Poll: How do you type?

[zama174]

It's keeping your fingers on the middle row of keys, and then only moving them off there to reach other letters.

Here's a picture of what I mean. When not typing any letters, you're supposed to keep you fingers on these keys.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/QWERTY-home-keys-position.svg/300px-QWERTY-home-keys-position.svg.png

That's how I gradually "taught" myself. I didn't take any course or something. It just came naturally over the years.

^ Thats exactly what I did as well. I have spent literal years of my life on this thing, I write a lot on it so its came naturally to me. That and when you play Gunz the duel, you learn where to put your hand to K-style... (God damn triple butterfly, I never mastered you..)

Though being a gamer, I mostly keep my hand on wasd, spacebar, and pinky on shift. But thats close to home row..

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

I started with the Index Poke, but over time I started using thumb here and a pinky there and now I type very quickly with all fingers.

I think the "Home Row" thing is kind of silly.

 

[SonicKaos]

Home row doesn't seem as effective as the way I do it, which is almost the same deal and I've learned where all of the keys are. I just kinda put my fingers wherever they need to be at the time, mostly using my index and middle finger to go everywhere they need to. I'm able to type faster then many people this way anyway, which I kind of learned to do through using MSN and other chat programs to be honest.

School tried to teach me home row, but it was uncomfortable. Constantly using the internet meant I had to speed up though, so I developed my own way I guess. Never thought of it before lol, but that's kinda cool.

 

[AMX58]

Yeah i was tought in skool but did not pass the class but learn a few good things about keyborading and more talking to women then typing lol

 

[Atheist.]

I type with all of my fingers, but not in the "Home row method."

I've naturally developed a custom setup: AWEF with the left hand and MOP Shift with the right. Left thumb on space, right thumb on alt. My fingers are still technically in a row, but I feel that each finger is closer to the most commonly used keys this way.