Has Your Typing / Keyboarding Slowed Down Significantly?

Good gosh yes, and I blame my phone! While working I had my fingers on a keyboard daily and was decently proficient. These days about everything I do is on my phone and I've developed a one finger approach to typing, so on the ocassion I open my laptop I am searching and poking one key at a time. It's kind of pathetic, I'd be embarrased to have someone watch me.lol
 
Yep, and it's gotten worse since I broke my right ring finger. Who knew how involved one finger is when it comes to typing.

I also have the bad habit of thinking ahead of what I'm typing and end up with some pretty weird sentences. 🤪
 
C50 said:
Good gosh yes, and I blame my phone! While working I had my fingers on a keyboard daily and was decently proficient. These days about everything I do is on my phone and I've developed a one finger approach to typing, so on the ocassion I open my laptop I am searching and poking one key at a time. It's kind of pathetic, I'd be embarrased to have someone watch me.lol
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I still can't do the one finger thing with any accuracy or speed.
 
Hadn't learned typing in school, so I was self-taught later. Although freelance writing was my main way of earning money for 20 years or so, I've never been a great touch typist, and my mind has moved faster than my fingers. Hence, I've always splashed my thoughts out quickly, then gone over the result and cleaned it up and improved it.

Unfortunately, I still sometimes post something here on SF that, when I look it over later, needs an "edit".

I do use a lot of fingers. Back in the late '80s/early '90s, big public events often had online-computer rooms for journalists with assignments from newspapers or magazines. I used to see some other guys using a slow two-finger typing approach! Well, the main thing was always just: get the facts and tell the story.🤷‍♂️
 
Gosh, I just realized how antiquated I am. There weren’t typing classes in high school unless you were in the secretarial stream. I didn’t have typing classes until I went into a college business program after I’d graduated from university. Back then we were taught to hit the keys firmly with the tip of our fingers. There weren’t electric typewriters.
 
When i worked i did data entry! Now i need a stylus to type. I only ue a tablet but don't want to have a separate keyboars. It helpsbto have a yellow keyboard instead of the normalbone but my brain is slower than my stylus! Lol. See? I didn't check for errors before posting!
 
Yeah, I've definitely slowed down, but it could just be that I'm out of practice. I used to have to type eight or more hours a day... well, maybe not that much, but I had to type at work, so I got pretty good at it and fast.

Now I only have to type for emails or forums such as SF, and that's not very much, so I've lost some of my speed. I can still type okay, though.

I can't type worth a damn on my phone with my thumbs, though. I tend to rely on the word suggestions that appear under the text box.
 
My parents got me a very good portable typewriter for my 16th birthday and it came in handy in college....making money.

I typed papers for the guys in the dorm for pay. Not a one of them had learned to type, so there I was. Quite often, I had to have them standing there so I could ask, "What is  that word???". Bad handwriting. Very bad.
 

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