your posting/typing speed....

[GundamSentinel]

I never took a typing class growing up, apparently being in the perfect "born in the late 80's" window where it was never required in any of my school years. As such, I don't type conventionally (I mostly use my index fingers), but I have spent enough time with computers that I type reasonably fast anyway. I definitely don't sweat my words per minute or anything like that; once you've signed on to communicate through text, you've already accepted the inherent slowness of it. Words-per-minute is only important if typing is actually your job, like a stenographer or something.

Basically the same. Never took classes, but looking back I don't feel I missed much. I don't type that much slower with my index fingers than many people with all of them and generally with fewer mistakes.

Funny thing is that in Dutch, my native language, I only write CCPM: 361 and WPM: 72. Welp. I don't know, English is just easier. Helps that I use it a lot more in writing.

I've noticed that too. ~80 WPM for English, ~65 for Dutch for me. Must be international keyboards being awful for Dutch.

 

[SuperSuperSuperGuy]

I can be a fast typist, despite the fact that I rarely use anything besides my index fingers and thumbs, apart from a couple keys (such as the E and S keys, on which I sometimes use my middle finger). I never learned to "five-finger type", and my home keys may as well be WASD. However, I tend to be very methodical with my typing; I like to think about what I'm saying as I type, and I like to make sure that I don't make many mistakes, because I find that it's faster just to not make the mistakes in the first place than to go back and correct all of them.

 

[Johnoldman]

Extremely slow and further limited by my brain's inability to efficiently come up with what to type.

I can not say that I am very fast. But it helped a little http://www.ratatype.com/learn/