Can you touchtype?

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No, I've never learned it.

I use the 3 middle fingers on both hands when I write, sometimes mostly index and middle finger, sometimes mostly middle and ring finger, depending on the word.

I have never tested my writing speed. Not very high, I assume.

Typing class was a requirement in highschool, so yeah, I can touch type no problem.

I still can't do the numrow very well without looking or guessing, though.

And sometimes my fingers get a little lost when I have to use a dinky laptop keyboard.

Sort of. I do respectably well on a full-size keyboard, probably touch-typing 35-40 wpm, but for some reason I'm awful when I have to use my laptop keyboard. My wrists feel funny being at the same height as my fingers, the keys themselves seem kind of cramped and not raised enough for me to differentiate one key from another. I make a LOT more typos laptop vs. desktop.

I bought a logitech wireless keyboard and mouse combo to use with the laptop I got so frustrated. Yeah, its more crap to haul around, but in my case it is definitely worth it. I think I was able to get it on sale for about $30, so it wasn't really all that expensive, either.

And don't even get me started on my handwriting. It is illegible, I'm slow doing it, etc. I'm just about dead-on the Aspie stereotype there.

Yeah - I'm doing it right now.

I've been using computers since I was about 8 and have had a Alphasmart in primary school, so I'm good at touchtyping, yeah.

Obviously, though, it depends on what keyboard I'm using. But I can even touch type on my iPhone!

I could do it at times, but normally I would have to think about typing it a few times. (would that count?)

My mother had been a secretary; her job supported her whole (nuclear) family during the depression of the 1930's. So she taught all her kids (6) to type "properly;" after all, this was a survival skill. Not only was this a useful skill for me, but it became a necessary one when the computer plus technical-typing packages made technical typists obsolete. (Of course as an undiagnosed Aspie I preferred to do my own technical typing anyhow, thanks.) But ruveyn's post gave me a chuckle, because I had also taken typing in high school with an otherwise-all-female class. It was an easy A except for the period in which I got an F for "erasing on the machine," a sin so heinous that absolution was reserved to the Vatican.

jef