It makes touch-typing way easier to start with, but after years and years of hot-key actions in strategy games, you kind of start to memorize where everything is on the keyboard without even having to feel for it or use the home keys :P
Yes, though not exactly. I use the home keys as a reference point, while my hands dance around the keyboard like a mad pianist. I don't use formal typing technique.
Yes, though not exactly. I use the home keys as a reference point, while my hands dance around the keyboard like a mad pianist. I don't use formal typing technique.scorch-62
On a standard QWERTY keyboard, the ASDF and JKL; are considered the "home keys." Using the formal method of typing, your index fingers are supposed to go on F and J respectively, with your other fingers following suit (middle fingers on D and K, etc).
Of course I do. I have to situate my fingers on the little bumps before I can start to type. Once you learn to type, it is exponentially faster to type with technique than whatever you do.
[QUOTE="-eddy-"]What the hell are you talking about?scorch-62
On a standard QWERTY keyboard, the ASDF and JKL; are considered the "home keys." Using the formal method of typing, your index fingers are supposed to go on F and J respectively, with your other fingers following suit (middle fingers on D and K, etc).Oh, such. Nah, I don't really use that.
No i type way faster without using it. I don't like to keep my fingers touching keys at all times, they kinda hover above the keyboard until I need them.
Usually though my left hand tends to move about quite a bit. I really should start typing lessons again... also i need a proper keyboard with full size keys.
I type everything using the middle finger on my left hand, and the index finger on my right hand. I use my thumb on my left hand for the space bar, and my ring finger on my right hand for backspace. Yes, I'm weird. :P
[QUOTE="Bourbons3"]I type everything using the middle finger on my left hand, and the index finger on my right hand. I use my thumb on my left hand for the space bar, and my ring finger on my right hand for backspace. Yes, I'm weird. :P Weird isn't so bad. =3
Of course. That's how I learned and it's how I've always done it. I noticed that I usually keep my pinky's on the shift and period buttons rather than the semicolon and 'a' though. Maybe it's because those are used so very, very much.
You mean the home row? Nope. I taught myself to type gradually from the age of 7-8ish. I later took a typing class in middle school, but never adjusted to the "home row." I still type >100 WPM despite that.
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