...another typing question...!

[boxtops]

Do you look at the keys when you type?

I don't - but I have to look when I'm entering numbers, I was away the day they taught the fingering for numbers (no keyboard at the side in those days!)

[ummmm]

Not constantly. I can do numbers without looking.

[Traci66]

Nope don't look at the keys, trained as an audio typist, there wasn't the time to look at the keys. This skill stayed with me and helped me earn a lot of money when I was working as a transcriber.

[237SJ]

No. If the typing teacher saw us so much as glance at the keys in an exam, she failed us. She was very strict about that.

[craft1948]

No, I was never trained as a typist but when I came to use my first PC I was given the software 'Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing'...............I bloody hated Mavis.

[boxtops]

Do you use (roughly) the right fingers? I watched someone on the train yesterday typing on a laptop - it was awful to watch, one finger is fine, but please keep to the right half of the keyboard :-)

[albaqwerty]

Depends upon how I sit. I must admit to being very lazy now and frequently glance.
Wasn't taught touch-typing, I tried and tried but no, couldn't do it.

Audio-typing, that's another one.
The little casette and the stop start pedals on the floor!!

I was taught to keep elbows in and use all the fingers. The space bar was for thumbs only.

[lumination]

since i have started my new jon i can touchtype...just! im very proud of myself!!!

[Mick-Talbot]

Do you look at the keys when you type?

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[Mick-Talbot]

That was ... let me give it a try boxy.

er....yeah I look at the keys ;0)

[Barmaid]

No, I don't. But I originally trained as a secretary and then I taught typing and office skills for a couple of years. Mr BM still doesn't understand how I can sit here typing away and not even look at the screen, never mind my fingers.

[DTCwordfan]

Not usually - once I am away. I have a weird typing style using three fingers on each hand so touch it is not.

[netibiza]

Can't and never could do the numbers!

[Mick-Talbot]

i SOMETIMES DO THIS AND WHEN i LOOK UP AT THER SCREEN i HAVE TO DECIDE WETHER TO RETYPE IT OR APOLOGISE FOR USING CAPS.

[Mick-Talbot]

Apologies for using caps.

[netibiza]

I do now cos of spanish keyboards.

[aelmpvw]

don't think that fellow that lost 1.4 billion looked at the keyboard

[friedgreentomato]

nope and most times I don't look at the screen either.

[daisya]

Was taught touch typing when 14 (100 years ago lol) and OH is amazed when I can sit and type and look out of the window to watch what goes on if I need to lol. So glad I can type in the dark too as need for the light on when I get up in the dark mornings. Mind you when I've had a couple of alcofrolic beverages it's sometimes a different storeyy.; :-)

[daisya]

*no need*....oops...see what I mean...hic.

[NoMercy]

I don't look for letters, numbers or symbols, I find it disorientates me.