How fast can you type?

[Blazya]

Hi, just as a comment, it sounds to curious for me read people should take a typing course and be able to write more messages in the forums , but i think the best way to learn to type is starting trying and trying again each time and soon you´ll get fast writing, for example i only just 5 fingers and i consider I write fast i don´t even look at the keyboard many times, hahaha.
Well i just was giving my opinion, thanks.

[Manchirojulu]

well..coming to typing.. i had never been to any typing course.
but i learned it all by myself taking online typing courses.. although m not good at typing i do it better when i chat with my friends

[Torsten]

Dear Manchiroujulu,

Many thanks for joining our forum and sharing your opinion on the typing question. Could you please tell me what you think about punctuation and spelling? I understand that when you chat you probably don't pay much attention to proper punctuation because chat dialogs are supposed to last just a moment. Usually they are read just once and then they are removed. A forum thread is different because it gets indexed by search engines and learners of English find and read it. That's why it's vital to follow basic rules of grammar and spelling when you create a forum message.

Please let me know what you think.
Regards,
Torsten
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[Nangueve]

Hi,
I think typing fast is very important. to be honest i don't write fast I even look at the keyboard. In order to write fast we have to exercise alot which means write at least every day 2 pages and then we can get use to it.

Julieta

[Torsten]

Hi Julieta,

Thanks a lot for sharing your experiences on this question. Have you learned to type correctly using all 10 fingers? I'm asking because if you you will always be able to type faster than anybody who has never learned it. Also, if you learn how to type you never need to look at the keyboard.

Regards,
Torsten
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[Borjana]

Hi, I read many reply here, and I like to share my experience, not only experience for typing, but more important for me , to use my english, ok, I was typing very fast 10 years ago, because I was work in office and use every time machine, don`t was computer yet, and typing fast and very good, but, not in English, maybe little blah blah now, but, sorry, my friends, now, I typing normally, I use computer, and I need to watch my keyboard, but not every moment, but, I need to watch ,to watch my words are correct or no, because my english, I think is now more easy for me, but, I still learned.thanks. sinqerely Borjana.

[Benamarie]

maybe because of the spelling thats why they dont reply even they like..so it affects the typing speed..
i can say that my typing speed is not slow. i can rate myself..in the middle..

[Gomez]

hi ! i'am very happy to read you, and waht you said it very importan because many of us can speak a lot but they can't write ! so i would like to say to evrybody who's member or interest to do his best to write more ! and then we can know how our english is growing up!

i will stop by there , i wish good things to evrybody who will read this message .

sincerely, gomez

[Torsten]

Hi Jamie,

How long do you think would it take for an adult to learn how to type properly? By the way, is there an English word or phrase that describes this skill? Also, have you ever measured your typing speed and if so do you count the words or characters you type per minute?

Many thanks,
Torsten
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[NinaZara]

I first learned to type by chatting. And of course some of my fingers are on the wrong keys, one of them is the "shift" key. I only got corrected when I started doing programming. The professor gave us one week to master this skill. As I remember it, we used a simple software. We were young, but I think you can consider us as adults, but we were also very eager, so it didn't take long. And most of the typings I did are in Japanese, so it can only get as fast, we have to constantly pause to select the Chinese characters.

Oh yes, I think it's annoying to type on a non-Japanese keyboard when everytime I'm back in Malaysia. The keyboards are surprisingly different!

[Jamie (K)]

[SkiIucK]

Hi Jamie,

Maybe it's time for you to test yourself?

http://speedtest.10-fast-fingers.com/

It might not be the most precise test out there, but it will certainly measure your overall skill.

By the way, 25 WPM is considered rather low.

Regards

[Florenti]

Hello,
I learned to type with the computer program "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing", and I really liked it. Now, I can type 40-50 word per minute, and I am improving my typing day after day.
Thank you all!

[Orchid1205]

Hi every body,
I learnt to type by myself in 2001. When we had the first computer, my mother gave us a floppy disk which had a software teach to practice typing. With that software, we learnt to type using 10 fingers. Then, I try to type my essays and my exercises by myself. And sometime, I help my friends to type their exercises. So I can type very fast without see the keyboard. But that's only right when I type in my tongue. When I type in English, it's slower. Because, I rarely type in English, I often write. Sometime, when I'm typing in English, I don't remember or don't sure how those words spell. So I have to write them or look up in my dictionary. It's affect typing speed.
Now, I'm practicing to type in English. I hope I will type in English as fast as in my tongue.

[Gomez]

i'm very happy to read your message ,me too i have one experience with the computer because i was working in the internet shop in 2006 and then i was oblige to type some paper like cv, invtation card etc...so i used to type with my one hand but my manager told me that i should use my ten fingers ! it was the hell for me ! because i always failed! and when i took this habit seriousily it become a game for me until now! so i would like to say to evrybody to do his best to be fast! maybe it's not so easy to type in engish but right now i tried to explain you my experience ! so i know that you can also!