Aspies For Freedom

Ever since I got my first type writer 20+ years ago I've only used the pointing finger of my right hand to type. Sometimes I use the thumb of my left hand to press down the capital letter tangent. A long ago I used to sit in a little library at the folkhighschool I went to and type out my poetry and one time somebody commented on my typing, saying I seemed to be a very fast, but when I said that I type with one finger they thought I was joking and refused to believe me. They hadn't seen my typing, I should add, because I would stop when I heard somebody approaching the room where I sat.

How do you type?

i usually type with my index fingers to hit the keys cause it's easier than using all the fingers. sometimes i use other fingers for the extra stuff [i.e. backspace, shift, num pad] and i'm pretty fast at it.

btw, the "home row" technique really irritates me. can never actually get it down. have to CONSTANTLY look for the keys i'm looking for. ><

I used to only use one finger but not anymore. Clicking shift was alot easier when I used all of my ten fingers.

I type using all of my fingers, but I don't keep them in a normal position on the keyboard; also, I can type without looking at the keyboard at all (not even through my peripheral vision). I think I have it memorized or something. I don't always do it that way, but it's a useful skill.

I'm the same...I mostly use my index fingers, occasionally other fingers…my head if I become particularly frustrated lol.

I touch-type. Sometimes I start in the wrong place smf rbrtuyjomh ;ppld gimmu [and everything looks funny].

I usually know where they are without looking though, and the letters on many of my keyboard keys on my laptop have rubbed off anyway!

I look at the keyboard when I type but I don't actually look at what are on the keys I just sort of know what they are, yet if I look away from the keyboard I can't type at all. I use the index fingers of both of my hands to type.

I use gel wrist rests for that, it's quite handy

I have a sure fire way of learning to use "Home Row"  Be forced to take it by the school because you have an ld and it will benifit you more than taking a clasical language your freshman year.  Have the posibliity of it changing your 4.2 gpa.  Know that your failing, have the keys covered up, and your teacher constantly repating asdfjkl; in a rather iritating rhythem that you can still hear three years later.  It works wonderfully.  It also helps that the make it so that it dose not destroy your grade point average.

Techniques just don't work for me. Well, other peoples' techniques, anyway. I have to do stuff and do it the way that feels natural.

I sort of rest my fingers on either side of the "letter" part of the keyboard. I tend to move my right hand around a lot and i use my index and middle finger of the left hand and the index finger only of my right hand. My left pinkie is always reserved for tthe  shift button and i hit the space key with my left thumd. Also, i type REAL fast. the only keys i ever really hit with my left hand depends on where my right hand is, but i think the reason behind my left hands relatively static position is the fact that i am at my core a gamer, and thus i am used to having my right hand on the mouse whilst having my left hand on the WASD keys

I type with four fingers: the index and middle finger of my left, and the index and middle finger of my right.

I was trained on the home row technique.  Four years of school where I hid out in the computer lab most of my free time and practiced typing over and over.  Thing is that I don't return to the home row when I type because if I did that I wouldn't be nearly as fast as I am.  So I kind of start on it but my hands do not return to it.

When I'm having more trouble moving I type one-fingered or close to it (or sometimes one-handed), and when I'm having wrist trouble I type on an on-screen keyboard with head tracking (there is free software to do that, all it takes is having a webcam) or with a set of switches.

Fuck the home row technique. It's too complicated for it to be integrated into my instincts, okay?

I'm one of those weirdos who let their fingers fly all over the keyboard as they please. My mom isn't fond of this, however. But she's a computer programmer, and I'm an artist, so I don't give a damn how I type.

I only type with four, maybe six fingers: the index and middle fingers of both of my hands, my left middle finger less often. I use my right ring finger and middle finger together to hit the enter key and the delete button. I use my left ring finger and middle finger together to hit shift, control, and Apple Command.

I've always hated mandatory keyboarding classes. They were a living hell for me. USE THE HOME ROW! USE THE HOME ROW!!!!!!!!! Once, I saw this tedious keyboarding program that was simply just a bunch of repeating letters over and over and over and over, like "asdfjkl;lklkljfjfjasddkdkd" etc etc. You had to copy these for the entire class. I swear to god it was a conspiracy to hypnotize all the students in the classroom and make a zombie army out of them.