using rollover typing, in which the next key is pressed down before the previous key is lifted.and there it is...
That may be true if you are typing from a hand written letter, however I believe if you are creating your work on the computer I found it better to just keep typing and fix later.
1. The computer highlights mistakes and proposes corrections.
2. Your initial draft is far from final and will probably have 10’s of revisions.
3. I found it better to capture my thoughts as I have them rather than correct an error and lose the thought.
I never typed before buying my first personal computer at age forty five, in 1998. I soon found myself typing a lot, for business and for pleasure.
Almost immediately, I realized that my lack of typing skill was going to be a serious impediment to my ability to communicate rapidly with this new medium; so I set about training myself to blind type with all ten fingers.
Took awhile, but even without a standard tutorial, I got very fast at it.
One thing that helped me a lot, was switching from the standard flat keyboard to the slanted ergonomic keyboard made by Microsoft. To this day, it’s the only desktop keyboard I use.
Typing was the most useful course I took in High School. I learned on a Royal manual typewriter with blank keys that must have weighed 20 pounds.
What ever happened to the QWERTY alternative keyboard that put the most frequently used letters on the home row?
It was supposed to dramatically increase typing speed.
My dad always said “Only secretaries use keyboards.” But then he made me take typing in 1968 and bought me a Smith Corona typewriter for college.
These days I don’t think typing speed is as critical as in the as the old days when you had “typing pools.” Young people today would be better served learning the difference between “loose” and “lose.” The crappy “whole word” system has resulted in two generations of near-illiterates. What’s the point of typing an incomprehensible word salad 10% faster?
>>finds that the fastest typists not only make fewer errors, but they often type the next key before the previous one has been released.
On a typewriter, that results in key “clashing”. Even in a computer, 2 keys at once won’t always give you what you wanted.
The only class I had in high school that was worth anything in life was my typing class.........With that being said, I still have to look at the numbers in order to correctly type them. Arthritis in my fingers has also caused me to make more mistakes these days...
My fastest time is 103wpm with no errors. I have extremely long fingers and keep my nails short to keep from overreaching. I was typing 60wmp on an old manual typewriter in high school and when electric typewriters came out I made 103wpm. I went back to college in 2013 and consistently typed 80-90wmp accurately on the computer.
Typing Of The Dead is a great way to learn.
Practice.
My mother did some secretarial work and strongly encouraged me to take typing.
I finally relented and took it in summer school.
Interestingly, the science department head discouraged students from taking typing and was actively trying to discontinue the class. His reasoning was “we’d be talking to computers soon” and typing would be an unnecessary skill.
I graduated in 1985 and have been grateful to my mother my entire IT career. Seems the humble secretary knew a lot more than the multi-degreed science teacher.
SCIENCE!
The inventor of Liquid Paper, Texan Bette Nesmith Graham, was the mother of musician and producer Michael Nesmith of the rock group,The Monkees. He inherited millions when she passed away.
(Wikipedia)
The various Dragon softwares allow you to abandon keyboard.
Dragon Anywhere on my phone allows creation of text at speeds in excess of 100 wpm (if you can compose as you speak). Allows you to edit by voice. Email the document (as a Word file) to yourself (as a voice command) or upload to your preferred cloud. (A subscription app that’s worth it.)
Took typing in high screwl. Only non-A I ever made and it was disturbing to me. My hands are more like hams and my fingers are thick and stiff from having been broken and now arthritic. I manage though and can sometimes get on a roll. My biggest problem is transposition of letters of course. Hated typing class since I could not do well at it without considerable effort and then it was not good enough but I managed. Same with piano. I could never force my fingers to make a chord. They just don’t work that way.
using rollover typing, in which the next key is pressed down before the previous key is lifted.and there it is...
Took a couple of typing classes but for some reason, I type slower the “official” way.
We need a cursive keyboard. Then we could type really fast.
I am stunned we are still using the QWERTY keyboard, designed to slow typing common words as much as possible. Why the Dvorak keyboard is not in standard use by now, is just flat baffling. Just inertia and tradition, but you would think modern typing classes in grade school would use nothing but Dvorak, and every new electronic device would have it available. I mean, right in settings should be an option for the Dvorak keyboard.
I cannot type except with 1 finger because QWERTY makes no sense to me but ABC... does
If only the guy who invented the keyboard did not drop his prototype keyboard on the way to the patent office that day and hurriedly placed back the keys.....