How many people really do use the home keys?

[MarkM]

I was just wondering how many people at these boards really do type with the home keys. Im always told 'I have to type with them because its the right way!'. So im just wondering who uses them?

[Transtic Nerve]

Home..... Keys....?

Well.... I have keys to my home, but i don't type with them..... and my keyboard is at my house, so I use my home keyboard.... not someone elses.... and there's one key that says home on my keyboard but I don't know what it does....

[GhostofSalvtore]

Yes I use them, its the only way to type and open the front door to your home.

[Flash]

My old Text & Information management teacher always used to go on at me to use the home keys. She said stuff like 'Connor, don't press G with the F finger' and all this other crap that I just barely listened to. I don't care. I type with both my Index fingers, that's it. Sure, it's wierd, and the teacher moaned a whole lot, but then when I got 85 words per minute in the typing test... Ha. Showed her.

[James]

[color=royalblue]Yep...I type [i]really[/i] fast. And I use all the correct keys. That's mainly because at school, it was always very important to use the correct hand positions on the keyboard and stuff...it was really drummed into everyone.

And now, as a consequence, I'm able to type really well while also being very fast...and I think that helps my post quality and email writing a great deal. :)[/color]

[Kinetic]

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I type mostly with the correct fingers, except the hard-to-get keys like ",". I don't use the right hands for those. I used to type 72 WPM, but's I've slowed down considerably due to laziness :p
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[Guest Hikaru Ichijyo]

;)Well of course I am a computer nerd of course, and I type rather fast. Also I can type perfectly while watching tv without even looking at the screen. So thats pretty good or it could mean I just don't have a life hmm..... -__-

[Guest Saiyangohan2002]

[color=blue] Nah, never use them, to me it's just a waste of time, I type really good with both my index fingers, so i can't really be bothered trying with those home keys :p [/color]

[Vegitto4]

Meh, i type with only 2 fingers on eahc hand most of the time. Some times I change it up and throw in some extra fingers in there

[wrist cutter]

Well, I never took a computer class because I never had to, I'm perfect. I type with all the right fingers perfectly all the time and type 345 words per minute. I've never made a typo or spelling error in my life, I am a God. Worship me.

[Xekor]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by wrist cutter [/i]
[B]Well, I never took a computer class because I never had to, I'm perfect. I type with all the right fingers perfectly all the time and type 345 words per minute. I've never made a typo or spelling error in my life, I am a God. Worship me. [/B][/QUOTE]

*Worship, worship*

[b]James[/b] - I don't think your post quality has anything to do with [i]how[/i] you type. I think it has everything to do with you not being the typical internet moron. O_o

[Guest cloricus]

I can type with the home keys but I have found over about ten years (holy crap - thats a long time.....) of being in net chat rooms and things that I have my own adapted version, which I find alot faster and easier.

[Desbreko]

[color=indigo]Lol... I don't even know the correct position for your fingers, when typing... I just sat down in front of the computer, and started using it. Over time, I got faster and faster at typing, and I don't make all that many mistakes once I'm used to the keyboard that I'm using. I'm not exactly a fast typer, though I'm not slow, either. I think I'm doing pretty good, for not ever having taken a computer class or anything.[/color]

[Jeebs]

I use them because I had to in computer skills, and then I started to get used to them.

[The Harlequin]

[font=gothic][color=crimson]At last we discover the reason for Cloricus's absymally foul spelling and grammer...

I never use the home keys. I type with whatever fingers happen to be closest. Sometimes leaves my hands in pretty strange positions, but it means I type pretty fast. And accurately too.

21st time...[/font][/color]

[No-Name]

Nope. This is how I type and it's fast enuff for me. I have my own homekeys.

[zidane11]

I had them drilled into my head at school. So now I keep my figers there but don't follow them strictly.

[Sara]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by James [/i]
[B][color=royalblue]I'm able to type really well while also being very fast...and I think that helps my post quality... a great deal. :)[/color] [/B][/QUOTE]...James and his never-ending quest for post quality.

I learned to type in chat rooms.... Actually, one chatroom. Filled with friendly, nice, smart people. Who must have all used the home row, because their post quality--erhm, or whatever--was excellent.

Or maybe just because they were all intelligent people? Nah.....

I don't really think about home row and whatnot when I type. I s'pose I use most of the right fingers, but if I don't, it still works just fine. Had a typing class last year....it was torture, but I actually ended up using all the right fingers for a while. And even if I don't still use them, it did help my typing skills.

[b]This is how I type and it's fast enuff for me.[/b]

Then again, I suddenly agree with James. If u type fast n rite n stuff u dont have 2 talk like this 2 b fast enuff 2 make ur point.

[BabyGirl]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Cera [/i]
[B]
[b]This is how I type and it's fast enuff for me.[/b]
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[color=deeppink]I spelled 'enough' like that until 5th grade >_<;

Yes indeed, I use all of the correct keys. The only thing that I don't do is use both thumbs for the space bar, and I don't use both shift keys, only the left one.

Before I took a keyboarding class my freshman year, I could already type with my fingers on the correct keys but I couldn't look up from the keyboard. After the class I was (and still am) able to type rather quickly and not need to look at the keyboard at all. As much as I hated that class...I give it a lot of credit for teaching me how to type well ^_^[/color]

[Char!]

[color=teal][size=1]Sadly, I do use the home keys, and I do use the right fingers, most of the time. I'm sick of those bumps on the f and j keys, please someone cut them off for me... [/color][/size]

[Hyper]

i use both index fingers and press each button.Often called the "hunt and peck"

[Juu]

It took me a min to figure out what u were talkin about....

Anyways, I never use em. It's too far from the area I type in. My keyboard is the 'not-so-flat' type, and it's just too far down for me to reach comfortably...... ^_^'

[No-Name]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by BabyGirl [/i]
[B]

[color=deeppink]I spelled 'enough' like that until 5th grade >_<;

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I only spell like an uneducated human when on the internet. I think if we can say u instead of you, and abbreviate sentcnes like rofl or lol, then spelling shouldnt be that big of an issue if people know what ur saying.

[Roxie Faye]

[color=indigo]I used to abbreviate thing online, such as "you" to "u" and "you are" to ur, on anoterh message board, and in chat rooms and AIMs. THEN, I came here, found out y'all were using great grammar and switched. Now, it drives me nuts when I see "ur" on a message board. I'm not a fast typer and I don't spell correctly when I type(my most common mistakes are "jsut" for "just" and "ahve" for "have"), so if I'm IMing someone, and I use U or 2, just to be quick, I alweays wince.

About the home keys, nope. Don't really use them. I had keyboarding classes for about two years, but I hated it. I can, however, type with out looking at the keyboard and spell things pretty much correctly, but it takes me longer because I have to think about where the keys are.

For me, the keyboard I'm using is also a factor. Right now, my comp, is broken, and I'm using my sis's, and I HATE her keyboard. You ahve to press down REALLY hard to get the keys to strike, and it's taking me longer to write everything. ugh.[/color]

[Ryan]

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Here where I live they drill them into your brain in Elementary(spel?) school. I do, but I sometimes hit a key with the wrong finger. But I am glad that my computer teachers did make me type this way because In 6th grade(this past year, I am going to 7th) I made a school record. A boy typed 64 words in one minute that was in a different class then me. So the next day I passed him making 108 in one minute. My computer teacher told me that she couldn't even type that fast. But there was one teacher that could type like 260 words in one minutes which was pretty fascinating. The whole reason I made this record was because I am online talking to my friends all the time everyday. And all because my elementary teachers taught me to type in the home row keys....[/size]