What is your approach to using the keyboard?

Question

In olden times, long ago and far away, before the computer walked among us, there was something along the lines of a keyboard, though not nearly as easy or fun to use, called a typewriter. Some of us learned to type using what was called the "touch system," or "home row method," also fondly referred to as "QWERTY." The advantage of this method was that you didn't have to look at the typewriter keys as you typed, therefore could type much faster than you could otherwise. Then there were those that never bothered to learn this method, employing instead a more primitive method called "hunt and peck" which required that you watch the keys pretty much constantly and, yes, as the name implies, hunt for each letter the power of which you wish to invoke, then when you find it, strike or "peck" it with the index finger closest to it. Primitive, slow, but otherwise just as effective. It also got the job done.

So my question is:

Are you hunting and pecking still or do you QWERTY now?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY

The inventor of the QWERTY keyboard craftily arranged it that the word 'Typewriter' could be constructed using only the top row of letters. This was intended to aid salesmen when they were giving demonstrations.

[ЭΩ∞]: LOL indeed! Thanks for a good laugh. Still....you're blackballed forever.

g3n1_ouz0: This answer is like the riddle of the sphinx. And can anyone really answer that?.... Not the one that Oedipus solved but the one about the origin of the Sphinx. Are you saying that typewriter keys and computer keyboards are just external devices peripheral to the heart (or brain) of the matter? Please clarify.

Answer 1

I know where my index finger "dents" are if that is of any help to you.

Thats right. Pony tails are only a facade.

Does my answer sound peculiar....not at all. If you think through it hard enough.


13 hours after...lol
Well its a lot simpler than Sphinx's riddles.
I Bet she never had anybody answer on a keyboard or a typerwriter lol....or.....did she?
The first thing one learns when he begins to learn qwerty is to place his index fingers on F and J. Thats why on the keyboard those letters have a little dent. Feel them without looking. Since I know where to put my index fingers that means I am not hunting or pecking..... and you can stop trying to find a complex answer to a simple one ;)

Answer 2

I learned on a typewriter; one of those ones that used to smash your fingers 'cause you had to hit them so hard.

What I was wondering though, how on Earth did they come up with the QWERTY system? I mean, it IS fantastically easy to type with, but how long did it take whoever invented it to get it right?

Also, did you know the longest word you can type on the top row is typewriter?

Answer 3

Sorry, I think I accidentally walked in on "The Senior Citizen Assembly of Y!A"! ... LOL

P.S. Just a little humorous observation - no derogatory remark intended whosoever; I assure you. After all, I am hoping, in a few years from now, you would be gracious enough to approve my assembly membership application. :-)

P.S.S. I'll even learn to write using a typewriter, if so required.

Answer 4

wasn't the QWERTY system made to minimize man's speed in typing? i think i read it somewhere, sorry can't remember, that it was designed to prevent the typewriter keys from jamming.

as for me, i touch-type...well except for the numbers and the special characters. my brain can't memorize that. LOL.

and hey, maybe we should make our own keyboard pattern to make typing faster. just a thought since the keys don't jam anymore. lol.

Answer 5

I took typing in high school and learned the QWERTY method.

Answer 6

I use the one finger one thumb method(thumb for hitting the 'space 'bar..........i cannae type without looking at keyboard...but i know where all the keys are located on the keyboard so i don't think i type that slow

Answer 7

i can type without looking