Do you type your answers quickly by touch typing, or does it take you a while?

I learnt typing many years ago and am still very fast at touch typing so do not need to look at the keys.

It comes naturally to me as I was a secretary who did shorthand and typing at an advanced level before I entered the work place.

Answers do not therefore take me long to type.

by Finy

Touch type. LOL, I couldn't imagine how long it would take to type an answer using one finger! LOL.

by Vee

I never learned typing at school,so I have had to teach myself to type. I still only use 2 fingers ,but am pretty speedy!!

by Jules

touch typing .... thanks to the very boring lessons at school when I was 15. My mother told me they would be good to have and she was right as I have always worked in offices.

by Aliso

Yes, I touch type and agree with the boring typing lessons my mother also wanted me to do.

I don't touch type exactly but I do type with all my fingers and thumbs and at the same speed as a touch typist - I just need to look at the keyboard rather than the screen as a I do so!

This stood me in good stead when we bought a new laptop when we were living in Belgium - the French keyboard has a totally different layout to the standard English "QWERTY" and I was able to adapt to it very quickly as I watch whilst I type whereas my husband hated it as he does proper touch typing and ended up with gibberish when he typed as a result.

by VerityG

I type one handed when I'm breastfeeding, but other than that I touch type. I'm touch typing right now! Makes me feel so accomplished hahaha

by meggf

I touch type quite quickly, although, I usually look at the keyboard while I'm doing it.

by Bryony Harrison

I am quite fast at typing. I think as my generation have grown up with computers and mobile phones it's almost a natural skill at this stage!

by Maria

I use all of my fingers to type and I am quite fast

by AJ

At one time my job was as a Secretary, also Receptionist, also data entry long ago so.....I am 'speedy gonzales'

by fran

Touch typing all the way. It takes me a much longer time finish typing if i'm looking on the keys. Funny enough.

by dwatk

Touch type, as learnt Typing at School for my Commercial Junior!

by donjo

I learnt to type on an old Royal typewriter - classic!! And yes, I touch type.......carriage return!!!!

by tmvfr

Yes, have touch-typed all my life since being taught at age 16.

by norma

I'm a very fast touch typist having learnt at school and then a 12 month business course at college. I know instinctively when I've made a spelling error and only then do I look at the screen to correct it.

by helga

I'm able to type quickly with 2 fingers. A teacher did try to teach me to type high school, but I wasn't very good at it, so that's probably why I still type with 2 fingers. My father died in '79, & I still have an small old green type writer he gave me, which I've never used, but would like to donate it to a typewriter museum in the future, (f there is such a thing) if my youngest daughter doesn't want it. (She loves all things vintage/retro!)

by Miro