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What's your WPM? Today I did a test and got 44. (www.typing.com)

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According to google that's the global average and yeah that tracks. I never learned how to type "proper", I have a method where I use my thumb, pointer, and middle finger, rather than all 5 on each hand, with my pointer fingers doing most of the work.

Freeform/Hybrid: Using a mix of touch typing and visual searching. People usually develop this naturally for maximum comfort.

According to google.

I've always been jelly of people who can do perfect touch typing with all 10 fingers.

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[–] RondoRevolution@hexbear.net 2 points 18 hours ago

We have typing enjoyers here? HELL YEAG! It's been a while since I practiced but I was somewhere between 90-105 WPM iirc. Honestly I don't really want to get much better with QWERTY, maybe 120 WPM would be a good goal, but I think it's much better to learn an alternate layout, there are a bunch of layouts that are very new and have better ergonomics and stats once you learn it. I was learning a NRTS-HAEI layout called Lucens which is a custom version of Gallium iirc that I found on the Alt Keyboard Layouts Discord server. I still have it setup on my PC with Kanata (layout customizer software) but it has been a while since I used it.

I've always been jelly of people who can do perfect touch typing with all 10 fingers.

You can learn! It's not that hard to learn proper touch typing, I remember having kinda the same type of typing you describe and years ago just decided to properly learn it, tho I usually only use my left thumb, not the right one and it's something I have to get better at.