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bellbird

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How often do you have to retype or backspace and fix up your typing here? Are you a 'trained typist'?

Some days, i feel like i have some kind of keyboard dyslexia and appear to type all the letters from a word just in a jumble and retype most words! I'm not great at capitals and use shortcuts when possible (read: lazy typist :) ) I've also learnt that the letter 'm' is in a lot of words recently as _y current laptop keyboard quirk is that the M key is very fussy and about 90% of the time won't appear when i have certainly typed it - it's driving _e a little crazy! (so if i've commented on one of your "_arvellous" pages recently and i didn't realise and backtrack and fix it, sorry & now you get why!) (and FYI all M's were retyped in this paragraph - i have looked at but just can't justify buying a new laptop right now for the one key!)

*this post was brought to you by the letter _*
 
I had to take a typing course in lieu of PE in high school after I did my knee in...but while I can touch type, I don't tend to - I use three fingers on each hand. I get reasonable speed though! I think I backtrack a bit but I'm not really conscious of doing it anymore.

Here's a strange on though - if I've made a typo, I always delete the whole word, even if the typo is on the last letter, and retype the whole thing.

Good luck with the M key!
 
Oh no!!! I can't stand it when keyboards start to bug out. On my old laptop my daughter had pulled off the v key and it just never worked properly after that, ctrl + v was fun...

I am a pretty good typist, spelling and speed wise. My two problems are:
1. My brain thinks of a better way to say it, or changes its mind and wants to not say something anymore, or I just talk so so so so much and I go back and edit some out or make it shorter.
2. Computer keyboard typing is fine. No issues. Typing on my phone. Good LORD!! I have had this phone for almost two years and my fingers still can't type on it properly! My poor mum gets lots of unedited texts! Some of the words are completely unrecognisable!! Haha!!
 
Chippi said:
Oh no!!! I can't stand it when keyboards start to bug out. On my old laptop my daughter had pulled off the v key and it just never worked properly after that, ctrl + v was fun...2. Computer keyboard typing is fine. No issues. Typing on my phone. Good LORD!! I have had this phone for almost two years and my fingers still can't type on it properly! My poor mum gets lots of unedited texts! Some of the words are completely unrecognisable!! Haha!!
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Am on my phone now & have the same problem. I either get fast type gobble de hook ... <- or auto corrected and I still end up backtracking half my typing lol ! ( gobble de hook sounds like something a Caribbean fisherman would say!)
 
All. The. Time!
I feel like the Mac autocorrect is ultra sensitive. It really drives me nuts. I'm a fast typer - but I make a lot of mistakes - so I do like having the autocorrect on, but there are so many "digi-scrap" related words that it just doesn't like and it attempts to fix it - but it can't.
And here ... sometimes I just know I type things correctly ... but when I go back and read it to make sure it makes sense - there are errors. I am forever backspacing to fix or editing my posts here!
 
I love to type and am pretty accurate and pretty fast. I had to take a typewriting class in high school and we had to do speed tests each week without using the backspace key. My Mom and my sister are both SUPER fast typers and it became a bit of a competition for us. Lol. One of my favorite things to do to my husband (we work together) is when he comes into my office while I'm typing something I love to turn my head to look at him and I can just keep typing. :giggle It always amazes him because he's a two finger typer. Lol.

Now on my phone? Ugh! It's just awful sometimes between my thumbs going to fast and hitting the wrong keys and the autocorrect... yikes!
 
Sometimes I think my fingers are quicker than my brain. At one point, I was working on a judicial review case at work, and everytime I tried to type "hearsay" as in hearsay evidence, but every time I was typing it wrong and spellcheck automatically rewrote it as "heresy," as in witchcraft. The case would have been a lot more interesting if there had been evidence of witchcraft, instead of just plainold "he said, she said" hearsay evidence.
 
Typing is the only thing (beyond basic calculating and reading) that I learned in school (8th grade) that I have used regularly in my adult life!

I type with my fingers in the home row and I'm pretty fast. I do backspace a lot though, and my finger finds the delete key just as easily as any of the others. :)

My kids have shown me that it's not super important to type "correctly," i.e. with fingers beginning in the home row, because they all (from the ten year old to the sixteen year old) type quickly and about as accurately as I do using their own methods they've worked out on their own over the years.

@jenn mccabe I hear you on Mac's autocorrect being annoying a lot. It wants to change your last name to macabre, for the latest example. :rolleyes:
 
I took 3 years of typing class in high school and worked as a data entry clerk and did some medical coding for years, but I still make typos. Not a lot, and if I miss something, spell check usually fixes it for me. But still, you know there are always errors in my scrapbooks.
 
I'm a half-way decent typist, was even complimented on it today. But I must have a sticky key on my laptop at home. I seem to always drop the "l", rather important when you get Mariyn instead of Marilyn. And some fonts give me trouble on my Photoshop CS5. Double letters only produce one of them. So spell-check is my friend.
 
I took a class in high school so I'm pretty good at typing. I still have plenty of errors but I'm also quick to spot them and correct them. If I'm too far along when I spot a misspelling, I just change it when I edit (especially when I'm journaling on a page). My son is learning how to type in elementary school and he's getting pretty good too.
For the keyboard issue, is there another key you can substitute? One of our work computers had a key go missing but we just swapped a key that was rarely used into the place of the letter.
 
Meredith78 said:
Here's a strange on though - if I've made a typo, I always delete the whole word, even if the typo is on the last letter, and retype the whole thing.!
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I do the same thing LOL. And I can't just go back and correct a single letter, it has to be the whole word over again.
I'm a pretty fast typist. I learned in high school. DH still doesn't believe that I can spell words correctly without looking at the keyboard. I mess up more if I do look at the keyboard. I do make mistakes and I'm sure there are many in my scrapbook pages. I'm super bad about not always proofreading.

@bellbird have you considered just getting a cheap keyboard for your laptop? It's not really handy if you actually want to hold it on your lap, but it works nicely if it's sitting away from you. Even the wireless ones are pretty inexpensive these days. When I'm at my desk, I am always using an external keyboard and not the laptop one.
 
I took typing/computer classes in school so I'm pretty good...my typing has slowed down a bit since I no longer work, but I still have layouts with errors LOL
 
IntenseMagic said:
@bellbird have you considered just getting a cheap keyboard for your laptop? It's not really handy if you actually want to hold it on your lap, but it works nicely if it's sitting away from you. Even the wireless ones are pretty inexpensive these days. When I'm at my desk, I am always using an external keyboard and not the laptop one.
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My MIL had to do this after she dumped water on her laptop and it fried the keyboard completely. It's not ideal, but it's certainly cheaper than a whole new laptop!
 
@bellbird I'm sorry but I had a good giggle at this. My DH has a laptop and the T only works when it wants to. I feel your pain. Luckily I can refuse to use it lol.
 
Oh dear, that would drive me crazy trying to think of ways to pick words that don't have an m!

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thanks (i think) @silent ranks (T would be so much worse!) and to everyone who kindly suggested ideas - tonight i tried to borrow DH's wireless keyboard to experiment with and when he asked why, it lead to him pulling keys off my laptop to fix it, which he did ultimately after about 45mins and pulling the white plastic clacky bits off a sacrificial old laptop to re-attach my M key properly - so i am back to magnificent! (still quirky, but with a less quirky keyboard ;) )

(Bart still in play but thanks for your concern!)
 
I took typing in HS... didn't really do much of anything. For me, it was the need to use a computer in college, the job that I had, and then after. I learned over time. I don't look at the keyboard much, and I've gotten pretty quick. I'm also one that deletes words to retype them... it's almost as if my brain needs a redo to reset itself to type the work. I also notice that I find words that for the life of me, I can never spell correctly, having to do with my job. When I worked at State Farm, I was always typing "estimate" but it would be typed "estimeat." I now work for a stair manufacturer, so "stairs" seems to come out "stiars" quite often. :giggle

I'm even faster on a desktop tape calculator. :giggle


Now I want to take a typing test!
 
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