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[JO~*]

I’m doing a keyboarding word-processing class and I find the typing without looking is pretty easy so far except the letter “C†seems like using the pointer finger would be so much easier to use for the letter “C†but the text book says to use your middle or “D†finger. What is your hardest letter to type while keeping your fingers on the “home keys�

Spelling and grammar come later in the course. :no:

 

[wade3504]

Mine are all of the numbers. We never practised that enough and to this day I have to look.

Amanda

 

[minih]

Mine are all of the numbers.

I have to agree, I use the number pad to the right all the time, I never use the ones at the top. I made up my own system with the number pad, never took an accounting class in high school. So when I had to take courses in my job (I'm a bookkeeper) I learned how to use it without looking, the courses I took were beyond that so I had to keep up.

 

[Sue_C.]

That darned "N'.

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I have had surgery on my hands, and there was some damge to the nerves of my right index finger, that makes it not able to reach down and across easily. As for numbers, I have always used the side pad for them...as they are much like a calulator, and easier to work with while not looking.

 

[Pepipony]

In 7th grade I had a wood chopping accident and lost the tip of my middle finger, left hand. No biggie, just the tip, but a graft was used from behind my ear so that skin is quite tender. Sooooo I learned typing with only using that middle finger for letters above , like d,e etc and will even use other fingers to compensate, without even realizing it Drove that teacher NUTS!!!!

Nephew had asked when he was about 4 what happened to that finger, I told him that it fell off when I flipped my Mom the bird

: To make things worse because of the graft it , well, ummm, grows peachfuzz ROFLMAO!!!!!! Sis says that lesson really stuck w/him LOL

 

[jayne]

Thinking about compensating for missing/damaged fingers reminded me of when I broke a couple of fingers once. I am/was a good typist (about 90 WPM including the numbers!) and when I broke my right index and middle fingers, it only took me a couple of hours of typing to retrain my remaining useful fingers to cover the whole keyboard. Of course I wasn't as fast, but still good enough. It was weird when I got the use of the fingers back re-teaching myself to do it right. I notice I still have a couple of bad habits for fingering that linger from that time still.

Jayne

 

[Miniv]

Numbers......always numbers. I was taught to type the "old fashioned way" with a typewriter, but numbers were never part of the equation (pardon the pun). :lol:

MA

 

[JO~*]

In 7th grade I had a wood chopping accident and lost the tip of my middle finger, left hand. No biggie, just the tip, but a graft was used from behind my ear so that skin is quite tender. Sooooo I learned typing with only using that middle finger for letters above , like d,e etc and will even use other fingers to compensate, without even realizing it Drove that teacher NUTS!!!!

Nephew had asked when he was about 4 what happened to that finger, I told him that it fell off when I flipped my Mom the bird

: To make things worse because of the graft it , well, ummm, grows peachfuzz ROFLMAO!!!!!! Sis says that lesson really stuck w/him LOL

Wow I cut off the end of my thumb in a wood cutting accident; it was my own fault-- you just are NOT supposes to cut kindling with a 5 pound maul/axe.

The mill used little sticks of wood in between the boards when they stack it they are called stickers well they made great kindling. They were about an inch or so square and I forgot how long but I would cut them about a foot long and then I would hold one up on a cutting block with my thumb and give it a good whack with the maul so it would be nice and thin and start the fire real easy. No little hatchet for me.

Long story short they had to sew it back on and I never used my thumb to hold kindling again. :no:

 

[stormo41]

well i can type pretty well, but i can't spell at all . I hit every key when i want to almost every time with out looking. in grade nine i a course and for the first three weeks all we did was typing not words, but groups of letters, then words of those letters, then 2 groups together and so on. i use the numbers on the top of the key board, i'm on a laptop i have no choice, but i always have for me it was much better because i knew there order, while the number pad i never even thouched. But i do have a problem with typing to fast, i will hit 2 letters at once, or the wong one first, so i have also have excellent use of the backspace key.

 

[Bess Kelly]

Oh, yes, the numbers. First off, it was a LOOOOONG reach on those old NON-ELECTRIC typewriters!!

Of course, they didn't get as much use either.