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Typing faster?
Posted: 25 Oct 2004 07:21 PM |
| Any hints on typing faster? It's getting on my nerves, as everyone is better, hehe. I get really panicky because I have to keep up. That's what you get when you skip all the I.T lessons at school to play DOOM! bloody game GRRRR. That was a long time ago by the way :) |
Kitty... Orphaned child turned house burglar
When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you; whenever you want it to be."
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Re: Typing faster?
Posted: 25 Oct 2004 07:27 PM |
Sorry.. I type pretty fast.. most of the time.... A product of Playing this game way too much.. Playing UO before that... and Extensive use of chatrooms before that... not to mention finger excercises... Guitar playing.... even a good amount of Piano. Any of these things will do it for you. Honestly.. best way is to just keep typing.
I'm sure the more you get involved in Vives.. the faster your typing will become... despite your stated Gaming history... I don't know. Everyone thinks I'm crazy Because I pried all the keys off my keyboard... stuck them in a paper bag Like Scrabble, and pulled out one at a time and placed them back on the keyboard... Whenever someone tries to use more keyboard.. they look at the screen to type something.. and just as their hands start to move.. they look down.. and then They FREAK out.. it's a great thing to watch happen for the first time. I certainly don't know if that would make your typing faster... I doubt it... It might make you look at the keyboard less.. which could mean faster typing I suppose.
Yeah... I'd try typing without looking at the Keyboard... even if it means typing really really slowly and constantly hitting the backspace. Keep doing that, and once you get faster at that.. you will start typing much faster than you could... uhh.. with looking at the keyboard.
Good luck! |
The Legacy Saga |
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Re: Typing faster?
Posted: 25 Oct 2004 07:38 PM |
| This makes me wonder...is there such a thing as typing too fast when roleplaying? Could it be considered rude to dominate a conversation simply because you're a fast typer? And is so, how does one control that? |
My name is Byron Lorian....I am the Last Son |
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Re: Typing faster?
Posted: 25 Oct 2004 07:48 PM |
Well, in Veran's case, I just find Akril and let them go at each other. They sort of cancel each other out.
- Paul |
Purpose in life: finding better ways of allowing players to kill themselves. Repeatedly.
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Re: Typing faster?
Posted: 25 Oct 2004 07:55 PM |
Yeah, when I look at my keyboard everything goes wrong hehe. I also tend to get real slow when the time gets to 12.30am, but that's probably due to my brain slowing down :)
Not sure if it's rude to type to fast, I get about one word to most peoples three here, but I don't mind, just means I have to come up with shortened acts of longer stuff, well something like that anyway. |
Kitty... Orphaned child turned house burglar
When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you; whenever you want it to be."
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Re: Typing faster?
Posted: 25 Oct 2004 07:57 PM |
Well, in Veran's case, I just find Akril and let them go at each other. They sort of cancel each other out.
- Paul
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha should put vidus in there as well ha ha ha ha |
Its easy clinging to your moral high ground when you have everything, try it when you have nothing left.
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Re: Typing faster?
Posted: 25 Oct 2004 07:57 PM |
This makes me wonder...is there such a thing as typing too fast when roleplaying? Could it be considered rude to dominate a conversation simply because you're a fast typer? And is so, how does one control that?
I don't know, Pickston types really quick and in short sentences, but I think that adds a lot of dimension to his character as well. Gives him the sort of hyperactive child feel. Also I don't think it is wrong to type fast, in fact it can help a great deal. I am not exactly a fast typer either, so I know it is sort of annyoing when you want to respond to something that ends up being a few lines past already, but I don't think it's a major problem. So anyhow, just keep on practicing and some day we will own the dialogue too. :) |
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Re: Typing faster?
Posted: 26 Oct 2004 12:43 AM |
I am a very fast typer .. and also the type o king .. If my type o is easy to catch I leave it be .. but sometime I have some pretty serious type os and have to make an ooc edit note hehhe .
Would slowing down make me easier to understand in game? probably so , but sometimes I can't . I gotta hurry up and get that last line tossed in before the other pc is out of sight .
I blame originally the team fortress classic mod for half life for my fast typing , since when it was young there was no voice and you had to type . And when you have alot of people tyrin to blow you up and take your flag you have to type fast even if it comes out .. "ewnemioe asty fd;lawg" ((translated to "enemy at flag" ))
Probably would be better if I had had some typing classes . ((my school never would have let me theyda swore I was in there only to look at the girls )) |
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Re: Typing faster?
Posted: 26 Oct 2004 01:02 AM |
| Yeah, I got a LOT of typing skills from Team Fortress... I was kind of the Team Scout... (The Role, not the Class) Usually a sniper who was WAY behind enemy lines... I Told everyone what was going on... even if it was just a heavy about to come around a corner to where my friends with.... *smacks head* Sorry.. a Heavy Weapon Machine Gun guy. Anyways... When you're in the enemy base isn't always the best time to be typing... so I became quite a type sprinter. |
The Legacy Saga |
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Re: Typing faster?
Posted: 26 Oct 2004 03:44 AM |
Well, in Veran's case, I just find Akril and let them go at each other. They sort of cancel each other out.
- Paul
ROFLMAO
Didnt know I had such a reputation.
As for Typos, man I hate them. Im sure there is a Typo Fairy that just changes some of the stuff I originally wrote just because it makes what I say look odd.
As for learning to type its practice practice practice. Veran is right *coughs* the key is getting to know the keyboard.
One big tip, try and get used to using more fingers (no crude comments please). You'll probably slow down for a while but once you get used to doing this you will learn to type much faster and without looking at the keyboard.
Also, unless its necessary, I generally wont type more than a few lines without giving the other person a chance to respond as it to me is rude gaming and rude for my character to do so. If there is an IG reason for doing so, like drowning out Daimons rant, then I will. But even then, still only a few paragraphs. *grins* |
Never argue with an idiot.
They drag you down to their level
and then beat you with experience.
Akril
Quinellieth. 20th Circle of the Order of the Ring |
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Re: Typing faster?
Posted: 26 Oct 2004 05:14 AM |
due to playing NWN I type faster -
and due to playing WarCraft I dont look at the keyboard while typing =p
My problem is with spelling.. so from time to time I just drop sentences because I am not sure how to spell things..
on the other hand.. when with Tom.. I just spells things like the sound, most of the words have their changes - that's how he says them.
This makes me wonder...is there such a thing as typing too fast when roleplaying? Could it be considered rude to dominate a conversation simply because you're a fast typer? And is so, how does one control that?
I tend to do this with Tom, as Calmeir said about pick - in fast short sentences.
I dont know how ooc 'rude' it is.. I know it is pretty rude IC and it feels like Tom is talking fast and a lot - but that's the intention.
Tho -
with most of my other chars I usually wait the conversations to have 1:1 ratio of sentences between me and the other PC.
(on groups however.. eh.. I find myself los]t more than once [mostly because I alt-tab to dictionary.com to find nice words to use =p)
Dens |
You are more than welcome to ignore my spelling mistakes =p |
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Re: Typing faster?
Posted: 26 Oct 2004 06:18 AM |
| Vidus was the worst for it, i used to love debateing with him but hated that he just typed so much so fast |
Its easy clinging to your moral high ground when you have everything, try it when you have nothing left.
Cain Angus |
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Re: Typing faster?
Posted: 26 Oct 2004 06:38 AM |
[mostly because I alt-tab to dictionary.com to find nice words to use =p)
*grins* Is that to find words to use or find words used!
Use Word's thesaurus. Thats what us lawyers do |
Never argue with an idiot.
They drag you down to their level
and then beat you with experience.
Akril
Quinellieth. 20th Circle of the Order of the Ring |
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Re: Typing faster?
Posted: 26 Oct 2004 08:38 AM |
You know what I would suggest? If you are the self motivated type (no pun intended), get yourself a copy of Mavis Beacon and spend some quality time with her. It frankly doesn't matter what version you get, in my opinion, so an old cheap version will probably do the trick for you. In fact, my copy of Mavis Beacon is from the days of Win 3.1, and it still works just fine on Win XP.
If you aren't a self-motivated person, go enroll in a community college (technical college) keyboarding course. Or if you are lucky enough to have the choice in high school, grab it, there is no one course that you can take that will help you as much in your academic career as a keyboarding course, and it will serve you well for the rest of your life. I actually only completed about a third of the course that I took, but I still learned how to type well enough to get by, and playing computer games like UO and NWN online, and chatting, has improved my skills immeasurably as well.
The tricks to keyboarding with speed and accuracy are learning the keyboard, and using all of your fingers. Mavis Beacon, or a keyboarding course, will teach you how to do that. |
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When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;"
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Re: Typing faster?
Posted: 26 Oct 2004 09:13 AM |
[mostly because I alt-tab to dictionary.com to find nice words to use =p)
*grins* Is that to find words to use or find words used!
Use Word's thesaurus. Thats what us lawyers do
There's a thesaurus on dictionary.com =p
and word takes more time to load =p
Dens |
You are more than welcome to ignore my spelling mistakes =p |
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Re: Typing faster?
Posted: 26 Oct 2004 05:16 PM |
Any hints on typing faster? It's getting on my nerves, as everyone is better, hehe. I get really panicky because I have to keep up. That's what you get when you skip all the I.T lessons at school to play DOOM! bloody game GRRRR. That was a long time ago by the way :)
My suggestion is to:
1) Never use the mouse. Any time you reach for the mouse, search for an alternative keyboard shortcut and start to use it. Even as I'm typing this, I had to move back three words to edit, and instead of using the mouse I used 'Ctrl-LeftArrow' to move back and forth over whole words. Be one with the keyboard (as dumb as that sounds).
2) Play a game like Zork. That's where I learned to type.
-Q |
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Re: Typing faster?
Posted: 26 Oct 2004 05:38 PM |
Try RPing a chr. who thinks slowly and doesnt know much about whats going on.
LOL works for me anyway |
If you catch a butterfly.
You can either keep it and watch it die.
Or let it go and watch it fly away.
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Re: Typing faster?
Posted: 26 Oct 2004 05:48 PM |
2) Play a game like Zork. That's where I learned to type.
Or play on a MUD. It's type or die there. |
My name is Byron Lorian....I am the Last Son |
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Re: Typing faster?
Posted: 10 Nov 2004 03:56 PM |
| I went from like 30wpm to 80wpm due to a MUD :D |
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Re: Typing faster?
Posted: 10 Nov 2004 04:02 PM |
I went from like 30wpm to 80wpm due to a MUD :D
And I topped out at 90 wpm because of a MUD.
-Vidus *sticks his tounge out at Maera* |
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Re: Typing faster?
Posted: 10 Nov 2004 04:03 PM |
Ok, here is when I am going to seem thick Errrrr, what is a MUD? |
Kitty... Orphaned child turned house burglar
When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you; whenever you want it to be."
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Re: Typing faster?
Posted: 10 Nov 2004 04:08 PM |
| If I recall, it's a Multi User Dungeon. Someone correct me if I'm wrong? And go into more detail, I know it was a text-based RP thing but well, that's the depth of my ignorance ;p |
- Who needs Epic Levels when you have Epic Eyebrows? |
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Re: Typing faster?
Posted: 10 Nov 2004 04:11 PM |
| Oh god! I think I know what you mean, is it them text adventures where you type... Go left.... Kill giant savage beetle..... Open chest, that sort of thing? Used to love them, anyone know if there is any good ones avaliable any where for download? |
Kitty... Orphaned child turned house burglar
When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you; whenever you want it to be."
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Re: Typing faster?
Posted: 10 Nov 2004 04:14 PM |
Ok, here is when I am going to seem thickErrrrr, what is a MUD?
MUD stands for Multi User Dungeon or Multi User Dimension. They're only related to those old text based games. In a MUD, you have multiple uses wandering around a text based enviroment. Think Vives without the graphics, and you have a MUD. They are usually coded in C++ (at least the one I frequented was.)
They are mostly for hack and slash enthusists, but a few good MUDS for roleplaying exist somewhere.
-Byron, thinking back to his MUD days. |
My name is Byron Lorian....I am the Last Son |
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