how many fingers do you use to type ?

[olddots]

I'm up to 2 fingers .

[Agschmid]

1. 2 I only hunt and peck, buy I do it fast!

[Sekhmets Daughter]

2. Sometimes my typing looks like I am using 35!

all tripping over each other

[lunatica]

3. 9 which is all the fingers used.

The left thumb is rarely used. Usually the right thumb is used on the space key.

[Moondog]

4. All of them. Not that it helps.

Fortunately, my livelihood never was dependent upon my keyboarding skills.

[ZombieHorde]

5. Nine.

I generally don't use my right thumb for the space bar.

[cantbeserious]

6. One

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[whistler162]

7. I am a graduate from the Huntnpeck school of typing

so use two fingers. Buy, after 30 years of computer work from Mainframes to PC's I am fairly fast.

[Lisa0825]

8. 4, but 2 of them 90% of the time.

I hunt and peck at 43wpm. Not bad for not doing it right, IMO!

[LiberalEsto]

9. 2

at one time it was 4 to 6

[talkingmime]

10. Ten and I'm up over 80wpm again.

[olddots]

11. I'm up to minus 12 words a minute

I've been looking for a typing class and a computer class for 10 years that is within 40 minutes from where we live but its L.A. where it takes 40 minutes to drive 6 miles sometimes.

[NV Whino]

12. Depends on which ones are working

Used to be a touch typist, but nerve damage has reduced me to hunt and peck... Or having Siri type it for me.

[Iggo]

13. 3-4, depending on how long I've been at it.

Right index and middle finger, left index finger. I can get ripping pretty good, too. If I'm going at a decent clip, the left middle finger joins in!

EDIT: I forgot. I use my right thumb for zero on the number pad. So 4-5.

[In_The_Wind]

14. 4

thumb plus fingers 1 through 3.
That damned pinky sticks itself up in the air all the time.

[nolabear]

15. I do what used to be called journalism typing.

Four to six fingers but I'm fast as a mofo. And I can type without looking as long as I don't think about it.

[Mnpaul]

16. None

on this computer. It is a tablet. I use the stylus.

[mokawanis]

17. Six

I don't use my pinkies or thumbs.

[MiddleFingerMom]

18. Depends on my posture, needs, etc. -- anywhere from 2-10 (usually somewhere between 2-7).

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I used to be a 10-finger touch typist and at one point tested at 55 wpm (I was a "Kelly Girl"
for a while). The examiner DID say that she had never seen anyone during a test with zero
mistakes before (I would correct/edit on-the-fly).
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Now, I have to look (for much of the process) and go back and edit on-the-fly OFTEN.
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[Honeycombe8]

19. All 10. Not at the same time, though. nt

[Manifestor_of_Light]

20. Nine, like you are supposed to.

I took one semester of typing in high school, loathed manuals, switched to an IBM b/c my mother was a legal secretary, and never looked back, getting faster.

My land speed record is on a computer test. I jammed IBMs with type bars and selectrics. In 1999 I took a computer test and made a score of 115 words per minute, going back and correcting it so it was perfect!!



My secret? Twelve years of piano lessons.

[cbrer]

21. Fingers?

Being a man has its advantages...

Multi-tasking while "typing" is easy!

[SteveG]

22. 8 fingers and two thumbs

My parents made me take typing when I was in 9th grade back in the 60's, one of two guys in a classroom full of girls - saved me bundles in college, and made my transition to being a Computer Geek real easy.

[Populist_Prole]

23. 3 or 4. I can't type without looking, and my sh!tty ( cheap ) keyboard causes me to fix many errors

I had to take typing in 8th grade, and I got to the point I could type without looking....on a manual typewriter no less, but no matter how I tried I never got better than 15 words/minute. Of course I never had to or did need to type for 15 years after that and I completely forgot what I learned.

I can type probably 10 words per minute, but my keyboard makes me back up and fix errors, which slows things down. Biggest problem is a lazy shift key where if I don't hold it for a full second it won't "take" and then I have to go back and re-capitalize everything that I'm supposed to, and a numeric "0" key that needs to be hit with a sharp BANG to make it take.

Sucks to tend toward wordiness when I can't type for shit.................

[triguy46]

24. 8 fingers, 1 thumb

The left thumb must be an evolutionary vestige. One thing I've noticed about these computer thingies and how much we use them is how good one's keyboarding skills become. I have learned to do numbers without looking.

On a side note, but definitely related, in 1965 I took "typing" as a one semester class as a 9th grader. The keys on the typewriters were all blank. It was called touch typing. Looking was of no benefit.

[femmocrat]

25. All of them, I think. Maybe not the left thumb.

I type faster than my brain can spell, so I make a lot of mistakes.

I took typing in junior high. It was one of the most useful courses I ever took.

[2theleft]

26. I just had to type a sentence to see if I used my left thumb.

Nope. It's totally worthless. Just hangs out while all the other fingers and the right thumb do all of the work. I think I remember in typing class that if your last letter of the word was on the right hand you were supposed to space with the left thumb, but evidently that never stuck.

I can type about 90 wpm if I have to type A LOT...Generally, probably around 60 and that includes fixing mistakes.

[LeftInTX]

27. 8 - And usually my right thumb on the space bar

[LiberalFighter]

28. When I'm not eating lunch on Sunday all of them plus my thumbs.

Otherwise, just 2 or 3 on the my left hand.

[PoliticAverse]

29. Only as many as necessary. n/t

[Incitatus]

30. 8 nt

[AsahinaKimi]

31. All of them..

I loved typing class in High School.. It was something I looked forward to.

[harmonicon]

32. Nine, I guess.

I suppose I don't really think about it too much. I'm pretty sure that I'm not exactly doing it the "right way," though I did learn the right way at some point.

[grasswire]

33. all ten -- touch typing is a magical thing

I don't have to think about spelling, or about hitting any individual letters. Whatever I think, I type and it just flows. It's an amazing phenomenon.

Thank you, high school typing teacher!

[ConcernedCanuk]

34. All 8 fingers, and both thumbs

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took typing in high school where the typewriters had NO letters on the keys

ponder that!!

[Rhiannon12866]

35. Just one! And I typed for years for my job... ;)

[In_The_Wind]

36. Wow!

And you do it so well!

[Rhiannon12866]

37. Thanks! And I'm pretty fast!

And, unlike the "real" typists I've seen, I rarely make typos...

[In_The_Wind]

38. I seriously had no idea. I've missed you.

Back in MIRT you were so quick and accurate.
The only edits that I saw were work related. Changing the OP to show consensus.

I wish that PMs still had spell check.

[Rhiannon12866]

39. Oh, me too! I always use spell check, just in case, LOL.

On my other computer, some of the letters have worn off, so I do tend to make typos if I use it.

I've missed you, too, am usually asleep by this hour.

[In_The_Wind]

41. I'm usually up before dawn.

It is the late night hours that are getting to me.
I usually spend time writing PMs.

I am so glad that my brain was clear enough to post in LBN over the weekend.
I found what I was looking for.
You might want to take a quick look at pages one and two in My Journal.
You'll see what I an talking about.

[LWolf]

40. 10. nt

[Bertha Venation]

42. Nine.

[sarge43]

43. All of them and no looking at the board.

Two decades as a gov't bureaucrat

[goodthanksandyou]

44. sdfesdfe cxdslsdefl dxlsda;;

Translated, that means "I use my fists".

[susanr516]

45. 9 out of 10

I almost never use the left thumb. Learned on a manual computer in high school many years ago--but I still strike the keys much harder than necessary, especially the space bar. People often joke that the space bar must have made me angry.

[Demoiselle]

46. All of them. Touch typing course in high school. Very useful.

[KamaAina]

47. Twelve

[Wait Wut]

48. I swear I'm not laughing at you.

[Orrex]

49. 20. But half aren't fingers.

21 if I'm typing in the buff.

[Demo_Chris]

50. Trying this now just to see....

It seems I use them all except the ring fingers on each hand.

[FBaggins]

51. one at a time

they take turns.

[bigwillq]

52. 10 (nt)

[Still Blue in PDX]

53. Eight fingers and one thumb. nt

[Neoma]

54. All 10, but only my thumb on my iPhone.

I type very fast actually...it's definitely a skill I could get a job with if needed.

[4_TN_TITANS]

55. Alll of them...

Last time I was tested could do about 60 words a minute, I know I've slowed down some.

[hunter]

56. All of them.

For some reason I use my left thumb too, but now that I'm thinking about it trying to discern the pattern, my fingers are stumbling all over the place. But both sides of the space key are worn, the right side a little more.

My mom used to be a world-class typist before arthritis slowed her down. I remember her transcribing tapes of radio shows without pausing. As fast as anyone talked, she typed. She knows shorthand too and can transcribe from that as well.

In high school I'd be typing term papers --- plunk, plunk, plunk, late at night --- and it would make her crazy. She'd say, "Oh, let me do that!" then she'd sit down and burrrrrrrrrrrr the paper would be done, just like that, with no mistakes, and much prettier than the cut and paste and liquid paper monstrosities I typed myself in college.

I can type as fast as I think; not very fast at all, actually.

[bike man]

57. All of them. Took a typing class at a jr college at age 55. Got my age (55 cwpm)

on the final.

edited add: Cannot get my current age (70)