Typist Club

[Zyla Fae 5,411]

This is quite simply a place for people who like to type, whether you're a 100 WPM touch typist, or a slow typer that wants to improve, this is a place to share resources and achievements with other people who like to type.

 

 

Since I am the creator of the club, here's a tiny bit about me and typing: I am a computer nerd, from the moment I get up in the morning to when I go to sleep, I am either on some sort of electronic device, making music, or with animals (I petsit) I used to be into HTNL and the like, and I could probably do some more if I wanted to. But anyway, I found out about the Dvorak keyboard layout, and after that I started using it since I heard it was good for speed, I tried to get back up to my touch typing speed on Qwerty, and somewhere inthere I realized how much I like typing, I haven't quite mastered touch typing on Dvorak yet, but I've gotten back up to my Qwerty speed of 30-50 WPM (it varies a lot...)

 

Anyway, resources of note for learning and training:

 

Any layout:

10fastfingers.com - a nice tool for training and seeing how quickly you can type, you can either use randomly generated words in your language, or set text inputted by a user.

 

Dvorak layout:

Dvorak.nl - mainly made for beginners to the Dvorak layout, it gives you random words containing only certain letters, starting with the home row and slowly adding more letters in

[SCS 7,537]

I love typing. I live and breathe typing. I hope typing goes MLG because I would wipe the floor with any motherfucker who would dare challenge me.

[lomk 20,666]

I'll bet I can punch it to 100+ wpm once I learn Dvorak

 

I'm sitting pretty at 85-90 on QWERTY

[Zyla Fae 5,411]

I love typing. I live and breathe typing. I hope typing goes MLG because I would wipe the floor with any motherfucker who would dare challenge me.

You seem pretty confident in your ability

Mind me asking what you WPM is?

 

 

I'll bet I can punch it to 100+ wpm once I learn Dvorak

 

I'm sitting pretty at 85-90 on QWERTY

heh, I bet your keyboards gonna blow up after you get good at Dvorak with that speed in Qwerty :derP;

I'd definitely recommend trying dvorak.nl, it's pretty good training for helping learn the keyboard layout

[MsMegan91 117]

I love typing, I'm quite lucky that my job involves a lot of letter-writing etc so my speed and accuracy is improving all the time!

[CheeryFox 23,824]

I'm pretty slow at typing...unless I have a lot of java/tea. 50 WPM max, roughly. With a caffeine boost, upwards of 140 WPM? Lol. 

[Zyla Fae 5,411]

I'm pretty slow at typing...unless I have a lot of java/tea. 50 WPM max, roughly. With a caffeine boost, upwards of 140 WPM? Lol. 

I'm not sure I'd really call 50 WPM slow.... It's a pretty good speed, considering that the average is no more than 42

Plus it's my top speed at the moment

Edited January 18, 2015 by Nomed Deps

[CheeryFox 23,824]

I'm not sure I'd really call 50 WPM slow.... It's a pretty good speed, considering that the average is no more than 42

Plus it's my top speed at the moment

 

In a professional setting, that's considered slow.   And that's max, which I rarely reach anyway. I did a test not long ago, my score was 40 WPM with an accuracy of around 98.1% (excluding medical, tech terms, etc.). 

[Zyla Fae 5,411]

In a professional setting, that's considered slow.   And that's max, which I rarely reach anyway. I did a test not long ago, my score was 40 WPM with an accuracy of around 98.1% (excluding medical, tech terms, etc.).

True, but if it's around the average, it's still not bad, I mean, we both have some room to improve, but luckily that can be done Edited January 18, 2015 by Nomed Deps

[Simcity11100 773]

considering that I haven't really done a typing test in about 3 years I would say my max without errors is around 55, but whatever i guess.