Blind Typing

[Auron555]

The other day I was typing up a poem while looking at the poem, not the screen, and when I looked up I realized I had only one or two errors (like u, not i, and d instead of s. This was for about five or so lines of the poem). I started wondering how everyone else fares in blind typing, and if there's another stage of keyboard knowledge. So, Blind Typing. When you started noticing you could do it, how good you are at it, etc.

 

[Uncompetative]

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[mattttherman3]

heres my blind typing how did i ro?

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

I am blind typing right now...Seriously.
I guess it is just like looking at the screen but without the magic letters that pop up durinh the course of yyping.

 

[Combined]

Sir, I would just like to say, that blind typing is a very interesting phenomenon amongst the people of this world. And for some reason, I can do it very well. Actually, I'm blind typing right now. No looking and everything. My fingers are moving quickly over the keys, but I still do not look. I think I may have memorised my keyboard layout. <--- That was typed with my eyes closed.

 

[Hellion25]

Lets see I bvet I fony fo yo goof

Yeahs that kinda sucked, seems I was one key to the right on what I typed from the second row of keys after a couple of words

 

[Avatar Roku]

How'd tjid?

 

[TMAN10112]

I can type really well, but I have to look down at the keyboard from at least the corner of my eye if I want to avoid it looking like crap.
I will now write the exact same thing with out looking at the keyboard at all:

I can type really well but I have to look doen at thwe keyboarf from ay lyast the corber uf mt eye ud I wabt to avoid ut looking like crap,

Well, at least it didn't look that bad.

 

[ElephantGuts]

I am an expert at this. I don't type the normal way you're supposed to, with your hands in whatever certain place they're supposed to be, I just move my hands around the keyboard as need be. This would normally require me to be looking at the keyboard. But since I use computers so much, I've just about memorized the complete layout and dimensions of my keyboard so I can know what I'm hitting without looking. And when I do make a mistake I know it. I've typed just about all of this without looking. Sometimes I glance down if I don't have anything else to look at but still I'm pretty good.

 

[sirdapfrey]

I've never heard it called "Blind Typing" but what you're speaking of is taught in classes in most if not all of the schools I've seen. A lot of people can do this, most especially people who work full-time in an office or (duh) with computers. You'd be surprised what you can do when you do it to earn a living 40+ hours a week.

Unfortunately for my typing skills, I am not one of those people.

 

[Nimbus]

Ok, thid id my sttrmot/ Jow did I do>

EDIT: Much easier looking at the screen. Literally "blind" typing is disorientating.

 

[Xaryn Mar]

lets see ig I can do it

 

[ContemporaryStudent]

I wouldn't say Im that skilled but thenm I only made one little mistake.

 

[NeoAC]

Well considering how crap I am with my eyes open, let's see.

Here I fo am I doing OK? I don'r even know.

Not bad I guess.

 

[Avida]

Well i thoguht i could do it pretty well but look thst hsooornrf
(look what happened)

That said if i look at the screen, easy peasy, how odd.

 

[EeveeElectro]

I still cant blinf type, I onlt gor a PC when I qwas 13, I'm surprosed i can type aty all XD

 

[Vorpals]

Hello, my name is VOrpals

I learned how to type without looking at my fingers back in Computers in 7th grade, such a rigorous typing course it wasn't funny.

But it ended up helping a lot in the end.

We also got to do programming, which was awesome.