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I forgot to mention, but I can write really really fast, but it's still readable, to me at least.

As for me, I can type quite fast (especially when IMing when I ignore apostrophes and capital letters), but I always have to look at the keyboard, or else I make a lot of mistakes. In 6th grade and 9th grade I tried learning to touch-type in school, but I just couldn't do it, I don't work like that.

I usually type about this fast when I'm IMing. xD
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Although maybe around 100 wpm normally.

80-100 wpm. I can touch type, and usually watch the screen but sometimes I stare off into space. I'm fine as long as I can keep my hands in my peripheral vision. I think typing is the subject I've studied most in college-level classes, and I'm really glad it clicked for me.

Once in my life online, I was accused of being a slow typist, but that was someone I kept paging out of chat from because she was slow to reply, whatever her actual typing speed was.

Last edited by Verdandi on 13 Jan 2011, 1:46 pm, edited 1 time in total.

My handwriting is best described as tiny and messy...I write very fast as well, because once I have an idea in my head I feel I've got to write it down as quickly as possible before I forget!

This has proved to have been a huge disadvantage in writtten exams, where I've got worse marks than I should have due to the Examiners not being able to read my handwriting

I have been better at typing then my parents since... well since i got my hand on a keyboard and i believe what you are referring to is touch typing.

I've always been told that I have very nice, neat handwriting. I write very small letters, but as my hand gets tired my letters become larger. I also do something kind of funny whenever I write on lined paper: I write slightly above the line, so that the bottom of the letters don't actually touch the line. My mom used to make fun of me for it when i was younger, she would ask me what was the point of using lined paper if I wasn't going to actually write on the lines.

It looks really, really horrible, but it is legible.

I am a self-taught typist, so I am probably a bit slower than some. It took quite a few years for me to be able to type without looking at the keyboard. I think what helped me overcome that was a job I had where I had to do data entry while interviewing consumers (in person). Now, I can look at the screen and type, but I do a lot more backspacing than anyone else I know...lol!!

Inconsistent in style and generally messy; often breaks into printing for no apparent reason.
I get annoyed easily when I actually have to write something but make a mistake and because I really hate seeing any crossing-out, it gets written again. I've been through 5 or more sheets before I get it written satisfactorily, even if it's only a few lines.
And that's why I spend more time glued to a keyboard than I do glued to a pen.

I have very sloppy printing and handwriting.

This post is bringing up a lot of emotions and memories. When I was in 6th grade, I had a very lazy teacher who wouldn't read my assignments and would just fail me because she couldn't read my writing.
Last January, we had a lady from church over to make mats for the homeless. We had to write our names down on a piece of paper, well she read my name and proceeded to berate me and tell me I needed to write better because it looked like crap.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who has this problem.