Does anyone use "Home row" typing?

[fred 3 camp fred 2012]

Home row typing: the typing method where your left hand sits on the A, S, D, and F keys, and your right hand sits on the J, K, l and ; keys.

During middle school we had a typing class, and they really tried to teach us to use the home row typing method.
My question is: Does anyone actually use home row typing?

[Anasmi]

Publicado originalmente por saranacX:

I don't. I type with 3 fingers from each hand. My only home row keys are Index on D, Middle on W, Ring on A, Pinky on shift, and thumb on spacebar.

Same

[Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏]

Publicado originalmente por caramel:

Does anyone use "Home row" typing?

Publicado originalmente por Left 4 Twenty:

serious question, what other type of tying is there? keyboards are made a certain way and everyone uses it the exact same way.

Not so.
Most people just "peck" type but there's a variety of other ways to type, there's even alternative keyboards. When I was in high school, I heard that the person who had the record for typing fastest in the world used a keyboard that was shaped like an accordion.

[swillfly]

Typing (keyboarding nowadays) may be great for certain niches.

I know how to type using home row/touch typing/traditional/whatever. And I unlearnt how.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhYFRr2gUaw

[$2 Hero]

Publicado originalmente por Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at:

Publicado originalmente por caramel:

Does anyone use "Home row" typing?

Publicado originalmente por Left 4 Twenty:

serious question, what other type of tying is there? keyboards are made a certain way and everyone uses it the exact same way.

Not so.
Most people just "peck" type but there's a variety of other ways to type, there's even alternative keyboards. When I was in high school, I heard that the person who had the record for typing fastest in the world used a keyboard that was shaped like an accordion.


:seewhatyoudid:

i guarantee you his index fingers rested on f and j.

[Kargor]

Publicado originalmente por caramel:

Home row typing: the typing method where your left hand sits on the A, S, D, and F keys, and your right hand sits on the J, K, l and ; keys.

Oh... that's probably our "10 finger system".

Theoretically, I've learned that a long time ago. Practically, as I had already been using keyboards for a long time, using the "proper" system was very cumbersome and slow, so it was basically a waste of time.

I can pretty much find keys without looking, especially when combined with muscle-memory -- it's easy to write proper text, or program code, but random letters are pretty bad. Also, sometimes I make more typing errors than on other days, but then again -- I never really used an actual typewriter like that (I've always been way more careful when using those), and the "backspace" key is free and leaves no trace on the final document.

I'm assuming my mother still uses the 10-fingers system properly, but I'm not sure.

My father, on the other hand... they had lots of computers when he was still working, but he's also had a secretary, and management wasn't really expected to work on computers yet. So, in the family, his typing skills are the worst :-)

[Crazy Tiger]

Publicado originalmente por Astolfo:

My fingers automatically go to AWD and I know why

Same, with the pinky on the Shift and the thumb on the Space bar.

[Schindler's Lifts]

Publicado originalmente por Astolfo:

My fingers automatically go to AWD and I know why

Yeah, I'm one of those. My fingers just default to WASD when given a keyboard and my typing habits more or less evolve from there. At least I type somewhat fast.

[EvilPinata]

I do because that's how I was taught in school as well. Before that I just kind of pecked the keyboard with my two index fingers. So for me, home row is definitely the more efficient way to type.

In class the teacher put a box over our hands and the keyboard so we'd end up with muscle memory to know which keys are which. I hated it at first, but it was a great way to learn looking back on it now

[Nomad]

Publicado originalmente por Crazy Tiger:

Publicado originalmente por Astolfo:

My fingers automatically go to AWD and I know why

Same, with the pinky on the Shift and the thumb on the Space bar. :lunar2019grinningpig:

My pinky rests on the side between shift and tab and my thumb rests on the bottom edge of the space bar.

Publicado originalmente por Schindler's Lifts:

Yeah, I'm one of those. My fingers just default to WASD when given a keyboard and my typing habits more or less evolve from there. At least I type somewhat fast.

Yeah, people say I'm a fast typer too. I'm not very good though really.

[Yamantaka]

Around the time I had to take typing course I had already played text-based MUD for years. For those who don't know, typing speed means difference between life and death, in those games. So never really bothered to learn teachers formal 10 finger technique as I was fast already with my own.

Ridiculous part was that after outperforming teachers own score she gave my grade a minus due to not using the same technique.

[Hanomaly]

Publicado originalmente por saranacX:

I don't. I type with 3 fingers from each hand. My only home row keys are Index on D, Middle on W, Ring on A, Pinky on shift, and thumb on spacebar.

LOL me too! Atho i'll do "ctrl" with my pinkie along with "shift"..
And my thumbs will do "spacebar" and "alt"...

But otherwise all the letter, number, and symbol keys i do with only three fingers - index, middle, ring

RL friends tease me because a lot of the time i type with my pinkies arched, like old fashioned "pinkies up" for having tea