That said, her team does offer up three tips for those who want to speed up their typing: The basic gist of Feit's research? If you're happy with how fast you type, don't find yourself making significant errors, and are able to get by, there's probably no need to learn the ten-finger touch typing system. "We were surprised to observe that people who took a typing course performed at similar average speed and accuracy as those that taught typing to themselves and only used 6 fingers on average," said doctoral candidate Anna Feit in a statement. In fact, they found that people using only five fingers could type just as fast as those using the traditional ten-finger touch typing method.įeit and her team used motion capture to track each individual finger as it moved around the keyboard. A new study from Aalto University says it's not the number of fingers we use while typing, but how we use them. Luckily, science is here to help me feel better about about my janky typing methods. I rarely rest my middle finger on the home keys, my right hand jumps way over into the left side of the keyboard at will, and my ring finger rides the pine during the all this, doing nothing but watching as all the other fingers get all the glory. I can get along at a pretty respectable 80 words per minute, but I just never picked up the habit of ten-finger touch typing.Įven as I type this article right now, I'm really only using my thumb, index, and middle finger of each hand as I type, with my right pinky occasionally flaring out to hit return and my left pinky hitting the shift key when I need to capitalize something. Here's an embarrassing fact: I mainly use about six fingers to type, despite years of home key drilling and touch typing skill tests in my middle school Business Tech classes.
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