I quit touch typing after 2 years, and maybe you should too 

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3 minutes of fluff and a nothing burger at the end. he found that "voice to text" was faster than his 62wpm. that's the video.

Its like a rich man saying money is useless and a waste of time after he gets rich

Touch typing isn't about learning how to type faster. It's focusing more on what your typing on the screen, rather than worrying where the keys are located at the keyboard.

For some, touch typing is a necessity, like me. I'm blind, but I was taught to touch type before I lost my sight, so it's the only way I can use computers.

clickbait: he did not quit touch typing. he simply stopped trying to learn how to do it after he finished learning how to do it. this is normal. literally everyone does this lmao.

but how do I speak a programming language

In my opinion there's no need to think too much about it. Touch typing is a great skill to have, and once you've learned it, you won't just forget it like that. Whenever you need to type you'll do it efficiently, and looking at the computer screen instead of the keyboard. I learned touch typing in 2018, and from jan 2020 to jan 2021 I didn't use any computers, when I came back I still knew how to touch type without needing to practice

Talking to your laptop... really great in a public place!

Let's be honest, touch typing is one of those skills you cannot go wrong with, much like working out. In a world full of computers, any reason to improve your typing speed is a good reason. The average typing speed is about 40wpm and it is an extremely low bar to surpass. If touch typing allows you to be twice as fast and you're above average speed, it's definitely worth it

For those worried about losing touch typing, I learned it like 17 years ago in elementary school, proceed to not use PCs for a decade outside of rare occasions at school, and proceeded to have zero problems coming back. The only time I’ve had trouble was switching to ISO from ANSI, which makes sense since my touch typing was based on old muscle memory

You shouldn't learn touch typing to type 'faster', it's learned to be more effective while typing and gives you better posture. Also didn't know it was called 'touch typing', but it's just something that was commonly taught in middle/high school for decades.

i learned touch typing more for the accuracy rather than speed. before, i'd be looking up and down to my keyboard and screen while hitting backspace almost every sentence. speech-to-text is cool but i write most of my texts bilingually. haven't figured out yet how to do that haha

Touch typing is not about typing. It is all about the focus u can achieve with your brain. It is like an sports where one day practice will make u perfect.

"When you argue for your limitations, you get to keep them."

When I left school--(many years ago- typing on a MANUAL TYPEWRITER) I typed 120wpm-- all words no error. NOW- at 66, with arthritic fingers-- I type 120 errors- no words!!! ha. (seriously though- I'm back down to about 30)

You make great points, but I don't see where exactly did you "quit" touch typing.

Current title: "I quit touch typing after 2 years, and maybe you should too" actual video: "I quit _practicing_ touch typing after 2 years, and maybe you should too"

100 percent true. Little background : I was never comfortable with a computer until age 19 as I never owned one and Computer Lab till high school had 5 persons sharing. Joins college. Got my first laptop.... story continues I used hunt and peck method and speed was maximum 20 wpm. I was sad. Then I came to know about touch typing. Initially, I was devastated that I continuously got 10-15 wpm. I thought I could never in my life reach 40wpm. But then my strong desire to type faster like my friends kept me going and soon I started to realize the speed increasing. As I type now it's around 60+wpm. I am more than happy. That's a life lesson as well. If you're interested enough and has strong will to learn you can master the topic no matter how hard it is. Note : Patience is key.

Excellent! Agree, agree, agree! I've been at a 30wpm slump all week, thank you for the lift!

Touch typing isn't necessary if you don't want to look at the keyboard (at all) and instead look at the screen. I don't do touch typing and I probably use like... 7-8 fingers? The thing is that once you practice long enough and your muscle memory builds up, you'll naturally know where the keys are.

Thanks bro 🤗 I am from India , I have practicing typing for government exam as a clerk , I saw Ali abdal and I am obsessed how to got 140, but after seeing your video I m satisfied with my 60wpm speed ❤😊 thanks bro so mucjh lot of love 😊

No! You should never quit remember never give up on your dreams and never ever stop believing in magic!!!

I learned to type on my own when I got my own computer when I was young and I learned to type with just a few fingers and never really thought much about it. Currently, I average like high 80 to 90wpm and can type without looking at my keyboard. I found out a while back about people who use all their fingers and I was shocked because I didn't know or people told me I was weird for typing with only a few fingers. I'm still debating on whether or not to learn this because I already type fast enough but I also wanna see if I can try typing even faster, I'm just worried I'll slow down by learning a new way to type

i touch type cuz i wanna feel badass man when u type fast it makes u feel incincible

thats so true. after i learned touch typing it gave me that extra confidence/motivation to learn anything because i know all it takes is practice. not only i know but i experienced myself

touch typing is the best learning skills in my home town i am at 61 to 56 wpm atp

As a programmer, I can't speak to my computer it will hunt me!

If your working in office setting touch typing is essential.

Touchtyping is good. The standard home row technique is terrible on qwerty, and using the wrong fingering sometimes is just better.

This sounds good, but going back and rearranging the synatx probably takes the same amount of time or longer as it would if u type even slightly above average. To me it seems more efficient to just think things out and get it right the first time while youre typing. But if voice to text works for you then thats great.

Good job, Isaiah! In-truth you did your name

I don't need touch typing.

I learned touch young naturally. I can’t undo it, plus I type faster touch typing.

I learned it back when I was staying up late and using my computer in the dark. Now I type in several languages, so it wouldn't even be possible to look at my keyboard to find the letters I need when I'm using a different layout than the one printed on my keyboard.

I’ve never been able to touch type because of my disability. Touch typing strains my writs and fingers and causes them to dislocate. I wish I could type faster and with more accuracy, so hopefully I’ll find a way that works for me other than looking between the keyboard and the screen

Amazing! Not only technically, but also an amazing lesson for EVERY ASPECT IN LIFE! 3:22 "Self improvement for self improvement sake is not the smartest way to go about your life"

I find touch typing to be more useful than talking. When you're proficient enough, your hands are doing the work for you without much thought. Especially if you're doing something like programming. The complexity of what you're trying to do is demished when you take all of the work out of the skill.

I agree with your philosophy. I am a software engineer and I want to learn how to type properly but I don’t think typing at 100+ word per minute is really necessary. A lot of programming is thinking about what you type. With predictive text alot of it is pressing a single key and then enter. Also in my work proper typing only really matters when I need to write a hunch of new code which isn’t very common. It would be much more of a benefit for me to go from 40-70 in my profession than 70-100. Currently I think I can hit 50wpm using hunt and peck on a good day but I am also able to touch type to a degree using that method.

to be honest, touch typing was never a problem for me, its the fact that I just technically can't read as fast as I can type the words if that make sense

I agree to what you said, but the title is misleading

Of course, as a stenographer, you can just type it out as you speak it :3

Touch-typing is as normal to me as breathing. I can touch type on almost any keyboard (though I prefer the ones that put the keys where they ought to be in the Model M). But there is this strange, magical streamlining of thought, accuracy and productivity that I can only get from using a keyboard. I would be too prone to ramble if I were to use speech to text.

Nice video. I like your outlook on life

is it a good practice to return to home row after every key press?

As someone who wants to become faster at programming, speech-to-text isn't really an option (at least not yet).

Personally I will never quit because I just enjoy typing. I went from like 70-80 words per minute with like 3 fingers, constantly looking at the keyboard and making a lot of mistakes, to 130 words per minutes, with a much smoother typing, with way less mistakes. It took me some time, but it's so much more efficient, and kinda satisfying too.

I don't know why people slow themselves out with all those "courses" and "educational software" when it comes to touch typing. You've most likely played enough games and sent enough messages to know where each and every button is - keys like P for pause, I for inventory, WSAD, Q and E to lean, R to reload, F for flashlight, M for map, T and Y for chats, G for grenades, H for health packs, Z and X and C for emotes, V for voice comms, J for journals - literally almost every f**king key you've been hitting for years without looking. Open any editor, put index fingers on F and J (that's why they have those little perky bits), *fix your eyes on the screen and start typing very very slowly*, correct every mistake as you go without looking at the keys unless you really didn't guess where a given symbol is after 2+ tries (symbol, because it simply won't happen for letters). And after 2+ hours you're typing as fast as you did before, i.e. with your eyes on the keys. That's it. You're a touch typer. From this moment onward you're not loosing time, only improving.

my delemma is I type alreayd okay 50 wpm with hunt and peck. but I only use left hand - middle finger. right hand- index finger. 2 fingers total. but i type fast. however I get migraines from having to look down all the time when doing heavy data entry. Right now im learning and the G AND H keys are killing me. I CANNOT for the life of me stop confusing G and H for F and J. It feels so unnatural and freakish!! Its really frustrating.!! Bceause I can already type fast with 2 fingers only. Its just I make a lot of typos... but this feels impossible arghhhh. and then Im guessing theres a whole other trainign for 10 key by touch.

This is a fantastic take. Thanks for a different viewpoint

Misleading title. You didn't stop touchtyping, you stopped trying to get quicker. Well, but picking that as the title would probably not have attracted viewers, right?

Voice to text is soooo underrated xd I always get laughed at when i tell people that i use it. Well let them have fun sitzing in bad posture and with unhealthy grips on their keyboards (i assume the most people do not use ergonomically fitting devices)

That was a really intresting take, food for though.... good job bud :D

it's required for using programming languages

Cool video! I’m still learning touch typing so that I can work more efficiently.

I feel like it’s muscle memory for most people at this point

Tbf having gone from 'proficient' at touch typing in the 50-60 wpm range to better at about 70-80 wpm, I feel like the extent to which my conscious brain needs to get involved in the typing has gone down further. I'm confident that I'll need to get to about 100 wpm to really feel like the typing is just happening while my conscious brain takes care of other cognitive loads. It might just need more practice regardless of speed improvement, but I'm sure the speed will go up significantly with said practice.

Dude looks like Michael B Jordan.

I have exactly the same keyboard as you and I hate it, I'm pretty sure that if you try to type on another keyboard, you'd certainly improve your speed! And I'm not talking about expensive ones, I myself type much faster on the laptop keyboard.

This should be about Google Docs speech to text.

You know me being a snob and thinking that I needed to get good random things, I thought I needed to be good at everything for whatever reason. This video has really changed my mind. I will have to refocus. I wanted to thank you

this is weird. for a person who learned touch typing, typing is much quicker than speaking. typing is basically outputting information at the speed of thought. voice recognition is so much slower. and you have to fix the incorrectly recognised text anyway. while with high accuracy you can type it correctly in the first place. also i’ll be tired as hell if i had to say loudly all that i type through the day.

I just randomly saw this video and wondered what touch typing was. Then I realised and thought isn't that what people do anyway? I've never seen this as something that you need to learn and it just comes naturally, but maybe it doesn't unless you don't use computers at all?

Typing can be likened to driving a car, as it is bound to be surpassed by a more efficient alternative in due course.

Video sumary: Learning to type has been great and has increased my productivity, so dont learn it. Its a waste of time

I was skeptical at first, but this is an interesting conclusion and actually delivers on the title of the video title. Good video.

honestly if you start typing around 100-120 you are basically typing exactly at the speed in which you are thinking so it does become faster than speaking to write anything

Regarless of what your reason is, typing fast is better.

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What you are suggesting is good for people who works from home or something like that but voice typing is not practical in most of the office environments or places where their are lots of noise. 2:52 you have mentioned that voice typing is the fastest way of typing instead of touch typing as for brainstorming activity. But I highly disagree with this point. The thing is in case of voice typing not everyone can smoothly brainstorm and speak what they want to write, a gap of speaking is possible which leads to turning of voice listening mic or dictating feature of most writing softwires; even voice typing may write some undesirable words with similar pronunciations as people all over the world has different speech accent. Also after voice typing they need to spend extra time to check, remove or rephrase the entire typing. Instead traditional touch typing is still better than voice typing because it can let us take a gap when necessary to think, let remove undesirable words while typing if wanted and usually do not have limitation in noisy environments. Our brain is a lot capable than we thick it is. I agree that fast typing like professional typists are not required for everyone but since our brain is quite efficient our typing speed will indeed increase even though we don't specifically practice typing for time. Accuracy typing is advisable

I would hate having to code or write scripts with voice to text

Getting to 90-100 wpm is a good goal, but I’d say anything past 120 is just bragging rights.

Literally a skill issue. You either learn how to type without thinking about it or you don't.

That logitech keeb is so bad though, you'd probably do 80wpm on a decent one

i also started typing now i type 50 words perminute but now I am going to stop

Oh yeah what a great idea, just yell out words into your computer while at work. I never thought of that. Nice and quietly lol

Huh? The title of your video is wrong - clickbait? If you can't title correctly, guess I'll not be watching your 'writing better emails' BS

WAIT WHAT LMAO. How does everyone not know this? Even in America with our shitty ass public schools we learn how to properly type extremely early on in school. This was almost 2 decades ago when i learned. This is so weird

Idk i have never learned touch typing and i average around 80wpm without looking at the keyboard

I struggle with my hands while typing with the correct mapping. p is the hardest one for me

I got my wpm increased, just by cleaning up my keyboard.

Inspired...

Haha, we use the same typing program 😌

You've made a phenomenal video. I couldn't agree more about having a clear reason and flexibility. In my opinion it is key to any area of life, not just the professional one. Great job!

I hunt and peck. It's fast enough, because I think slower than I type.

I did the test typing like spending 50mins on it and when I went without the guide, my fingers were over all the place. As for me, cos i need to do my data entry and speed determined how much work is done. But sadly, i just gotta figure my own style and not dwell so much on the principle of it.

Are you from Trinidad & Tobago? You sound exactly like one of my coworkers. Except with a less pronounced accent.

Well I so far I smashed my keyboard trying to learn this. It fucking hurts my hands. And I've been trying since 2018

Isn't "touch typing" just becoming proficient at typing?

Typing is a pain in the neck for me. I peek and peck with two fingers and barely type 20 words per minute.

Keyboard name pls

im watching this video while I have CARPAL tunnel :)

Very nice video, glad I watched, but I was drawn to it by the somewhat ?misleading? title which alludes to some content within that might suggest some reasons why touch typing might not be a good idea. (I'm looking to start to learn this skill). This seems to be quite common phenomenon - you see the same with Barefoot shoes - videos like "things the barefoot industry doesn't tell you" and you end up realising it was an advocate of barefoot shoes all along - and the thing it, it works as a way to get people to click...but to those who don't have the time to click and watch, and just see the thumbnail, it subconsciously counts as a "vote" against the subject, which can be misleading.

I feel like I can type faster by looking at the keyboard, I'm just accustomed with typing using 2 fingers, touch typing seems to slow me down, I don't know whether I should learn it or not, does it really increases your speed or typing fast in different ways is also acceptable ?

You didn't really quit touch typing, and you didn't really "quit" after 2 years, you quit after 2 months. Dislike for the clickbait title.

Are you from Trinidad?

well, I can't speak code

That's all well and good but if you work in an environment where you can't just speak to the computer (like most people who work with others) then this isn't any help at all

How to code with voice typing.

Cool