was early enough to see anonymous get filtered by the first draft
ANYWAYS i generally write using my middle three fingers for both hands, left index for combinations, and left thumb for spacebar and sometimes other stuff
right thumb and index i don't seem to use very much if at all, hmmmm
THINK this is close to standard form

I use Capslock instead of Shift sometimes for capital letters. I don't like Mavis Beacon. She won't let me use Capslock.

I have my "own system" that I couldn't even describe, it's just intuitive to me and I use it without thinking or even being aware of it.

>>5343
Same here. I didn't even know for years you could use Shift for this and I'm too lazy to attempt to change such old muscle memory, so I always use Caps Lock for everything, including special characters.

I never consciously tried typing with right form (other than just casually trying it out), I just typed. The slowdown in speed from trying to learn wasn't worth the trouble of getting a perceived speed up. Besides, as a programmer, it doesn't matter if you can type fast if you're not typing much of anything.
My typing style is, rather than following a set "form", I just use what ever finger I have free to hit what ever key is in front of it when I need it. I often find myself hitting the bottom right row of keys with my thumb. It's more about using all your digits than following a form with your 8 digits. I also find that alternating your hands helps; instead of using the left hand to Shift+S you use right to hold Shift and then left to S, reduces awkward hand positions.
Right now i have a custom keyboard (>>1379) to make it easier for me to use the keyboard rather than type faster. Being able to hit hotkeys easier, modifier keys in places that actually make sense instead of all bundled in the same place, etc. Helps far more than typing fast.

>>5344
>including special characters
How does that work? Caps + 2 just gives me 2, not @...

I learned typing through IRC usage in primary and high school. Never learned touch typing through formal methods but I get it 95% correct by winging it and occasionally glancing at the keys to 'recentre' myself

There was a website called Peter's Online Typing Course where a music teacher insisted that you master the home row (three times fast no mistakes) before you could move on. This method, similar to Mavis Beacon's, retarded me. I just redid that exercise, 15 years later, and I got 56.9 seconds. And I'm sure I couldn't do that same exercise three times without slipping up once. Anyway, my breakthrough was when Bruce's Unusual Typing Wizard had a little "type the falling letters" game with catchy music that forced me to learn and practice all the other letters. From then on, practice with common words (like in monkeytype) got me to the point where I could automatically improve just by chatting.

>>5341
I learned to type from playing TTT as a kid
Had to be able to type KOS [name] real quick

This is the music, but with a slightly different soundfont, as it was a MIDI file.

I was taught how to touch type properly at school when I was probably 10 years old. I doubt they do that anymore though given that all the youngsters use touch screens these days.
I'm not a particularly fast (nor accurate) typer though. I could do 100wpm in the past but I have noticed that I have slowed down a little as I've gotten older.

My school gave me software on a DVD that was like a typing game with fishes (Maybe RapidTyping??), so I was bored and played it a lot. Maybe when I was about 7 years old... But in my home I stopped writing at insane speeds, because my family gets annoyed by the keyboard sound at 3am, so I type slow in purpose, so I have to cap myself maybe at 90wpm. But the true fun starts when you surpass the 140wpm barrier, in some sense, typing fast is addictive, feels like playing tetris.

>>5341
I never develop one because my keyboards and keypads break down a little too soon
One laptop button sudden wear and tear kills off the whole rhythm

WHen I weas in sxchool they trioed to teach us how to tyype properly using tyhe little nibs on the center of the keyvboard but I never actually learned to type that way predominantly. I tyope with my own style tyhjat I've refinmed over the years and if I try and move too quickly you get what you see in the previous portions of this here text. I don't need to look at the keyboard to type though it helps to reduce errors and lets me move a little bit faster.
My WPM is about ~100

>>5341
I don't really think about my typing form that much but what I can say is I used to be homeschooled by my grandma and she had me do a lot of typing practice on the computer (newfangled tech and all that) without teaching me any specifics on typing technique. So I don't really have a form. I do know that I have a pretty good sense of where the keys are on the keyboard so even if I catch myself doing a typo I can very quickly correct within seconds without needing to glance at the keyboard which is pretty neat. Only problem is everytime I work a new job it takes a bit to get used to the new keyboard layout, those big enter keys can fuck right off, I already have issues accidentally fat fingering the apostrophe as is.
>>5350
Yeah that too LOL. Grandma's homeschool skills came in handy for quickdrawing that shit