The other day I was typing up a poem while looking at the poem, not the screen, and when I looked up I realized I had only one or two errors (like u, not i, and d instead of s. This was for about five or so lines of the poem). I started wondering how everyone else fares in blind typing, and if there's another stage of keyboard knowledge. So, Blind Typing. When you started noticing you could do it, how good you are at it, etc.

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heres my blind typing how did i ro?

Ok lwta give thos a ho. Jello my name is OLiver and I have a cat.

Wow, that wasn't too bad. All the mistakes are just a letter next to the one intended.

EDIT: Try it with your eyes COMPLETELY shut, otherwise you're cheating

I am blind typing right now...Seriously.
I guess it is just like looking at the screen but without the magic letters that pop up durinh the course of yyping.

Sir, I would just like to say, that blind typing is a very interesting phenomenon amongst the people of this world. And for some reason, I can do it very well. Actually, I'm blind typing right now. No looking and everything. My fingers are moving quickly over the keys, but I still do not look. I think I may have memorised my keyboard layout. <--- That was typed with my eyes closed.

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Yeahs that kinda sucked, seems I was one key to the right on what I typed from the second row of keys after a couple of words

How'd tjid?

I can type really well, but I have to look down at the keyboard from at least the corner of my eye if I want to avoid it looking like crap.
I will now write the exact same thing with out looking at the keyboard at all:

I can type really well but I have to look doen at thwe keyboarf from ay lyast the corber uf mt eye ud I wabt to avoid ut looking like crap,

Well, at least it didn't look that bad.

I am an expert at this. I don't type the normal way you're supposed to, with your hands in whatever certain place they're supposed to be, I just move my hands around the keyboard as need be. This would normally require me to be looking at the keyboard. But since I use computers so much, I've just about memorized the complete layout and dimensions of my keyboard so I can know what I'm hitting without looking. And when I do make a mistake I know it. I've typed just about all of this without looking. Sometimes I glance down if I don't have anything else to look at but still I'm pretty good.

Look when I type and I look at the screen it;s easy

But when I shut mu rurd oy gryd jstf

I've never heard it called "Blind Typing" but what you're speaking of is taught in classes in most if not all of the schools I've seen. A lot of people can do this, most especially people who work full-time in an office or (duh) with computers. You'd be surprised what you can do when you do it to earn a living 40+ hours a week.

Unfortunately for my typing skills, I am not one of those people.

Ok, thid id my sttrmot/ Jow did I do>

EDIT: Much easier looking at the screen. Literally "blind" typing is disorientating.

lets see ig I can do it

yes I can do it, it just comes natural to me

I wouldn't say Im that skilled but thenm I only made one little mistake.

Well considering how crap I am with my eyes open, let's see.

Here I fo am I doing OK? I don'r even know.

Not bad I guess.

Well i thoguht i could do it pretty well but look thst hsooornrf
(look what happened)

That said if i look at the screen, easy peasy, how odd.

I still cant blinf type, I onlt gor a PC when I qwas 13, I'm surprosed i can type aty all XD

Hello, my name is VOrpals

I learned how to type without looking at my fingers back in Computers in 7th grade, such a rigorous typing course it wasn't funny.

But it ended up helping a lot in the end.

We also got to do programming, which was awesome.

Really guys, you can't blind type? I'm doing this whole message right now blind typing and I'm pretty sure I'm capitalizing and hitting all of my comma's and apostrophes as well....

Is it really that hard? (Still blind typing)

Blind typing right now with eyes fully shut; my fingers seem to know where the keys are better like this ffor some reason.

Well here's my go at it, how am I doing. I;m tryoing to avoid punctuation so I don't screw up too badly.

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Hey, not bad, only a few typo's.

Pretty much anyone who's taken any typing classes in school can at least make an attempt at doing this. The only reason I opened my eyes during this was to find the post button.

This should be a game, people have to continue a conversation without looking at sht screen or keyboard.

I did well considering I make mistakes when I'm looking.

i never look at my hands when typing, i haven't for many years, tho i do look at numbers and the stuff above the numbers but that's about it

OK m y eyes are shut and I'm just gonna ttpe what comes into mhy ead.

Oh dear, that didn't turn out very well. I can touch type quite well though, just backspace mistakes quite a bit.

Man I am so awesome at blind typing let me tell you. There was this one time wehre I typwed blind (it was now) and I rocked so much because I go like nearly no errors and stuff.

Meh, I think I did well enough yp there. And I can't currently see how I'm doing down here because my etes are shut and everything.

Blind typing isn't really a big deal for me. I hope I don't mess up though, or I'll sound like an idiot.

WOOT! I did it!

Alright, here's blind typing! I'm not looking at the screen! Seriously!
Yeah, I'm pretty good at typing. I prefer to look at the screen though. I guess it's more ergonomic or something.

Ok here goes I will not edid anyting. I only tye 80 words per minute but thats not a lot in the grand scheme of mistakesxs, now isit?

(edit: 80 should actually be 70...)

yea typwe iwht our eyes shut then hit post and see whow good we each did/

I don't know one day I was typing a paper and realized I didn't need to look at the screen. hard for me to keep a consistent train of thought with my eyes closed though sometimes yes I think so.

edit: One should get bonus points for hitting tab, tab, enter at the end of their wall of blind text. I didn't do this, but I'm just saying.

Blind typinf id hsrff. (Blind)
Blind typing is hard. (Translation)