How fast can you type?

This from Cognitive Daily: How does the way you type affect your typing speed? There's a link to a typing speed test, and then a survey to catalogue your quirks.

I clocked in at 63 wpm, and no errors. I am way quirky in how I type. I am not a touch-typist; I have to look at the keyboard. I almost never use my right index finger, but then I chopped off the tip of it when I was a kid. I learned to type as a kid too, on a typewriter (probably the last generation to learn that way), self-taught. I worked my way through a "Teach Yourself How To Type" book when I was maybe 9 or 10, but I never really did it right. I don't rest my fingers on A-S-D-F and J-K-L-;. I just pound away. I have always done most of my writing, from grade school on, on either a typewriter or a keyboard. My handwriting has deteriorated to the point where I can barely read it.

Comments

[Jeff Henderson]

I actually learned how to touch type correctly in Jr. high School and can do it quite well, (and without peeking). Unfortunately I am a horrible speller, so my WPM score is probably lower than it would be otherwise. I'm really thankful for spell checkers! I am also a Mechanical Engineer and most of the writing I do for my job is printing. As a result of printing occasionally and typing almost everything else, I too can barely write cursive any more. The only place I actually write in cursive is my signature and when I write checks. It’s refreshing to see my 9-year-old daughter learning to print neatly and write in cursive. Her school doesn’t allow any work to be typed, at least in 3rd grade. I believe they start letting them type assignments in 5 or 6th grade. I guess computers have done to the art or writing, what digital cameras & ink jet printers have done the art of film processing and dark room print making. It’s been a very long time since I’ve done both of those either.