Touch Typing

[RuBiQ]

In the heyday could type over 75 a minute not that it ever applies to jobs as noone works that hard once your foot is in the door.

[Mus]

Mavis is a slag.

LOL!!!

Stick with Mavis mate, she'll keep you right

[Silvergun X]

I just learned. Growing up around old machines I suppose... I learned how to read by using DOS, i'm pretty sure of it.

140wpm now, which is actually quite scary.

[randombs]

DOS did it for me. all that config.sys'ing and autoexec'ing to get flipping stuff to run...

nowadays, i play typing of the dead on my ps2. it's the jap version, so it's all romaji (with the jap script above the letters) and it's quite freaky how i manage ok with it. the only problem i have is certain bosses need to be beaten by answering a question like 'whats the capital of country X?' so i just guess these. it's really helped my typing, but my hands tend to ache a bit after prolongued play. i'm not a traditional touch-typist (don't put four fingers here and there etc) but i know where all the keys are...

mavis beacon i never really got into, but the car game was fun!

[Bassman]

I may not touch type correctly but I can pretty much get a sentence out without having to resort to looking at the keyboard. The IM thing is definitely a help as is posting replies onto a forum.

I managed to post this with only a glance or two at the keyboard!

[PeteJ]

I just learned. Growing up around old machines I suppose... I learned how to read by using DOS, i'm pretty sure of it.

140wpm now, which is actually quite scary.

140!! No way!

Remembering back to my prime type-age ability, I can't possibly imagine how anyone could go any faster. Thought I was setting world records or sommin!

I agree with RuBiQ though - nobody needs to work that hard

If you want turbo speeds just the chainsaw boss in typing of the dead over and over...on hard.

[Resonance]

www.the-underdogs.org has several typing games, including typing of the dead, for PC.

Cheers for the link

[randombs]

although i find i type much slower if i'm typing stuff that's onscreen, a la typing of the dead or mavis beacon. if i'm typing an essay or something i can fly, but reading AND typing? dear lord, no