I learned it by myself by being in chat rooms back when I was like ten or something. Sad thing is, I only taught myself to type with two fingers, one from each hand, more notably my middle fingers.

I think my brother taught himself too.

I'm in the process of training myself to do it after years of pecking. I know where the keys are, but I only ever used two fingers. Sad part is I could still type more efficiently than most touch-typers I knew,

I don't remember learning. all I remember is that when they tried to teach the class in middle school I finished the final test the first day and played video games while everyone else learned to type.
I only type ~80 wpm, but I don't really need to type faster, so i don't bother trying.

Started using computer pretty much right after school 'till bed time around grade 7. Eventually after a year of that chat speak everyone uses I was like "Fuck this is stupid" and just started using proper grammar, and spelling. The rest just came naturally.

>middle school
meant elementary school
the typing program they had came on 5 1/4 disks, lol, mavis beacon

>>4438100
Get The Typing of the Dead, son.

>>4438115
They still sell Mavis Beacon. Hasn't changed much.

>>4438118
fucking win!

I taught myself.

If you look at the outline of how you "should" use a keyboard touch typing, apparently you're supposed to have both wrists bend left.

Elementary school. Had like a whole year of typing lessons.

It was some program my parents got for me for my Commodore 128.

I fucking remember learning really fast, and now I type loitning.

Mavis Beacon for 4 years. Now I type 4000 wpm.

All through elementary school, we had to do the program that is in OP's pic during computer lab time. Then, in middle school, we had classes dedicated to learning to type. I cheated and didn't really give a shit about it until my friend Bobby started trying to have competitions with me. I went nuts after that.

Now I type around 110wpm.

Fuck yeah, testosterone and the pointless things you make me do.

Elementary school. They started us out on laminated pieces of paper for a few months. Shit sucked.

I learned to touchtype because I was threatened to either learn or have my index fingers broken. I was seven at the time.

I now type at an upwards of 150 word per minute.

>>4438148

I took typing classes in grade 9 just so I could browse the internet and play games, while pretending to have no clue to how to computer when the teacher walked by.

I read a book on touch typing when I was around 13 or so. I learned the "home position" for my fingers and what keys each finger is responsible for. After that, I learned to type by just using the computer constantly.

>>4438131

Kickass typing program. Campy plot + killing zombies that start out as words, then phrases, then bosses with paragraphs that you are rushing to type is a quick way to improve your typing speed. I also guarantee you it's the most fun you'll ever have playing a typing game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Typing_of_the_Dead

NoCD patch (optional) + Serial (required) (800KB, no wait limit to download, so download this first.)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7LVHEMYF

ISO (400something MB)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J3HS15GW

>>4438068
>>Dare I say, a typewriter?

yep, I took secretarial studies in school - only male in my class, that would have been 88-91, brilliant old style teacher, she'd come round and slap your hands with a ruler if they were incorrect - was annoying at the time, but looking back on it now she was awesome.

Mavis mother fucking Beacon.

Typemaster, motherfuckers

>>4438172
>>4438172
>>4438172
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>>4438172
Fuk year, hanks amom!

>>4438141
This is me. You guys make me feel old as hell.

>>4438200
I'll take 17 copies.

>>4438200
lol

this thread disappoints me. if you can't troll without looking at the keyboard, you don't belong on /g/.

i doubt any of you fags could even say what keys your index fingers are supposed to be on without looking down.

>>4438228
that's easy they're zxcv nm,.

>>4438145

This made me lol hard.

Taught myself. Originally with one hand on an old laptop, graduated to two with the first actual computer we got.

(looking back, having fast one-handed typing would have been a great skill to keep)

Took 8th grade Adv. Computer and the teacher fucking loved me, I could type ~100 WPM. Still had to do Mavis Beacon though, but SC2K was the SHIT.

also, ~150WPM on a good day.

>>4438172
"Sounds perfect. Jesus, How am I going to find a copy"
Then Anon goes out and get one and puts it into my chubby, virginal, pasty white, hands.

Just picked it up myself as I kept using computers.

I learned how to type by just using a computer for so long. I can type reasonably fast ~70wpm, but i'm really only typing with 3-4 fingers. I tried learning home row but that shit is just stupid

>>4438254
>>4438206
You are welcome. I can also provide a Mediafire mirror with the serial & NoCD in the ISO itself (if MU is slow for you guys. Those MU links are not mine, but they are where I got the download from).

>>4438300
I bet you're underaged too.

Or maybe I'm just too old now. But I was going to college when House of the Dead came out.

>>4438300

Does LAN play work in this one?

I just learned by using the computer for years and years.

>>4438312
Actually, I'm a college.. rising sophomore is it? I just finished my freshman year about a week and a half ago.

>>4438317
I can't say. It's an experiment I'd have to try later. 1AM local time here.

keyboarding class in high school but supplemented with being on the net 24/7

Just typing over the years without looking at the keyboard. Pretty simple stuff really.

Learned by keying in BASIC program listings from magazines and books.

I shit brix the first time I saw nibble magazine.

Here, uploading to Mediafires in 6 RARs (no more than 100Mb each). MF has no download, speed, or time limits, and allows download managers.
This folder will update automagically as each RAR finishes uploading. Only part 1 is up for now: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=2e08a6b350b310b0d956df2962098fcb431abb8b538a57c2c95965eaa7bc68bc

Part 1: http://www.mediafire.com/file/mmczinw2mth/TOTD.part1.rar

Part 2 is 22% uploaded

ETA for ALL RAR files is 31 minutes.

Alright, the first thing you have to do is forget that "correct hand position" thing that they try to teach you.

Second thing you should do is get familiar with your keyboard. Keys are always in the same general area. Without looking move your hand to the top left corner of your keyboard, feel that single key off in the corner? That's the escape key. Bottom left corner? CTRL.

Then practice without looking at the keyboard. If you make a mistake then hit backspace and fix it, but never look at the keyboard.

>>4438417
Herp derp, an image or explanation might be in order. The Typing of the Dead.

>>4438397
fuck yeah basic. taught myself on a vtech

Gaming helped me a lot, I kept getting my ass whooped when looking for hotkeys, eventually I just learned on my own

play video games

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Part 1: http://www.mediafire.com/file/mmczinw2mth/TOTD.part1.rar

Part 2: http://www.mediafire.com/file/qoyunzmyy22/TOTD.part2.rar

Part 3 is 30% uploaded.

ETA for ALL RAR files is 15 minutes.

Typing class in High School was a fucking joke, I could type faster than the teacher

Was anyone ever taught that to say each letter as you type it? Eventually getting better as you type each letter faster, and saying it in your head.

I just think of the whole word while I'm typing. What's up with that?

Computer Familiarization was a required course at my high school. Had to learn to pass the class. Tried Mavis Beacon before that and couldn't get into it.

Question: Can you number keys?

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Part 1: http://www.mediafire.com/file/mmczinw2mth/TOTD.part1.rar

Part 2: http://www.mediafire.com/file/qoyunzmyy22/TOTD.part2.rar

Part 3 is http://www.mediafire.com/file/yxgyzwekqng/TOTD.part3.rar

Part 4 is 21% uploaded.

ETA for ALL RAR files is (still...) 15 minutes.

>>4438529
I guess you can number anything you like.

>>4438529
I can't 10 key for shit, shits obsolete anyway

>>4438068

A full year of keyboarding my freshman year in high school. Using copy books, Wordperfect 5.1, and a stopwatch for tests.
Ended up at 65wpm at the end of the year, from having no skill at the beginning.
Took forever to get up to 30wpm, and then I accelerated pretty quickly from there. Now I can reach 120wpm in some settings with some texts.

>>4438552
>high school

i was programming C and C++ when i was in 4th grade, basic before that. suffice to say, i could type fast early on.

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Part 1: http://www.mediafire.com/file/mmczinw2mth/TOTD.part1.rar

Part 2: http://www.mediafire.com/file/qoyunzmyy22/TOTD.part2.rar

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Part 5 is 17% uploaded.

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>>4438587
I was coding in C when I was in the 8th grade. All I really did was make calculators and programs that would fuck with your mouse/keyboard. I was so 1337 back then

>>4438118
Im sorry, did you say Typing of the Date?

So what is a good program to help teach someone these days? I know mavis fuckin beacon used to be the shit to use, but.....I kind of was born natural to it. However, I want to help my mom lrn2type and wnat to get a good program to help teach her, I would give her the Typing of the Dead shit, but she is easily scared by stuff like that lol.

So yeah what is a good typing teaching program now?

http://www.mediafire.com/file/mmczinw2mth/TOTD.part1.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/file/qoyunzmyy22/TOTD.part2.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/file/yxgyzwekqng/TOTD.part3.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/file/m4xmymqfzm1/TOTD.part4.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/file/dymjnyizjwd/TOTD.part5.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/file/fiwn1rwmgmm/TOTD.part6.rar

>>4438644
Thank you kind anon, I rarely get this kind of service without providing at least one of the two kinds of blow.

>>4438644
Huh, part 4 doesn't seem to be working.

Came naturally, however, I type like some sort of idiot, and my pinky fingers never hit the keyboard.
Its too late for me to fix it now, and I'm too lazy.
Whatever, I still do 60-80 wpm with high accuracy so I'm ok with it.

had language problems when running Typing of the Dead T_T any solutions?

>>4438191

you are not alone. i took the same class.

final test was a letter with a clothe in the fucking keys, you have to do it without watching and with a 5 error margin.

shit was hard, really

typewriting class. 10th grade.
they were actually typewriters, computerized, but not PCs.
that was back in 1987. i can type like a mutherfucker now.
a couple of years ago, i read that my typing teacher was brutally raped and murdered by some niggers.
crazy shit man. crazy shit. happened un rural NC.

>>4438793
lol that must luck gay as fuck (pic related).

I learned to touch type on an mechanical typewriter, that's right with sticking tape and everything. It was in the early 90s.

>>4438631
I would like to know this too, not for my mommy but for myself, I can touch type but would like to speed up my shit.

Myself using chats

Autodedact.

That's what you get for starting to fiddle with computers ever since your mom brought home an IBM with Windows 3.x when you were 4 years old.

>>4439262
Can't you play Typing of the Dead?

>>4439294 Autodedact.
Try teaching youreself to spell while you're at it.

>>4439322
Butthurt are we?

>>4439322
Well I would rather have a normal program to try to learn, not a crazy zombie game.

>>4439352
Butthurt... by what?

>>4439356
Why? Of all the typing programs I know, the zombie game has the best approach, and it will do a better job of putting your mind on something other than your fingers.

>>4439403
You're obviously butthurt by something, otherwise why would you waste your time by correcting a mere spelling error?

Mavis motherfucking Beacon, my parents made me do that for an entire summer aeons ago.

I played MUD's from 1993 ~ 2000

that did it for me.

The best way to learn how to type?
Trolling the internet

>>4439413
If I had something worthwhile to do with my time, I wouldn't be hanging out in a typing thread on /g/. Plus it's an excuse to practice my typing, right?

I learnt by working at a busy call centre.

>>4439487
True, didn't really think of that.

irc

For me it was cheats.
I loved to play games (my first games was Blood and Duke Nukem 3D, when I was in 5th grade). And I loved to use cheats in them.

I just typed. That pretty much worked out for me.

I learned how to touch type using this program called Fastype for Win95.

uhh i just learnt it from using my computer constantly
i was typing without looking and very quickly with 2 fingers on each hand, spent 1 week getting used to all 4 fingers and the thumb, now i type at about 160-170wpm.

if theres autocorrection on capitals, i can get to about 190.

Learned by playing MMORPGs.
~350 cpm.
I don't look at the keyboard and most of the time I use 5-7 fingers.

I learned to touch type playing UO on a sphere emulated server.

Typefaster, cause i tried the Colemak layout
for qwerty I used QWERTY Warriors
http://www.freewebarcade.com/game/qwerty-warriors/

But back in the day, I did the jfjfjfjfjfjffjjffjjffjjffjj training in Word Perfect >:3

I still can't touch type and my max wpm is ~40...

/g/, be honest am I a freak.

I never learned to type properly

Learned my own way of doing it quite early.

School tried to teach me the "correct" way which I promptly ignored and still typed the fastest out of the entire class using my self-taught method.

I learned myself just got there after typing for over a decade from the age of about 5. I'm even up to touch-typing on a dvorak layout after switching recently, back on qwerty i'm a pro though can read off a presentation or a blackboard and touchtype at the same time, while maintaining speed.

>>4438772
Reuploading P4...

7th or 8th grade, on an electric typewriter.

>>4439767

... and got shitty grades, because you were supposed to use the teached method instead of your own faggotry.
Happened to me too.

Diablo 1 / Unreal tournament / Quake 3

If you wanted to chat in-game you needed to touchtype and control the screen or random fags would rape your ass like the fotns.

I think the new generation of faggots learn with WOW or similar gay mmorpg.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/mmczinw2mth/TOTD.part1.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/file/qoyunzmyy22/TOTD.part2.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/file/yxgyzwekqng/TOTD.part3.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/file/cmmzyl2yfaa/TOTD.part4.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/file/dymjnyizjwd/TOTD.part5.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/file/fiwn1rwmgmm/TOTD.part6.rar

Eating my own dog food by downloading my uploads to make sure all parts are now good...