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Well...I can pull my finger off the table...but uh...not very high..it is minimal at best...and Craig`s test...not even if I pulled at it with my other hand...it is FIRMLY planted on the desk!

My feeling...you may not have been MADE for typing...but anyone can be taught or reprogrammed to achieve an average success at it. For me...it just took gradually building up over time. I took the time to type things from my head...knowing this is where I am stronger and faster. So I would type my jounral out in word...or I would write letters in Word...and this allowed my brain and fingers to work together...much like typing here in this forum. I am not forced to try to think about what I am typing and instead just allow my mind and my hands to work together...as extensions of each other...much as a pen works when you write. If I have to copy something...I slow it down a bit...but over time I have gotten faster at that because my mind is getting more use to just allowing my hands to be an extension of what it is thinking.

I think the hardest part is getting my BRAIN to slow down to the speed my hands can handle...and that does on occasion create cramping...cuz my brain works WAY too fast! If it were me...I would just say...focus on typing things already in your head...work on allowing your hands to just move...don`t think about them as much as you are thinking about what you are trying to type (if that makes any sense). Listen to what you are thinking about and not what your fingers are doing....mine seem to just go where they need to when I do this. And yes...find your own style...allow your fingers to do what is natural to THEM and you will probably find better results....at the very least...more comfortable results!  

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Leah Tucker

I tried your test and can put up my ring finger with the other fingers still in contact. I have been typing   70 - 80 words per minute accuracy since  being an teenager.

  vcalibur@netzero.com

I am a Mavis Bacon Teaches Typing student here. I couldn`t type at all prior to Mavis, except one finger at a time. Now I am at about 40 words per minute for transferring copy, but slightly higher for typing from my head.

Just wait a few more years and all computers will come standard with speech recognition software and you will need to order a keyboard as an accessory!


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Vincent Wilcox (a.k.a. KRAKR)
Drummer
My band: Letters Make Words

:-D Okay...I`ve actually been LOOKING at what I do with my fingers because of this vershlugginer thread! (Anyone who lives nearby to Degrees, over and smack him-or-her around a bit!) 

The issue isn`t about lifting the finger. In fact, that will cause you to tire out more quickly. Instead, you lift the knuckle-part of the hand and shift it in minute increments toward the letter "set" you`re reaching for. The fingers should keep a smooth curve all the time, with the wrist and hand making the big moves along, up, and down, the keyboard.

It`s like playing the piano. You want to keep the curl of the fingers pretty much the same, as much of the time as you can. I don`t lift my ring finger more than about 1/4" at a time, and I type about 80wpm.

Well yes Craig, I`m fairly certain that my test is bunk, after reading all the responses there seems to no actual conclusion, but thats a result, so the experiment was a success for me. 

My first idea of watching people type ... was somewhat on track, and you did that for me! Thanks!
I like your explanation, and the part about the `lift the knuckle-part`.

I did spend some time looking up `vershlugginer`, but had no success.
did you mean `fershlugginer`, or was that a typo 

Yes, it would`ve likely been fershlugginer, but my Grandmother on my mother`s side was German, and the influence on my accent was handed down genetically, I think.
:-D

I`ve been typing for years and have only tested up to 40WPM....and I am a writer......commercial writer.....I guess that some folk have the knack for something and some don`t. I just kinda go with the flow of how I am sitting....

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