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does anyone else do this? when I am typing realy fast (thats fast for me anyway..40 or 50 wpm) I sometimes skip words, phrases or even whole lines I meant to put in, I think em but they don`t make it as far as the keyboard, I always have to go back and re-read stuff to make sure I have put in everything, also when at speed I always miss the first quote and have to go back and replace the 2 with ", so, does anyone else get problems like that? or is it just my unique "style" ?



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Darkbasic MADPSP
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i don't do that nope i type slow

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i don't do that - i end up spelling 'the' like 'thte' for some reason - it only happens with 'the' which is odd


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Benjamin
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Posted: 4th Nov 2005 18:29
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At speed I'll sometimes put a couple of lettesr in the wrong order.

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David R
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Waht od yuo maen?


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Drew Cameron
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David R, you should only have mistyped one wrod.

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I skip words and sometimes start whole new sentances inside existing sentances when I (hand)write fast.

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When i'm typing fast I don't skip whole words. I just make one letter mistakes... but I know when I make a mistake so I hit backspace and go on.

Because of this I can hit the backspace key at about the same speed as the rest of the keys.
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Sometimes I'll miss an word or twi, but I usually manage to catch it

So here I am typing as fast as I can (quite fast btw, I can actually type with my eyes closed--I'll somehow know when I missed a letter and hit the backspace key) and so far I haven't misesd any imrporspaj worls

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Posted: 4th Nov 2005 20:11
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dunno how many words per minute I write at, but the fact that I can type well without looking at the keyboard is something that tends to freak-out my co-workers. I'm looking at them and talking while I code. It makes them really nervous for some reason

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Jeku
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Yah hehehe. When I go to my parents' house and type up documents for them, I can chat and laugh, and do a bunch of other stuff while typing away at speeds close to 100WPM. Muhuhaha.

I remember the day I realized that I no longer look at the keyboard to type. I guess it was because my private school was very anal in enforcing strict computer lessons on us since Grade 1

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Posted: 4th Nov 2005 20:25 Edited at: 4th Nov 2005 20:25
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I have to keep glancing down or I start to hit the wrong keys, but then I`m a four and a half finger typist, still pretty fast though, I can go faster than some formaly trained typists, I might try that typing tutor thing I have on a coverdisk and see if I can get my speed up to something more impressive, TKF15H and Jeku are making me feel rather inferior .



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60WPM average here , used some software from a coverdisc to initially learn, too... No need to look at keyboard. Yes, yes it does freak people out.
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Benjamin
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Quote: " Waht od yuo maen?"

Ironically, the typo I made was unintentional.

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Teh Go0rfmeister
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i do this when im thinking faster than im typing. happens to me in speech, words get jumbled since im thinking up the next word before im done typng/saying the last

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I type at 70 words per minute, including after fixing my msitakes

But no, I don't forget to type something I'm thinking

I slow my thought process to only think as fast as I'm typing


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Try shorter sentences.

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when i type fast i dont remember what i have written and when i type fast i usually dont remember what i have written...

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olo what is this? olol spruised this is still ginog

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my typing speed is about 96 WPM on adverage and I /do/ make mistakes. But i dont look at the keyboard and can look at other people (not even the screen) and talk to them whilst typing - years of dedication and what do you get? When it comes down to it.. a really sad skill xD

But my most common mistake is I dont really think about typing anymore or what im typing, I just think words and let my hands go on automatic, almost as if im speaking to someone. For some reason this introduces a really weird error where I will think a word and type a word that SOUNDS like it. For example, I was once talking about a sports event with someone and instead of typing pay per view I typed paper view. I also tend to add bits to words randomly to make them into one of their other forms, like just up a bit where I typed automatic the first thing i typed was automaticly and another common one I do is comical instead of comic.

I really cant explain why x_X

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My English typing speed is about 5 WPM. I'm proud of it.


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I'm a pretty good typist at about 60wpm and I don't look at the keys. My real problem is trying to write with a pen and paper (which I despise), I put the letters for words down out-of-sequence and have to go back and add in the "filler" letters.

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Posted: 12th Nov 2005 00:36 Edited at: 12th Nov 2005 00:38
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you know what happens if i type too fast?? (not sure how fast i type normaly because i never officially learned it...)

i alternate the word "the" with "teh"

if i think of teh word "the" my fingers will type "teh"... and vice versa... unless of course i'm typing slowish then i type what i'm thinking

if i try to type waay faster then i should be typing it comes out like this...
(not sure how many wpm i can type without errors but it's probably about 40wpm)

[edit]... actually when i tryed to type too fast in the above snippet it didn't turn out to bad... maybe i know nothing about what i'm talking about...


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i write at around 70 wpm as my max and usually dont have mistakes. very few if any and i can catch myself while im typing to fix them.


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can you catch yourself without looking at the screen? (or the key board of course)

i find i actually tend to catch myself as i type even if i'm not lookinh at the screen

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Quote: " can you catch yourself without looking at the screen? (or the key board of course)"

Most of the time, yes. My problem is that I'm used to an international keyboard, while at work I have to use the brazilian ones, so certain keys get moved around and I end up typing more slowly. >_<

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Just changed my work one to a wireless effort. But they have changed the function key layout slightly! Groups of 3 instead of 4. Grrr. Plus the home/delete/end section is completely different. Totally screws me up.

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heh, I know what that's like. I've had to use a keyboard where the function keys were in groups of 5. But that's not so bad as on keyboards where they push the insert/home/pgup/del/end/pgdown keys down to add power/sleep/wake on top. I keep pressing Insert when I try to delete things. >_<

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Yeah, my insert key is high now, with delete taking up as much room as the backspace key. Plus there is a key directly above the pg up and down keys. No!!!

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ditto. It is very retarted. I can type at about 83 wps, but I do have a few backspaces, and deletes. I cant when they do those moronic "fish ate chicken" tests, I can only type something I want to.

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I can type well over 100WPM and rarely have any mistakes, when i do i dont need to look at the keyboard to backspace and then correct the word.

I agree with one of the posters though, sometimes i do tend to throw out words that sound like the actual word i wanted.. ie.. Payperview and paper view.



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I never look at the keyboard! I also know where all my letters and easy keys are. Only 83wpm because I dont like to type fast. I have weak bones says my doctor.

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when i type fast sometimes i end up typing parts of words that im thinking of that are ahead of the word im typing and end with a sentance that doesnt make sence, i also suck at punctuation the odd comma and fullstop is about it for me


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Posted: 12th Nov 2005 12:08 Edited at: 12th Nov 2005 12:08
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Taking one of those typing tests where you have to read and type, I average 40-50 wpm, but if someone was reading it to me, or if I was making it up then I would average a lot more. I just can't touch type pefectly.

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