So do you use your right or left thumb to press down the spacebar?
 

No, I'm serious.

I usually use my left thumb, but I've had to change that to my index finger after my keyboard at work splits the spacebar in half making the left side a keyboard equivalent the back button in a browser. Who the hell needs a back button on their KEYBOARD? I mean, really.

And also, did you teach yourself to type or were you traditionally trained?

Myself, I was self-taught, and am also a testament to the fact that traditional training is bullshit. I can hang with a 65wpm when I'm copying off something else and an easy 75-80wpm when I'm just free-balling it so long as I'm comfortable with the keyboard. It does take me a bit of time to adjust to that.

I use my right, and only my right thumb to hit the space-bar.

As far as training goes, many attempts were made to train me in school, but well up until grade 8 i was still hunting and pecking. After i started to use msn with alot more regularity, it just sort of came naturally to me. It might've had something to do with all the training i had, but i'm not sure.

While typing this post, it has become readily apparent that I use my right thumb to hit the space bar. My left thumb isn't even hovering over any keys actually. It's sort of hanging out between the space bar and the touchpad.

Traditional training in school computer classes was crap where I went. They taught us to use the home row keys with this typing program that had to have been invented by Satan himself. Since it hurt to stretch my small fingers to use the home row properly, I vowed never to use that method. Yes, I swore a vow over that. I was a strange child.

These days I can type just as quickly with no need to look at the keyboard as long as I'm somewhat familiar with it, but my fingers still don't hover over the home row.

I am left handed (in writing) and used my right thumb to type this post.
I am right handed in baseball, for some reason.
I am left handed in billiards.
I am right legged in soccer.
I am right handed in hockey.
I am left handed in using a rifle.
I am weird.

I got "100 WPM" fast at typing in Jr. High because I basically taught myself.

I'm right thumb-ed. I taught myself how to touch type pre Jr. High using a basic "Typing Tutor" program for the Mac Classic (old school). Consequently, I just fooled around most of the time in typing class, playing sim city on the ancient Apple ]['s they had there. I remember that instructor being a real creepy pedo guy...

On a good day I can hit 120 WPM, but I'm averaging 100 WPM in day-to-day typing activities.

I'm keen on teaching myself an alternate key layout, such as Dvorak to see if I can improve my efficiency.

Right thumb ... and I taught myself.

I took a typing class in high school and that taught me some basics about typing but all in all I taught myself how to type in the heyday of AOL chatrooms late last century.

Anyway, to answer the question: I never really paid attention to which thumb I used to press the space bar but now that I've been noticing I hit the button exclusively with my right thumb. I always thought it was a somewhat equal mix of both but just today I've been proven wrong. THANKS A LOT GFF. :mad:

Let's see. I'm going to type out a few... never mind, I used my right thumb for all of these spaces.

I also taught myself how to type. My hands and fingers flow freely around the keys. That is probably the reason I haven't been afflicted by CTS yet; no stress or pressure. I can easily approach 100WPM when I'm on a roll and typing directly from my mind. The kind of keyboard I'm using has a big effect on my speed, though. I cannot type nearly as quickly on this laptop keyboard as I can on a good rock-solid full-size keyboard. I never need to look at the keys.

Weird. I started typing a sentence and realized I don't use my thumbs to do spacing. I think I use my left thumb if I'm having to put in numbers or something else that would require my right hand to be off the standard area. I apparently use my right index finger for pressing the spacebar.

I know I was taught to use my thumbs. Generic formal teaching will do that. I was taught in middle and high school that I had to type a certain way. As it is, I don't type that way. I have no idea why, though.

I'll use either, depending on which is nearest at the time. The left dominates though.

typing? i've taken a normal typing class int he past (in which i was taught to place certain fingers on certain rows of keys), but i've never rea\lly conformed to that. I type at around 40 wpm anyway, so i don't think touchtyping will evber be somethign I need to work out.

Also I use my right thmb to hit the space bar, and my right hand to write, and my right hand for all board games and video game controllers.

Let's see. I don't know. It's hard to yes, I do. I use my right index finger too acro-nym. =o

I played with a few typing programs back when, but failed miserably at them all. It sucked that you had to have perfect accuracy, and if you fucked up, it'd freeze you there until you fixed the mistake. So you have to basically put a brake on your mind, reverse back, backspace and continue. It wastes so much time. There's proof-reading for a reason.;_;

I did the hunting and pecking thing until I got aim. Then I had to keep up with people, and I gradually grew familiar with the keyboard, and now I basically use homerow typing, kind of. I mean, I use it to position my hands, but otherwise, it's just I know where all the keys are. =o

I have a weird way of typing and I used my right hand's index finger to press the spacebar. The thing is, while most people think this would slow me down, I type faster than a majority of the people I know. With that said, I was obviously self-taught because no formal training would teach the use of the right index finger for space.

I use and have always used my right thumb for pressing the spacebar.

I do it so much, my spacebar has a pretty impressive dint in it <3

http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/3...0017ob8.th.jpg

Generally, I use my right thumb for the space bar. I also use my right pinky for the shift key more often. My left hand needs to get its act together. Though, my left hand does cover more keys, so I guess that makes up for it.

I had to open up Notepad just to check that because you know I've never really noticed it before. Apparently I press space with my right thumb (being right-handed at everything except pool), but now I think about it I feel weird not using my left thumb. Cheers :(

I used a CD that came free with our '95 computer, Mavis Becon Teaches Typing. It was pretty damn good; whenever I use a computer people usually comment on how fast I'm typing (they don't take into account how many mistakes I'm making >.>), and apparently I type in the "correct" fashion, instead of using my first two fingers for everything. I'm not sure what it's called but an old teacher of mine commented on its apparent rareity.

LOL O FUCK. I just noticed that I never use my thumbs when I type. I hit spacebar with my right index finger. I'm thinking about it as I type this and I'm fucking up HORRIBLY. Typos galore.

Weird, ehh? =D

Self-taught! I type casually and slow-like, but if I wanted to, I could bust 110WPM, I'm sure.

I had thought I used both, but after some quick testing I only use my right thumb.

Like most people here, I took a class but am basically self taught. I type about 45 words per minute, so really not that fast, but I don't need to be any faster than that. Suits my needs just fine.

I only type with my left and right index fingers. I use my right for the spacebar. Never took any typing classes or anything and I'm good for about 65WPM.

Right thumb always, and in additi on, right pinky for the Shift key since it really feels weird if I ever try to press space or shift with my left thumb or pinky respectively.

I make lots of two-letter typing mistakes that I always have to go back and fix, so I wish actually try to type the way we were encouraged to in elementary school. Although not whenever I try and type properly it's just plain awkward to type "properly".

I taught myself to type too. It's funny because people think I type ridiculously fast (120WPM last I checked on a typing program), probably partially due to the fact that I play piano...but I'm straying....

I will forever use my right thumb to hit the space bar. Reason being that my first keyboard was an odd one. It was fine and all, but the space bar was odd. It was two keys down there. The right thumb was the real space bar. The left thumb was a backspace key. I can use it just fine, but people who use strictly left thumb or people who switch back and forth hate my keyboard with a passion. :p

I don't really pay attention to what thumb I hit the spacebar with, but now that I'm typing something out, I realize that I always hit it my with my left thumb. Never my right. Odd. I'm right handed, and yet I seem to do the majority of the typing on the keyboard with my left hand. I believe I can type up to about 120 WPM, but I rarely get up that high in day-to-day typing. I vaguely recall taking a class in middle school, but I'm pretty much self-taught.

I'm a left-spacer. I have this weird tendency to leave my right thumb off the keyboard. The only time I'd ever use my right is if I were typing with my right hand only.

And i'm also self-taught... I never believed in typing with my pinky... I just thought of it as REALLY inconvenient... So I just use my ring, middle, and index fingers for typing and shift exclusively for my pinky.

I use my left thumb to hit the spacebar, my right thumb is off the keyboard, like Chaotic.

I'm primarily self-taught. I was in typing classes before, but they didn't really teach me anything of value. It's was only when I started using the keyboard more did I develop a method to typing which rests mostly on my near memorization of the letter locations and subconscious execution of common letter patterns.

As for other digits, my right little finger is exclusively for the enter and right shift key, my left little finger is exclusively for the letters "a" "z" and the left control key.

You know, I've never paid attention to which thumb I use.
This is more text to test how much I use either hand.
And this is a line of text using only my left thumb. It is made of awkwardness and deleted double spaces(since my right hand automatically presses the spacebar after each word).

Conclusion:
Right hand almost exclusively.

Also, I was completely self-taught in typing. I've never taken a class in my life, and I can out-type pretty much all of my friends(but that is to be expected with a computer nerd such as myself).

I press the spacebar with my right hand most of the time, barring unusual circumstances like a papercut on my thumb or playing a computer game.

My typing was taught through a computer class in Jr. High. There wasn't really much to do in that class other than play a typing game with a mascot that looked like an amorphous blob. Its name was Qwerty. :/

Well, the most part, I use my right thumb, especially when typing really fast. But on the occasion, I used my left thumb. When on GFF, I ALWAYS use my right thumb. ;)

That's the way to go.

I just realized that I don't use my thumbs at all. I use my index finger. Weird.

And I made this fuckin' thread.

Oh well.

Left thumb, just a habit from playing computer games so my left hand is always on the keyboard.

I don't think I've ever used my right thumb to press the spacebar, only my left. It might have something to do with the fact that I'm left handed, I guess. I've never used any other fingers either, just my left thumb. My right thumb occasionally ends up resting on the spacebar, but I never actually use it.

I'm pretty sure I'm self-taught when it comes to typing. I certainly don't recall anyone teaching me ANYTHING in regards to typing. Perhaps I picked it up from watching my dad when I was a kid. Perhaps.

Despite using my right hand for everything (...), I use my left thumb on the spacebar. I just tried to use my right thumb but it feels all awkward and strange. =/

Umm.. Without even looking at the keyboard (which I'm still doing right now) I notice I don't use EITHER* thumb. Interesting.. I seriously hadn't used my thumb up until the *, at which point I used my left thumb after the bold tag. All the other times I use my right index finger. Perhaps my left-handedness has something to do with it! :D

Right thumb for longer texts, left thumb when my right hand stays on the mouse.

This is a very interesting question as I never really noticed which thumb I use lol. O_O Apparently I use my left thumb :P

Self-taught here as well, I blame the internet.

I use my left thumb.

I had to type that out to remember which one I used.

I use both, mostly my right though.

I taught myself how to type. I also don't use conventional methods...I guess what I do could be considered "chicken-pecking" or whatever. I can run a solid 65WPM easy though...

I've noticed I hit the spacebar with my right thumb when I'm writing more aggressively. Lefty is more of a casualty.

I was trained for it in Junior High back in 1993. Since then I've developed my own style and it works pretty well. Kinda a hybrid between proper typing (my left hard) and precise pecking with the other. I was the second fastest typer in a prison or around 1500. =O Then again, that's probably not saying much.

I use both depends what mood I'm in =P I also use my index finger in times when I've got to rush to type something.

I'm self taught, I don't know how many words i can type per minute I've never really tried. Probably around the average maybe a bit less or bit more. Should really try to find out lol

Thats a funny question actually. I have never really noticed which thumb I use to press the space bar. I think maybe 25% the left and 75% the right. Typing this entire paragraph sort of showed the right being more dominant.

But then again I think it depends on the ending letter of the word before the space. If the ending word before the space was typed by my left hand my left thumb takes priority. If its a right hand side of the keyboard word, most likely the right thumb. Or if the right hand typed a letter that was too far away from the space bar.

Weird

This is gonna make me spend unnecessary brain power and time watching my thumbs whenever I type LOL

Mostly right thumb but I do also use my left thumb for that.

They made us take typing classes in elementary school and middle school. I never got much above 60wpm in those classes. It wasn't until I started chatting online did I learn to type fast.

I don't actually type correctly (I just use my index and middle fingers mainly), so I use my index finger to hit the space bar. The one on my right hand.

I still manage around 70 WPM somehow.

I'm trying to notice which one I use while writing this, and its really hard to type while focusing on which thumb is the dominate one. I'm alternating, but for the most part its the right one. I think it depends on what the last letter of the word is... what hand is being used. Weird to think about while typing. Making it hard to type. Whoas. @_@

Anyways, I took a typing class in high school, though I can tell you that I dont really use half the rules we were taught. I only use my pinkies for the 'A' button and ' ' ' button... that looked weird. lol. Don't know my wpm abilities at this point. I'm ironically a lot slower if I have something to look at and type.

i use both pretty evenly actually. It weird because i never really thought about it. I'm not self taught in keyboarding so that might have something to do with it. I took a class in high school to learn. I type by the book ;)

Whaaat? I never use my thumb on the space bar (or any other key), only my index fingers. I never typed the way we were "taught" in our Typing class in the middle school.

Haha I never thought about it but it's so funny that I only type with my index fingers.

I had to check. Right thumb it is! I probably only use the left thumb when I'm playing computer games.

I usually use my left unless I'm in mid-motion to type a word with my left hand.

If my Dad bought me like 3 keyboard games so I can teach myself to type in english would it be self-taught or trained? Cause the program technically taught me how to type... thinking back on it, it forced me to type really fast or it'd kill me. Evil games.

I usually do it with my right hand - very very rarely with my left hand.

I'm primarily self-taught, which is probably why I'm not an extremely fast typer like some people I know.

Heh, I'm probably one of the worst typers on here then... I use my middle fingers only (and that includes the spacebar).

Thankfully my speed has improved through practice but its still looks and feels a bit awkward. My lack of motivation stops me from devising a better method, but to be honest, if I really cared that much I would've done something about it by now. What matters is it works for me at the moment. :><:

wtf is that dude? seems like what youre treally telling us is youve lost your other fingers in a freak accident

I always use my left thumb to press the space bar, I generally don't use my right thumb when typing even though I am right handed. I am self taught, so I can't touch type or type particularly fast but I get there in the end.

I use my right thumb to press the spacebar. It's just natural. I was never trained to type...I decided Typing class in school was a waste of time and opted for Algebra II Trig (which I was awful at). I'm pretty fast, but I wouldn't trust myself to just type anything without looking at the board occasionally. :eagletear:

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I only use the right thumb although I read that you are supposed to use both...

No, what I'm telling you is I don't bother using my other fingers. Although it would suck if those were the only ones I had.

You're not alone. I write with my right hand, kick and play hockey left handed, and I also play guitar hero lefthanded style.

I actually had to try this out and I find that depending on where my fingers are on the keyboard, I tend to use both of my thumbs.

i use my forehead

I also use my index fingers, usually my right index, but I occasionally toggle between the two. I was never trained to type and I am also very bad at typing. I have no idea how fast I can type but I do manage to get by just fine. I assume I'm nowhere near 100WPM, probably not even 50.

Yeah, I use my right index fingers as well.

I thought that you hit the spacebar with your dominant hand, but, after some replies, I guess not.

=/ That's the case for me though; I'm basically left-handed, and hit the spacebar with my left thumb. My left thumb is usually touching the spacebar, while my right thumb is hovering over it.

I also don't use my pinkies for typing, other than pressing the shift key...

Haha, how strange!

GOT YOU. I hurt my thumb nail when miscalutating after aiming for the spacebar and realized that the thumb that hurt was on the right.

I use the right thumb when pressing the space bar. I just never learned how to use the left, and I think I simply began using the right out of habit when I first began typing properly. Using the left thumb also works, but I tend to type slower.

After typing this post I realize that I don't use a thumb at all, I use the index finger of my right hand. Hitting the spacebar with my thumb just seems awkward and I wind up having random spaces all over the place.

I think I use my right thumb, strangely. Right now when I'm typing this I am confirming this to myself. My left thumb hangs. I never took a typing class, but I used this Mavis Beacon teaches typing crap in middle school that didn't really help except make you cheat. So I guess I'm self taught. I think I type at a reasonable pace.

It's usually my right thumb. I don't have a consistent typing form, so it's whatever's closer. Right thumb mostly though.

When I type, the spacebar presses down automatically by itself! As if it knows what I'm typing and when I'm supposed to press the spacebar! Now that my thumbs are free, I thumb-wrestle while typing.

I like how this fucking thread with this silly title gets more posts than my average threadd.

I just use whichever one is convient, though most of the time it is the right one.

I usually use my left, I believe. Sometimes I use my index from the same hand though.

I was also self taught, so I type differently than I 'should'. I don't use the correct fingers most of the time, but I'm still pretty efficient. :)

the left thumb

It's a 75/25 split between the right and left thumbs.

I use my right thumb, and I type about 44 WPM (self taught)
...I wonder if I tried to use my other thumb would I type faster...

I mainly use my right thumb, though the left sometimes slips through. Self taught, and my highest WPM last time I checked was 125, with roughly 95% accuracy.

use both of my thumbs . . . whichever one is more convenient usually

I'm using my right middle finger to hit the space bar and sometimes my left thumb. I always use the left Shift key (using my left pinky). Aside from that, I pretty much use only my left index and thumb and right index to type.

I'm self-taught. I never found the patience to go trhough typing lessons and I have no idea how fast I can type.

I use my right thumb for the space bar. I had a typing class when I was in 8th grade, but my view on it then was "What will I ever do with THIS?"

Later I discovered the internet.

I use the proper fingering except for 1. the number keys and 2. when I'm lazy and only typing with my right hand. (It would be cool if I got good ebough ri type with ,t right jand wiyttiyrt looking, vut as you cam see, I cam'y.)

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I use my index finger for the space bar, when I actually get around to using it. I actually was in the process of being taught how to type, but never stuck with it, so I ended up teaching myself, and I don't use all of my fingers, which I find weird. Like I mainly use my left hand and my index and my thumb on my right.

Let's see here. Apparently I use my right thumb when I'm actually typing stuff, but when I do keyboard shortcuts and that sort of thing (e.g. Alt+Space+C), I use my left thumb. It's weird. I'm pretty left-handed--I write, eat, and steer my car with my left hand. I throw stuff and punch people with my right hand, though.

I took a typing class in high school, but I don't think that it really stuck with me. I'm a touch-typist, but I know I don't always use the proper fingers to hit each key. I don't use my right ring finger at all, for example. Even if I'm just hitting the L key, I still shift my hand over and use my middle finger to do it. Despite various oddities like that, I'm still a reasonably fast and reasonably accurate typist. I haven't tested my speed since I took that class in high school though.

Wow. Never really thought about it.

It turns out that I use my left thumb exclusively. I guess my right hand is a little more off the keyboard more often, so I can switch to mouse or tablet, I guess. And I taught myself how to type, so I never really gauged how fast I type...

I press the space bar with my left thumb.

I just tried typing the second half of that sentence with the right one, and found that I couldn't type anywhere near as well.

I learned to type traditionally at first, 1) in typing class for a summer school class 2) with kid-friendly typing learning computer game programs.

However, I discovered BBS (a bulletin board) online community that, much like GFF, I became addicted to. Soon, I was chatting away and quickly absorbing typing skills up the wazoo.

Btw, I had to focus which hand I use to press the space button, but I can confirm that I mainly use my right hand thumb.

Wow, I never really thought about this before. I use neither! I apparently use my right middle finger to get the spacebar, along with most of the keys on the right side of the keyboard. My right hand bounces around like crazy as I type, but my left hand just sorta chills over by the WASD keys. Probably a gaming habit. Speaking of which, I use my left thumb to hit space while gaming, but only while gaming.

I use both thumbs. I keep both of them of each side of the space bar.
I also had this really old boxy computer that had one program: A program that told you to type a sentence and timed you on how long you took.

I broke the computer and taught myself. =]

I used both thumbs on spacebar too. Maybe because I used to play piano, and both keyboard works similar way...lol Though for shift and ctrl key, I always use my left hand though.:><:

I'm self taught with some typing program. But what make me type fast are BBS and Typing of the death game...lol

left thumb, but strangely enough I didn't realise I was using that until you asked...

I just tested, and am actually quite stunned to learn I use my left thumb instead of my right thumb to press the keyboard, my right thumb is pretty much unused in the typing process =O

Just typing this out I learned I use my right thumb. My left thumb it seems is only used to hit control, shift, or caps lock. I tried to learn to type traditionally but I never got used to it, after I took writing as a hobby I pretty much learned where all the keys were.