View Poll Results: How do you use a keyboard?

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Thread: How do you do it?

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    How do you do it?

    Just curious.

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    What about a bit of both?????
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    Sorry Niel...I don't seem to be able to edit the poll to add another option. Your reply is duly noted however!

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    Originally posted by barrk
    Sorry Niel...I don't seem to be able to edit the poll to add another option. Your reply is duly noted however!
    Thanks.......sorry about putting a problem in from the start!!!

    BTW, usually by touch.
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    Bit of both here too, but mainly by touch. I do make quite a few mistakes if I'm not looking where my fingers are, but I can pretty much type without looking. I'm faster looking where my fingers are though.
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    Originally posted by HarryW
    Bit of both here too, but mainly by touch. I do make quite a few mistakes if I'm not looking where my fingers are, but I can pretty much type without looking. I'm faster looking where my fingers are though.
    Ditto.
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    Where's the "smothered in marmalade, surrounded by young swedish virgins licking it off while quaffing from a never ending supply of Belhaven Best beer" option?
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    I opened this thread expecting something completely different

    Hunt 'n' Peck, BTW And have done since I was 8...60WPM isn't too bad for me
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    Wink I thought it would get your attention!

    How come the poll still says 0 on hunt and peck then?

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    'Coz I forgot to vote
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    Re: How do you do it?

    Originally posted by barrk
    Just curious.
    Generally l don't "swing both ways". Maybe we could market SD's method. He has been getting closer to those bears again

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    Re: Re: How do you do it?

    Originally posted by Jethro
    Generally l don't "swing both ways". Maybe we could market SD's method. He has been getting closer to those bears again
    Generally?
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    He does seem to be fascinated with SurfDemon...look at his location.

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    Well, I do a little bit of both. I hunt and peck, but it goes so fast it doesn't really look that way (i. e., I have to look at my hands when I type).
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    I use touch, but I prefer to look at the keys, and i do make quite alot of mistakes when i aint looking.


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    The number of conotations to this thread are numerous and amount. I look at what my hands are doing, but I know where everything is. With big long/hard-to-spell words, I tend to look at the screen and make sure it looks right whilst I'm typing it.

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    Also a bit of both.

    I voted for Touch, because I am capable of doing it when there is a lot of straight typing to be done.

    Computer applications tend to make you look, because there are so many times that your fingers get off the home keys to use Trackball, hold multiple keys, insert diskettes or CD's, et cetera.

    Often getting off the home keys gets you in the habit of looking to find them again. Then you tend to peek while typing.
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    Re: Re: Re: How do you do it?

    Originally posted by HarryW
    Generally?
    Damn, lead with my jaw on that one.

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    Originally posted by SurfDemon
    Where's the "smothered in marmalade, surrounded by young swedish virgins licking it off while quaffing from a never ending supply of Belhaven Best beer" option?
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    Originally posted by chrismitchell


    In your dreams... In most peoples dreams!!
    And if her dad owned a brewery Marriage would not be out of the question

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    Originally posted by Jethro


    And if her dad owned a brewery Marriage would not be out of the question
    Well marry her.. Kill the dad and her and inherit the whole lot! jk

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    Here is the thread i am in chit chat for gods sake, it is NT buggering me up again :(

    i can touch type a lot of coursework has enable to me to do this, but i don't have my fingers on any of the home keys i just know where the keys are

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    Touch type here...It is strange how you can know you have typed wrong without looking to the screen nor keyboard! Just face looking into a paper and there you copy without looking to screen at all. This comes automatically after ten years of experience with somekind of computer.

    Said somekind, because I can't rate C64 a computer nowadays, can I? It's a good machine though

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