oxygenate the metals you say?
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One problem I can see with oxygenating your metals in the presence of radiation is that you might inadvertently start a cold fusion reaction.
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Is it weird that I don’t really know how to type? I just tried to do it correctly and had to look at the keyboard 5 times to type the previous sentence. I probably hit the backspace key more times than every other one combined.
Is there any benefit to me learning to do it the right way? I can type plenty fast, I just need to look down instead of up.
I program for a living and I can’t type properly, I use only my thumbs, index fingers and ring fingers. I can still type at an adequate 60wpm.
zikzak, just keep trying to do it without looking down. I used to have to look at the keyboard as well. I found that I was gradually able to look at the keyboard less and less, your brain learns to stay oriented to it without looking. The gaps between looking at the keyboard eventually became larger to the point where I don’t have to look at all anymore. I think learning to type properly at this age would be tough and not provide a huge amount of marginal benefit.
My roommate met her IRL and couldn’t stop going on and on about how she was the most beautiful woman she’d ever seen.
I add in my middle finger - never use ring finger or pinky - hybrid of a typing class in jr high.
I don’t need to look at my fingers. But I have to see the letters coming out on the screen as I type or I immediately completely forget how to type. Search boxes like Firefox that show up on the far bottom of the screen are my kryptonite. I feel like I’m just spewing random letters into the dark void.
I just tried this (just looking off to the side at nothing) and typed “the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog” twice accurately except that the second time for some reason I typed “lazy god” which I kind of prefer. It felt weird though.
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I’m typing random garbage by the 3rd letter if I can’t see what’s coming out on the screen as I type.
Can you type long passwords? ****************
I can do around 80wpm. Almost never look at the keyboard. I tend to look at the screen but don’t need to, useful for transcribing. But there must be some visual element to it, because it all goes to hell in the dark, can barely find the spacebar. It’s weird.
Some of my passwords are > 30 characters long. I’m about 50/50 to get it right on the first try.
No I hate that shit. I like to look at them. If the browser allows it I always click the little eyeball. But also passwords are something I type a lot so I get used to it.
What is the “wrong way?” Is there a typing police that is giving you warnings about how you type or something? My understanding, and I’m not a lawyer, is that any number of fingers from 1 - 10 used to get content into the keyboard without hurting yourself, others, or the keyboard is considered “typing.”
Do you want to type faster or something? If you want to get better at no look typing practice no look typing. Get a book and something to prop it up and type it without looking at the screen. Start with a paragraph and increase as needed. That’s what we did in 7th grade listening to Journey when I learned to type. Or play around on http://typing.works
Without looking it up, I’m going to guess you would know the Latin word for dog even if you hadn’t taken those classes.
Looked it up. I was 1 letter off.
Never took Latin, but it’s just “canis”, right?
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I have been meaning to learn Latin for so long. Bought Wheelock’s and everything, just too lazy. If only I suddenly had an unexpectedly large amount of distraction-free spare time…
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In one of my middle school classes they taught us typing and damn if that wasn’t one of the most useful things I learned in middle school.
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Publishing my guess before looking - I swear.
Canis.
edit: Yes! (I swear, no cheating)
Did you guess ‘canid’?
My Mom made me take typing as an elective in HS b/c she thought it was my path to the “good life” (job as a secretary before getting my MRS degree). Didn’t help me find a good man, but sure has made hammering out legal briefs a lot less painful, so I guess she was still right.
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