I also depends on the task that you're trying to solve while typing. I'm a touch typist, and I feel like the not-having-to-look-aspect is much more valuable than the speed in which I type for example while programming. Or if you're taking notes in a lecture you don't want to be looking down on your keyboard. I also notice that typing takes mental resources, so if you're just re-typing a given text, then you get much higher speeds than when you have to come up with the content of what you're typing at the same time.
This is exactly one of the two most important reasons why I started to learn touch typing: to keep my attention on the screen and to do less mistakes, or when I do them, to correct them more easily without looking at the keyboard. I'm still not very fast, but I'm glad I started to learn this skill. There is another aspect of the learning itself, I believe - activation of this part of the brain which controls mapping of typing to movements and type of imagination connected with that. In this respect, it's a mental excercise.
I don't look at the keyboard whilst I type, even though I only use two fingers for the actual letters. I did the hunt and peck method for so many years I memorized QWERTY and started to use other fingers for the buttons such as backspace, tab and enter.
Find a sample of people who actually use their keyboard and can actually reach fast speeds (>100 WPM). THEN draw conclusions like "the number of fingers used does not affect typing speed". I'm confident that the majority of this sample will use most, if not all of their fingers. It's fine to assess average typists, but you can't draw any meaningful conclusion on optimal typing technique from them. What this study did is basically like drawing a conclusion like "the shoes a runner wears does not affect their running speed" by analyzing random pedestrians. A person running with snow boots CAN run as fast as someone wearing running shoes, but give that same person a pair of running shoes and the difference will be significant. Nobody in the Olympics is going to run with boots on.
Yeah, if only I had learned some better form when I was younger, now Im hard stuck 100wpm plateau with my unorthodox “right hand middle finger strictly handles everything on the right including spacebar” and switching up is gonna be hard
@@coolmemesbudd just make the change, i was typing with something similar a year ago at 100wpm and when i started touch typing, i got like 20wpm at first but now i'm at ~120wpm.
True. My record is like 170 wpm (on 10ff site) and I don't use pinkys at all. I noticed that people who type >200 wpm use pinkys as well. I can feel that my method is not optimal because sometimes, in certain words, I slow so much, because I need to press few buttons with 1 finger. I'd like to see comparison between for example 150 WPM typists who use both 10 and 8 fingers, and also 200 wpm typers.
Is it weird that this is what i found: Typing with Your Toes Lift your second toe, and only your second toe; place it back down, Lift your third toe, solo, place it back down. Lift each of your toes independently of the others. Practice this every day and in 30 years, you will be able to type with your toes!
+Merry According to their study, there were "30 everyday typists, selected to span a wide range of typing performance (from 34 to 79 wpm)". I suspect that anything above 80 would start to require that you touch type (even if you don't use traditional zones for fingers). Before I learned to touch type, I could only get up to 55/60 wpm on 10fastfingers, and I had to keep looking up and down so I was limited. But now I can fairly easily get >100, and I cannot imagine being able to do that while having to look at my fingers all the time.
+Dominic Muller I've found that I actually never use my pinkies for typing at all, and I do a lot of typing and coding fairly often. Never really noticed it though, but I'd say based on the video I'm somewhere between an index finger and middle finger typer. Depending on the test I've found I range from 80-110 WPM, usually the only slipups I end up having are in words that I don't use as often or words that my fingers 'autocorrect' into on accident. My right hand always manages pressing shift or enter, with my left hand taking over for the duration that I'm holding shift. The weird thing is though that I subconsciously look at where my fingers are typing in my peripheral vision, I have to revert to touch typing in the dark or in virtual reality.
+Dominic Muller I don't use my pinky for anything besides really shift and my typing speed is at around 115 or so they do have a point in that you don't need to use all 10 fingers to type fast.
This is very interesting. Having taken a typing class in high school and having a mother who taught typing, ten key, shorthand, and other office skills to adults, it's only natural that I'm a touch typist. It would be interesting to see what the results would be with these various methods if used on a typewriter as opposed to a keyboard.
This is so cool for a typical typer like me. My daughter is struggling to learn to type and I only then reallized, that I not use the 10 fingers that I learned and practiced for hours upon hours throughout school. I was so slow with that method, and I am so much faster with 6 fingers that I use now.
Touch typing helps you type without looking at the keyboard If you have any other way you can type without looking at the keyboard, go for it. But touch typing would be the easiest. You certainly cannot type with one or two fingers without looking at the keyboard with 100% accuracy. When you use only one or two fingers you have to move your fingers all the way around the keyboard while using 10 fingers, the movement of fingers is pretty much reduced, and I think that really increases the speed.
I was curious about the "looking down" part, as someone who taught myself (school also tried teaching me, but i definitely dont touch the way they tried teaching me) I dont have to look down at my keyboard ever unless my keys get stuck or something, which nigh ever happens. I do however have to be able to see the keyboard in my peripheral vision, if im typing with no light i do end up with worse accuracy (although the light from my monitor is usually enough)
i think your typing speed depends on how used u are to it like there are some people who used their index and middle fingers to type only and they can type fast because they are so used to it, it is their habit. everyone has their own strategy of typing, it depends on which fingers you prefer to use, which fingers are stronger. the longer u practice typing, the faster you would become. like people who like playing games from a young age, they click the keyboard so many times until it becomes so natural and intuitive
I aggree, I use all of my finger on my left hand but I only use one finger on my right hand. Maybe sometimes I use 2 different finger on my right hand to click enter and backspace but it is really rare thing I do. Maybe %5 percent. I can write -/+225 words in 3 minutes.
9 dimentional : maybe he (c4103) do thing differently. maybe he drive his car at the back seat. modified back seat steering. typical human being. hahaha.
I seek and destroy with my two pointer fingers. I know some people think that that is slow, and inefficient, but I am pretty deadly with it, and can crank out sentences quick.
I read the paper and in my opinion the conclusion that you can type fast with a smaller amount of fingers is false. When you compare the images shown in Figure 7 and 8, and a table of the most common used characters (which is the base of the DVORAK Layout), you can see that subjects tend to adapt the ten-finger-typing system for their left hands, and mostly just one finger for the right hand. The left hand covers nearly all of the most common used characters. I think this is a prove that the TFT-System is more efficient, and ignoring it for the right hand just does not have any impact on the typing performance due to the insignificancy of the characters covered by it. So people who are self-thought at ten-finger-typing probably subconsciously already knew that and didn't make the effort to learn it, resulting in being as much as efficient as people who learned TFT by the book
I'm right handed, type using mostly only my left hand, and can guarantee you that I type faster than most people, lol. Even since I was a little kid, when people see me type they can't believe how fast my hand is moving lol. It's something I just kind of developed subconsciously. I don't make many mistakes either. My hand floats over the keyboard kind of. I can also do it just as effectively without looking at the keyboard. Though it can become a problem if I'm using something like a laptop keyboard with different spacing and key size, but it generally just means I have to look a bit more until I get used to it.
+Jesper Josefsson This is, because you´ve LEARNED! Sometimes it looks like more and more projects an studys go to: "Don´t need to learn because learning is generally too exhausting and bad." Sometimes it tastes as: Go the easiest way. Ideologic lobbying by "laissez faires"?
Yes you are right you know even I did take any typing course and I was chatting with my friends on my keyboard. then after some months, I realised that my typing speed is very high. then I checked it. you know it was 45 words per minute. you might think it is not that first but it is enough for me.
1:36 That page shows some folk use the index finger of the right hand a lot, that would become very tired soon, that particular finger. I learned to touch type for fun when I was 13 in 1972 did not have much use for it 'til the Internet was invented and now I am using those very same skills I learned way back them. I can type as fast as someone speaks, when they are thinking what to write ! ! One thing at that school was a recording which said "a now" h now, b now, d now, etc. I remember that but not much else of that typing school at The Typing Center of New South Wales. - Have A Nice Day..
This might hold true for slow typist but I'd like to see some data on fast typist e.g based on speeds of 100+ WPM, what percentage of them are touch typist? I guess once you reach a certain speed, touch typist dominate over non-touch typist
I actually learned today what touch typing is. I'm a touch typer but only with the left hand, what i mean by that is that i use all fingers of my left hand, and only 2 from my right end (one being for the enter and backward key only). I still have the entire keyboard memorized and never have to look down to it. About typing speed, i test it from times to times, my average speed for typing without efforts is 80 to 95 depending on the words (my main language also has a lot of special characters) and my peak is between 100 and 110. So yeah, complete touch typing must be optimal but i guess to each his own, i've never been able to type with more than 2 fingers from my right hand.
@@thesunryze4658 Your ability to touch type is great! Using more than 2 fingers will likely increase your speed. Touch typing and typing with all fingers doesn't come naturally. It is a skill that you develop over time through practice.
@@TouchedAlot Honestly using all 10 fingers really isn't as important as you think, many of the best typists in the world at like 170wpm+ don't use the perfect way of laying all their fingers on the home row and using all 10 how it's 'best' to do it. Like I'm not the best typist myself I only type like 90-100wpm but I use 3 fingers on my left hand and 2 on my right, and the only thing holding me back is a lack of practice. I don't see why I couldn't get to around 150wpm typing like this if I put the time in but where you have to get to literally 3 words a second to make having more fingers on the keyboard count, I don't think it's a point that needs to be emphasised at all
@@jademwah You don't need to use 10 fingers to type 170wpm+ but the more fingers you use, the easier it is as each finger does less movement. It may be fastest for people with broken fingers to use less than 10, but learning to using all 10 fingers results in the fastest typing speed for people with 10 working fingers.
I type with 2 or maybe 3 fingers per hand (its so natural I dont notice exactly how many I use) I also look at the keyboard a little but usually for very split seconds. I think Im a fairly fast typer
I have a friend who uses only his index and middle finger on each hand to type (even for space he doesn't use his thumb) and he easily manages >100 wpm and can hit 120 pretty often. I have another friend who does the exact same thing and averages 90-100. I only use my left hand for pressing space and shift which is weird because I'm right handed.
I use my left hand's index a middle fingers and my right hand's middle finger to type stuff, and the ring finger on the right hand to delete, I haven't practiced it, but I can do around 90wpm at the moment.
All this is only necessary because of QWERTY and the staggered layout. I'm typing with a split ortholinear keyboard and a layout called Neo2 for over four years now and my fingers don't need to move like this at all. Currently I'm learning a new layout that is even more efficient for ortholinear keyboards with thumb shift. I need some time to get back to 60 wpm and more
And did you let touch typers adjust to the keyboard? If I personally type on a new keyboard it takes me like a day or two before I get to my peak performance. I'd say this is not as big of a problem for non-touch typers as they have a visual aid by watching their fingers...
i use my left hand a little bit tilt on keyboard and it cover more than half keys of keyboard but i found alot of videos on youtube that tell's us about the right position when i started to type with right position its sucks me up and my typing speed become very slow so i compare both positions speed and now i type as i earlier type on keyboard i use my left hand point finger mostly
i type about 80-90 wpm with only 2 fingers per hand lolololol... i am tying to get my wpm to about 130 by the end of the year so i am learning asdf jkl; and tbh, it has actually worked very well!
I compared a couple of people who climbed Everest who had only one leg, with people who climbed Everest with two legs. They both reached the top. So my conclusions is: if you want to climb a mountain you can use one leg instead of two, this doesn't matter.
My typing style is fucking chaotic. I consider my keyboard to have three zones; the left, the right, and the center. The left zone is Q, W, A, S, Z, and X. The right zone is O, P, K, L, M, the comma, and period keys. Everything else is a free-for-all.
I type an average of 80wpm with 6 fingers, 5 being extremely dominant. I seriously doubt I could type any faster tbh, but I do reach the top 20-10 percent just using self taught methods.
I was never taught how to type by anyone just sort of got really used to it over time and I get around 100-130 wpm. One weird thing I do is not use my thumb for space bar. I'm so used to not using my thumb that I actually type slower trying to get my brain to use it.
I average in the 90-120 range with 2 fingers , and now that im used to it on a laptop, it feels weird to get a keyboard since it's on like different levels and the the way the keycaps are on the laptops versus keyboard ones but I know there is those flat keycaps I'm just trying to the find the right keyboard.
So I don't understand all those comments questioning what the researcher about the factor of number of fingers used in typing. He obviously meant that it is not the only factor that determines the outcome. There are several other factors involved in that.
I don't know why but before I was taking typing in elementary I already learned to type the way I do so I never corrected. I don't use my left index finger at all, it just hangs in the air above all the keys. It looks weird but I still type super fast despite it
The bright side is if you lose it in an an accident, the worst thing is it’d make it weird to wear gloves! You can likely improve speed if you incorporate it into your typing tools repertoire.
I see them here saying that typing method doesn't make a significant difference in speed, but then they showed extremely slow typists (46 WPM and 75 WPM) to prove their point. Here's the study that I suggest - get a group consisting only of competent typists (100 WPM or higher), and test their typing abilities. See how many of them are two-finger typists, and how many of them are touch-typists.
Well, touch typing is not difficult to learn in the first place, besides more than speed touch typing has other benefits such as not looking at the keyboard while typing which in turn reduces the strain on your neck, also using all 9 fingers or 10 in some cases distributes the load and reduces stress on your each individual fingers enabling us to type longer with a consistent speed and accuracy.
I only use two or three fingers and can text very fast. I got really troubled when I discovered that because I've never thought about it. Then I started looking on the internet a way to use all ten fingers because I've come to think that it could be unhealthy to use only two or three fingers in the average. But now I'm kinda relieved that is not only me who types like that. Actually i'm so used on typing with two-three fingers that my left arm aches when I use all 5 fingers for that arm. Any thoughts on that anyone?
0:19 totally disagree. You physically have to reach further for keys using eg 2 fingers (as so many do today). The full hand on the other hand has fingers directly above the full keyboard. Also, maybe the 2-index-finger typists are used to trying to be faster because it's not economical in the first place, so that affects statistics.
for programmer, typing is a very tough progress. Because you have to type some characters very frequently, for example, [ ] { } " - _ = + \ backspace enter. all these key, you must do it with your right little finger. What's more, your left little finger is also tough, whatever code editor you are using, the ctrl key is also a very frequent key you have to press. because it's too slow to press ( you must move your hand to left bottom and then move back). So some programmer exchange the capslock key with ctrl key. The last straw is that your left thumb have to press space key and alt/cmd key to improve efficiency. If you are using vim editor, then you have to press esc key frequently, so some people redefine the capslock key to esc key.
Im a 95 wpm typist (5th grade) I use both of my thumbs and all of the others fingers I use my left thumb for the shift and ctrl because i feeel pretty comfortable xD maybe some of u should try that
You didn't have any fast typists in your representations. I'm ~100 and I know I have a ton of improvement left to go in my technique. There's absolutely no way someone who uses ~2-4 fingers could type as fast as me. Is this considered a truly scientific study because of the format of the experiment?
@Peter Hofmann Don't worry man i have the same problem even after i complete the course in typing club (1 week like 3 hour a day from 2 of january to this day), i think it's natural that we make that type of mistake?, idk but in some cases i press the C with the index finger rather the middle finger ( for example the word "secretary") I can only guess that practice is the key! type all type of words and you will get the rhythm of it!
It's also a laughably small sample size. In the more info link in the description you can find their research publication. In that they said that they only studied 30 people. ~100 people is a small sample size. At 30 people, it's scope is too narrow to draw meaningful conclusions. They might have gotten 'self-taught' typists who were faster than average and touch typists who were slower than average.
@@Jeremy_Fisher Oh. . . I thought the original commenter here was stupid because I thought the video was to point out slow and improper techniques, but then I read it was only 30 people. That's far too few.
I don't know if this happen to anyone else but when I type in self taught way I use like all of my left hand and 3 finger for the right hand and It's fine not the fastest but it's a solid 80wpm But I'm currently learning touch typing and I notice I misstype very often and my speed actually become slower like 50wpm should I even continue?
I use all 4 fingers on my left hand but only my middle finger on my right to type, which is probably because I'm self taught. But I've been typing for a long time and I am a G A M E R so I actually type 112 wpm with this horrible technique and I wish I could fix it to type even faster but I feel like I have specific muscle memory for every different word and I would have to slow down a ton to retrain
You defiantly can't reach higher speeds than 75 with just using 2 fingers. That was my technique, but after I laent how to touch type, my speeds went up by 40+ WPM (106, lol not the best) on a regular rubber dome keyboard.
same here. and i find it's very frustrating to learn new style due to i am using my own self-taught style for over 20 years. any advice or experience to share here?
I want to learn to Touch Type but I found it very uncomfortable & very annoying since when trying to reach certain keys with certain fingers another finger will always end up hitting a key. I find it also very difficult trying to use the pinky for keys since you have to come out of alignment to reach the keys & then realign yourself. Any advice?
when i have spare time, i will open up "keyBR" and learn some touch typing. but when i doing my usual stuff like surfing the net, facebooking some games, youtubing, bla bla.. i use my old self-taugh style of typing because it's damn fast. i hope to learn new thing (touch typing) but only when i feel like i have good mood in doing so, which i do not have most of the time. the last time i open keyBR to learn touch typing is 4-5 months ago. hahaha.
Y’all weird for not using your pinkies. It’s easy to press 1, Q, A, Z, Shift, Enter, Ctrl/Command etc. I hope you learn how to use it because it has really helped me
interesting, I have been told that I type to hard but to me its just natural. I don't use all my fingers when typing, but im still average. yes im on here bc i felt somewhat insecure about not using all my fingers when typing so naturally im gonna youtube it and see if there is more than one way of typing and well yep there is.
I have been typing all my life and I found many times during this time, I have never found any typist using 2 fingers to go above 50wpm.. you need 10 fingers to cross the 100 barrier and the rhythm which their research never mentioned.
I also depends on the task that you're trying to solve while typing. I'm a touch typist, and I feel like the not-having-to-look-aspect is much more valuable than the speed in which I type for example while programming. Or if you're taking notes in a lecture you don't want to be looking down on your keyboard. I also notice that typing takes mental resources, so if you're just re-typing a given text, then you get much higher speeds than when you have to come up with the content of what you're typing at the same time.
That is true and I feel very understated! I feel like jumbled letter are harder for me to type than actual words and sentences that make sense.
This is exactly one of the two most important reasons why I started to learn touch typing: to keep my attention on the screen and to do less mistakes, or when I do them, to correct them more easily without looking at the keyboard. I'm still not very fast, but I'm glad I started to learn this skill. There is another aspect of the learning itself, I believe - activation of this part of the brain which controls mapping of typing to movements and type of imagination connected with that. In this respect, it's a mental excercise.
I don't look at the keyboard whilst I type, even though I only use two fingers for the actual letters. I did the hunt and peck method for so many years I memorized QWERTY and started to use other fingers for the buttons such as backspace, tab and enter.
so the amount of fingers you use doesn't matter? Show me 140wpm with 2 fingers lol
+Maxusy even 90..
I got 103 WPM on typeracer with 2 fingers 98.5% accuracy. though i am God.
Maxusy I can type12,347 wpm with my nose 🐰🐶🐶🐶
Lol! Coming to your own stupid conclusion, classic :D
Maxusy I have a 130 on my profile, and besides for space/shift/backspace I only use my two index fingers :)
Find a sample of people who actually use their keyboard and can actually reach fast speeds (>100 WPM). THEN draw conclusions like "the number of fingers used does not affect typing speed". I'm confident that the majority of this sample will use most, if not all of their fingers. It's fine to assess average typists, but you can't draw any meaningful conclusion on optimal typing technique from them.
What this study did is basically like drawing a conclusion like "the shoes a runner wears does not affect their running speed" by analyzing random pedestrians. A person running with snow boots CAN run as fast as someone wearing running shoes, but give that same person a pair of running shoes and the difference will be significant. Nobody in the Olympics is going to run with boots on.
Yeah, if only I had learned some better form when I was younger, now Im hard stuck 100wpm plateau with my unorthodox “right hand middle finger strictly handles everything on the right including spacebar” and switching up is gonna be hard
@@coolmemesbudd just make the change, i was typing with something similar a year ago at 100wpm and when i started touch typing, i got like 20wpm at first but now i'm at ~120wpm.
thats a really good analogy, sums up this video pretty well
although a bit less common, I have seen videos of people typing 150+wpm using only one finger with their right hand
True. My record is like 170 wpm (on 10ff site) and I don't use pinkys at all. I noticed that people who type >200 wpm use pinkys as well. I can feel that my method is not optimal because sometimes, in certain words, I slow so much, because I need to press few buttons with 1 finger. I'd like to see comparison between for example 150 WPM typists who use both 10 and 8 fingers, and also 200 wpm typers.
"The number of your fingers doesn't affect your typing speed"
okay, let's see how fast can people type with their toes
Is it weird that this is what i found: Typing with Your Toes
Lift your second toe, and only your second toe; place it back down, Lift your third toe, solo, place it back down. Lift each of your toes independently of the others. Practice this every day and in 30 years, you will be able to type with your toes!
Typing with 0 fingers seems like it _could_ affect my speed.
@@anilnkamalakshan ohh thats amazing!! I'll teach it to my grandchildren lmao
Instead of my fingers, I'll use my toes. I'll still type way faster than you.
@Kirill Manenkov That's really all that you need
I'm sure their theories fall off once you get to above average typing speeds.
+Merry According to their study, there were "30 everyday typists, selected to span a wide range of typing performance (from 34 to 79 wpm)". I suspect that anything above 80 would start to require that you touch type (even if you don't use traditional zones for fingers). Before I learned to touch type, I could only get up to 55/60 wpm on 10fastfingers, and I had to keep looking up and down so I was limited. But now I can fairly easily get >100, and I cannot imagine being able to do that while having to look at my fingers all the time.
+Dominic Muller I've found that I actually never use my pinkies for typing at all, and I do a lot of typing and coding fairly often. Never really noticed it though, but I'd say based on the video I'm somewhere between an index finger and middle finger typer. Depending on the test I've found I range from 80-110 WPM, usually the only slipups I end up having are in words that I don't use as often or words that my fingers 'autocorrect' into on accident. My right hand always manages pressing shift or enter, with my left hand taking over for the duration that I'm holding shift. The weird thing is though that I subconsciously look at where my fingers are typing in my peripheral vision, I have to revert to touch typing in the dark or in virtual reality.
+Dominic Muller I don't use my pinky for anything besides really shift and my typing speed is at around 115 or so
they do have a point in that you don't need to use all 10 fingers to type fast.
Merry I average around 115 and peak at 130 using almost solely my index fingers, so I doubt it's necessary to learn to touch-type.
+Pastel Prince
Would you consider making a video of that? I'm really curious what that looks like.
you know its serious business when you see a room with a sign that says “do not disturb, science in progress”
This is very interesting. Having taken a typing class in high school and having a mother who taught typing, ten key, shorthand, and other office skills to adults, it's only natural that I'm a touch typist. It would be interesting to see what the results would be with these various methods if used on a typewriter as opposed to a keyboard.
Therefore, Aalto University teaches us to always look at the keyboard everytime we type...:) :) :) what a great researcher from Aalto University
You can type with less fingers and still not look down.
It's called being a hybrid
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typing#:~:text=typing%20class%2C%201933-,Hybrid,others%20use%203%E2%80%936%20fingers.
This is so cool for a typical typer like me. My daughter is struggling to learn to type and I only then reallized, that I not use the 10 fingers that I learned and practiced for hours upon hours throughout school. I was so slow with that method, and I am so much faster with 6 fingers that I use now.
Touch typing helps you type without looking at the keyboard
If you have any other way you can type without looking at the keyboard, go for it.
But touch typing would be the easiest.
You certainly cannot type with one or two fingers without looking at the keyboard with 100% accuracy.
When you use only one or two fingers you have to move your fingers all the way around the keyboard while using 10 fingers, the movement of fingers is pretty much reduced, and I think that really increases the speed.
I was curious about the "looking down" part, as someone who taught myself (school also tried teaching me, but i definitely dont touch the way they tried teaching me) I dont have to look down at my keyboard ever unless my keys get stuck or something, which nigh ever happens.
I do however have to be able to see the keyboard in my peripheral vision, if im typing with no light i do end up with worse accuracy (although the light from my monitor is usually enough)
If you are trying to go fast, you can't type %100 accuracy with touch-typing either.
Outstanding! This confirms what I suspected for a long time. I really appreciated the professional approach in this video.
You won't catch up to my typing speed when I'm flaming with another gamer during a match.
i think your typing speed depends on how used u are to it like there are some people who used their index and middle fingers to type only and they can type fast because they are so used to it, it is their habit. everyone has their own strategy of typing, it depends on which fingers you prefer to use, which fingers are stronger. the longer u practice typing, the faster you would become. like people who like playing games from a young age, they click the keyboard so many times until it becomes so natural and intuitive
I aggree, I use all of my finger on my left hand but I only use one finger on my right hand. Maybe sometimes I use 2 different finger on my right hand to click enter and backspace but it is really rare thing I do. Maybe %5 percent. I can write -/+225 words in 3 minutes.
Very interesting video! I type with some 5,75-finger system but it's quite fast though.
wew not even a mech keyboard used for this experiment 3/10
+misterhamez Rubber dome keyboards and only people who type with qwerty.
C4103 rt
hahahaaha
9 dimentional : maybe he (c4103) do thing differently. maybe he drive his car at the back seat. modified back seat steering. typical human being. hahaha.
I hate mechanical keyboard, they have so much travel and are generally huge
I seek and destroy with my two pointer fingers. I know some people think that that is slow, and inefficient, but I am pretty deadly with it, and can crank out sentences quick.
when i type i use both of my Index Fingers to type even for spacebar, backspace, shift, etc
I read the paper and in my opinion the conclusion that you can type fast with a smaller amount of fingers is false. When you compare the images shown in Figure 7 and 8, and a table of the most common used characters (which is the base of the DVORAK Layout), you can see that subjects tend to adapt the ten-finger-typing system for their left hands, and mostly just one finger for the right hand. The left hand covers nearly all of the most common used characters. I think this is a prove that the TFT-System is more efficient, and ignoring it for the right hand just does not have any impact on the typing performance due to the insignificancy of the characters covered by it. So people who are self-thought at ten-finger-typing probably subconsciously already knew that and didn't make the effort to learn it, resulting in being as much as efficient as people who learned TFT by the book
I'm right handed, type using mostly only my left hand, and can guarantee you that I type faster than most people, lol. Even since I was a little kid, when people see me type they can't believe how fast my hand is moving lol. It's something I just kind of developed subconsciously. I don't make many mistakes either. My hand floats over the keyboard kind of. I can also do it just as effectively without looking at the keyboard. Though it can become a problem if I'm using something like a laptop keyboard with different spacing and key size, but it generally just means I have to look a bit more until I get used to it.
It would be interesting to see how typing style affects repetitive stress injury. I find that I have less problems now that I touch type.
+Jesper Josefsson This is, because you´ve LEARNED! Sometimes it looks like more and more projects an studys go to: "Don´t need to learn because learning is generally too exhausting and bad."
Sometimes it tastes as: Go the easiest way.
Ideologic lobbying by "laissez faires"?
Touch typing also helps your undeveloped fingers, and the feeling of total control over all your 10 fingers is amazing
Thanks
Yes you are right you know even I did take any typing course and I was chatting with my friends on my keyboard. then after some months, I realised that my typing speed is very high. then I checked it. you know it was 45 words per minute. you might think it is not that first but it is enough for me.
Afterall nice observations of human typing format. I think this will be helpful to people to know some basics that are ignored. Thanks & Regards
1:36 That page shows some folk use the index finger of the right hand a lot, that would become very tired soon, that particular finger. I learned to touch type for fun when I was 13 in 1972 did not have much use for it 'til the Internet was invented and now I am using those very same skills I learned way back them. I can type as fast as someone speaks, when they are thinking what to write ! !
One thing at that school was a recording which said "a now" h now, b now, d now, etc.
I remember that but not much else of that typing school at The Typing Center of New South Wales. - Have A Nice Day..
So 75wpm is the fastest typist you tested? Meh.
Thats my best in one hand! Ha!
75 WPM is slow...
GamingWithIceNova how about 170:D
for you maybe. the average typist types at like 35-40
My best is 150 wpm
This video was cool to watch guys!
This might hold true for slow typist but I'd like to see some data on fast typist e.g based on speeds of 100+ WPM, what percentage of them are touch typist?
I guess once you reach a certain speed, touch typist dominate over non-touch typist
I think it's stupid to not use all fingers while typing. Obviously it's going to be better than using two fingers lol
I actually learned today what touch typing is. I'm a touch typer but only with the left hand, what i mean by that is that i use all fingers of my left hand, and only 2 from my right end (one being for the enter and backward key only). I still have the entire keyboard memorized and never have to look down to it. About typing speed, i test it from times to times, my average speed for typing without efforts is 80 to 95 depending on the words (my main language also has a lot of special characters) and my peak is between 100 and 110. So yeah, complete touch typing must be optimal but i guess to each his own, i've never been able to type with more than 2 fingers from my right hand.
@@thesunryze4658 Your ability to touch type is great! Using more than 2 fingers will likely increase your speed. Touch typing and typing with all fingers doesn't come naturally. It is a skill that you develop over time through practice.
@@TouchedAlot Honestly using all 10 fingers really isn't as important as you think, many of the best typists in the world at like 170wpm+ don't use the perfect way of laying all their fingers on the home row and using all 10 how it's 'best' to do it. Like I'm not the best typist myself I only type like 90-100wpm but I use 3 fingers on my left hand and 2 on my right, and the only thing holding me back is a lack of practice. I don't see why I couldn't get to around 150wpm typing like this if I put the time in but where you have to get to literally 3 words a second to make having more fingers on the keyboard count, I don't think it's a point that needs to be emphasised at all
@@jademwah You don't need to use 10 fingers to type 170wpm+ but the more fingers you use, the easier it is as each finger does less movement.
It may be fastest for people with broken fingers to use less than 10, but learning to using all 10 fingers results in the fastest typing speed for people with 10 working fingers.
I used to cover more keys with my right hand, my "homerow" used to be WASD
I type with 2 or maybe 3 fingers per hand (its so natural I dont notice exactly how many I use) I also look at the keyboard a little but usually for very split seconds. I think Im a fairly fast typer
I use my two fingers to type and I use my thumb for the space bar and I use my right index finger to backspace.
I have a friend who uses only his index and middle finger on each hand to type (even for space he doesn't use his thumb) and he easily manages >100 wpm and can hit 120 pretty often. I have another friend who does the exact same thing and averages 90-100. I only use my left hand for pressing space and shift which is weird because I'm right handed.
You don't use the right part of the keyboard that often so I think it's easier to reach the shift key faster with your left hand
I do the same.... I hope it’s not weird 😔
I use my left hand's index a middle fingers and my right hand's middle finger to type stuff, and the ring finger on the right hand to delete, I haven't practiced it, but I can do around 90wpm at the moment.
I cant handle this guys asmr voice
it doesn't matter how you type as long as you get the job done right and accurately!
You can type fast with 2 fingers, but at what cost!
*Fatigue muscles, consistently looking at keyboard and what not*
All this is only necessary because of QWERTY and the staggered layout. I'm typing with a split ortholinear keyboard and a layout called Neo2 for over four years now and my fingers don't need to move like this at all. Currently I'm learning a new layout that is even more efficient for ortholinear keyboards with thumb shift. I need some time to get back to 60 wpm and more
excellent explanation! great video
And did you let touch typers adjust to the keyboard? If I personally type on a new keyboard it takes me like a day or two before I get to my peak performance. I'd say this is not as big of a problem for non-touch typers as they have a visual aid by watching their fingers...
i use my left hand a little bit tilt on keyboard and it cover more than half keys of keyboard but i found alot of videos on youtube that tell's us about the right position when i started to type with right position its sucks me up and my typing speed become very slow so i compare both positions speed and now i type as i earlier type on keyboard i use my left hand point finger mostly
i type about 80-90 wpm with only 2 fingers per hand lolololol... i am tying to get my wpm to about 130 by the end of the year so i am learning asdf jkl; and tbh, it has actually worked very well!
I compared a couple of people who climbed Everest who had only one leg, with people who climbed Everest with two legs. They both reached the top. So my conclusions is: if you want to climb a mountain you can use one leg instead of two, this doesn't matter.
nailed it
I love how my school mates and teachers are like "Did you take a course?"
did you?
This is Brilliant!!
Nice works, guys.
My typing style is fucking chaotic. I consider my keyboard to have three zones; the left, the right, and the center. The left zone is Q, W, A, S, Z, and X. The right zone is O, P, K, L, M, the comma, and period keys. Everything else is a free-for-all.
If you want a comfortable typing experience, use more fingers. And I still believe that your potential typing speed goes up when you use more fingers.
Hands are always on the WASD keys, I constantly bounce off the key inches in the air moving FAEST.
"The number of fingers does not affect your typing speed" ...said with pride and confidence
I type an average of 80wpm with 6 fingers, 5 being extremely dominant. I seriously doubt I could type any faster tbh, but I do reach the top 20-10 percent just using self taught methods.
I was never taught how to type by anyone just sort of got really used to it over time and I get around 100-130 wpm. One weird thing I do is not use my thumb for space bar. I'm so used to not using my thumb that I actually type slower trying to get my brain to use it.
I average in the 90-120 range with 2 fingers , and now that im used to it on a laptop, it feels weird to get a keyboard since it's on like different levels and the the way the keycaps are on the laptops versus keyboard ones but I know there is those flat keycaps I'm just trying to the find the right keyboard.
Nice research appreciate the work ❤
What she said correct 100%, I use all 10 fingers and my colleague use only two finger , he type much faster then me , my typing speed is 70wpm
So I don't understand all those comments questioning what the researcher about the factor of number of fingers used in typing. He obviously meant that it is not the only factor that determines the outcome. There are several other factors involved in that.
I type at 55-80 wpm (96% accuracy) using both of my pointer fingers.
I don't know why but before I was taking typing in elementary I already learned to type the way I do so I never corrected. I don't use my left index finger at all, it just hangs in the air above all the keys. It looks weird but I still type super fast despite it
The bright side is if you lose it in an an accident, the worst thing is it’d make it weird to wear gloves!
You can likely improve speed if you incorporate it into your typing tools repertoire.
I see them here saying that typing method doesn't make a significant difference in speed, but then they showed extremely slow typists (46 WPM and 75 WPM) to prove their point.
Here's the study that I suggest - get a group consisting only of competent typists (100 WPM or higher), and test their typing abilities. See how many of them are two-finger typists, and how many of them are touch-typists.
You must touch type if you want to be one of the top typists
Well, touch typing is not difficult to learn in the first place, besides more than speed touch typing has other benefits such as not looking at the keyboard while typing which in turn reduces the strain on your neck, also using all 9 fingers or 10 in some cases distributes the load and reduces stress on your each individual fingers enabling us to type longer with a consistent speed and accuracy.
admitted my hands sit on ASD from too much unreal tournament, but I managed 140WPM last time I did a test.
I only use two or three fingers and can text very fast. I got really troubled when I discovered that because I've never thought about it. Then I started looking on the internet a way to use all ten fingers because I've come to think that it could be unhealthy to use only two or three fingers in the average. But now I'm kinda relieved that is not only me who types like that. Actually i'm so used on typing with two-three fingers that my left arm aches when I use all 5 fingers for that arm. Any thoughts on that anyone?
Why are so much of the keyboards “blank” as in they don’t know what finger they used for those certain keys??
Iput my finger on WASF and Shift(Left hand) and jkl; (right hand)
I type with 6-8 fingers, I rarely use my pinkies because they are much weaker than the rest of my hand.
for the record my typing speed is 105wpm
0:19 totally disagree. You physically have to reach further for keys using eg 2 fingers (as so many do today). The full hand on the other hand has fingers directly above the full keyboard. Also, maybe the 2-index-finger typists are used to trying to be faster because it's not economical in the first place, so that affects statistics.
I dont use my pinkies. And sometimes i use my middle finger for the O key instead of my ring finger
Touch typing is fastest. Nothing comes closer.
Provided person knows how to touch type.
for programmer, typing is a very tough progress. Because you have to type some characters very frequently, for example, [ ] { } " - _ = + \ backspace enter.
all these key, you must do it with your right little finger.
What's more, your left little finger is also tough, whatever code editor you are using, the ctrl key is also a very frequent key you have to press. because it's too slow to press ( you must move your hand to left bottom and then move back). So some programmer exchange the capslock key with ctrl key.
The last straw is that your left thumb have to press space key and alt/cmd key to improve efficiency.
If you are using vim editor, then you have to press esc key frequently, so some people redefine the capslock key to esc key.
Daniel Daniel i can relate to that, 10 finger typing is ineficcient for coding.
Im a 95 wpm typist (5th grade)
I use both of my thumbs and all of the others fingers
I use my left thumb for the shift and ctrl because i feeel pretty comfortable xD maybe some of u should try that
Cool, I am a 128 WPM typist (at best so far) (5th grade)
You didn't have any fast typists in your representations. I'm ~100 and I know I have a ton of improvement left to go in my technique. There's absolutely no way someone who uses ~2-4 fingers could type as fast as me. Is this considered a truly scientific study because of the format of the experiment?
I need to show my computer teacher this video
All I know is that I type o and a using my ring fingers, and I also don’t use my thumbs, typing at 100 wpm.
Slow speeds and lack of proper technique seem to bias the study...
@Peter Hofmann Don't worry man i have the same problem even after i complete the course in typing club (1 week like 3 hour a day from 2 of january to this day), i think it's natural that we make that type of mistake?, idk but in some cases i press the C with the index finger rather the middle finger ( for example the word "secretary")
I can only guess that practice is the key! type all type of words and you will get the rhythm of it!
@Peter Hofmann Qwerty, Azerty and Qwertz are almost the same and are all stupid… try dvorak or something like that.
It's also a laughably small sample size. In the more info link in the description you can find their research publication. In that they said that they only studied 30 people. ~100 people is a small sample size. At 30 people, it's scope is too narrow to draw meaningful conclusions. They might have gotten 'self-taught' typists who were faster than average and touch typists who were slower than average.
@@Jeremy_Fisher Oh. . . I thought the original commenter here was stupid because I thought the video was to point out slow and improper techniques, but then I read it was only 30 people. That's far too few.
I wanted more.
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Im a index typisr and im trying to use 10 fingers
Great , thank you
I don't know if this happen to anyone else but when I type in self taught way I use like all of my left hand and 3 finger for the right hand and It's fine not the fastest but it's a solid 80wpm
But I'm currently learning touch typing and I notice I misstype very often and my speed actually become slower like 50wpm should I even continue?
for average speed which format is adopting
this is so helpful now i can type better and type faster in roblox!!
You're not going to type over 120wpm with one or two fingers per hand. So 'pretty fast' is relative here.
I type with my index fingers basically all the time.
I use all 4 fingers on my left hand but only my middle finger on my right to type, which is probably because I'm self taught. But I've been typing for a long time and I am a G A M E R so I actually type 112 wpm with this horrible technique and I wish I could fix it to type even faster but I feel like I have specific muscle memory for every different word and I would have to slow down a ton to retrain
I use right index on h key, anyone know what thats called
You defiantly can't reach higher speeds than 75 with just using 2 fingers. That was my technique, but after I laent how to touch type, my speeds went up by 40+ WPM (106, lol not the best) on a regular rubber dome keyboard.
I use my 2 fingers on each hand to type and I type pretty fast. But I'm practicing using all ten right now.
same here. and i find it's very frustrating to learn new style due to i am using my own self-taught style for over 20 years. any advice or experience to share here?
@@vincevengeance9755 Any updates? Do you still use two fingers?
Index fingers only, around 80-90wpm
I typed this with one finger in under one second.
Did they study dvorak vs qwerty vs maltron vs others… ?
Did they study Stupid vs Ortholinear key placement?
What if several keys are under each thumb?
I was looking for the same answers
Can you type faster than talking? To your keyboard?
Imagine using one finger and type just over 80++ words per minute. That's would be amazing
wonderful
Thanks for help
I want to learn to Touch Type but I found it very uncomfortable & very annoying since when trying to reach certain keys with certain fingers another finger will always end up hitting a key. I find it also very difficult trying to use the pinky for keys since you have to come out of alignment to reach the keys & then realign yourself. Any advice?
JLCodes Same situation man. This is getting frustrating, I'm considering giving up.
when i have spare time, i will open up "keyBR" and learn some touch typing. but when i doing my usual stuff like surfing the net, facebooking some games, youtubing, bla bla.. i use my old self-taugh style of typing because it's damn fast. i hope to learn new thing (touch typing) but only when i feel like i have good mood in doing so, which i do not have most of the time. the last time i open keyBR to learn touch typing is 4-5 months ago. hahaha.
Y’all weird for not using your pinkies. It’s easy to press 1, Q, A, Z, Shift, Enter, Ctrl/Command etc. I hope you learn how to use it because it has really helped me
Currently Im learning touch typing, and also I am writting this comment with touch typing
Thankx Bro
interesting, I have been told that I type to hard but to me its just natural. I don't use all my fingers when typing, but im still average. yes im on here bc i felt somewhat insecure about not using all my fingers when typing so naturally im gonna youtube it and see if there is more than one way of typing and well yep there is.
I have been typing all my life and I found many times during this time, I have never found any typist using 2 fingers to go above 50wpm.. you need 10 fingers to cross the 100 barrier and the rhythm which their research never mentioned.
Penguin typer can type over 120 with two fingers
Thanks.
Nice video mam thanks
Hey i am using typing Master pro so i can type faster,,,,
1:21 Mine is the same as the one in the top right corner