I did alright i got like 50 words per minute touch typing. One person in our class got 120 per minute touch typing i was like :O
120 words, u sure?

do you count words such as "a"?

[Meanies]

not sure how long i've been able to
you just randomly start doing it after a while of typing and then it comes naturally.

[The Professor]

Idk when I first started, but I can do it pretty well though. My brain moves faster than my hands do so they get confused and start trying 3 words at once so I make loads of mistakes, but I'm usually pretty good at it. I sometimes miss the key because I have big fingers and hit the key next to it as well :(

[myke]

I've been able to touch type for a while now, but I've found, if I look at the keyboard when typing, I make a lot of mistakes, the same if I am at school. I make a lot of mistakes if people are watching me.

[Metric1]

I had some teaching in GRADE 3 on how to type, but nobody in the class really caught on..

[msb.]

Idk when I first started, but I can do it pretty well though. My brain moves faster than my hands do so they get confused and start trying 3 words at once so I make loads of mistakes, but I'm usually pretty good at it. I sometimes miss the key because I have big fingers and hit the key next to it as well :(
lol I wonder if plasma keyboards get invented :D

[helenhiya]

yeah i can
and have been able to since i did admin in school where they taught us too.
um like 3rd year? so i would've been 14

[msb.]

yeah i can
and have been able to since i did admin in school where they taught us too.
um like 3rd year? so i would've been 14
what did they teach and is admin a course :O?

[alexxxxx]

i think it comes naturally now tbh. if i think about it, it becomes hard.

[Alkaz]

Idk when I first started, but I can do it pretty well though. My brain moves faster than my hands do so they get confused and start trying 3 words at once so I make loads of mistakes, but I'm usually pretty good at it. I sometimes miss the key because I have big fingers and hit the key next to it as well :(
I have the same problem but I dont have big fingers lol. Ive been able to touch type for about 4/5 years now since I began to play habbo regular.

[Pyroka]

I'd say about 10-11, I started using touchtype without looking rather fast, my next challenge will probably to learn the DVORAK layout with touchtype but thats quite the way off tbh. I only knew it because I used to go on a game which required ALOT of grammar, and I just hated looking at the keyboard constantly so I learnt to do it in about one week, at an ok speed? :S

Tell you what, if you really wanna prove yourself as a touchtypist, find someone with a DVORAK keyboard and learn how to type QWERTY on it. You'll think you're hard as rock, because they have no buttons to relate to. I usually refer to the buttons with the ridges on (F & J) but DVORAK doesn't have that... Well, the one I used didn't yet I went as just the speed I would on a normal keyboard. =P

[Mickster]

I can type quite fast, it took me 12 seconds to type this sentence, but I can't properly touch type.

[Nereo]

I can type REALLY fast when looking at the keyboard and I can kind of type not looking at the keyboard but I make a few spelling errores :)

[Xarea]

I can touch type pretty well - I usually look at what I am typing on the screen instead of on the keyboard. I've been touch typing for probably around five years? I hardly make mistakes, and it's fun to do it at school when the teacher is looking at you with their mouth wide open because i'm writing an essay perfectly, but looking out the window.

[Jericho]

Yeah I can. About 2-3 years ago (11/12). Easier to look at the screen, not the keyboard.

Learning to Touche type on the iPod touch now :P

[msb.]

I'd say about 10-11, I started using touchtype without looking rather fast, my next challenge will probably to learn the DVORAK layout with touchtype but thats quite the way off tbh. I only knew it because I used to go on a game which required ALOT of grammar, and I just hated looking at the keyboard constantly so I learnt to do it in about one week, at an ok speed? :S

Tell you what, if you really wanna prove yourself as a touchtypist, find someone with a DVORAK keyboard and learn how to type QWERTY on it. You'll think you're hard as rock, because they have no buttons to relate to. I usually refer to the buttons with the ridges on (F & J) but DVORAK doesn't have that... Well, the one I used didn't yet I went as just the speed I would on a normal keyboard. =P
wth does dvorak look like?

[Isaac]

I've had a computer my whole life, so I started typing without looking around 10 years. I can also type blindfolded, 75 wpm with one hand, stuff like that.

I'M SO COOL.

[William93]

On Bebo I surprisingly came out as 118 words per minute. Some asked me how I cheated, but I can assure you I did not.

I've been able to touch type for a fair few years. I guess cause I use to go on Habbo and MSN alot, I just began to kick *** at it.

If you asked me to draw a keyboard layout, there is no way I could do it.

[-Soph-]

A long, long time.

I can type pretty fast too, I used to take a business class and we took a quick typing test everyday, anyway... the highest I've hit is 160WPM (words per minute), I don't know if I can still do it.

Anyway, I probably started to do it around 11.
I can kinda draw out the keyboard, I had to do that in business too, I think I scored around 96%

[msb.]

i can do
300

hold "a down"

[Stacey.]

I've never noticed if I look or not if that makes sense. But now that I think about it it's 50/50. I sometimes look but not all of the time.