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I've gound myself finding it easier and easier to do this. I dob't know when it happerned but I've never been trained to do it, but as yoy csn see my touch typing isn't so vad is it?

So here we go, try typing without looking at the keyboard and keep tour mistakes intact... i.e. no delete kety.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

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― de, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i tried to teach myself ttouch typing but i;m not sure i'm really that god ay it. fmmmm i wonder how this yiening oyt.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

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― de, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

i wonder if this will be ok. it feels good so far. huh?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Im not sure you could tell the diference with me.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

You're supposed to keep your thumbes over the f and g keys aren't you? i tfound that quite difficult and just so do pretty rabdom jfghits of the keyboarfd till ai get the right jeketke key

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

good one cozen. that was all rihjy. i think the real hardcore close their eyes.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I closed my eyes. but this time I'm not so sure it's goin to be OK.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not looking at the keyboard - how am i foing?

*opens eyes&

Woah! not bad!

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

when i said keynoard, i meant i wasn't looking at the screen, innit.

Thsi fets easier wjen you do it for a sfew minutes.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

When I first started to use computers (when I was ickle) I thought every keyboard was personalised for me, cos they had the little marks on the f and j keys, which are my initials.

but the other way round.

― jellybean (jellybean), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

i chgeated on the GRML rags

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

iy;s not really that heatr to type without lookijng at the kletboatd

― j c (j c), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

ihave never leatned to type properltm nbut I fo OK if I look at the keus,

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i cvan;t do thid without looking. who's brigjt idea waz this? fock uyo.

shir, that's noe so nbad actiall.

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

mavis beacon rox u r all gay

― Micaqhel B, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I could probabl;y get most of the letters right but I'll fuck up the puinctuation. Here comes a colon: yes! Here comes an aposyrophje @, maybe now ; maybe now [ again p. I might be in the wrong area, byt once more[ ] p ]
''''''''
found the fucker

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Now I see that I ghot the apostrophe easily enmough in the word I[ll I; I'll first time but the pressure gets to me now.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i domät tjink i can do it properoli. nbít the resolr is sueprisinglo goofd.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Eyes are nbeinf shir! Ka-wpp. I,. etc/

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

this made me spit out my muilk?

"shir, that's noe so nbad actiall"

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I have been learning to touch type for quite some time now so this should be not bad at all...let's check now.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I always type without looking at the keyboard. I couldn't touch type till i was about 22 - one day i noticed i was typing and not looking and there's been no stopping me since.

― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

(I think that's called showboating)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I never look at the keyboard. And you are supposed to put your fingers on teh F and J keys - they usually have little pujmps on them.

I tried this with my eyes closed. Now I will try some punctiuation! Maybe? "Shellow".

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmm. Not very good. I was trying to type "Hello"

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I don' tthink I've looked at the keyboard whilst typing since like 1995, shit, sometimes, with my job, I don't even look at the screen.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

i'd neber tried tjis beföre, amd i was genuinejy sirprosed how well it went. i guess years of tuping does tjis to your nerbe trac's.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

"this made me spit out my muilk?"

Glad to be of service!

Baha, nearlt perfecr!

x-post - the comp hsd no cookuies, but I jist did my password wiotjoue looking!

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

i wonder what this will loook like.
thaere that didnt look so bad did it?!

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

My mother was a typing instructor as a young lady, and made me learn how to do it when I was like 7 or 8. I never type and look at the keyboard.

― mandee, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i;d be better st thuis if i mrmieised where all rhw heys were

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I';m rea;;y not too hot at this but I can jusy about get bt ) I admit I#ve deleted a few mistakes but that was autimatjc!!!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Piece of piss mate, I never look at the keyboard anyway! Surely you're always LOOKING AT THE SCREEN, right?

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"Comm shake shake shake the room"

haha = boom shake shake shake the room with my eyes shut :)

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish I'd kepr up my toufh type lessons.

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

No I looj at tge ketboard mostly. Tp avoid thid happeninf.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Have you tried typing with your eyues closed altogether? Appantely it can result in a lomd pf "aitrp,atoc wrotomg nit O dpm
t lmpw anpit tjat.

― antexit (antexit), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm at work and trying this in teh teacher's room, and IO'm getting some really weird looks. At least, I presume I'm getting really weird looks cuz I can't see with my eyes closed.

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whew. not half bad.

― x Jeremy (Atila the Honeybun), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

dos dedos to all those suckers who said that I was 'gay' to take up typing lessons in schoole, oh fuck!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Let's see... I think I'lll probably do pretty well, since I took my first typing class back i 9th grade.

(HA! Almost..)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

this is the thread where I type without looking at the keyb oatd

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

damn.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh well IU ll give uit a jo, hmmm, not too bad, no pretty awful, oh well. I haven;t typed nany long words, and it's hard to stop my eyes form lookusbg ar he screen.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

keybaord i mean! its hard to not looj at the keys when your;e typoibgf

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Aah this is a piece of piss you are all lamerz.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I never look right at the keyboard while typing, but always tend to keep itin my lower peripheral vision while looking at the screen. Typing with my eyes closed at the moment . . .

― the krza (krza), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

i haven't ever typed looking at the keyboard since i was 13 i think. i'm not so good when i'm not looking at the screen, though. when i was younger i used to love watching telly in the same time as typing up english assignments.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Skipping 92 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

O take the revival of this thread as a personal challenge., since I didn[t e contribute to it originally. It was coled enought for gloves this morningn, but I DID take them off before typing this, beliee it or not.

― briania (briania), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

haha i think this thread is a freat ifea!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

wamlkers!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i rjouht i wpukd be better ar this.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

O lice to read thios tjhread. I thong of it as people talking eith theit mouths gull.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

apparemtly i know the locatiom of some letters really well, and otjers not so well.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

hey, i'm getting better at it already.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

wow. a perdect semtemce.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know what the problem is. Why you people can't type perfectly normally without looking at the keyboard is beyond me.

(OK, my speling may be a different story, but it's not through lackof knowing where the keys are.)

― Kissing Time At The Pleasure Unit (kate), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

This is qute diffiviult as I nver properly learned to touchtuoe. i can type about tne times faster if i lppk at the keyboatf.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

little miss kare know it all! haha nesrt perfect! :=)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

wjat's toucjtypimg?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha, you people are worse than the dyslexics I work with every day!

― Kissing Time At The Pleasure Unit (kate), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

on ipuisly not what we are doing tuomas!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

touvchjytypimn id wh4n 7o8 din';t lookj at the ketvouwred while you tipe. That;s wh6 uoi muvh mof tyhid yhresad is so unreadable (oof, I got unreadable ruighjt! Ooj, I hgoty it rogut twicve!!).

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, i'm soumding jollandese witj all my j's turned to j's.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

(I have jkst invenyted Flemishj) x0-oist!

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

tuomas - joj?

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i dunno, the jollandese seem to use a lot of j's. they have this cool j-sound too.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

so what are you giuys up to this weekend! woo! look at me i'm, tupuinf! fam,nite!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i meant od course that my h's had turned to j's because theire next to eaxh other.

x-pest

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

one day i;m going to want to search foe this thread and son;y be able to fins it tjrpufh laxk od recognisable keywords

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

jaja!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i';; just have to keep clicking on "random| until iu comes up
xposr

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

When Kate says she works wuth dyslexics, does she mean in a therapeuytic sense> Or just that she works with idoiots, because most of us do that.

― briania (briania), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

loberating isn't it? it feels like the online equicalenmt of walking down the streer in pujamas

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

noq i qondwe how lonf that would take. although i dont really i am just lookin for thins to type! not bad fhuh?!
xpst

idiots o ehtink. idoets on ilx & ifoits in real leife!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

dislecia is mot idiotism!

x-åest

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I mean, working with dyslexics in a "sticking them in a biofeedback machine and treating them" sense.

I do work with idiots, but that's another story. ;-)

(sorry, I had to look at the keyboard to find the smiley)

― Kissing Time At The Pleasure Unit (kate), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Whar happens when the cokem out of the biofe4edback machinf? Are they super z\ombir mondyrtd weoitj special; [owersa?

I deel it would be cheating to type witjh m,y finge5rs touvjing th4e jeuvoastdf liukre thyeu'de suppiosed to with touch tyoubfh, so I;m suspending them above the keyboyas befors ecwery sr5okew.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

They are mg dyslexic army of doom! What do you think?

― Kissing Time At The Pleasure Unit (kate), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

islecia is mot idiotism!
x-åest

-- Tuomas (tuomas.alh...), October 21st, 2004 2:11 PM. (Tuomas) (later)

Ig I could be botherec I'd change the keybpard settings to finnish or something else whhrere the kets produce dirreernt letters to usual,m with hilarious conseqyuences

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm so glaf i got the italicsa tags tidght - thaty cpuld have been a minir idisaister

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

woah this is blowing my mind a bit, I've never even considered that some opeople don't need to look at the screen OR the keyboards. I 'm sitting typuing with my eyes closed and I feel like stevie wonder. Right, let's see how that went.

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 21 October 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

ooh, lots better than I expected. I should do it more often. I'm about 10% slower than usual though, I think.

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 21 October 2004 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I want some men';s pocly right now, as mwntionwd by a certain laura sometehere in the ether.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 21 October 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

You lot need my piano teacher sitting next to you with a ruler, waiting to bash you on the knuckles the minute you look down. I actually prefer looking at the screen anyway - you spot your mistakes immediately (and reach for backspace without looking down too).

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 October 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

*Closes eyes*

tovuh tping is very ,much overraatedf/

*Opens eyes*

That was rubbish, let's try again.

*Closes eyes*

thid time I wi; click sunoy nergpre ;pplomng/

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 21 October 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

*adjusts posture*

I;m sure I shold be much beyyer at his tham the example above, let me keep truig imtikl OI jet it right.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, uou can look at the screen? I've been going about it all wrong, thenm, typing with eyes closed. I think you shouldn"t be allowed too look at ALL -- more fun that way. Anybody evr draw picutes with eyes closed?

― briania (briania), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

contour frawoings?

I cjrated ( l;ppled fpt tje C

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

this looks like one od E£ds normal post

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

suxzy oym! I am l99jing at the screen bu I'm, bot alloewing myself to male any correctiond. O', ryping a bit slower, which is dumv as when IU type ayt normal speed liek tisd I actyally make a lot more sense!

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

A lopt of thge typos look like Finnish -- maybe Tyuomas can tell us hwat it all means.

― briania (briania), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

it's very easy to do unless you are not a total internet nerd, which seemingly I am, since I have been tyoiung for quite some time now and as far as I know I've made very few mistakes.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

this keyboatd is kinda sqiosjy, i wonder id tjay je;[s? Sifns point to "mp"/ {;aisob;e I lack the nerd skilxors.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

That wemt A nit wronf in the middle, I wonder wy? I seem able to do it now. Hm.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

its been really didffuclt to not post loke this on all fo the other threads too. so i think i might start typing my work emails like theis aswell. i am, actially wuite surprised at hiw well i ma doinf!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

MY boss does typpe like thies

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 21 October 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

thsi thread is a felief, i feel as free as a nacked jesus on a tropiocal beach.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

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