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Do you use the home row when you type?
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Yes, strictly in fact. I think my fingers are glued there sometimes.
 
22.2%, 6 votes
Yes, but I will ignore home row occasionally.
 
22.2%, 6 votes
Yeah, but not much. I stray from it a lot.
 
22.2%, 6 votes
Not really... I can hardly type/care as it is
 
25.9%, 7 votes
Home row? What is this "Home Row" thing?
 
7.4%, 2 votes
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Skreename

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Posted on 03-16-06 02:14 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Yoshi Dude
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Hell yes. I only wish I was better at typing back when I actually messed with it...

Yeah, I keep my hands on the home row... my laptop actually has spots where the keys are actually kind of wearing out where my hands rest on them. Of course, I also only use the left shift, so I don't quite have proper technique.

Edit: Heart problems.


(edited by Skreename on 03-16-06 01:14 AM)
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Posted on 03-16-06 02:23 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Yoshi Dude
I pretty much chill at the home row except when I have to use numbers. I never mastered that.

Mario Teaches Typing


What about Typing of the Dead?


(edited by NSNick on 03-16-06 01:37 AM)
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Posted on 03-16-06 02:30 AM Link | Quote
I have no choice but to ignore them while playing Starcraft or Counter-Strike.
I'll cheat on my typing when I feel lazy, but most of the times I use home row.


(edited by [GGS] Cruel Justice on 03-16-06 01:30 AM)
Trapster

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Posted on 03-16-06 05:15 AM Link | Quote
I only type with my index fingers but I can type very fast with them.

I don´t think I´ve ever tried to type using the home row.
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Posted on 03-16-06 05:26 AM Link | Quote
Oooh, I remember Mario Teaches Typing from the computer lab in middle school. How often my friends and I used it really speaks to how desperate we were during school hours for any sort of video-game-related entertainment.
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Posted on 03-16-06 06:09 AM Link | Quote
The only time my hands stray from mthe home row is when I'm using the numpad, arrow keys, or mouse.

The only problem is that I tend to only use the left shift and only use my thumb for hitting the spacebar, but I think that's more or less just because of my horrible posture on the computer.
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Posted on 03-16-06 10:58 AM Link | Quote
Not really. Most of the time, I forget that it's there.
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Posted on 03-16-06 09:30 PM Link | Quote
so...is home row typing with 10 fingers versus 2 fingers or some other way? if so, this is the first time I've heard of typing with 10 fingers called home row

yes, I type with 10 fingers I want to learn dvorak but yeah...
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Posted on 03-16-06 09:37 PM Link | Quote
barely, I can type alot faster if I dont use home row...even when I took typing clases in junior high, whenever the teacher wasnt looking I would take my fingers off home row so I could type faster.
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Posted on 03-16-06 10:01 PM Link | Quote
Yeah, most of the time. Usually if I have to type while holding a page open then I'll type with one hand. When I can use both hands, I'll use the home row keys.

...as for typing programs... MicroType Pro, I think. I can't remember the name, but the program had an asteroid shooting game that you had to complete in order to win the lesson...

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Posted on 03-16-06 11:05 PM Link | Quote
Hunt and peck. Done me well for the past 3 years.

...6 months of keyboarding class changed nothing.
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Posted on 03-16-06 11:34 PM Link | Quote
Yeah, but how fast can you type with hunt and peck? The whole point of the keyboarding classes is to help you type more accurately and more quickly. It helps a lot, for example, when you can type without looking at the keyboard. Can you do THAT with hunt & peck?
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Posted on 03-16-06 11:42 PM Link | Quote
Sigh, the home key is one of the keys that I don't use much. But I use it some times. I hope I can use it more later...
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Posted on 03-16-06 11:50 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Skydude
Yeah, but how fast can you type with hunt and peck? The whole point of the keyboarding classes is to help you type more accurately and more quickly. It helps a lot, for example, when you can type without looking at the keyboard. Can you do THAT with hunt & peck?

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Speed is for MMORPGS (which I don't play anymore) and IRC chats (which I've never been too). I feel no need to actually learn how to type faster, since I have all the time I need for replys and school reports, which is really all that I type.
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Posted on 03-16-06 11:52 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Skydude
Yeah, but how fast can you type with hunt and peck?


Much faster than you can type on average with QWERTY, which was actually designed to slow you down (in typewriter ages) so that the keys would jam. And it takes too much work to set it up to Dvorak.
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Posted on 03-17-06 12:07 AM Link | Quote
You mean so that the keys WOULDN'T jam.

Any by the by, anyone who touch types realizes that it's really not that much of a problem to type quickly with qwerty. Look, I'm doing it right now.
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Posted on 03-17-06 12:35 AM Link | Quote
Yeah, the keys that were pressed more often were put apart, so that should make it quicker to type, as different fingers can hit these keys.
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Posted on 03-17-06 01:08 AM Link | Quote
I'd like to see someone try to type as quickly with hunt & peck as I can with normal "home row" typing, provided the same level of accuracy. And keep in mind that I'm not THAT fast a typist.

As for writing up reports for school, I disagree largely on that topic. With hunt & peck I can only go at a certain rather slow pace. My style for writing reports, and even posts, really, is done very much in a conversational style. With the actual "correct" typing system I'm able to type at a similar rate to that at which I talk. A bit slower, but not significantly.
Trapster

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Posted on 03-17-06 05:00 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Skydude
Yeah, but how fast can you type with hunt and peck? The whole point of the keyboarding classes is to help you type more accurately and more quickly. It helps a lot, for example, when you can type without looking at the keyboard. Can you do THAT with hunt & peck?


I only have to catch a wee glimpse of the keys to be able to type really fast. as I know where most of them are.

I´d like to learn to type with the home row, though.
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