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1) Random question: Do you use the shift key for capital letters or the caps lock key? Was watching classmates typing notes yesterday (finally deciding to sit at the back row instead of front) and noticed (a) a few using the shift key and (b) others typing with two fingers.

2) Am I old school to assume that you ought to have keyboarding skills?

3) Lost my kindle last week by stupidly putting it down in a fast food place and not realising it until 2 hours later. By then, of course... >_> I'm by turns tickled and alarmed to think that someone is reading Skyfall slash on it. (Got kindle deregistered but its contents are there. Didn't lose data, though; I backed up my kindle just a few days before.)

4) Have excuse now to buy a Paperwhite, even though it hits a bit at my finances.

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I use the shift key for capital letters when typing. My mother had an old book that taught typing for typewriters and I taught myself how to type using that. So I'm definitely 'old school' when it comes to keyboarding? It's a necessary skill nowadays, though if computers keep shifting towards touchpad, it might not be so in another decade or two.

Hm, judging by replies I'm doin' it wrong. :P i taught myself how to type too but maybe I misread the instructions in the book. I definitely use the caps lock more; before I learnt to type I used the shift key more.

Yeah, maybe with touchscreens we won't find keyboarding skills that necessary? But it'd be really useful even in the future.

1. Caslock for sentances, I use shift with my left pinky for the start of Sentences And What Not when typing. (And then use ring finger on typing up Capital A's and middle for Capital W's etc.)

2. No. It's a very necessarily skill being able to type competently in today's world, for the majority of people IMO.

3. Ack. Maybe you'll get lucky and it will turn up later for you. (My sister lost her phone doing the same, and it turned up later in my car (which she had borrowed at the time). Both me and Serena had searched the car before it showed up.

4. :( - hopefully you'll enjoy the purchase anyway.

I use the caps lock and I find it to be really flexible and very fast when I type. Though that could be just because of habit.

Nah, I think the kindle's gone forever.

I'm really quite eager for my paperwhite now!

I'm really sorry to hear about the Kindle! T_T It IS an excuse to upgrade, but man, ouch. (*as one who has been in a similar situation*)

I use the Shift key for a LOT, and it would have to be a sentence or so of letters before I use the Caps Lock key. (I _do_ use the Caps Lock key for tax forms, simply because typos are easier to catch in caps lock.) I think that keyboarding is important. I don't care as much about how you type (I don't use my whole hands, apparently, just three fingers on each hand, with the thumbs on the space bar and the little fingers used for Shift and such.) Speed, however, is important. If you can't type to keep up with your thoughts, it's going to be hard to keep up with a professor going on at full speed, for starters. (Sadly, I am much hampered by typos unless I am looking at the keyboard.)

Heh, I'm the one who buys the most ebook devices in my family because I tend to destroy them. -_-;; And that is why I back up my kindles even though the contents are stored in Amazon's cloud.

As I said in comments above, it appears I'm doing it wrong - or just differently from everyone else, because I use the caps lock and find it really fast, much faster than using the shift key. Tho' that could be just habit.

I wouldn't be wondering much about other people's keyboarding skills except that when a few of my classmates type, it looks like their fingers are twisting around in weird positions and it looks painful. You know like how someone wants to show you how they can dislocate their thumbs? Yeah, I don't want to see that. Never.

I can generally touch-type fast enough to keep up with the prof (so long as the lecture isn't taking place at machine-gun speed) - although these days I prefer pen and paper - partly because my Word program's formatted with my own shortcuts.

*patpat* It DOES give you an excuse to upgrade, though. XD

If you learned to type on typewriters, the Shift key worked the same way as the Caps Lock key did, except the Shift key turned off automatically (IIRC)? Not having to hit Caps Lock again is helpful IMHO, which is why I use Shift. At least, that's how I remember it going. XD It took a while to train into it, but after that, it was second nature. I don't even know I'm doing it anymore until I think about it.

I'm trying to recall the impetus for switching to the Shift key. I think I read an article somewhere about how you could tell typists by their use of the Shift key, and the article was VERY MUCH on the side of Shift users as opposed to Caps Lock users--the article claimed that people who used Caps Lock were just less flexible than people who used both. O_o

Me, I typo so much that hitting Tab (above Caps Lock) was a constant problem. So Shift helped a LOT.

Edited 2013-01-10 19:24 (UTC)

Same rite? When you pressed the shift key then entire carriage/whatchacalit dipped, and it was a pain to hold it while YOU DO CAPS. Just as it was a huge pain to hold the entire carriage down via caps lock, but at least you did it only once.

Before I learnt to type I definitely used the shift key more. It looks like when I learnt typing I got into bad habits? Heheh. I don't think I'm switching back no matter what articles say - maybe that means I'll never be a more flexible typist or whatever, too bad. I'm just too used to the way I do it now.

*laughs* I say if you're satisfied with your speed, who cares what an article written 10 years (or more) ago said, right? ^_^

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