/lounge/ - learning how to type

Name: Anonymous 2017-12-27 3:30

backspace with pinky
, with middle finger
Ctrl preferably with the edge of your palm
Shift and Alt with knuckle of pinky
y with right index finger
x with middle finger
ad hoc combinations using {Shift,Alt,Ctrl} should be on the opposite side of the other key--in general, maximizing the distance between finger press positions.

Name: Anonymous 2017-12-27 20:18

What about the rub out key?

Name: Anonymous 2017-12-27 23:06

>>2
your mom does it for me

Name: /lounge/ 2017-12-28 0:00

I decided to practice with this: https://typing-speed-test.aoeu.eu/ I got 64 WPM (words per minute) which is pretty good.

Ctrl preferably with the edge of your palm

Are you using an old IBM Model M?

Name: Anonymous 2017-12-28 9:24

>>4

I got 64 WPM (words per minute) which is pretty good.

I hate to break it to you, but that's about a standard deviation below average.

Name: Anonymous 2017-12-28 11:58

>>5
There's a "scoreboard" of sorts of the speeds were way below that, ~20-50. I did a few more, best so far is 74. It's pretty addictive.

Name: Anonymous 2017-12-28 12:00

>>6
That's an average among people literally too incompetent to type proprerly.

Name: Anonymous 2017-12-28 12:03

>>7
The ones doing around 20? Sure, they're probably typing with one finger, like my boomer dad, I like to get on him for that sometimes, haha.

Name: Anonymous 2017-12-28 15:45

>>8
He's implying that you're the incompetent retard, you retard.

Name: Anonymous 2017-12-28 15:57

>>9
Rude!

Name: Anonymous 2017-12-28 15:59

Anyway, for the non-rude, non-louts of /lounge/, the link in >>4 is a fun excercise.

Name: Anonymous 2017-12-28 19:08

You should hit the right alt key with your thumb. By using your pinky, you're removing your hand from the home row and also straining yourself.

Name: Anonymous 2017-12-30 2:08

>>12
Indeed that's better advice, but I'm using a shitty compact tenkeyless mechanical keyboard where a FN key takes the normal position of the right Alt key.

Name: Anonymous 2017-12-30 4:20

>>13

tenkeyless mechanical keyboard

Do they make a non-shitty model? Thought about getting a Unicomp keyboard, but I heard that they make them shitty now.

Name: Anonymous 2018-01-05 13:53

Alt+Tab can be done better with your right thumb on Alt + left pinky on Tab.

learning how to type

1 Name: Anonymous 2017-12-27 3:30

2 Name: Anonymous 2017-12-27 20:18

3 Name: Anonymous 2017-12-27 23:06

4 Name: /lounge/ 2017-12-28 0:00

5 Name: Anonymous 2017-12-28 9:24

6 Name: Anonymous 2017-12-28 11:58

7 Name: Anonymous 2017-12-28 12:00

8 Name: Anonymous 2017-12-28 12:03

9 Name: Anonymous 2017-12-28 15:45

10 Name: Anonymous 2017-12-28 15:57

11 Name: Anonymous 2017-12-28 15:59

12 Name: Anonymous 2017-12-28 19:08

13 Name: Anonymous 2017-12-30 2:08

14 Name: Anonymous 2017-12-30 4:20

15 Name: Anonymous 2018-01-05 13:53