why can't I type

[timwilky]

Originally Posted by Richie1743

You swine... I had to really read that about 6 times before I got it..

You have just confirmed your immediate promotion to cannon fodder

[Sid Squid]

Originally Posted by timwilky

why can't I type?

Same reason I can't probably.

This just means I never get to be the first to answer anything - I have to preview everything at least twice as it's usually embarrassingly unreadable first time 'round.

Originally Posted by timwilky

OK, I can't. I look at the keyboard and not the screen. I cannot proof read of a screen I need to read it on paper.

So I type on this forum etc. Then when i later read my comments, I am shocked. My spelling is awful. Letters have jumped in front of each other etc.

So please. Anyone who has ever read any of my posts and thought that Tim is illiterate. I am not. I simply cannot type.

I suppose I must get in the habit of using the spell checker, now that we have one.

honey you always make perfect sense to me !!! mind u i am a nutter so don't know whewther that will make u fel better or not !! lol heee

bbc loonpot

See what you need is a qwerty keyboard from the age of about 5. If you use said device for numerous hours per day, you will be able to type without looking at either the keyboard or the screen and hold a conversation with a colleagues about something completely different to whatever you are typing.

Although I still cant spell.

Dan

The answer is: "Because you are a bloke."

It's the same reason as to why you can't knit, darn, wash-up, bake cakes, change nappies.........

Originally Posted by Sudoxe

See what you need is a qwerty keyboard from the age of about 5. If you use said device for numerous hours per day, you will be able to type without looking at either the keyboard or the screen and hold a conversation with a colleagues about something completely different to whatever you are typing.

Although I still cant spell.

Dan

urgh, qwerty keyboards are those that are split in half and twisted slightly aren't they? I touch type and I just can't use those nasty keyboards.

I didn't have access to one at the age of 5 (I'm too old ) but I can touch type without looking at screen or keyboard and hold a conversation. Drives people at work nuts

How about you learn to touch type? Always a handy skill.

I'm a secretary and type all day but I don't touch type

[northwind]

Nah, qwerty's just a standard UK/US keyboard. It's short for qwertyuiop, which as any geek knows is the top line of the board. Try typing on an averty keyboard for half your day and a proper one for the rest, it will make you very angry, all the time.

My typing online's terrible for transposed letters and missed characters. To be totally honest, it's because I don't care I 4-finger type incredible fast, faster than a lot of touch typists, just from practice... But it does make a noise like a hailstorm...

Originally Posted by timwilky

I suppose I must get in the habit of using the spell checker, now that we have one.

we have a spell checker????

Having all sorts of trouble at the moment as the daughter has worn most of th letters off the keyboard with her constant MSNing

H